Sorry, practically nothing today.
- there will be arty in WoT for Xbox at some point
- apparently, SerB’s son, who is currently serving in the army, is too tall to fit into a tank (SS: told you, pointless info)
- according to Overlord, WG has several ideas on gold ammo rebalancing, including their “limitation” apparently. It is not sure if any of these ideas will be introduced.
Thanks to TheFightingTemeraire for this one
Guess what’s appearing on E3…
Source: http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/06/04/third-point-vote-of-confidence-in-hellenic/
Thanks to Vahakn for this piece of info.
Hello everyone,
just a small tidbit of information, that is interesting nonetheless. The abovelinked post about the state of the Cypriot Hellenic bank (co-owned by Wargaming) wouldn’t be too interesting (although it suggests that WG is doing fine, which is good), but it has one interesting short passage in the end:
A Russian business publication reported at the time that Wargaming probably had funds in the bank that got frozen and needed to buy into the bank to be able to withdraw them.
This confirms that during the last year’s Cypriot account government and EU-sanctioned robbery (it wasn’t anything else), Wargaming actually couldn’t access its funds and so they bought into the bank to do so. When you think about that, that’s kinda badass.
Hello everyone,
these are the descriptions of the 9.1 awards. The problem is, in English, they are named differently (for example the Russian award “Monolith” is in English called “Rock Solid). Thus I will be using English names here:
“Fire and Steel”
(Russian name: “tempered by combat”)
for getting 25 times the highest amount of damage blocked by armor (“potential damage”) while surviving, only wins count, team battles only
Author: Károly “Karika” Németh
Silentstalker: Hello everyone. Quite some time ago, I started (but never finished) the series on Hungarian armor. Karika will now continue where I finished. This is probably going to be the last article of the series though, other Hungarian vehicle posts are likely going to come not as a part of the “Hungarian armor” series. Enjoy!
Part 1: Tas 44M
Part 2: Introduction and Straussler tanks
Part 3: Toldi
Part 4: Toldi II, Toldi IIA, Toldi III
Part 5: T-21, Turán I (development)
Part 6: Turán II
In January 1943, after the mass production of the 41M. Turán II medium tank with the short barreled 75mm L/25 gun has begun, the first combat experiences showed that unfortunately these vehicles did not have enough firepower and protection against the most up-to-date Russian tanks and anti-tank guns either, even after the upgrade from the 40mm cannon of the Turán I. However, the Hungarian troops needed continuous tank replenishment, so the Hungarian Ministry of Defence just could not halt the – more or less still obsolete – Turán II production.
Below: The first prototype wooden Turán III turret with a mock-up gun on a Turán II chassis
At first, to resolve this problem, the Hungarians tried to convince their ally, Germany, to sell manufactured tanks or the production rights for one of their most advanced tank designs, for example the Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. H or the Pz. Kpfw. V Panther. Of course, Germany was unwilling to sell manufactured tanks in large numbers to any of their allies, because in 1943, they nearly couldn’t even produce enough combat vehicles for their own purposes. They did not have any advanced tanks to spare.
Hello everyone,
ever wondered, how the World of Tanks trees started? As you probably know, the oldest trees in WoT by far are the Soviet and the German tree. The Soviet one probably came first. This was one of the first tree proposals from December 2008 by Pytr Bityukov, one of the “founding fathers” of World of Tanks – Slava Makarov (another “founder”) published it in July 2012 for the players to see. P.Bityukov sent this to S.Makarov on 18.12.2008.
By now I hope everyone can figure out that CY is “SU” and such.
As you can see, the tree proposal lacks tiers (that system was not yet developed back then!), it was made in “Navyfield” spirit. A lot of the vehicles you know, but some earlier proposed vehicles were pretty interesting. For one, you have T-26 “twin-turret” on lower tiers – that thing actually had machineguns only! The tree is also very much focusing on historical progress (that’s why you have T-34/85 above T-43).
- these factors are taken into account when rebalancing a vehicle, according to Storm: “winrate, popularity on its tier, skill of players playing it (its distribution), average XP, average damage, average damage stopped by armor – many various indicators” – later, Storm however adds that a vehicle won’t be nerfed based solely on the fact that it is very popular (SS: earlier, Storm stated however that a very popular vehicle is practically always an indicator of that vehicle being imbalanced)
- it’s possible the Ardennes HB that is getting removed in 9.1 will return, but “no promises”
- how the accuracy will be nerfed is not decided yet, developers are running experiments
- T-44-85 has been “postponed for a long time”
- tank models will be reworked also in standard client, not just in HD content, the “HD” concerns only texture resolution
- Havok will work in both SD and HD clients
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
9.1 will bring one more medal I forgot to mention earlier, its name is “Monolith”
Monolith
Conditions: In a SPG, survive the enemy tank ramming attempt, fatal for him. The speed of your SPG at that point must not be higher than 10 km/h. Destroying your teammates is not allowed. Awarded only in random battles.
Part 1 – LP and Halftracks
Part 2 – T-34 with 57mm R10
Hello everyone,
this part will be more like an addendum to the entire series. Last time we left the Czechoslovak AA autocannons, it was with an unsuccessful one-barrel LP-157, an R10 autocannon, based on the T-34/85 hull from 1955. A mock-up of the autocannon was made (the photos can be viewed in Part 2).
LP-157
Here is the upgraded version with the R12 autocannon mockup
The fate of this version was already described in part 2, I will only add that the full-scale mockup was indeed produced in June 1955. The designation LP-157 means basically “an AA gun, model 1, 57mm”. Two variants were considered actually – one with a classic “magazine”, another for continuous fire with an open “funnel”, where the ammunition could be continuously fed.
