Comments on: Upcoming Map – Smolensk

By: That's all about lights - Rychlá Rota

That's all about lights - Rychlá Rota — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:59:31 +0000

[…] O téhle mapě jsem už psal v předchozím článku, tuším, že to byl jeden z prvních ale jistý si nejsem. Nu jedná se o dost zelenou mapu, s městem. Co je zajímavostí, tak to jsou dvě báze, které jsou dosti blízko sebe. Jak to bude vypadat přímo u bází to nevím. Možná něco jako dřívější – tuším, že Erlenberg ? Nu posuďte sami, mezi obrázky je i tzv. loading screen, tedy obrázek při načítání mapy. Vyznačený části na mapě ignorujte. Velikost mapy je 1200×1200. Zdroj: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2015/01/21/upcoming-map-smolensk/ […]

By: Edward McAllister

Edward McAllister — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:34:16 +0000

Looks a little like Chrenobyl tbh

By: Bunduchi Florin-Petru

Bunduchi Florin-Petru — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:12:57 +0000

i love it

By: pavel_p

pavel_p — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:16:24 +0000

Erlenberg is well done map imho, after rework it’s one of my favorite as it’s suited for all kinds of tanks and allows you to relocate in various directions. It it’s no longer attrition war when one tank moves, gets vaporized by TDs and when enemy loses enough tanks, it’s perhaps finally time to rush them.
It doesn’t have to be fairytale winter, patches of snow on frozen soil are perfectly ok. Perhaps I miss winter map with sun, melting snow and dark green coniferous forests, perhaps some streams of water (passable).
I would like some spring maps (only one I can recall is Lakeville) – no spring Ensk pls :)

By: kombajn2

kombajn2 — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:44:53 +0000

First of all it was 80 to 85k POW. Secondly from those 80-85k POW only 16-20k died doo to bad conditions of prisons camp, disses, epidemic etc. They WEREN’T murdered by shot in the back of a head like Russians kill 100% of Polish POW in Katyń. Thirdly in the same time(1920-21) around 20k from 51k Polish POW died in Russian camp (also bad camps disses etc.) . Rest of Russian prisoners where exchange for Polish ones. But they didn’t last long i CCCP. According to Nikita Pietrow a lot of POW that returned to Russia were executed by order of Stalin in the 1930s .
So Valikdu read something before you write something. Or are you just repeating stronk Russian propaganda? Don’t be mad at me. Be mad at Stalin he killed a lot more Russians then Polish people. Hell, he killed more Russian then Hitler during the WW2. But probably you didn’l learn about it in school. So first read you history then write comments. OK?

By: Valikdu

Valikdu — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:03:17 +0000

You wanna talk about dead people? How about 80 (or up to 110) thousand dead Russian POWs 20 years before that?

Don’t want? Well, fuck off then.

By: kombajn2

kombajn2 — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:47:59 +0000

“”In 1940, 18 km (11 mi) from Smolensk, the Katyn Massacre occurred.” 21 768 Polish officers murdered by Soviet Russia is you point against my post? Nice thinking, but yes there is more “bad” history around Smolensk then “just” 2010 plain crash. But the crush happen 5 years ago, not over half a century or more ago. That’s not history thats recent time. So my point is why the hell they choose this name. And whats next? Map in Konzentrationslager Auschwitz? No thanks. WOT is a game – piss of entertainment not suited to hail to the memory of victims of genocide.

By: DemolitionDmitrij

DemolitionDmitrij — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:50:29 +0000

Stronk polish butthurt.

Because Smolensk is only known for that, lets see:

.”In August 1812, two of the largest armies ever assembled clashed in Smolensk. During the hard-fought battle, described by Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, Napoleon entered the city. Total losses were estimated at 30,000 men. Apart from other military monuments, central Smolensk features the Eagles monument, unveiled in 1912 to mark the centenary of Napoleon’s Russian campaign.”

-”In 1940, 18 km (11 mi) from Smolensk, the Katyn Massacre occurred.”

-”During World War II, Smolensk once again saw wide-scale fighting during the first Battle of Smolensk when the city was captured by the Germans on July 16, 1941″

-” The first Soviet counteroffensive against the German army was launched in August 1941 but failed. However, the limited Soviet victories outside the city halted the German advance for a crucial two months, granting time to Moscow’s defenders to prepare in earnest.”(Wiki)

Add some other things to that, like: “Smolensk archives”, “Hodegetria of Smolensk”, “Hero City” and you will see that Smolensk is a really important city for Russians in their history…

By: kombajn2

kombajn2 — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:12:07 +0000

Is War Gaming brain damage or something? Smolensk really? Every Polish player out there will only think of one thing associated whit this name – 2010 Polish president plain crash. There are a lot of people thinking that Russians had to have something to do whit the crash. So Russian game, big Polish community and Smolensk map? Are they stupid or doing this on purpose to piss off Polish players ? 10 millions other names for maps and they came up whit Smolensk?

By: Phoenixstorm

Phoenixstorm — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:10:17 +0000

If we have bigger maps like 2x2km, then we need more viewrange too. (I doesn’t mean the spotrange). That would be a nice deal for all or?