Hello everyone,

you might have noticed the new poll on the main FTR page, regarding the premium vehicles (if you haven’t voted yet, cast your vote, please). This poll is there for a reason actually. Last night I had an interesting chat, was also reading some articles, looking through some books and realized, how tough it is actually to come up with a decent premium tank. There are some pretty strict categories and conditions to follow, when you make such a proposal. This can be very clearly seen on the case of the American premium tank destroyer.

Not that Wargaming drops historical requirements the lower you go by tiers, but first and foremost, I think it’s obvious that tier 8 premium tanks are the most “watched” tanks in World of Tanks. For example, recently (on 8.11 test), the shape of Type 59 armor was changed. It was changed in a completly insignificant way (the angle changed by half a degree or so, resulting in a few milimeters of shift), but there have already been voices saying “Oh, you changed Type 59, will there be a compensation?”

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Hello everyone,

not everything that appears as a leak is one. Today, I posted the following picture:

It’s supposed to be a “supertest tree”, including three new premium TD’s. I am sad (happy?) to report that it is a fake. The reason I fell for it is quite simple: last year (in May), both the GAZ-75 and IT-45 descriptions were leaked and icons existed too (as far as I know, even models do). I thought Wargaming simply decided to implement them with delay, but it is not so (yea, I had it confirmed by a real supertester).

By the way, those of you, who said it was a photoshop – nope, it wasn’t. It is actually possible to edit local client XML files to create your own “version” of the tree, that’s probably how they did it. Another leaked thing later today were “statistics” of these vehicles. These are also fake.

I am sorry for the confusion.

All credits go to Vollketten as usual.

This invention, submitted in 1944, seems to resemble a wartime version of the Soviet Mi-24 Hind…

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Hello everyone,

now, those of you, who read FTR for a while know I generally try to stay out of ESL and CW stuff. I don’t follow ESL, I don’t play Clanwars (hmmm – maybe I should, that invitation by KAZNA still valid? :D) and even though there is a lot of fail in Clanwars (last campaign there was a lot of issues), I try not to report things I don’t understand.

This nasty thing with the ESL finals was sent to me several times, but until now, I didn’t see any “whole” account, just some tidbits of information (mostly from Czech ESL players, who have insight) and I didn’t dare write anything about it without some sort of “official” post – or at least some proper summary by someone involved. That summary is now available. DeNova player Artur “Ronnie” Ulyanicki issued a statement on DeNova pages. Here is the original statement in voice.

Unfortunately, it’s in Russian, so I will just translate what is in there. Please keep in mind that I do not know much about ESL and might mistranslate technical (or commonly used) terms. Please note that this issue is not just “some guys playing games got mad” – ESL finals are about money – and not a little.

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Thanks to leshakartoshkin for this one :)

Source: http://war-tundra.livejournal.com/2086064.html

Hello everyone,

apparently, the Russians have a lot of snow problems this year. It went so far that on the road M23 between Rostov and Tarangor, they use a WW2 German Panzer III to pull out vehicles from snow.

According to the post, the situation with the snow is so bad that the employees of Don Military History Museum decided to help the authorities with the issue and to help pull cars stuck deep in snow out with the captured German Panzer III. They even managed to pull out a heavy Gazprom truck. Before that, it was a truck with a trailer and the director of the Museum, Ivan Strelyaev, said they would go and pull out a stuck snow plough next. The Panzer III is used only for the worst cases.

Source: 2p.com website

Hello everyone,

in the article linked above, WoT Blitz producer Roman Bui talks about the game.

Main features:

- 7 vs 7 battle mode
- battles are faster than WoT’s 7 minutes
- release will include 8 maps and over 100 tanks

And as for release time:

The iOS version of World of Tanks Blitz Mobilize is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2014 with the Android version coming soon in the next few months, but the Windows Phone version is not in the plan yet.

This is how the interface will look:

Once again, all credits go to Vollketten

A proposal of an amphibean tank from 1941

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