Part I here: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/12/27/the-legion-part-i/
Part II here: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/12/28/the-legion-part-ii/

…..to victory

Just as the first group (advancing near the railway along with the armored train) was engaging the bolsheviks, the flanking units under Lt.Gayer got into a very nasty firefight. The 1st and 3rd Batallion of the Regiment were attacking and the field guns of Lt.Cholyavin and Cpl.Vondra were in support. The situation was tough though – advancing Czechoslovaks had to assault up hill, that was fortified with several machinegun nests. Withering fire from the Maxim machineguns was literally pinning the Czechoslovaks down in the bolshevik artillery storm of fire and shrapnels. In their fortifications above them, the bolsheviks were certain they’d repel the Czechoslovak assault. But there was no stopping the Legion – the onslaught was relentless. Czechoslovaks were slowly advancing towards the fortified positions, inevitable as a sea tide itself – and the bolsheviks were starting to get desperate, throwing everything they had at the advancing legionnaires, including danger close artillery barrage. This time, there was nowhere to run – the town was behind them, the news of the “encirclement” (caused by the marauding Czechoslovak infiltrators) had already reached them and the Russians knew it was a “fight or die” situation for them and so they didn’t retreat, fighting (on some places) to the last man.

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Hello and welcome to “Buff my tank!”

The “Buff my tank!” articles are meant as an historical way to look at some tanks considered underpowered in game and ways to improve their combat abilities discussed by the original german engineers.
Beware that while being sometimes ironic in tone, the article treats about both costs and benefits of every choice and it most likely will never be listened by WG as suggestion.

A true workhorse of the Wehrmacht, the Panzer II was initially conceived as an interim design until the heavier and more capable Panzer III and IV were ready but its development was still very long, with plenty of proposed upgrades.
To properly explore this, we will draw our information from Spielberger’s “Panzers I and II and their variants” and “Gepard”, while also using ” Panzer Tacts 20-1” and “Panzer Tracts 20-2” from Jentz & Doyle.

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Kinda cute :)

Enjoy!!!

Source: RU forums (thanks to Fan_of_Bulba for the link)

Hello everyone,

just some quick heads up. Today, a bug was detected in the 7/42 code, allowing under certain conditions to use tier 9 and 10 tanks in team battles. I assume the same bug probably appeared on EU and US server too, since the patch was the same. The bug will be hotfixed, but according to the Russian developer, accounts abusing this bug will be permabanned (a few Russians already were actually, a list of who was publicly displayed for once). So… just don’t do it.

Edit: On 31.12.2013, patch 8.10.2 will come out, apparently fixing this thing. Here is a screenie of one of the Russians, that got permabanned.

And such is the fate of the cheater (it says “blocked permanently”):

Hello everyone

as a bit of a belated Christmas present, a donor, who wanted to remain anonymous, gave us 20 bonus codes for 300 gold + 1 day prem (the ones from Alienware). If you redeemed one before, you probably won’t be able to redeem another one.

VRTR3K-37N9X3
VRTR3K-84N8M6
VRTR3P-85N3C6
VRTR3C-87S9V7
VRTR3A-48G6E7
VRTR3S-45C3Y4
VRTR3N-23F6U7
VRTR3U-47A2F2
VRTR3D-49C7A6
VRTR3B-64H3F6
VRTR3U-43M9M7
VRTR3E-48W5W3
VRTR3U-23H9C6
VRTR3W-62P9U2
VRTR3E-35Z2D6
VRTR3M-72R4X9
VRTR3Y-97C2B8
VRTR3T-34A3M4
VRTR3F-67K8B8
VRTR3X-56Z3Z8

Source: http://de.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-12-27-wargaming-dornier-restauration-kostet-300-000-euro

Hello everyone,

those, who follow WoWp news probably know about the Wargaming Dornier plan. The Royal Air Force museum at Cosford (with Wargaming financing) has decided to basically restore a German Dornier Do-17 bomber, that was fished out of the English Channel in order to show it to public. The estimated costs of the project will be cca 250k GBP (cca 300k EUR)

Part I here: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/12/27/the-legion-part-i/

In the pale moonlight

Right before the midnight (still on 3.6.1918), the flanking of Lt.Gayer started advancing. It was a cold night with clear skies, everything was silent and the Czechoslovak had to move slowly and carefully not to draw attention. After 20 kilometers of such march, the group has reached the Voskresenske village.

During the march, the group stopped every five kilometers to rest, so the men wouldn’t be exhausted, when they reached the battlefield. The men were clenching their rifles, everyone knew about the defenses and was ready for a tough fight. During the advance, a horse courier from Lt.Čeček caught on the group with good news: the Legion rearguard repulsed a bolshevik attack from Bezenchuk a few hours ago, routing the bolsheviks and sending them running. This news helped to lift the morale of the unit greatly and everyone was eager to prove their worth fighting the bolsheviks.

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Hello everyone,

you might have already seen the 8bit Tales Santa post on the portal. It’s kinda cute as always (I like these video series). Just a little explanation however. At cca 1:10, the Maus “boss” gets killed and a ghost of a deer flies up from it:

Why a deer? That makes no sense? Unless it’s reindeer, but why would a reindeer be a Maus? Anyway, what I think this means is – the authors of the video are Russians. In Russian, the word for a noob is “olen”, which literally means “deer”. This is the point of many Russian World of Tanks jokes: if you see someone with antlers photoshopped on him, it is a reference to the “deer” (meaning he’s a noob).

By the way, you might have noticed some other Russian jokes with another animal, this time a crayfish. In Russian, the word for a troll or an idiot (in WoT slang) is “rak”, which means “crayfish”. Lots of jokes come from this too.

Both the deer and the crayfish appeared even in an official trailer for team battles, this is how an average Russian World of Tanks team looks like apparently:

Hello everyone,

just to let you know, there have been a few guys contacting me about an alleged fail, since the double XP mission (that was promised yesterday) doesn’t exist in the mission list. I’d just like to let you know that the double XP works just fine. Only it’s not done via a mission.

You see, in order to make the double XP count towards the IS-6 goal, someone would create a special type of mission and probably override a whole lot of the previous rules otherwise. So, in order to avoid all the hassle, Wargaming invented a rather elegant solution: first battle double XP’s did count towards the IS-6 goal even before, so they simply blocked their resetting. Basically, the game now considers EVERY won battle to be the first victory of the day.

That’s why there is no new mission, that’s why they had to cancel the x5 victory bonus and that’s why it counts only towards victories. If they wanted to make EVERY battle to be double XP (even losses) and to make it count towards the IS-6 goal, a fair bit of programming would have to be involved. This way, it doesn’t have to be.

Hello everyone,

as you probably heard already, Wargaming gave us an unexpected bonus: this weekend, you get double XP for every battle you win (so if you lose, you ain’t getting shit). The Christmas event bonuses were changed thus:

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Considering hardcore people like Lonigus already claimed the IS-6 (he did so today in fact), I guess it’s the right boost for everyone not as hardcore :)