Comments on: Wargaming Inside Info – a Blast from the Past

By: ClassicFrog (EU)

ClassicFrog (EU) — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:36:27 +0000

You got it mixed up. Churchill avre had 290mm mortar. 380mm rocket mortar was on jagdtiger. And now, to compare them two, churchill avre was firing 14kg explosives packed in the warhead … and jagdtiger was firing HE rockers filled with 125kg of explosives. Also with a range up to 6 kilometres.

So yeah, it is DAT 380mm gun. Compared to that about anything put on a land unit, maybe except rail guns, would be a fart in a hurricane.

By: RedShocktrooper

RedShocktrooper — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 09:57:15 +0000

The best way to keep it from becoming a DPS race is to pause or reset reloading while it’s not the active gun. The Lee’s 37mm gun is not a good gun at the tier but it’s hardly worthless; it’s good enough to actually allow the tank to circle an enemy, shoot back while retreating, etc, and there could probably be alternatives to cram into the turret that, while of questionable historical-ness, could make the 37mm gun more useful (Littlejohn adapter, for instance).

Infantry in WoT: Depicting actual death in-game causes lots of problems when trying to sell the game in lots of countries and would force a reclassification of the game in many. And that would come with other problems. Any Player vs. Enemy game types will involve the player shooting at AI tanks.

The Sturmtiger is an artillery piece, the Churchill AVRE is likely the one with the 390mm spigot mortar which would actually be completely useless ingame (The version with the Royal Ordnance L9 would be a KV-2 counterpart, though), flamethrowers are worthless against tanks (though some tanks with flamethrowers carried actual guns – like the real KV-6 which had a flamethrower and a 45mm gun). The BMP should be obvious – All its anti-tank ability comes from a missile.

By: RedShocktrooper

RedShocktrooper — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 09:42:31 +0000

Yeah. “Dat” 380mm gun with less explosive power than the 165mm L9 Demolition gun, a maximum range of 80 meters, all while being mounted on the fast and manuverable Churchill chassis.

People who want the Flying Dustbin in game don’t actually know what a dreadful implement it was. I’d sooner see an L9-equipped version since that actually would be a damn powerful gun on par with the 152mm the KV-2 gets.

By: randomcommenterwithlowIQ

randomcommenterwithlowIQ — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:19:11 +0000

There are also a fair number of tanks that are being considered or could be added that would probably rely quite heavily on multi-turret mechanisms. For example, the G1P, a French competitor to the Char G program that is sort of like the Lee – 75mm hull gun, and 47mm turret gun. Having the same armament as the Char B1 would run prone to the same mistakes, and the B1 currently isn’t regarded as being the best. A number of proposed French super heavy tanks at low tier would probably also benefit, although the highest tiered multi-turret tank – the FCM F1 – would probably find its 47mm gun useless as compared to the main 90mm.

By: TankaTed

TankaTed — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 22:52:41 +0000

That would be so OP…I love my ST-I, and I will never sell it. ISU-152 shoots you, and you bounce his shot? Slap him to death with your twin 122mm boomstick of doom.

By: TankaTed

TankaTed — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 22:46:13 +0000

B1 doesn’t see tier 6, and it shouldn’t.

By: Oreu

Oreu — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:40:12 +0000

Im polish and I feel embarassed now.

By: bluech

bluech — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:17:43 +0000

tank pen is based on 100m range in WOT along with all the other gun stats. In addition the DPM is very low on the IS-7 already… It was OP when it came out as one of the 3 t-10′s, maus, IS-7, T-30. Not anymore.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:24:52 +0000

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work; they made it work with the MTLS-G14. Just make it fire two shots per pull of the trigger and give it a slow reload to compensate for the burst damage (considering that these two shots combined would do 900 or more damage in about a second, which is comparable to the full damage output of a tier 10 TD’s HE shell upon penetration).

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:22:51 +0000

“- developers considered at some point minibranches of Israeli, Brazilian and Argentine tanks, the idea was considered interesting but there was a lack of high tiers and the Israeli branch was considered “compromised by foreign designs” (SS: as in, full of copies)”

*cough*CHINESE TANKS*cough*

And about the “heavy assault gun” class..I suppose the reason it wasn’t added was because they’re redundant. Take any tank destroyer with a derp gun, such as the Hetzer, StuG III Ausf.B, SU-152, or hell, even the KV-2 from the Soviet heavy line, they’re all “assault guns”.

Also, about some secondary guns being “useless”…let’s use the Maus’ for example, here’s what you could do with it:

-Shoot off tracks of circling mediums
-Kill Batchats or Leopards (or arty)

Yeah, it would have a niche role, but it’s not useless.