Hello everyone,

as you probably know, the tier 10 discount for early March 2015 for EU is the T110E4. What you might not know however is that starting from last month, the tier 10 discounts on EU server were unified with RU server. As far as I know, this change was never officially announced anywhere, but last two tanks were the same. I thought at first it might be a coincidence, but now that the Russians have a T110E4 on discount as well, it’s very likely that the discounts are unified indeed.

With that being said, the next tier 10 discount (second half of March) will likely be the Maus, as the Russians usually announce the tier 10 discounts for the whole month instead of just the next one.

Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4297508.html

Hello everyone,

when the Somua S35 upcoming tier 3 French tank was leaked, some guys were wondering, what the hell is that top turret and why doesn’t it look like a Somua S35 one. Here’s the deal (the drawings were published by Yuri Pasholok).

The top turret is called ARL 2C and was developed as an upgrade to the Somua S35 tank. According to the French plans, in July 1940, starting with the produced vehicle No.451, the vehicle was to be replaced by a modified version, called “S40″. The first prototype of the turret was produced in the spring of 1940.

First 80 Somua S40 tanks (No.451 to No.530) were supposed to be equipped with the APX 1 CE turrets, the very same the Somua S35 tanks used. But at the same time, on the first prototype a mock-up turret (that was supposed to be the main turret in the future) was already tried out. This turret was called ARL 2C.

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Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4292173.html

Hello everyone,

this is the stock configuration of the French tier 5 tank G1R, coming up in 9.7. It’s a part of the G1 program – at this point (in 1936). It was also called Char de 20 t Renault, but the G1R designation was better known. A wooden mockup was made (as you can see) – at this point, the vehicle was supposed to be armed with a 47mm Schneider gun with the muzzle velocity of 800 m/s

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Hello everyone,

I found this video to be very nicely made. The problem with the new physics is that it’s very hard to capture the entire system on video, you really have to FEEL the tank movement. Still, the video is very good, so… enjoy :)

And yes, if you haven’t tried the test yet – do.

Hello everyone,

unfortunately, I have to tell you that Woras is moving on from making the European Random videos and this will be the last one. Thanks for all the good work, Woras!

Hello everyone,

forgot to post this one earlier, so: here’s the HD E-100 model from Test 9.7 – the model is allegedly not fucked up, it’s the viewer making these glitches:

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Hello everyone,

okay, this is not a serious article, but something Yuri Pasholok made a video of. Check this out – this is Yuri Pasholok, holding a 48 kilogram SU-152 (ML-20) shell.

He’s saying (the first part is hard to hear):

“…this is a 152mm shell from the stock version of the SU-152 SPG. It weighs roughly 48 kilograms. Gentlemen of the game balance department: we, who work in the museum would really like you to tell us – how can you not penetrate with THIS? Thank you.”

Funnily enough, Storm replied with:

“….and this is the guy, who told me on Skype that if the historicity messes up gameplay, then fuck historicity”

on which Yuri Pasholok reacted:

“This is not gameplay, this is ‘patented damage model’. Often fucked up. The fucked up mechanism has even been known for a long time.”

And as a bonus, Yuri Pasholok posted two pictures:

“Didn’t penetrate their armor” (a non-penetrating hit by a 152mm shell at Ferdinand frontal armor that just ripped it apart)

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Hello everyone,

this is the Cromwell B (or “Cromwell Berlin” as designated in the files). It’s not a regular vehicle, it’s a part of the same event as the IS-2 and ISU-122S. Yes, it’s a HD model and no, that does not mean regular Cromwell is modelled in HD yet. More detals are not known, but it looks pretty.

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Hello everyone,

just to inform you on what’s probably coming to EU as well: Russian server has a marathon again – do 150k damage on tier 6-10 vehicle of each nation (eg. 7×150.000=1.050.000 damage) AND you have to destroy 150 tanks as well, as a reward, you’ll get a T34 tier 8 premium.

For each separate nation completed, you will also get 3 days of premium.

And of course, you can again buy the “tickets” for each nation in the premium shop. Looks like that was pretty successful last time with WZ-111.

But that’s not all: another new mechanism is being introduced – destroy 2 enemy tanks and damage 3 more in battle, do that 25 times and you will get a premium tank… for four days (after that, it gets taken away).

Hello everyone,

the museum of Bovington published second part of the Tank Chats series about British vehicles with David Fletcher, this time about the Carden Loyd Carrier. I must say I absolutely love David Fletcher’s voice and the way he explains stuff, you can feel that this guy simply KNOWS things. Really, really good.

In next part: Medium Tank Mk.II…