Hello everyone,

today is the 1st anniversary of the new For the Record, hosted on the wot-news portal. Much has changed ever since last year, both in the game and on For the Record blog, but one thing remains the same – I am still having fun doing it (as exhausting as it is sometimes) and I am still trying to mine the internetz for the best content about WoT out there.

At this point I would like to thank Edrard, without whose intervention and help over the past year, For the Record would certainly not be here. He was able to get along with me (a feat by itself), running this site, fixing its bugs – a tremendous help. Thank you.

Secondly, I want to thank all the contributors, who helped me finance FTR over the past months and months, both via Patreon and via the Paypal donations. You guys are the best.

And last but not least, I would like to thank everyone else, all of you readers, for your continued support and – earlier – for putting up with ads, that’s what kept me going and keeps me going. Now, enjoy your Saturday (I hope you have as nice weather as it is in here), there will be a competition in the evening (well, at least evening of EU time), so you better refresh your game and tank knowledge :)

PS: Those, who were banished and forgotten, might just return yet…

Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, the new Stronkhold mode is coming. A part of it are NPC defensive buildings – turrets, controlled by bots, that protect your base from enemy assault. The turrets will allegedly be constructed as buildings in Stronkhold mode. They are allegedly going to appear as team members, so in the end, a team can have 16 or 17 players in the team like that.

This is an E-100 turret, with 10k hitpoints, allegedly it’s possible there will be other tank turrets used this way as well.

Part I – Introduction
Part II – Italy, Czechoslovakia
Part III – Hungary
Part IV – Sweden
Part V – Yugoslavia
Part VI – Poland

Hello everyone,

today, we are continuing the the European tech tree vehicle article series with an overview of the Spanish tanks. Now, there is a little problem with Spanish tanks from my point of view. All the info is in Spanish. And I don’t speak Spanish. Fortunately, there is Mr.R.Delineante, who was kind enough to provide us with his tree proposal. The way I see it, the Spanish can actually build a serious medium branch and have a couple of interesting vehicles of their own.

And here is a 16 page document, roughly describing the Spanish tank industry I don’t know how about you, but this does sound pretty ínteresting to me. The file was originally in PDF format (available here), but I decided to convert it into jpegs for easier viewing. Enjoy.

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Thanks to Mesotronik for this one. Taken from this thread.

Konstaninovka, Ukraine, June 2014 – “separatists” idiots, trying to rev up an old IS-3 tank, that has been there as a monument for god knows how long. Poor thing. It’s not going anywhere in this state anyway, just let it rest.

Meanwhile on the new map…

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3327127.html

Hello everyone,

you might probably remember that some time ago, a game World of Tanks: Generals was announced. Basically a web browser card game, it’s being tested now. There was a leak from WoT Generals though, about some of the new tanks, that will appear in it. Since I was curious, I asked around, whether these tanks will be introduced or not in World of Tanks. This is the original leak:

Now:

- T-21 fate is not yet decided (thanks god, it might still appear in the EU tree)
- T-24 is theoretically reserved for a regular branch
- Grosstraktor is already in the game
- the rest (T-35, T6, Liberty) is actually planned for WoT

I will make a post later on the brief description of each of the planned tanks.

Source: wot-news

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Hello everyone,

yesterday, Polyarmus sent me an e-mail with an interesting question: how many potential tier 10 vehicles are there left to implement for already existing trees? That kinda gave me pause, because the more I thought about it, the more I came to the conclusion that it’s probably not that many. Let’s have a look at the existing trees one by one. I ommitted the potential artillery class vehicles for obvious reasons. Special thanks to Dominatus, Vollketten, Anglomanii, CaptianNemo and Listy for brainstorming ideas.

Germany

German tree is pretty much finished, the only thing that is missing from it are the historical Waffenträgers (on 38t suspension) and the Sturmtiger branch, with Sturmtiger of them all being probably the only viable tier 10 vehicle. Theoretically, another vehicle that could serve as tier 10 could be the Sturmpanzer Bär, but of the Waffenträgers, none really reach tier 10 potential. The only chance (for WT E-100 replacement) would really be the idea, that was mentioned some time ago – it’s possible Yuri Pasholok found some advanced Waffenträger Panther material in the German Bundesarchiv, but so far, he has not published anything of that sort.

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This is a post about some technical matters with FTR itself.

One:

In recent days (weeks), I’ve recieved numerous complaints from people, who tried to register on FTR and never recieved their confirmation e-mail with a password back. This issue should now be fixed (it was a problem with the mailing system). In case it is not (I have seen several cases where FTR mail goes to spam folder), try logging on using social login

Two:

Recently, I have recieved several articles from various players – articles, that they want to have published in FTR. When you want something published, guys, a couple of points you should pay attention to:

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Hello everyone,

unlike the Cromwell tanks (and the Challengers), the Czechoslovaks didn’t use Shermans after the war, but rather during the war.

The Czechoslovak tankers encountered the Shermans first in 1944. The first four (of the Sherman V type, also known as the M4A4) were attached to the artillery regiment of the Czechoslovak Independent Armored Brigade in from April to August 1944 in Britain as artillery observation tanks. After the Brigade was moved to France, on 13.9.1944, they were replaced by Cromwell AOP tanks.

Another mention of the Sherman came from August 1944, when there were some negotiations between the Brigade officers and the British about the unit recieving some 17pdr Shermans, also known as the Fireflies. The British were not to eager to equip the Czechoslovak unit with even a few Fireflies, but in the end a compromise was reached and on 27.8.1944, the Brigade recieved its first four Sherman IC tanks (the Firefly built on M4 tank, can be seen on the photo above in Britain). These four tanks were then split into two groups of two tanks and each group was attached to one of two Brigade’s tank batallions. More tanks of this type were recieved by the Brigade in March and April of 1945. By that time, the Brigade was already organizing the creation of third batallion and according to the new organization tables, each company was to have one 3-tank platoon of Firefly tanks. In May 1945, the Sherman Fireflies were replaced completely by the Challenger tanks (specifically on 9.5.1945). Before that however, the Brigade recieved 36 Fireflies in total of both types (the welded and the composite hull). No Czechoslovak Sherman Firefly was ever lost in combat, although the fate of one (WD No. T 269822) is not documented (not listed as decommissioned).

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