Hello everyone,
what follows are the “Karl-Gerät” stats from Tank Inspector. As you already probably know, this “vehicle” will be a part of the April 1st “joke” (so much for surprise).
This is how it looks:
And the stats:
Also, one more thing. Hillin (Tank Inspector) developer asks everyone to download the newest Tank Inspector version here, because otherwise, the application will crash.
All credits for the materials posted in this tread go to Renhaxue and his amazing blog about Swedish armor.
Hello everyone,
so, we all know about the Kanonenjagdpanzer, right? To sum it up:
There were several prototypes (some tied to Switzerland) and in the end, it was the “last urrah” of the casemate turretless tank destroyers with forward-facing gun, kind of like an oversized Jagdpanzer IV, only with a 90mm gun from Bundeswehr M47 Pattons. The gun of course was somewhat of a raison d’etre for this vehicle, since the Germans phased out the obsolete M47′s and didn’t know, what to do with the guns they had on their hands. In the end, cca 1500 were built between 1965 and 1967, some were even exported to Belgium. With the 90mm gun becoming rapidly obsolete, some were converted to ATGM tank destroyers, others were pulled back to reserve units and in one way or another, they remained in service until 1990 or so.
This is a bit boring, because you can read that on wikipedia. So here’s something that you might not know.
Seeing the German companies develop the German army and producers to develop their tank destroyers and APC’s, the Americans wanted a share of that pie as well. Specifically, the Food Machine Company Inc. (FMC), the creator of the US M113 APC (developed a few years earlier), wanted to sell something to the Germans. Therefore, in April 1963, an offer was made by FMC to the Germans for two types of armored personell carriers, called APC Type A and Type B (Schützenpanzer Typ A and Typ B).
Schützenpanzer Typ A isn’t that interesting, although it looks very pretty.
Hello everyone,
so, more than a year passed since its introduction to the gamefiles (two years even?) and Panzer IV Hydro tier 5 premium tank finally arrived. Not with a bang, unfortunately, but with a whimper.
Basically, it comes with Razer shit bundle. I really dislike Razer company, because its junk got “advertised” on FTR via massive comment spam. Until today, the word “Razer” is in fact banned from comments and if you write it, your comment will drop straight to spam folder.
It’s actually sad… a lot of people kinda waited for this vehicle and now you have to buy some useless junk to get it. No thanks, you can fuck off with that, Wargaming.
You might have noticed comments were disabled for a while – a small mistake on our part. It’s working now.
- in the game, gravity factor for all the tanks is the same
- implementing respawning is not “copying War Thunder”, according to Storm – garage battles were discussed by the time War Thunder was not out yet
- special “historical” characteristics (SS: mentioned in the earlier post today by Storm) will not apply for random battles, vehicles will not be balanced with historical battles in mind, because “it’s not needed”
- upcoming Kharkov map was never intended exclusively for historical battles
- historical battles themsleves took roughly a month of work, including the tests
- developers are still waiting for programmers to finish working on the new visibility mechanism, so it’s possible to increase the amount of spotting cycles (spotchecks)
- having more than 30 tanks in a battle still creates network issues
- pre-set setups for historical battles (SS: as in, Germans having for example 1 Tiger and 4 Panzers every time) create endless queues
- according to Storm, having several “realism” modes of random battles á la War Thunder is not viable. He states that in War Thunder, the first mode is played by 95 percent people, the second 3,5 percent and the third the rest, so the two other modes are pointless
- the player peak for WoT (and other online games) is December/January, that’s when most players play
- French tanks in 9.0 have graphic issues with tracks – they are too dark
- there is currently no need to buff artillery, their amount in battle is okay
- developers are wondering how to increase HE rounds usefulness, but haven’t thought of anything yet
- Storm hasn’t asked yet, how T-34 and KV will be balanced in 1941
Hello everyone,
this is something I kinda forgot to post earlier, for which I am sorry. In the last “Developer Diary” video (can be seen here), a strange tank can be seen in one of the scenes (5:41):
You can see even with one glance that it’s probably not a “regular” model, but a decoration – an interesting one though. What I think it is is some sort of “bronetraktor” (armored tractor) improvised armored vehicle. The Soviets built several of them, the best known of them being the famous NI Tank. I think that this one is actually called “CHTZ-16″ (or T-16 CHTZ).
