Hello everyone,

so, how much will the IS-6 cost you in experience? Is it 700k XP, right?

Well, no, wrong. There are two things unaccounted for in that equation: free XP and the price of Japanese tree. If we disregard the XP needed to unlock other tier 6 vehicles apart from the Japanese one, it’s most reasonable to first grind the old nations: USA, USSR, France, UK, Germany and China. Each will cost you 100k XP, which means 600k XP in total, which means 30 thousand free bonus XP, that you can use to unlock the Japanese vehicles.

In order to get to Japanese tree tier 6 (shortest way possible, not necesserily the best), you need 66040 XP via the medium line and 65035 XP via the light line. You can dump 30k free XP for this tree, which will leave you at least 35035 XP to grind for, IF you completely disregard other vehicle modules. But then there’s the free XP gain from the remaining 35035 XP. Since you are always getting that 5 percent bonus, all you need to get is 33367 XP to get to tier 6, so the XP starts counting towards your goal. Thus, the IS-6 will cost you 733367 XP with the quickest route through the Japanese tree. At least I hope I have the numbers right :)

More reasonable (and perhaps faster) approach would possibly be to invest into other modules as well. To be honest, I think it’s a shame to skip the lowtier Japanese tanks just so. 30k XP is doable in one day, but not easily.

Hello everyone,

as you probably all know by now, we will be given a gift tank on 25th of December – the Light Tank Mk.VIc. Here are its characteristics (patch 8.10):

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver)
Tier: 2
MM weight: 3
Health: 150
Hull armor: 14/13/6
Turret armor: 14/14/11
Maximum speed: 52,5/20
Viewrange: 300
Radiorange: 375

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2866598.html

Hello everyone,

if you did read Veider’s stream answers, you might remember that in 9.0, first of the planned city maps will arrive – Kharkov. Asian server gives us a small sneak peak about how it will look like:

How do we know it’s Kharkov? Well, first, there is the file name (I kept it from the site original). Second, check the high buildings on the picture. And now this, a real life photo from Kharkov (courtesy of Yozas_Gubka, LJ forums).

Yep, it’s Kharkov. I am looking forward to the next city map :)

Hello everyone,

some of you probably remember the Veteran Tanker Charity I posted up 20 days ago.

So, it’s 15.12.2013 and by the notice of carramba66 (event organizer):

The event is officially over.

Also thanks to you, dear readers, the success of this event was completely stunning and none of us, who teamed up to advertise it around, expected it to happen like this. The goal was around 20000 CZK for one man (that equals roughly 730 EUR). By now, there are 158548 CZK (cca 5750 EUR) on the transparent account and it’s clear that the sum will be split amongst more of the former soldiers and tankers. Which ones – that will be decided by the veteran organization, shielding the entire transaction.

We all would – on behalf of the veterans – thank you all for your contributions. Especially surprising were the contributions from abroad, but our gratitude goes to everyone equally. What will happen now:

- the account will remain open for a while longer for the last payments to arrive
- after that, the account owner (carramba66) will transfer the funds to the veteran organization (ČSOL), that will then split the sum amongst the veteran tankers, selected by its representative
- carramba66 will record an interview with the veteran organization spokesperson for everyone to hear, what the money was used for exactly

So, thank you once again!

Important: Please note that from this point onward, all the paypal contributions for FTR will remain with FTR, they will no longer be donated, as the event is officially over.

Hello everyone,

the IS-6 mission is in the client already, listed in future missions from tomorrow, under the same conditions as FTR reported. Basically, you have to get 100k XP in a tier 6 vehicle in order to get 3 days of premium:

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Hello everyone,

a few invite codes for you. This one’s from CNNK (from the Prague meeting I assume):

Three more from a guy who didn’t post his nickname (D.T.)

HN7RCD7PXD2X
HN7RNA4CHC6B
PH7TYP-R2KT6R

And as always, you can get an invite code at the Alienware site.

No version of the Soviet tech tree features a captured PzIII (or T-3, as Soviet documentation called it). However, a number of vehicles are based on it: the SG-122, SU-85I, and the somewhat recently announced SU-76I. Let’s take a look at these vehicles and the vehicles they were based on from the Soviet point of view.

Unlike the lukewarm reception of the Panther, the PzIII was very interesting to the Red Army. An early modification of the tank was received after the Polish campaign as a part of a deal with Germany. The 37 mm gun was laughable by standards of the time, but Soviet military minds and engineers appreciated many features from the vehicle: its commander’s cupola, torsion bars, shock absorbers. Various components of the T-50 light tank were inspired by these features.

After the Wehrmacht poured over the borders of the USSR, the Red Army captured a number of new and improved PzIIIs, with modern 50 mm guns. This new vehicle was tested extensively. The results of the testing showed that while the tank wasn’t as fast as the Soviets’ own T-34, and the gun not as powerful, it was still a very good vehicle, worthy of the Red Army’s attention. You may recall that the flamethrower modification of the PzIII alone earned more pages devoted to it in Soviet technical reports than the Panther.

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/263780.html

Hello everyone,

you might remember the post, where Storm was asking players, which tanks they consider really nasty/uncomfortable to drive. Well, today, he posted an analysis he made from that post. The analysis is available here (as MS Excel file), here it is:

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Hello everyone,

about an hour ago, in the QA from 14.12.2013, I posted:

- the size of Object 140 and 430 is correct according to Storm

However, that is not the case. The post above was translated from Storm’s answer, that was obsolete – I was corrected by Russian player (“suck_my_nya” or “lusty_argonian_maid”, whichever you prefer), who linked me this post (thanks, mate :)). Storm is saying the following:

“We doublechecked. We found production drawings with dimensions in them and checked according to them. There is a discrepancy in height (cca 14cm – all the known height numbers were referring to the height of the turret and not the height with commander’s copula and optics) and in width (the tank turned up to be 8cm wider than necessery, the known numbers about the width are a bit wrong, according to the production drawing, the width is 3120mm).

We will fix it in the next patch or the patch after that (right now the schedule is full).

But when we change it, there is no need for tears like now in the Ferdinand thread.”

So, there you have it. It will be 8cm narrower and 14cm taller. Not much of a difference, but still. There are other vehicles with incorrect dimensions in the game, let’s hope they will also be fixed in time.

Hello everyone,

here is last night’s stream with The_Chieftain. The beginning was plagued a bit by technical problems, Apart from the stream being actually pretty educational (Chieftain talks about things like why the M10 was in fact not called the Wolverine), Chief is actually not a bad player. Furthermore, around 30th minute, Chieftain decided to try out the roaming mechanism and transferred to EU2 – and asked me for a platoon.

It was a bit awkward, because I was watching the stream, that was for whatever reason delayed by like 3 minutes (and in low res no less, Twitch is messy), so by the time I saw what he was doing, it was already 3 mins ago of his time. Anyway, I had a short cameo, we played two platoon battles together where I was totally hopeless and then he returned back to US server. Apparently, the ingame voice chat doesn’t work while roaming by the way.

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