Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog
Original author: Yuri Pasholok

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today, we’re going to have a look at one of the craziest Soviet Union ideas of WW2: the ball tanks. I sort of “borrowed” the name of this article from Yuri Pasholok, who writes a book of the same name on these strange vehicles. Some of you might remember the 1st of April, when a “ball tank” branch appeared as a part of the Soviet tree – well, the branch was a joke, but the projects were actually seriously made. This is one of the biggest of them all, the “Protivotank” (“Counter-Tank”).

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related to the Chinese server info from the last post:

8.8 test server is supposed to start on 22.8.2013 (eg. on Thursday).

Two rounds of test are planned for now (22.8. and 29.8.)

The 8.8 is to go live on Russian server either on 8.9. or 9.9., on EU/NA/SEA it’s supposed to be between 10.9. and 12.9., for Korea it’s 17.9. – how much is this info reliable, I don’t know. But the test start is like 80 percent sure.

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an interesting file found its way to me. The source is legitimate, but asked me not to reveal any identity. Basically, as you know, World of Tanks has a Chinese server too. This server, however, is not managed by Wargaming, but by a Chinese partner, called Kong Zhang Wang. Amongst other things, while Wargaming provides all the content, KZW also decides, what goes in which patch apparently.

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Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Here are the pictures of an experimental modernized SU-76M variant with closed combat compartment by Plant No.40. This vehicle was planned to replace the SU-76M open topped variant, but experiments showed, that the performance was not as expected and in the end, the project was scrapped in favour of a modified open-topped design with higher rear plate.

Not much today…

- Q: “Please make the ignore list able to accomodate 100 thousand names, because only retards play this game” A: “You mean those, who can’t read the rules of this thread?” (SS: whining is forbidden in the Q&A thread)
- Iwakuro tank is considered in the Japanese heavy tree
- SerB doesn’t want to fill the gap between lowtier and mid-tier Japanese heavies with medium tanks, he states that the branch has to have internal cohesion, as in – the vehicles that logically follow one another
- SerB states that WoT made him more rich than he was before WoT, but he won’t tell how much
- more T110 models in game? “Unfortunately, we haven’t found anything appart from Hunnicutt” (SS: Hunnicutt is the foremost authority on US tanks, something like Doyle/Spielberger on Germans)
- SerB hopes that they will soon be able to check the archives for classified projects from 40′s and 50′s with the help of Russian ministry of defense.

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today, we’re going to have a look at two vehicles, that share the same designation: ISU-130. One of them is however highly suspicious. First, the historical one:

ISU-130 (Object 250)

This is probably the “real” ISU-130 it is perfectly suitable to be a World of Tanks premium Soviet tank destroyer.

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remember KingAlphyn? For those who don’t, he’s the guy that rigged several competitions on US server, he even admitted it. As a result, he has been banned from all the WG contest in the future.

Or, has he?

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Author: Daigensui (US forums)

Here’s a bit of info about the upcoming German rebalance. You can consider the info… let’s say in accordance to what WG plans, ergo more than just “pure guessing” and less than a leak.

Daigensui:

Many have started panicking due the broad statement above. However, I believe while there will be quite a bit of hard number changes, those will be compensated enough to make the Panthers and Tigers enjoyable.

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let’s have a look at the tiny little fail, that happened on Russian server recently. Well, perhaps more than tiny.

As you probably know, last month, an event took place: best tank destroyer players (well, at least the ones that got most XP) get to win the Type 59, gold and yaddayadda. Each tank destroyer category (vehicle) has its own winners.

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