There is a short wikipedia article on it as well. As I wrote, these improvised vehicles were not uncommon. Of this type (built around the STZ-3 tracked tractor), around 70-100 were built (numbers vary from source to source, Zaloga for example mentions only 60) between 1941 and 1942 in Kharkov. Originally, the entire class of vehicles (improvised modified tractors) was meant as a stop-gap measure, with the Soviets hurling every piece of equipment they had to stop the German onslaught. It was supposed to be produced not instead of regular tanks, but beside them. There were several armored tractor projects as I mentioned, but this one by Kharkov was the most successful.
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/279729.html
Hello everyone,
what follows is the third article on historical battles’ future from Storm, posted today (two hours ago or so). Here’s what he wrote:
After heated debate on the historical battles, I would like to share with you the plans for their further development. Now, in 9.0, we will not introduce any serious changes. There will be just minor corrections. But for the following future versions, we gathered several interesting ideas:
- mass-used (lowtier) tanks will recieve the ability to respawn on the battlefied. 2,3 or 4 times (this will be set in advance), with player choosing the respawn point out of several possibilities (the enemy will not be able to control all respawn points at once).
- mass-used (lowtier) tanks will recieve premium status, when it comes to crew, eg. it will be possible to use crews from other tanks of the same nation and class on them
- third, what many players talked about and what Wargaming kept “in reserve”: there will be overrides on tank characteristics in historical battles: what it means that a tank will have two different sets of characteristics (hitpoints, rate of fire, viewrange, terrain passability, hull and turret traverse rates) – one for random, the other for historical battles. The mechanism of the fight will remain the same (SS: eg. no “hardcore mode”), but this will allow for better finetuning of the tank characteristics without being influenced by the main problem – tank tiers. In the end, there will be two different balance sets for each “historical” tank – one for random, one for historical battles.
Thanks to Taifuuni for this one. Looks like the developers had a bit of fun. From today’s micropatch:
“Karl-Gerät”
Hello everyone,
just a quick announcement: today’s micropatch started causing crashes of World of Tanks for many people. This is, according to Gnomefather (prominent mod-creator), caused by sound mods, which the patch made incompatible for some reason. ANY sound mods are causing this, including Gnomefather’s historical sound mod. If the game crashes for you, uninstall them and wait for an updated version.
Author: CaptianNemo
Everyone remembers the Porsche VK.45.01(P) Type 101 and its failure to win a production contract against Henschel’s VK.45.01(H) c10. But there was another Porsche VK.45.01(P) in the early conception and design of the Tiger I tank. One, that did in fact make it to the prototype stage – the Type 102.
Early on in the development of heavy and super-heavy tanks, in competition with the Henschel organization, doubts were expressed from the Porsche company on the suitability and reliability of mechanical transmission. With that concern in mind, the Porsche company began to look into engineering an alternative. The concern with mechanical drives was not unfounded at the time, as it was a serious concern for any would-be designer. As if to reassure the Porsche company, Char 2C(1920), B1(1935) and B1-Bis(1937) also incorporated the gas-electric design with mechanical designs, at the time being limited to about 25-30 tons. And so Porsche produced their Type 100 (VK.30.01(P) “Leopard”) and Type 101 gas-electric tanks.
Thanks to Louie Xia for this one.
Hello everyone,
would you like to buy the T23E3? Or perhaps the T95E6 from a shop? Well, if you do, you gotta move to China, because a (legit) Chinese webstore is pre-selling (not yet implemented) tanks. That’s the first time I see a pre-sale for a vehicle, that’s not yet in the game.
T23E3 is being sold for 148 RMB (cca 24 USD)
