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8.11 tier 10 TD changes

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Foch 155

- engine nerfed from 1200 to 1000hp
- AP/HEAT alpha nerfed from 850 to 750
- gold ammo pen nerfed from 408 to 395
- various changes in armor

Waffenträger auf E-100

- hull traverse nerfed from 30 to 26
- aim spread when turning turret for 128mm gun increased by 212 percent, for 150mm by 75 percent
- turret traverse nerfed from 24 to 22

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GameStar (Hungary) interview with Anton Sitnikau (WoWp)

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Hello everyone,

Recently, there was an interview in Hungarian GameStar magazine with Anton Sitnikau, a World of Warplanes producer. Hungarian player Antee was nice enough to translate it for you. Here it is!

GameStar: In the middle of November World of Warplanes has been released. You took a deep breath, I think, and prepared for the worst. What was the players feedback after the release?

Anton Sitnikau: We had very positive criticism, practically the number of active players has been doubled since November 2013. It is an unbelievable feeling, that so many people encourages us. They are those kind of people who are so fanatical to play simulators like us, they value our work, so this adds some energy in hard times. We received lots of feedback on how to improve the game. For us, every comment is very important, and yes, they really have influence in development. They criticize, for example the wayhow AA-guns work, they complain, there are few maps, also lots of player don’t like the current situation of Clan Wars. Lots of other developers could have took these as personal offense, but we know, these are essential informations. We are collecting ideas and complaints form players, and we try to ugrade the game the best we can. Like in World of Tanks there will be several patches, and every patch will bring some new game-element to the game, which will worth a try.

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Czechoslovak tank design legend – Alexej Surin

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Hello everyone,

I was thinking about writing this article for quite some time, but there was never enough information on this man, strangely enough. It’s odd, because Alexej Surin was Czechoslovakia’s best and most famous tank designer probably of all times, yet noone seems to know too much about him and the information was gathered mostly from I.Pejčoch’s and V.Francev’s books. I did not gather them myself either, they come mostly from one post on one certain forum in Czech.

It’s a damn shame really, because this is a person more people should know about. Since the post is about a Czechoslovak person, I will be using Czech versions of names.

Alexej Michajlovič Surin was actually not a native Czechoslovak – he was born in the Russian Empire (nowadays Ukraine) in a village called Polichkovka in the Kharkov district on 10.2.1897. His father was a farmer (not a poor one) and that allowed him to recieve higher education at Kiev Polytechnic Institute – military artillery school. He graduated there with the rank of 2ndLt in the army. He begun his career as a soldier and fought in the second half of WW1 as an officer in the Tsarist Russia army. After the bolshevik coup in 1918, he fought against them with White Russians and after their loss, he decided to leave Russia for good.

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Bob Semple tank video

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Thanks to FryaDuck for posting this video in comments

Hello everyone,

no list of worst tanks ever would be complete without the infamous Bob Semple tank. Built on New Zealand during the time of Japanese Pacific campaign (mostly as a propaganda vehicle, but also with the intention to actually fight), Bob Semple tank was named after a minister of New Zealand government, Robert “Bob” Semple, who commissioned it. Needless to say, the result was less than spectacular, as you can see yourselves…