Hello everyone,
just a quick announcement: today’s micropatch started causing crashes of World of Tanks for many people. This is, according to Gnomefather (prominent mod-creator), caused by sound mods, which the patch made incompatible for some reason. ANY sound mods are causing this, including Gnomefather’s historical sound mod. If the game crashes for you, uninstall them and wait for an updated version.
Author: CaptianNemo
Everyone remembers the Porsche VK.45.01(P) Type 101 and its failure to win a production contract against Henschel’s VK.45.01(H) c10. But there was another Porsche VK.45.01(P) in the early conception and design of the Tiger I tank. One, that did in fact make it to the prototype stage – the Type 102.
Early on in the development of heavy and super-heavy tanks, in competition with the Henschel organization, doubts were expressed from the Porsche company on the suitability and reliability of mechanical transmission. With that concern in mind, the Porsche company began to look into engineering an alternative. The concern with mechanical drives was not unfounded at the time, as it was a serious concern for any would-be designer. As if to reassure the Porsche company, Char 2C(1920), B1(1935) and B1-Bis(1937) also incorporated the gas-electric design with mechanical designs, at the time being limited to about 25-30 tons. And so Porsche produced their Type 100 (VK.30.01(P) “Leopard”) and Type 101 gas-electric tanks.
Thanks to Louie Xia for this one.
Hello everyone,
would you like to buy the T23E3? Or perhaps the T95E6 from a shop? Well, if you do, you gotta move to China, because a (legit) Chinese webstore is pre-selling (not yet implemented) tanks. That’s the first time I see a pre-sale for a vehicle, that’s not yet in the game.
T23E3 is being sold for 148 RMB (cca 24 USD)
Hello everyone,
as some of you might have noticed, a micropatch did hit the EU server as well (without any notice on the portal). This micropatch contains following fixes:
- hotfixed the disappearing arty shells in arty mode bug
- new hangar (WGL-themed), that will be active from 2nd to 6th April
Because that’s exactly what we need. Another hangar.
Hello everyone,
tomorrow, a micropatch is going to hit the RU server cluster, with following changes:
- a new WGL themed hangar (because, you know, spamming that stuff everywhere is not enough)
- hotfix of the arty shells disappearing bug in arty mode
It is not known currently, whether EU and US will get the same patch.
Additionally, in order to compensate for server issues, Russian server is getting 1 day premium bonus code for everyone.
Hello everyone,
just a quick update – several of you have asked about Tank Inspector not working. I asked Hillin, the developer – basically their entire cloud service went down. The are working hard on fixing the issues, so please be patient.
-SS
Source: http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=nf&no=314007&page=1
Edit: these pictures are actually not leaked, they come from Russian wikipedia, were reposted on the Korean site as a “leak”
Continuing the previous post, this time with US ships.
Smith class destroyer
Source: http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=nf&no=314008&page=1
Edit: these pictures are actually not leaked, they come from Russian wikipedia, were reposted on the Korean site as a “leak”
Hello everyone,I am usually not covering World of Warships, but these models are very pretty :) The names I used google translate for, so I am not sure they are correct, if they aren’t, feel free to correct me.
Tachibana class destroyer
Hello everyone,
as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.
Contributors
Thorsten E. (Germany)
Aiden F. (Ireland)
Wurstmann (Germany)
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Hello everyone,
this is an American propaganda video from 1943, showing the training and the use of American tank destroyers. I hope you will find it interesting :)
