Another video by Darth Woras :) And he has a message for you: 

“Send your 8.9 replays at darthworas@gmail.com.”

Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

today is 17th of November and here in Czech Republic it’s a national holiday: “The day of freedom and fight for democracy”. On 15.11.1939, the funeral of a student by the name of Jan Opletal (killed by nazis during a peaceful anti-nazi meeting) turned into a giant anti-nazi demonstration, giving Adolf Hitler an excuse to close all the Czech universities and to arrest teachers and students alike on 17.11.1939, with 9 students executed and 1200 arrested and dragged to concentration camps. It is also the day the so-called Velvet Revolution started in 1989, but given its “velvet nature”, it is the first event that gives this day the importance, not the second.

I do believe in remembering the war veterans (what the Czech community does about that you will see next week hopefully), but this article is about the specific group of veterans: the Czech pilots in British service, known for their blue uniforms. The article was written by PhDr. Ladislav Kudrna PhD. and its original name is “The Night Falls over the Men in Blue” (well, it sounds better in Czech). The events, described in this article are one of the reasons I hate communists so fiercely and should never be forgotten by us Czechs (and Slovaks of course). I am sure the members of other nations, that later ended behind the Iron Curtain will understand too. And as for the rest: take the Czech airmen as a warning.

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Hello everyone,

as you know, since its start, For the Record had “free” comments. Anyone could comment without giving their name or address whatever. Until last night that is.

In the night, one or several individuals (hard to say with the proxy servers) spent hours spamming nazi shit in all the comments (stuff like “Gas the Jews”, “Gas the Polish” and other “nice comments”, usually reserved for random battle chat). I don’t know who it was, but before starting to use proxy, that guy (or one of the guys) used the same IP address as a commenter, that identified himself earlier as “EXN0M member”, bashing me for making a post about some of their members’ vile rants. This leads me to believe it was a “revenge” of some sort from one or more of their members.

Lately, I’ve also seen the increase of blatant spam, trolling and other dumb shit. It’s been tiring and to top it off, the WordPress ban filter seems to be buggy too (it banned people that shouldn’t be banned). Therefore, from now on, you will have to register in order to comment here. This change is permanent. I try to give FTR as much time as possible in order to live up to your support as readers, but I don’t have the time to browse comments all the time to remove the heaps of garbage that seem to appear lately.

Furthermore, this will be only the first step. I am working on implementing a system, where you will have to use either your Facebook account, your Google account or your Wargaming account to identify yourself. Basically, Disquis with a twist. Gotta discuss that with Edrard.

In short, I intend to do a big house cleaning. What was acceptable when this site had 1000 hits per day is not when it’s 100 times more. Ban system will also be fixed and improved (I am considering banning proxy servers altogether to reduce spam – at this moment, the spam filter sorts out like 1000 spam messages per day). By the way, the new design should be ready next week. It’s very simple, I hope you will like it.

But as for the comments: make no mistake – while I do believe in freedom of speech in general, this is my site and my rules. I am not obligated to allow free speech here. With that being said, there are basically only two simple rules here:

1) Nazi and communist propaganda equals immediate permaban.
2) Obvious spamming (“first!”, “donkey!”) will be punished – as I wrote, its amounts last week became intolerable.

I don’t mind offtopic discussion (it’s not like I’ll invite BigBadVuk or anything to police the comments…).

I am truly sorry it had to come to this, but this site is no longer a backwater blog it was months ago. Some of you actually requested this change. I hope it helps.

-SS

Hello everyone,

pretty much unlimited source for invite codes is here: the Alienware action (there are over 7000 left). In recent hours you’ve sent me a few invite codes, I will keep them for now, will publish them when the Alienware codes run out.

Source: http://panzer-journal.ru/

New picture of tier 10 Japanese tank. Notice the two STA-1 tanks (the proper one being tier 8) – this is because STA-1 was moved to tier 8 and Type 61 to tier 9. Thanks to gamer524 for letting me know.

Thanks to CreOnix for letting me know!

Hello everyone,

Alienware is giving out invite codes (NOT for existing accounts, but for new accounts) for EU server. These codes contain:

• 500 Gold
• 7 Days of Premium
• 100,000 Credits

Currently, there are cca 9200 left. In order to claim one, go to this page:

http://eu.alienwarearena.com/giveaways/world-of-tanks-starter-pack-giveaway-for-new-players-2

You have to create an Alienware site account. If you have one, simply click on the GET KEY button on the right side, otherwise create an account on that page first. Enjoy!

Part 1: Tas 44M
Part 2: Introduction and Straussler tanks
Part 3: Toldi

Last time we left the Toldi tank when first 80 pieces of Toldi I were manufactured. Toldi I was basically the original Toldi design, based on the Landsverk light tank, armed with a modified 20mm AT rifle. These 80 Toldi vehicles had serial numbers H301 to H380. After that, the type was redesigned to Toldi II.

Toldi II tanks were practically identical to the late Toldi I series. The main difference however was the fact that unlike Toldi I, Toldi II tanks were built from parts, manufactured exclusively in Hungary. That finally solved the issues with German supply chain to Hungarian army’s satisfaction. Another change was the upgrade of the radio from type R-5 to R-5a. These vehicles were manufactured partially in parallel to the older Toldi I model (using German parts) roughly from March 1941 to the end of 1941. 110 Toldi II tanks were manufactured, 68 of which were made by Ganz (H423-H490) and 42 by MÁVAG (H381-H422). By the end of 1941, the Hungarian army owned 190 Toldi I and Toldi II tanks in total – because of the continuous upgrades with locally-built parts, later on these tanks were practically identical (the only way how to distinguish them was the old frame antenna of the Toldi I tank and the new straight antenna of Toldi II, but both models were soon upgraded to the R-5a standard and this feature disappeared).

Here, a Toldi II (possibly in Russia):

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