….because it’s not on the portal yet. Thanks to Opferlamm113 for letting me know.

Hello everyone,

about a week ago, I wrote about the Russian map making competition – in short: the best player-created map in “historical” and “e-sports” category wins the author a new gaming computer (why oh why can’t we have this stuff on EU server :( ).

A very curious thing happened. While chatting with Locastan, he mentioned that a Russian friend of his with the nickname of S0me0ne created his own map for this competition. In BigWorld engine. As you can imagine, that got my attention. As it turned out, some other guy (not this player I think?) got the BigWorld map editor for WoT from somewhere, hacked it (?) and S0me0ne used it to produce a map for such a competition.

Before you ask – no, I don’t have the editor, I don’t know where to get it, it’s not public and even if it was, making your map work in WoT would require it to be installed on server, so making it just so without this sort of competition and Wargaming would be a waste of time anyway. Still, two facts are very impressive:

- Bigworld map editor is out there somewhere
- the player made a map in seven days or so (it takes an entire Wargaming team like a month or something? Or three?)

For a first attempt, it actually looks really good, let’s check it out.

Kiev

Map is based on historical Kiev map from 1941, based on the Battle of Kiev. It’s a summer city map, size 900 * 900 meters. More data about this map (screenies from creation etc.) can be found in the Russian thread.

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Hello everyone,

thanks to player Faqqet for this one – another nasty thing I didn’t notice since 9.0. Long story short, Panzer 38(t) armor got totally fucked up in 9.0. Check this out – this is the elite configuration. The abovementioned player mentioned in comments that the armor might be screwed – went to check first to gamemodels3d:

See all those “holes” – entire frontal turret, the hatches on frontal hull, the rear hull etc.? All of them now have 0 armor. The bottom of the tank completely disappeared as well from the hitbox, so any HE shell, exploding under the tank now behaves as if it did hit an open-topped vehicle (nothing stops the splash):

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Hello everyone,

this is something I actually wanted to post for a while, but it’s quite a long topic, so I wasn’t sure how to tackle it. We will be talking about tank dimensions. You know, when I started out reading on tanks, I always took the drawings in books as… I don’t know… granted – there is a schematic drawing for example (in German case, it’s usually copied from Panzer Tracts or some other work of H.Doyle and T.Jentz) and it doesn’t occur to you that it might be actually wrong.

But it can be. Maybe it won’t come as a shock to you, but even respected historians (or authors at least) can get drawings wrong. I must say this is another point I didn’t know about, before Yuri Pasholok started posting about it and initially, it came to me as a surprise.

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Hello everyone,

upon reviewing the feedback to the “copyright” thingie and the WG May wallpaper (which STILL isn’t on EU server, apparently changing the names of days to English is very hard), I came to the conclusion that it is possible that the photo was different from the picture used on the wallpaper. Therefore I deleted the previous post. The castle is unmistakeably the same though, so – here is the wallpaper again:

And here is the castle picture (photo by S.Bailey via Wikimedia):

It’s the Corfe castle in Dorset, England. Interesting that they used exactly this castle, but why not. Oh and one last thing – do try to be… more polite, please. Comments such as “OMG SS U AN IDIOT” and such make me… irritated. Thank you.

Hello everyone,

Australian player Wtfcaniuse from ASIA server was kind enough to share some of the pictures from the meeting with WG staff at Puckapunyal military museum and base in Australia. Here are the pictures.

Also guys, thanks to everyone for sending me MANY MANY pictures, at this point, I am sure I won’t get to publish every single one of your contributions, but I will do my best to pick the most interesting stuff. Thank you all!

A 17pdr gun

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Hello everyone,

it seems that some people are wondering, why the belated EU mission announcement?

And remember that time some WG folks said we might have another “IS-6 style” mission lined up?

Well… from US server (screenie thanks to Chris9000):

Looks like the premiums are back on the menu, boys!

Edit: EU is getting a Super Pershing – link to calendar

Picture by Swoopie, thanks

Hello everyone,

remember the EU server CW event “let’s make a Finnish flag on CW map” in order to encourage Wargaming to add Finnish section to the forums? Well, ASIA server now has something like that too. In order to encourage Wargaming to add the Vietnamese flag in the game (funny, I wasn’t aware it wasn’t there, but then I guess I never paid attention) and since on 30.4. it’s the Vietnamese Reunification Day, a couple of clans adopted it as their clan logo and started conquering the territory on the CW map. And how did they do?

You can follow the event in this thread.