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US player aCrazyShrineMaiden (NA server obviously) recently took a trip to Japan, where he visited the JGSDF (Japanese army) Public Information Center (otherwise known as the “Rikkun Land”, located in the Asaka Camp). He took some pictures of the vehicles there, wrote the descriptions and decided to share it with us. Enjoy!

Type 74

The Type 74, otherwise known in Japan as the（ななよんしきせんしゃ）７４式戦車、was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to replace the Type 61. Its crew consisted of four people. In addition, its armament consisted of three weapons, the 105mm main gun, a 12.7 mm machine gun, and a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun. Its maximum speed was around 53 k.p.h and was able to withstand a cruising range of 300 kilometers. The first prototype of the Type 74 was designated the STB-1. The auto loader developed for the STB-1 proved to be too complicated and expensive and was removed along with the remote controlled anti-aircraft machine gun. The turret was also changed, becoming longer. All these changes resulted in the STB-3. The final prototype designated the STB-6 and production finally started as the Type 74.

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Hello everyone,

okay, this is an issue, that I’ve been wondering for a while now. Why is it that WG EU content department churns out so little? Let me show you what I mean. First, we are going to have a look at the Russian World of Tanks portal.

Five posts only yesterday? But wait, there’s more (Billy Mays mode engaged)!

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You’ve seen it in Russian, now – a week later (translatink stronk) it’s out in English. Enjoy.

Hello everyone,

what follows is the test, performed by the Romanian EU server player Am3r1knu, who decided it would be actually interesting to see how WoT performs when running from a SSD and how it performs when running from a HDD and whether it affects the game FPS. Here are his findings. It gets a bit technical, so I guess this post is aimed at people, who understand what Am3r1knu is actually saying.

World of Tanks disk usage test (comparisson between Hard Disk Drive and a Solid State Drive)

Computer and software used

PC configuration (phase 1):
Intel i5 760 @ 2.8ghz
nVidia GTX 760, 2gb, EVGA SuperClocked edition
8gb DDR3 1333mhz
Asus Xonar DX
OS HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 250gb, S-ATA II
Game HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 500gb, S-ATA II

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By Carramba66 – now you can compare them to vanilla sounds and Gnomefather’s mod. Regarding the sound intensity, Storm stated that it cannot be made louder, because the sound would distort. You can clearly hear the distortion in the ultra-high caliber sounds of Gnomefather’s mod.

By Vollketten, and a thankyou to Sp15 and SilentStalker for their help

The defensively minded nation of Switzerland has been surrounded by Italy, Germany, Austria and France Switzerland and thus many of its tank choices reflect this. The Swiss military is well respected and was interested in tanks from at least the early 1920’s. Not tied to any formal defensive treaty with other nations, Switzerland prides itself in its neutrality, although it did have strong links with Germany during WW2. However, this freedom from treaties allowed Switzerland a large amount of freedom in choosing tanks from other nations and designing their own vehicles.

A brief rundown of some of the medium and light tank options for Switzerland. (Yes we know about the Swiss ‘Hetzer’, but we’ll deal with that in a later part about tank destroyers). This is the first part, dealing with an overview of medium tank options. Artillery and tank destroyers will come later.

The first tanks imported to Switzerland came from France in 1922, when they bought some Renault FT-17′s. In Swiss use, they were known as the Mosquitos. Keeping up with many European powers on the 1920’s and 30’s, Switzerland obtained some of the Carden-Loyd Mark VI light tanks in 1927-28 and Vickers-Carden-Loyd vehicles from the UK in 1934. (2 Vickers-Carden-Loyd tanks arrived in 1934 and 4 more arrived in 1935, bringing the total to 6).

Renault FT-17 ‘Mosquito’

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