There are no English subtitles, but you can select the “translate subtitles” to “English”, it’s sufficient, to know what they are talking about.
Hello everyone,
Wargaming recently released another video from the “Remember Everything” series, dedicated to honoring the World War Two veterans. Technically, there is nothing wrong with that – these people in the movie (describing their feelings about “protecting the motherland” and all that) fought in possibly the worst war conflict in human history (personally, strictly combat-wise, disregarding the terrible WW2 background of concentration camps and such, I consider the battlefield of WW1 to be the most terrifying thing to happen in the history of wars) and deserve our respect.
so, here’s the new 9.3 stuff all in one place. The data come from 9.3 supertest client, so they are possible to change. Still, I think it gives us a nice insight.
Where there are more values, stock comes first of course, then the middle (if there is) and then the elite.
the Golden Joystick competition is coming once again and Wargaming EU acts the way they used to – they screw up whatever they touch. Take the Top of the Tree for example. First, it looked like this:
A medium tank discount over a medium line? Sounds logical. Oh well, too bad it didn’t stay that way and got changed to WZ-132 the way it was announced in the September leaked plans. Wargaming not reading even their own materials? How terrible. And I am not talking about how they apparently shifted the 121 to tier 9.
- RU251: 92700 XP
- reworked Chaffee: 12480 XP
- T37 LT: 28100 XP
- M41 Walker Bulldog: 56300 XP
- T49: 101200 XP
- LTTB: 59150 XP
- T-54 Light: 96300 XP
today… well, just now, I discovered a huge problem in my life that I have to fix and it will require quite some money and time. Dont ask, it’s personal. I just wanted you to know the impact it will have on FTR:
From now on, I will be posting only the translations in the evenings until I fix it. They will come later, 9-10PM CEST or so. Furthermore, the chance I will reply on any mail is very low from now on, I recieve too many and takes too much time.
If you want to drop your Patreon support as a result, Ill understand. I hope to fix it as soon as I can to return to “normal” mode of FTR, but tbh I am not optimistic about that. Will do the best I can for you. Sorry for this.
an interesting thing appeared in the supertest client. Yesterday, the site gamemodels3d got it from somewhere and posted a list of changes, that happened between 9.2 and 9.3 supertest. One of the changes that caught my eye was the following:
Коэффициент опыта экипажа 1.5 ( 1.0 )
What it means in English is that all the premium tanks (and reward tanks that act like premiums, such as VK7201) recieved a 50 percent bonus to crew XP gain.
Whether it’s just a supertest thing or a seriously considered change, that I do not know (given the fact that something as big would be announced, I doubt we’ll see that in 9.3), but it’s certainly not a bad idea.
today, we are going to be talking about the Conqueror. Listy made an interesting historical article about what he found in the archives and it’s quite interesting. With it, the British line could be changed somewhat.
There are two potentially useful things he found.
First is the 14mm “Burster” applique armor plate, added to the hull of the vehicle to detonate HESH and HEAT shells. Pretty useful little thing, but nothing that was unknown before (there is even a report on that online) and quite frankly, in the game, the Conqueror is more like a sniper, it doesn’t need to be covered with troll spaced armor.
Second is much more interesting. A lot of people are sort of… not happy with the fact that stock Conqueror in the game uses a Centurion turret. Listy found an alternative: a “paper” turret, proposed for the Conqueror.
The armor of this turret is (in milimeters) 342/177,8/? (presumably 70), with an improved commader’s cupola armor. This could of course be a serious upgrade to the Conqueror, allowing the “elite” turret to be moved to “stock” position. Of course, tradeoffs would have to be made for this insane frontal thickness. These tradeoffs could include:
- reduction of upper front plate from 130mm to 125mm (per another document, found by Listy)
- reduction of the rear current elite turret armor from 70mm to 63.5 (source is the same document)
- possible reduction of gun depression from -7 to -5,5 (the peculiar fire control system did not allow the gunner to fire the gun below 5,5 degrees of depression)
- other soft stats nerfs
Obviously, additional research would be required, but it could be an interesting change to the Conqueror.
Thanks to Hector M. for sending me this nice little video :)
From RU server (but the Russian text is largely irrelevant) – a “test” of the dreaded AMX-40. It starts slow, but you’ll see that it’s totally OP and deserves a nerf! :)
