Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3374618.html

Please note that the official names of the medals are not known, only the internal file names (as written under the icons)

For team battles:

battleTested – awarded for the number of awards from team battles (SS: as in, if you get some number of medals from TB, you get this award), in multiple ranks
bruteForceMedal – for 10 times destroying the enemy by ramming
guerrillaMedal – for 10 times destroying the enemy without being spotted, the enemy has to be in your line of sight
infiltratorMedal – for getting 1000 base capture points, points only count when the battle ends with base capture
prematureDetonationMedal – for destroying the enemy by ammorack explosion 10 times
sentinelMedal – for getting 1000 base defense points, points count only in victorious battles

For CW:

Rotmistrov’s Medal – awarded for the amount of battles played in CW mode, in multiple ranks

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3374618.html

Sacred Valley returns in 9.2. The spawns are on the same spots, the center and the upper part were changed.

Minimap:

Upper spawn (notice the changed access):

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Source: http://habrahabr.ru/company/wargaming/blog/228309/ (via LJ user cadmi)

Hello everyone,

an interesting article was published on the Wargaming… I don’t know, blog?, about the evolution of the World of Tanks GUI. Now, it’s mostly aimed at programmers, so I hope I will get the translations right, but I think it is potentially interesting for everyone. If you spot any mistakes or wrong terms, please let me know in comments.

Also, it’s not a word for word translations, more like an excerpt of how the GUI evolved over time. The author of the post worked in Wargaming GUI Programming department for 2,5 years and wanted to sum his past experience with the GUI itself.

First Steps

The first steps consisted of using the tools of BigWorld itself. The idea of the project was born in December 2008 – the original idea was in fact to make a MMO with elves and orcs (that’s where the models from the “orc vs elves” trailer came from), but after thinking it through, the devs decided to do tanks instead. The game was made using the BigWorld engine, which had its own set of tools for creating the GUI. WG programmers followed the “easiest path” and made the first interface based on the BW tools GUI.

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Hello everyone,

an interesting thing appeared in my e-mail. A member of the WHY clan, Amayii, sent me a screenie of this message, sent yesterday to the leadership of their clan by Decept1on, a WG employee. I think it is quite interesting.

The test will probably begin next week? Will check then and keep you updated. Also, nice to know that some testers are more equal than others… but I guess it makes sense, when it comes to mode that is pretty much dedicated to clans. I think we can assume that the same thing will happen on RU server as well.

Thanks to plkJaqenHghar

Let it be known that we, Czechs, can make nice ads as well… :)

Hello everyone,

remember the “Inside Info” post I published a while ago? In it, a Wargaming insider was revealing some interesting pieces information. One of the pieces revealed was:

- World of Tanks Xbox will apparently be selling a Super Pershing “Freedom bundle” with a very special skin for the Super Pershing (American flag, basically a pretty wild scheme), but the kicker is, the crew will be 100 percent trained with a 100 percent Brothers in Arms perk, tank with full equipment (rammer, stabilizer, gun laying drive?) and 20 cans of soda – once per account, the cost is apparently set at cca 50 USD – it’s possible that this was actually Microsoft’s idea, but this is not confirmed.

Well… the bundle is here!

Wow.

I like USA in general, I don’t make fun of American customs (hell, I love burgers and I think that the American muscle cars from 50′s-60′s were the most beautiful cars ever made), but this is just ridiculous and asking to be mocked. There is national pride, I get that and I approve, but that doesn’t mean the vehicles have to be covered with giant flags to express that, does it?

To the American readers – a honest question: do you really like this kind of stuff? If you do, okay, no problem, I am just curious.

Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

remember the M41 Walker Bulldog leak? A few more bits of information came out.

This however is
a) not 100 percent confirmed
b) could (and probably will) change
c) very preliminary

So keep that in mind. Anyway, according to the leak, the pre-top gun is going to have an autoloader. It’s going to be a 76mm gun with a magazine for 10 rounds, 2 seconds reload between each rounds, each round will do 150 damage and will have 175 penetration (so that’s 1500 damage per clip). The magazine reload time currently is 21 seconds. The top gun will be the same gun (175mm pen, 150 damage), but without an autloader and the reload time between shots will be 3 seconds and it will also have better accuracy.

The size of Walker Bulldog is quite large for a light tank – it’s almost as big as Patton/Pershing.

Edit: Updated the info based on my own sources.

Gun with autoloader (pre-top), 76mm, crew skills taken into account

Penetration: 175
Damage: 150
DPM: 1848,6
Module damage: 105
Reload time for the magazine: 30,685s
ROF: 12,324
Ammo carried: 70
Shells in autoloader: 10
Time between shots: 2s

Top gun (76mm)

Penetration: 175
Damage: 150
DPM: 2681,6
Module damage: 105
Reload time: 3,356
ROF: 17,878
Ammo carried: 65

As always, courtesy of Vollketten (US Server).

This is another of the Australian projects, that are actually quite interesting and could work in real life. It’s called..

Murphy High Speed Tank – with a flamethrower no less.

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Hello everyone,

if you follow FTR for a while, you might remember that at one point, there was a piece of information leaked about the new Stronkhold mode having bot-controlled turrets as defensive buildings. As I wrote before, the use of tank turrets as bunkers is not a complete Wargaming invention – and today, we’re going to have a look at one specific installation, the Panther Ostwallturm mount.

Panther turrets were converted into bunkers ever since late 1943. Some were serial Panther tank turrets, but most were specifically modified for the role of a bunker turret. The commander’s copula was replaced by a hatch and the roof of the turret was reinforced to 40mm (earlier 16mm) to prevent the turret from being knocked out easily by artillery fire. According to German specifications, the roof was supposed to withstand the impact of HE shells up to 150mm.

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