Hello everyone,

today marks the second time the Patreon subscription got successfully used, thank you all!

Out of the 566 USD pledged at that point:

- 527,99 USD came in successfully (the rest didn’t go through for some reason on the contributor side, insufficient funds on account etc.)
- out of 527,99 USD:

47,77 USD went to credit card fees
26,44 USD went to Patreon (service fee)

leaving 453,78 USD for FTR – much appreciated! The list of contributors can be viewed here.

And once again it’s the time to thank also the contributors, who donated via Paypal:

Daniel W. (Canada)
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Thank you all!

Hello everyone,

for those interested in this kind of thing, a new part of Girls und Panzer WoT Tutorial came out. You can review the entire series here. The new chapter:

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Fourth part of the Wargaming series with Russian veteran memories about the Second World War. This time with former radio and telegraph operator Vasilij Yakovlevich Goncharov, who will talk about his job as a radio operator of the combat unit and his trial by fire during the Lake Balaton operation.

English subtitles are available.

Vasilij Yakovlevich Goncharov served the entire war in the 1st Mechanized Corps of the 9th Zaporozhie Guards Tank Brigade (holders of Order of Kutuzov and Order of Suvorov) in a communications platoon and company. While working as a telephone operator during the fights around the city of Székesfehérvár from 28th of January to 4th of February 1945, he kept the line open between the battalion and brigade HQ working constantly under heavy enemy artillery and mortar fire. During one day of fighting, he personally repaired the phone line 20 times, allowing the troops to be commanded smoothly. For making a difference in the Balaton fighting, he recieved an Order of the Red Star.

Please pay attention: This is the third time I am leaving the comments open. This man is a veteran, who fought in the actual war and whatever you think about Russia, he deserves respect. Last time, I asked you and I am asking you again not to bash Russians, Ukraine, Crimea, Stalin and whatever here, keep that stuff for the time when Wargaming decides yet again to promote Stalin somewhere. If you can’t keep yourself from this at least this time, I will not only start handing out RO bans (or permabans in worst cases), but next time, the comments will be closed.

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to take a look at how the Firefly line could look. After all, both Storm and EU representatives confirmed that this line will come this year.

But before we start: Please keep in mind that no composition has been officially confirmed and no ETA is currently known, other than it will not be in 9.1 or 9.2 (as far as I know, even developers aren’t sure when exactly will it come). Thus, it’s completely pointless to ask “when will it come” in comments.

Got it? Okay, let’s have a look at it. Now, normally, the composithe only thing that we actually do know about this line is that it will have Firefly in it and it will end with a tier 10. Other than that, nothing. Earlier, it was referred to (probably incorrectly) as a “Lend-Lease” line, but despite the claims of the “LL models being ready for quite some time already”, I find that not very likely that it will in fact really be a line, defined by the “lend-lease” vehicles (or “Commonwealth” ones, like the Sentinel).

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Hello everyone,

as you already know, there is a competition running this month, awarding those, who manage to get 75k XP for every nation within the time limit with the tier 8 premium Super Pershing tank. But which tanks should a player use for this undertaking? Which will gain you statistically most XP?

I took these numbers and tables straight from Vbaddict – there are a lot more statistics there to find if you like this sort of stuff (despite Storm debunking these statistics as inaccurate, I guess they can be used at least as guidelines, if not accurate values), but what we are interested right now is the amount of XP gained by each respective tank.

The tanks have to be regular and between tier 4 and 8, the first number is amount of battles taken into account, the second is the average XP per battle. Red colored name means that the tank is of tier 9 or 10 and thus unavailable for the event.

France

Here, it’s clear. The AMX 50-100 gains the most.

6.	AMX 50 100	619,383	397.47
7.	Lorraine 40 t	386,153	389.75
8.	AMX 13 90	891,915	379.48
9.	AMX AC mle. 48	202,971	353.05
10.	Bat.-Chatillon 155 55	342,339	342.09
11.	Bat.-Chatillon 155 58	306,078	328.18
12.	Lorraine 155 mle. 51	344,070	322.40
13.	AMX M4 mle. 45	268,608	321.32
14.	AMX 13 75	558,386	315.24
15.	AMX AC mle. 46	143,205	303.59
16.	Lorraine 155 mle. 50	264,789	282.00
17.	AMX 12 t	605,566	278.45
18.	ARL 44	360,999	267.59

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Source: http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/22/operation-t34/

Hello everyone,

as you probably know already, RU, SEA and EU servers have Super Pershing missions, US server has a T34 mission with the requirement of 100k XP per nation instead of 75k. Not bad! But… US server also has some very stronk (or trollish) art department. I will just leave the banner for the operation here, as visible on the page linked above…

Wrong T-34, guys :)

Hello everyone,

as you might have noticed, the Operation Super Pershing is up on the EU server. Where on earth is the portal announcement???

Conditions as announced earlier:

- 75k XP for each nation – reward: Super Pershing and 14 days of prem
- must be in top 10 of the team in XP
- tier 4-8 regular tank (no premium)

Third part of the Wargaming series with Russian veteran memories about the Second World War. This time with former artilleryman Vladimir Vasilievich Borodin, who talks about outwitting the German recon plane Focke-Wulf Fw189, that was guiding German artillery and about fulfilling complicated combat task without taking casualities.

Colonel (ret.) Vladimir Vasilievich Borodin was drafted to the Red Army in August 1942. After finishing the artillery school in 1943, he fought at the South-Western Front, 1st Ukraine Front and 1st Belarus Front. He took part in Odessa, Warsaw and Poznan liberation and he participated in taking Berlin. He started the war as 2ndLt. and ended the war as 1stLt. He was awarded three times with the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class, Order of the Red Star, with Medal for Liberation of Warsaw and Medal for Capture of Berlin.

Please note: This man is a war veteran and a brave soldier, not a Cheka officer, politruk, Stalin’s friend or anything like that. I am strongly suggesting and asking you to leave Stalin, Crimea, Russia bashing and other such crap out of the discussion. He doesn’t deserve it.