Hello everyone,

Storm confirmed before that along with the RU251 and American high tier LT’s will come together in one patch, but what I missed earlier was the tidbit of info that Soviet LT8 will come in the same patch as well.

(sorry for the watermark, I was lazy to look for the quote myself)

Either way, what does it mean actually: remember how Wargaming said they really want historical tanks? Well… I think I can honestly say after looking through the books I have on Soviet tanks (Russian books), through various Russian history forums and the Russian community itself:

There is absolutely no suitable candidate for Soviet tier 8 light tank.

Anything on that tier will be either completely unhistorically nerfed (as in “nothing left of the original tank but its general shape”) or an outright Wargaming fake á la WT E-100. If we let go of the “usual” limits for tanks (suitable gun/engine/armor), we get to two things – the Object 975 and the tank Yuri Pasholok found in 2012 or so.

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Hello everyone,

it’s been nearly a year, since I wrote the series on Romanian armor on the old For the Record – in case, you are interested, you can find them here:

Romanian Armor 1 – pre WW2
Romanian Armor 2 – Bucharest to Stalingrad
Romanian Armor 3 – Crimea to the end
Romanian Armor 4 – Bucharest museum photos

Player Yndy_ decided to add one more part ot the series, shortly describing the post-war fate of the Romanian armor. So here goes:

This article left the story about Romanian tanks at the end of Second World War.This is what happened next:

From February to May 1945, the second Tank regiment fought in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria. Besides the remaining obsolete R2s, R35s, TACAM R2s and even FT-17s (which were deemed unfit and retired to a Soviet warehouse), the main tanks were now captured Pz IVs and StuGs, which were constantly replenished from Soviet stocks. At the end of the war however, Romanians had to surrender the remaining tanks to the Soviets and the tank regiment was disbanded.

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Hello everyone,

earlier, I promised to let FTR readers know about two real life tank events that happen in May, so here goes! First (and very well known one) is the Militracks event in Overloon, Netherlands. It takes place between 17.5.2014 and 18.5.2014 (this weekend!) from 9AM to like 5PM – you can check for more on its webpage. Amongst the vehicles that will appear there are:

3x leichter Zugkraftwagen 1 t D7 (sd.Kfz.10)
1x 2-cm-Flak 38 (sf) auf leichtem Zugkraftwagen 1 t D7 (Sd.Kfz. 10/5)
1x leichter Zugkraftwagen 3 t Hkl (Sd.Kfz. 11)
2x mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 8 t KMm (Sd.Kfz. 7)
1x schwerer Zugkraftwagen 18 t F3 (Sd.Kfz. 9)
2x leichter Schützenpanzer-wagen D7p (Sd.Kfz. 250)
2x mittlerer Schützenpanzer-wagen Hkl6p (Sd.Kfz. 251)
1x Jagdpanzer 38 (t) “Hetzer” (Sd.Kfz. 138/2)

…. and many more (full list here). The program of the event can be found here.

Second event is the Military Festival in Hungary, organized by the World of Tanks community. It is taking place between 24.5.2014 and 25.5.2014 in Tapolca, Hungary. The program includes:

- Military display
- War reencantments
- WoT contests
- Tank driving and live weapons
- Exhibitions
- Presentations

Amongst the tanks present, there will be a Tiger replica, Hetzer replica, SU-76 replica, T-44, Katyusha rocket launcher and many more. Here is a trailer for the event:

And here is the Facebook page with details, along with last year’s photos.

To all of you going to the events – enjoy!

Thanks to dzudzubajac for this one!

Hello everyone,

check this out – this is the printout of the official Hall of Fame. Check the number one player by rating and stats:

So, mariofi has the highest personal rating of them all, yet his stats are below average – how is that even possible? Well, if you look at his stats, you will find the answer. Most of the battles he actually played are team battles – wasn’t it announced that team battles would have separated rating?

Anyway, it’s the number of the team battles that drives his rating up to heaven, it apparently influences the formula strongly, which is weird. I have no idea whether this is intended or just a bug somewhere. He almost certainly is innocent of any rigging, well, at least it’s not a bot (like months ago)…

Thanks to Dom1n for letting me know (that awkward moment when a Polish guy tells a Czech guy about a post in Czech section of the forums). English version by Ectar:

Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/391788-eu-cluster-downtime-micro-patch-15052014/

Please note that on Thursday morning (15/05/2014) we will have a short downtime to apply a micropatch to address some issues. The game servers will be unavailable starting from roughly 06.00 CEST (04.00 UTC). The downtime is expected to last for about 1 hour.

Content of the patch:

•    Fixed some issues with minimum rendering range.
•    Fixed low FPS when shooting automatic guns.
•    Fixed performance issues on Hidden Village.
•    Fixed artefact issues on some graphic cards (square on trees).
•    Fixed disconnections with FX and Phenom processors.
•    Fixed charging gold by default on maintenance page when changing gun module on a tank.
•    Fixed some rare memory leaks and crashes.

Hello everyone,

yesterday, while trying to update the entire banning system, I made a mistake and unwittingly banned a shitload of people. It should be fixed now, I apologize. The comments should be operational now as well.

- SS

Hello everyone,

once again it’s the time to thank the contributors, it’s you who keep FTR running after all! This time, following people donated via Paypal:

Krystian K. (Poland) – member of the [-DRG] clan (mentioning as requested)
Geir O. (Norway)
Siegfried M. (Germany)

Thanks guys!

The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service

http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker

This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.

Thank you all!

Hello everyone,

I believe it’s no secret that I am not a fan of the EFE clan, that, in my opinion, carries the torch of the “rudest clan out there” after EXNOM was disbanded. And there is a reason why I am not exactly a fan. Check this out:

Do you think the clan leadership is concerned with keeping their clan clean of such complete retards? Think again.

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Hello everyone,

this doesn’t concern directly World of Tanks (because you know what the stance of Wargaming on AA tanks is), nor does it really concern War Thunder (though… hell, for a Czechoslovak branch with crews I might even consider becoming a turncoat), but I think it is interesting nonetheless.

The AA vehicle category evolved fully during the Second World War, but the vehicle concept itself is quite old – first AA vehicles appeared as early as WW1, although those were simply flatbed trucks with guns mounted on them. Some development went on before the war (including Czechoslovakia), but the real boom happened during the war, especially on the German side, with every chassis from Panzer I up to Panther was used to create anti-aircraft vehicles.

This development did not escape Czechoslovak engineers of course. After the war, quite a high number of indigenous anti-aircraft guns was developed in calibers ranging from high-caliber machineguns and 20-30mm autocannons over 57mm models and 100mm heavy AA guns up to the massive 130mm R14 cannon and even a 152mm heavy AA gun by Škoda. It was only natural that some of these guns would be used on a fully tracked or half-track chassis to provide mobile AA support to the mechanized units. There were even attempts to create guided AA missiles and to put them on halftrack platforms, but that is not the scope of this article.

Lehký Podvozek

One of the first attempts to create a modern AA vehicle was concieved in November 1948. Between 18.11. and 20.11., a conference was held at Škoda Works in Pilsen between the representatives of the industry, the tank forces and the artillery forces of the Czechoslovak army. A large number of interesting demands and proposals came from this conference, but two of them are currently most interesting. One demand by the tank military branch was to create an AA vehicle with a 50mm AA gun based on the so-called “lehký podvozek” – (“light chassis”). The other was to use the same chassis for a quad-20mm mount.

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