Hello everyone,

as some of you remember, I recently criticized Wargaming Europe for just dumping a load of cash on a massive charity. Some of you agreed, some of you disagreed with me, but that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is the fact that Wargaming (not EU, but NA) can do it right (well, right in my eyes anyway).

Chieftain recently posted on his Facebook page about a little kid named Kurt. With his own words:

So, this is Kurt: A lad who has had an unfortunate coming of age far too young, dealing with Leukemia when most of us, when we were ten, were more wondering about things far more frivolous. Anyway, it turns out he was playing World of Tanks in the hospital, so to thank him for trying to recruit the hospital staff into players, we invited him up to the office, and then down to the local tank museum. He seems to have enjoyed himself.

You can find more pictures of the event as long on Kurt’s FB page.

This is something I can actually appreciate – taking an actual person, who needs and deserves help and helping. I think this is the right way and I really appreciate what WG NA has done. I hope WG NA will continue doing this and perhaps WG EU can learn here a thing or two about really bringing a smile to a child’s face.

Hello everyone,

so, how much will the IS-6 cost you in experience? Is it 700k XP, right?

Well, no, wrong. There are two things unaccounted for in that equation: free XP and the price of Japanese tree. If we disregard the XP needed to unlock other tier 6 vehicles apart from the Japanese one, it’s most reasonable to first grind the old nations: USA, USSR, France, UK, Germany and China. Each will cost you 100k XP, which means 600k XP in total, which means 30 thousand free bonus XP, that you can use to unlock the Japanese vehicles.

In order to get to Japanese tree tier 6 (shortest way possible, not necesserily the best), you need 66040 XP via the medium line and 65035 XP via the light line. You can dump 30k free XP for this tree, which will leave you at least 35035 XP to grind for, IF you completely disregard other vehicle modules. But then there’s the free XP gain from the remaining 35035 XP. Since you are always getting that 5 percent bonus, all you need to get is 33367 XP to get to tier 6, so the XP starts counting towards your goal. Thus, the IS-6 will cost you 733367 XP with the quickest route through the Japanese tree. At least I hope I have the numbers right :)

More reasonable (and perhaps faster) approach would possibly be to invest into other modules as well. To be honest, I think it’s a shame to skip the lowtier Japanese tanks just so. 30k XP is doable in one day, but not easily.

Hello everyone,

as you probably all know by now, we will be given a gift tank on 25th of December – the Light Tank Mk.VIc. Here are its characteristics (patch 8.10):

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver)
Tier: 2
MM weight: 3
Health: 150
Hull armor: 14/13/6
Turret armor: 14/14/11
Maximum speed: 52,5/20
Viewrange: 300
Radiorange: 375

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2866598.html

Hello everyone,

if you did read Veider’s stream answers, you might remember that in 9.0, first of the planned city maps will arrive – Kharkov. Asian server gives us a small sneak peak about how it will look like:

How do we know it’s Kharkov? Well, first, there is the file name (I kept it from the site original). Second, check the high buildings on the picture. And now this, a real life photo from Kharkov (courtesy of Yozas_Gubka, LJ forums).

Yep, it’s Kharkov. I am looking forward to the next city map :)

Hello everyone,

some of you probably remember the Veteran Tanker Charity I posted up 20 days ago.

So, it’s 15.12.2013 and by the notice of carramba66 (event organizer):

The event is officially over.

Also thanks to you, dear readers, the success of this event was completely stunning and none of us, who teamed up to advertise it around, expected it to happen like this. The goal was around 20000 CZK for one man (that equals roughly 730 EUR). By now, there are 158548 CZK (cca 5750 EUR) on the transparent account and it’s clear that the sum will be split amongst more of the former soldiers and tankers. Which ones – that will be decided by the veteran organization, shielding the entire transaction.

We all would – on behalf of the veterans – thank you all for your contributions. Especially surprising were the contributions from abroad, but our gratitude goes to everyone equally. What will happen now:

- the account will remain open for a while longer for the last payments to arrive
- after that, the account owner (carramba66) will transfer the funds to the veteran organization (ČSOL), that will then split the sum amongst the veteran tankers, selected by its representative
- carramba66 will record an interview with the veteran organization spokesperson for everyone to hear, what the money was used for exactly

So, thank you once again!

Important: Please note that from this point onward, all the paypal contributions for FTR will remain with FTR, they will no longer be donated, as the event is officially over.

Hello everyone,

the IS-6 mission is in the client already, listed in future missions from tomorrow, under the same conditions as FTR reported. Basically, you have to get 100k XP in a tier 6 vehicle in order to get 3 days of premium:

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Hello everyone,

a few invite codes for you. This one’s from CNNK (from the Prague meeting I assume):

Three more from a guy who didn’t post his nickname (D.T.)

HN7RCD7PXD2X
HN7RNA4CHC6B
PH7TYP-R2KT6R

And as always, you can get an invite code at the Alienware site.

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/263780.html

Hello everyone,

you might remember the post, where Storm was asking players, which tanks they consider really nasty/uncomfortable to drive. Well, today, he posted an analysis he made from that post. The analysis is available here (as MS Excel file), here it is:

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