Hello everyone,

there seems to be a lot of confusion about the Panther and its historical properties. Partially, it’s because it’s such a legendary machine and partially simply because it’s German and – for some reason – over the decades since the WW2, numerous hoaxes, legends or simply confusions sprang up about the possible Panther upgrades.

Panther Ausführung F (Ausf.F or Panther F) was to be the ultimate evolution program for the Panther vehicle. Its prominent feature was supposed to be the Schmalturm (narrow turred) depicted above (however, the picture does NOT show Panther Ausf.F, it’s a regular Ausf.G hull with second version of Schmalturm with S.Z.F.1/1b targetting device).

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Source: Yuri Pasholok

Hello everyone,

something interesting from Yuri Pasholok’s blog. Some of you might have asked where did the changed IS-3 armor scheme come from. Well, it was based on the following drawings – 1945 production series IS-3 armor schematics from Plant No.200

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Hello everyone,

as the SEA players probably remember, there was a huge affair lately with the SEA competition rigging, gathering enormous amount of rage.

Well, WG responded – the investigation is running and the culprit’s replay was submitted for scrutiny.

Strangely enough, while the culprits have been caught and the whole MP “gang” gets a 7 day ban, they will not (unlike on US server) be banned from further WG events. That’s weird – remember KingAlphyn? He actually was banned from any future events.

Anyway, apparently there is an automated anti-cheat system now in place. Let’s hope it doesn’t repeat itself.

Just a quick update guys, since a few of you wrote me PM’s, why I didn’t reply:

As you can see, BigBadVuk strikes again. Got a 7 day hard ban (not just RO) on EU forums for posting in this thread – you can see what BBV wrote there and my reply was one single picture:

Edited by BigBadVuk, Today, 12:19 PM.
is post has been edited by a member of the Moderation Team, due to inappropriate content. An official notification has also been sent. BigBadVuk

SerB is inappropriate :D There’s a reason we all love BBV :) Nah, not really, I think he’s an idiot. Anyway, I didn’t manage to reply a few PM’s, will do when the ban is over.

Czech: Také to znamená, že 7 dní nebudu na foru nic překládat, protože jsem líný si dělat další alt. Možná budu překládat i tady na FTR česky, uvidíme.

“I got 99 problems and the portal quality sure is one”

Hello everyone,

I actually thought for quite some time whether to make a post on it or not, but it’s pretty much a widely recognized problem. Let’s start with a bit of a background.

Lots of you fine folks reading FTR have probably asked yourself at one point: “Why does a random guy do this, when WG could simply hire an employee to do the translations of developer staff, post more historical articles and such?”

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Disclaimer: I am posting this because I think it’s a worthy cause and that David “Lister” Listy is a good blogger and author. If you are not interested in paper books, feel free to skip this article.

Hello everyone,

remember that poll on the right side, asking whether you’d be interested in a historical book, describing one WoT nation at a time? Well, what I did not tell you is, that the book author would be Listy.

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Hello everyone,

the article spam about the 8.9 patch is kinda over. For your comfort, I’ll just add one more quick summary, so you don’t have to look for it all over the place:

German 8.9 TD’s – screenshots, modules, stats
8.9 premium tanks – screenshots, modules, stats
8.9 detailed vehicle stats and armor models (all vehicles, including premium)
List of vehicle stat changes in 8.9
List of vehicle model/armor changes in 8.9
List of additional 8.9 info and corrections for previous posts

8.9 impressions – tier 1-8 tank destroyers
8.9 impressions – tier 9-10 tank destroyers
8.9 impressions – premium tanks