Hello everyone,
Giganaut made two more renders of the TVP tank, check this out! You can also visit him in his thread on US forums to say hi :) It has more interesting renders of various tanks.
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Giganaut’s TVP render
Hello everyone,
remember the TVP article I posted earlier? Giganaut was kind enough to actually create a render of the most advanced vehicle stage (T-50/51). Thanks a lot, mate! It does look kinda badass, doesn’t it?
Weekly FTR contributor review
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
J.K. (Ireland)
S.D. (Belgium)
Richmi (Czech Republic)
Webium s.r.o. (http://www.mywotmods.com/) (Czech Republic)
Please note that if you want your full real name or nickname listed, you have to write me your nickname (or your consent for full name publication) :)
Restoring the Panzer II Ausf.F
Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2672642.html
Yuri Pasholok recently posted a really interesting article about the restoration of the Russian museum Panzer II Ausf.F (from Kubinka). I was wondering whether to repost it, but in the end, it would be a damn shame if us westerners didn’t have a look too. It’s not a Hugo Boss uniform, but it will have to do :)
He states that this vehicle is quite rare in museums. This is the way it looks now:
Czechoslovak T-34/100 (drawings)
Hello everyone,
long time ago, I wrote a post about the Czechoslovak T-34/100 project (that could theoretically fit the tier 7 in the Czechoslovak branch).
EU servers still lagging
Hello everyone,
as you probably know, the EU servers lagged like hell this weekend (to the point I actually didn’t play during the event, although I really wanted to) and according to some player accounts (bit busy to try myself), they continue to do so.
The good thing about the situation is that unlike the usual “talk to your ISP” attitude, Wargaming EU acknowledged the issue and they are working on it.
iScending (EU staff) has created a thread, where he posted regular updates yesterday. Today nothing so far, but if you want to know as fast as possible about this issue, you can follow it here:
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/348737-high-latency-slow-forums-stuck-servers-260113/
I will follow it myself and will let you know when there are any news about this issue.
Straight outta Supertest: new Panzer IV (split?)
Source: VK Wotleaks community
Hello everyone,
so, we got some nice leaks here from the VK community… a new upcoming vehicle: Panzer IV Ausf.A – tier 3 medium tank. Since it is a regular tank and there is no real reason to just add a historical variant to the already existing Panzer IV that actually covers it (gun-wise), I think we can safely speculate that Panzer IV is getting split into more tanks. When? Most likely for historical battles and since they told us they are coming “soon” (9.0?), it’s likely to assume this will be a part of the patch…
SU-85BM and SU-122P – historical guns on Soviet TD’s
Hello everyone,
Okay, this is something I wanted to post for a while now, after Yuri Pasholok posted two photos on his blog. Those of you, who play Soviet tank destroyers in World of Tanks, might remember the SU-85 and SU-100 elite guns. SU-85 has the 85mm D5S-85BM, while the SU-100 has the D-2-5S? But are they historical?
Yep, they are. Meet SU-85BM and SU-122P.
SU-85BM
As I wrote above, Yuri Pasholok posted this photo on his blog, that sort of “inspired” me to look up some info. There is not that much.
The photo is from January 1944 and it shows nicely this improved SU-85 variant. Based on the data from A.V.Karpenko (I really am not sure how reliable this author is, but it’s enough for start), the BM variant (high power) of the D-5S gun was created by the design bureau of Plant No.9, led by F.F.Petrov. The muzzle velocity of the gun was increased to 900 m/s, leading to 20 percent increase in penetration. The barrel was 1068mm longer than the one of the original D-5S and to compensate for this, the trunnions were pushed back by 80 milimeters. The prototype vehicle (the implementation of this gun into the SU-85) was made by the Uralmash plant in January 1944. It was tested at Gorokhovets proving ground between March and April 1944. It passed the tests, but was never accepted in service because of the appearance of the SU-100 project.
WoT player commits suicide
Source: http://lifenews.ru/news/126013
Uhm, okay, this is some pretty weird stuff. On 13.1.2014, a young Russian Federal Penitentiary Service employee from the city of Kungur by the name of Nikolai Grekhov spent the night from Monday to Tuesday playing World of Tanks and drinking alcohol. His wife told the news that he was obsessed with the game and losing in it made him very upset. After spending a sleepless night and not wanting to go to work, he committed suicide.
So I guess the noobs really CAN drive you crazy…
Ensign’s Q&A #21
Q: The wiki says that the T-43 was a project to build a medium tank with more armour, but was cancelled when it was discovered that more armament was what was needed. Does the current T-43 not make sense? Would it instead work better as a tier 6 premium tank?
A: At the time the T-43 project began, the 76 mm F-34 was considered sufficient. Later, it turned out that the larger 3-man turret with a wider turret ring could carry an 85 mm gun. The tank was rejected for reasons other than firepower, especially since the turret migrated to the T-34-85. As such, it makes perfect sense to have this tank in game in its current state, armed with an 85 mm gun.
As far as working in a role of a tier 6 premium tank, I don’t think it would. The F-34 is already insufficient at tier 5 in the T-34, having it on a tier 6 tank would be awful.