Hello everyone,

as promised, an anniversary competition is here! And because FTR birthday is only once, we will be competing for something very attractive – a tier 8 premium tank of your choice :)

Rules are very simple. You write the answers (won’t be difficult) in comments, along with your nickname and server (acceptable servers are EU, NA, RU, ASIA) like this:

answer 1
answer 2
answer 3
answer 4
answer 5
answer 6
Yournicknamegoeshere EU

You have until midnight (central European summer time). After midnight, I will randomly pick one winner from the correct answers. Or more. We’ll see :)

So, the questions are:

1) What is the totem animal of For the Record
2) What is the nickname of For the Record webmaster, who runs this site, as well as his own RU WoT server?
3) What is SerB’s favourite answer to stupid questions? (two words)
4) Who is FTR’s featured streamer?
5) How many posts (including this one) in total were posted on wot-news-based FTR until today?

and, bonus question, you don’t have to answer that, but you might want to

6) How many Wargaming developers does it take to switch a lightbulb and why?

Yes, best answer(s) to question 6 will be rewarded as well.

Good luck!

PS: As always, if you ever appeared in Hall of Shame, you are disqualified.

Edit: Comments closed.

Edit 2: Due to a small glitch in the system, I will have to recheck each entry manually, that will take some time. The results will be posted in the morning. Also, had a good laugh at some of the lightbulb jokes, but reading all cca 800 will take some time, results of both will be posted in separate posts.

Thanks to Gappa for this one.

Hello everyone,

remember how I wrote the post about the doom of the Tiger II tanks in southern Bohemia in May 1945? Consider this an… addition of sorts. Gappa sent me a couple of pictures, showing some interesting vehicles from the last days of war on the territory of Czechoslovakia, southern Bohemia specifically.

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Part I – Introduction
Part II – Italy, Czechoslovakia
Part III – Hungary
Part IV – Sweden
Part V – Yugoslavia
Part VI – Poland
Part VII – Spain

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to finish the European tech tree vehicle count with an overview of the nations, that could also fit in in one way or another. And then, in part IX, we will conclude the series with some of the most frequently asked questions and arguments against the EU tree.

Switzerland

The Swiss can build – with some efford an entire branch of medium tanks, even though they have some real issues around tier 6 and 7 (tier 6 is a bit worse). In case you are interested in Swiss tank development history, Vollketten wrote a first part of the Swiss series already (about medium tanks), can be found here. To sum it up though, the Swiss line is revolving around the Panzer 58, Panzer 61 and possibly Panzer 68 development.

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Hello everyone,

today is the 1st anniversary of the new For the Record, hosted on the wot-news portal. Much has changed ever since last year, both in the game and on For the Record blog, but one thing remains the same – I am still having fun doing it (as exhausting as it is sometimes) and I am still trying to mine the internetz for the best content about WoT out there.

At this point I would like to thank Edrard, without whose intervention and help over the past year, For the Record would certainly not be here. He was able to get along with me (a feat by itself), running this site, fixing its bugs – a tremendous help. Thank you.

Secondly, I want to thank all the contributors, who helped me finance FTR over the past months and months, both via Patreon and via the Paypal donations. You guys are the best.

And last but not least, I would like to thank everyone else, all of you readers, for your continued support and – earlier – for putting up with ads, that’s what kept me going and keeps me going. Now, enjoy your Saturday (I hope you have as nice weather as it is in here), there will be a competition in the evening (well, at least evening of EU time), so you better refresh your game and tank knowledge :)

PS: Those, who were banished and forgotten, might just return yet…

Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, the new Stronkhold mode is coming. A part of it are NPC defensive buildings – turrets, controlled by bots, that protect your base from enemy assault. The turrets will allegedly be constructed as buildings in Stronkhold mode. They are allegedly going to appear as team members, so in the end, a team can have 16 or 17 players in the team like that.

This is an E-100 turret, with 10k hitpoints, allegedly it’s possible there will be other tank turrets used this way as well.

Part I – Introduction
Part II – Italy, Czechoslovakia
Part III – Hungary
Part IV – Sweden
Part V – Yugoslavia
Part VI – Poland

Hello everyone,

today, we are continuing the the European tech tree vehicle article series with an overview of the Spanish tanks. Now, there is a little problem with Spanish tanks from my point of view. All the info is in Spanish. And I don’t speak Spanish. Fortunately, there is Mr.R.Delineante, who was kind enough to provide us with his tree proposal. The way I see it, the Spanish can actually build a serious medium branch and have a couple of interesting vehicles of their own.

And here is a 16 page document, roughly describing the Spanish tank industry I don’t know how about you, but this does sound pretty ínteresting to me. The file was originally in PDF format (available here), but I decided to convert it into jpegs for easier viewing. Enjoy.

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Thanks to Mesotronik for this one. Taken from this thread.

Konstaninovka, Ukraine, June 2014 – “separatists” idiots, trying to rev up an old IS-3 tank, that has been there as a monument for god knows how long. Poor thing. It’s not going anywhere in this state anyway, just let it rest.

Meanwhile on the new map…