Hello everyone,

when asking about the FTR QA3, an interesting topic came up. Unified clans in Wargaming products – that is, all Wargaming products having unified clans. In effect, a clan of 300 people could have 100 tankers, 100 pilots and 100 warship captains – well, at least something like that. Is it actually a good idea?

Well, at first it seemed like a no-brainer. Sure – it’s great to have everyone playing under “one roof”, regardless of the product. With the new Chat 2.0, WoT players will be able to talk to people playing WoWp and vice versa, so that’s cool too. But then I remembered my raiding days.

For those who don’t know, I used to play World of Warcraft. Hardcore. Fun fact: I think I know Jingles from back then, if it is the same Jingles, then we played on the same server, he was an Alliance celebrity back then, I was just a regular Horde “grunt”. Could be another Jingles, but I think it’s the same guy. Anyway. If you never played WoW, let me explain what I mean:

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Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Hello everyone,

looks like the Hunnicutt archives Wargaming bought are starting to bear fruit. What follows is the photo of the M2A4 light tank prototype, taken in the Fall of 1939 on Aberdeen proving grounds.

Yuri Pasholok writes:

With the appearance of this vehicle, the American tank industry finally caught up to the rest of the world with one impressive step. This however didn’t happen all at once: contrary to the belief of many authors, the US Army had quite modern tanks as early as mid-30′s, created for one concrete theater of war. Very high mobility and machinegun armament – that was what the US army needed in case there was ever a war with Mexico. Since this is the same reason why the Light Tank Mk.VIc was completely sufficient for the British in order to scatter some Papuan natives, it’s no wonder that in the beginning of World War Two, these vehicles formed the backbone of British armored forces.

The installation of the two-man turret on the M2 Light Tank chassis was only a matter of time. The resulting vehicle proved to be one of the better ones, when it came to world tank construction: it combined (at that time) completely sufficient anti-bullet protection, high speed, good visibility and a badass gun, the most powerful of its type at that time. Therefore it’s not surprising that the M2A4 concept became the main tank concept for the US light tanks for a very long time. Light Tank M2A4 became the first mass-produced American tank, manufactured in really big numbers (375 tanks). Furthermore, M2A4 proved to be the first American tank sent to England.

Hello everyone,

today, I have one Alienware invite code one guy redeemed by accident, so you can use that:

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Other than that, you can always get your code here, there are still plenty left. No point in hoarding them however, these codes will most likely be valid only in 2013

Source: The_Chieftain’s Facebook page

Hello everyone,

looks like we have some changes upcoming in the T29 Heavy mantlet. For those who don’t remember, the T29 mantlet looks currently like this:

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Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/322652-is-esl-go4wot-tournament-only-for-russians/

Hello everyone,

okay, this is a bit weird. A lot weird in fact. Now, I am not a cyberspors expert, so I am not really familiar with all the rules and their interpretations, but even to someone like me, kicking out an approved ESL team sounds fishy at best. And that’s what apparently happened. A case of corruption in ESL league?

As Kopi21PL posted:

In the Go4WOT ESL cup 137, Virtus PRO (Russian team) was disqualified in its fight against Virtuti Militari_7team (apparently for non-attendance):

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Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog, Daigensui

Hello everyone,

now, we know there was a plan to introduce an autoloader into the Tiger II (there are actually some indications that the Czechoslovaks did so after the war, but that was a different gun and a different autoloader – 75mm KwK 44 in case you are wondering). Courtesy of Daigensui, an excerpt from Panzer Tracts:

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Hello everyone,

from the Megafactories National Geographic video, we’ve been able to glean two facts so far (thanks to T__A from US forums for this). First, Wargaming is working on some kind of Pacific Island map (nicknamed Mt.Bvoma):

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Hello everyone,

a bunch of INVITE codes again. Important: please, if you have no use for an Alienware invite code, do NOT get it on Alienware site, you are just wasting it for the rest of players who might actually want it. Thank you.

Codes (those from Alienware – 500g, 7 days prem, 100k credits) by caciulitza, ShelbyGT500, Bellanato

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Code from Reboot Info Gamer (T-127, 100k creds, 1000g and 3 days prem) by KichoCRO

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This picture was submitted by Wasteful (from the same magazine):

American invite code with T-14 US heavy by uglyohyeah, expires on 30th of Nov

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And as always, you can get your own invite code from Alienware (plenty left for everyone – for now)

Author: SoukouDragon

Probably the most famous Japanese heavy tank is the O-I, a 120 ton multi-turreted gargantuan monstrosity. There is something appealing to it to say the least. But maybe it was actually 140 tons. There reflects the difficulty about this tank.

To get started, I find it might be helpful to draw out the full extent of Japanese heavies. It could help put things in perspective. So real quickly, here is a list of all Japanese heavy tanks possible for WoT with a few handy facts for each. All are multi turreted except for the noted Heavy X which I do not know anything about. Armor is listed in a front/side/rear format if the numbers are available. Otherwise just the maximum armor is given. The 100 ton and the O-I will be discussed afterwards.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2809853.html

Hello everyone,

the map Tundra has two Easter Eggs:

First, there are the petrificated dug-up snail shells

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