Source: wot-news.com
Some of you probably heard that there was a huge Wargaming 15th anniversary party with The Offspring and Hurts in attendance. It was a private party with only the banquet budget of 300 thousand USD for 3500 employees present, which took place on “Stalin Line” complex. The party included playing around with real tanks, quads and boats and even war reenactments.
Hello everyone,
about half a year ago (when I still wasn’t banned on EU forums), I wrote a post, dealing with the possibility to build an assault gun “derp” line for the Germans. My conclusion was that it’s hardly possible, as there are some serious gaps on mid-high tiers and the T9-T10 are problematic also. Well, some time has passed, let’s revisit that idea, shall we?
Hello everyone,
you might have noticed that the “Retards of WoT” section has disappeared. The reason is that I realized that everyone, including me, rages at some point and it’s pointless to shame people for such outbursts. Therefore, I will not post further “Retards of WoT” articles, but I will keep the “Hall of Shame” section (you can access it via the menu above) for the worst retards: nazis, death threats, antisemitism… that kind of stuff. Feel free to send me pics with such idiots.
And today, we have another lovely “inductee”: Strongman105 – for taking the rage way too far. While some rages are funny, this is just creepy.
In the today’s earlier post, I mixed up Chris Roberts and Chris Taylor (it’s because I’ve been following Star Citizen for a while now, which of course Chris Taylor has nothing to do with), sorry for that.
Thanks to ITDUDE for finding this interesting tidbit
there was a video for the Russian server (not sure it will appear for EU server too, probably not), describing the history and growth of Wargaming, with interviews and everything:
Right in the last minute, Chris Taylor mentions something interesting: Wargaming is (apart from the World of…) series working on a secret project – a game, that will possibly be the biggest game project in history (his own words). We are thrilled… I sure hope he’s not Stalin stalling.
Alright guys,
the discussion about the Stalin issue got kinda long (700+ comments is a record!) and I am closing that discussion down, because I think it has run its course. I know this is a heated issue for you and I appreciate the fact that the discussion was (well, mostly and relatively) civil.
Let’s just carry on as usual. Historical articles and more Q&A tomorrow. Thinking about discontinuing the “Retards” section, I recieved a HUGE amount of e-mails with pics (as some of you predicted).
Edit: I removed the “Retards of WoT” section, because it contained not enough serious retardery and more of random rage. The worst retards will still be featured in the Hall of Shame however.
SS
Earlier: Soviet rocket tanks article
Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/228435.html
Author: Leisheng (RU)
Hello everyone,
today, we’ll have a look at some interesting overview of the missile-carrying tanks
Great Britain
1945 – Sherman Tulip (two RP-3 76mm rockets)
So, it looks like the Stalin issue is the Rage of the Week on EU forums. Hmm… there should be an official announcement in the afternoon on WG EU portal. The feedback on RU server on this decision is overwhelmingly positive, with RU players mostly going like “hahaha suck that Europe” – plus making a lot of anti-Polish jokes
- tanks with ATGM’s? “I’ll say it like this, if this comes, it will be in another game”
- AA tanks with machineguns are not planned for now, SerB actually states the amount of shells from them might crash the servers
- the T-34-3 is armed with a 122mm gun – for now (SS: there have been several reports of this gun being changed, presumably to some D-10T clone)
Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/1/symbols_of_victory/
Hello everyone,
this is a WG RU article translation. This article came out like an hour ago on official WG RU portal. It is…. well, you be the judge.
Vehicles, emblems and inscriptions happen to be an integral part of of all Wargaming projects. With their help, we create the atmosphere of those events and years for our players.Some of those elements of the game process (inscriptions “Stalinec”, “For Stalin!”, “For our Soviet Motherland!”, “Iosif Stalin” and others) are politicized, and their use often causes unease and mixed feelings of a lot of players. The company understands that certain individual members of community might have their feelings hurt, but at the same time does not want to twist the history and to further remove content from the game, that is not banned on the international level.
Author: Vollketten
Another quite interesting article from Vollketten, enjoy :)
I was browsing through some of the excellent archive of the British Medical Journal for another project I am working on and as a result came across some articles relating to tanks I thought I would share here as matter of general interest.
Regarding WW1 tanks
There was discussion (post war) about the use of tanks to carry or move wounded from the front and as dressing stations protected from enemy fire and shells. Notably one suggestion was that certain types of larger tanks could be “adapted for medical purposes with a dressing table in the centre of the hold behind the engine with electric light provided, stretchers and hammocks arranged in tiers capable of holding half a dozen lying cases or twenty sitting.”
