Source 1: http://oam.cse.com.cy/Announcement/announcementvariation/8504
Source 2: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2783109.html
On November the 4th, Mr.Nicos Michailas submitted his resignation to Wargaming Public Company Ltd.’s board of directors. Hmm, I wonder what led to that…
Part 1: Tas 44M
Part 2: Introduction and Straussler tanks
Hello everyone,
today, we are going to have a look at the main light tank and first modern armored vehicle of the Hungarian army: Toldi light tank.
Hungary 1921-1938
First, let’s have a look at the background, that led to the purchase and manufacture of this light tank. For the whole duration of its inter-war existence, Hungary faced issues tied to the rise of extremism. This happened pretty much everywhere in Europe: communist activists on one side (lobbying for close relationships with the Soviet Union), fascist nad nazi sympathizer on the other, pushing for close relationship with Germany and Italy. The latter gained the upper hand in early 30′s, as in 1932, Gyula Gömbös (one of the prominent fascist sympathizers) became the prime minister of Hungary. Gömbös tried to bring Hungary closer to Nazi Germany, seeing it as an opportunity to get rid of the hated Trianon treaty and to gain some power at the same time. This was the beginning of the Germany-Hungary cooperation, that would end only when Hungary was effectively defeated by the Soviets. Gömbös died in 1936 and was replaced by more pragmatic politicians, but the course was set and there was no turning back.
Hello everyone,
this posts is to remind you that the FTR QA 3 question session is still open. You can ask here in comments.
Thank you.
-SS
Hello everyone,
this post contains my take on the new 8.9 tank destroyers, from tier 4 to tier 7 and my experience with them. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Obviously, the post is written from my point of view and it’s subjective. I like German tanks, I love tank destroyers and I think I am reasonably good with them, so I guess I know what I am saying in this case. I was running the tank destroyers with following equipment: camo net, binoculars, rammer – and with a 3-perk crew (with full camouflage skill). Let’s get to it.
Marder 38T
Marder 38T (I somehow always refer to it as Marder III) is the new tier 4 tank destroyer. You can find the data on it anywhere, so I won’t get into hard data much and will focus on how much fun I had playing with it. Players actually sometimes complain about it – they cite its poor armor and “bad” gun as its main drawbacks, but I think that’s crap. This vehicle is possibly the best tank destroyer on tier 4 and certainly the one I ever had most fun with.
Source: Daigensui
Info from SEA server. Next discounted tier 10 (from 15th to 30th November I think?) will be the Chinese “113″.
Part 1 – 44M Tas and Tas Rohamlöveg
Hello everyone,
welcome to part 2 of the Hungarian series. It’s a bit unusual to have part 2 and no introduction to the Hungarian army yet. Part 1 dealt with the most modern Hungarian projects to “whet your appetite”, but now it’s time to start at the beginning. Hungarian branch will definitely be one of the most interesting branches of the upcoming EU tree, so let’s have a look at them. As I wrote earlier, I imagine the branch to be something like this:
T1 – Straussler V-4
T2 – Toldi I/II light tank
T3 – Toldi III light tank
T4 – T-21/Turán I medium tank
T5 – Turán II/III medium tank, Zrinyi I/II
T6 – ????
T7 – 44M Tas, Tas Rohamlöveg
Of course, that is just my imagination, but it should give you an idea about the composition.
Introduction to the Hungarian Army
The Royal Hungarian Army (Magyar Királyi Honvédség) was without a doubt one of the most powerful European allies of Germany in World War 2 and – with the exception of Italy – the Axis power with the best armored forces. But it was not always so. After the Great War, the once great Hungarian Empire was in ruins. The war was lost and during the process of post-war map redrawing, Hungary lost a huge part of its former territory to the newly emerging nations, including Czechoslovakia. The situation was made even worse by the poor agricultural and social situation of the land, leading to years of political instability and civil unrest.
Hello everyone,
I am now opening the possibility for you to ask the 20 questions, that will be sent to the developers on Thursday. The reason it is open earlier is that as time progresses, good questions (that weren’t repeated) will be harder to come by – and I also want to give everyone a chance to ask. I will be reading the questions whenever I have time and will try to answer and comment on stuff you post. The comments will be closed on Wednesday evening.
Previously, I was annoyed by the fact there is a discussion going on in the posts and it makes it harder for me to read it all (last question session tool 4 hours to sort out). But then I realized that such a thing is inevitable and natural. Therefore, I won’t post any limits, but guys:
Please, before you ask, make absolutely sure what you ask wasn’t answered recently.
Otherwise – feel free to discuss. However, please note that if you post a question in 10th reply of an offtopic discussion, there is a very high chance I will miss it, so please, if you ask, ask with an independent comment, not as a comment reply to someone elses comment. Thank you.
PS: Just to be clear: I will deliberately ignore any questions asked via e-mail, FTR Facebook page or any other media (you can imagine how annoying it is to log into WoT have have immediately 5 chatwindows open). This is what this thread is for. If you have questions, post them here. Please understand that last time there were over 500 posts here, this time, I expect it to be double or triple as much. It’s about my time too.
Update: I forgot about this from last time – please, do NOT “spam” questions (like, posting 5 in one comment, even if they are all good-ish, I will ignore most because everyone needs a fair chance to ask), pick one or two you find most interesting.
Update 2: Česky – na foru mám už zase čtrnáctidenní banán za ten “supertesterovský” tank, co jsem včera postnul. Otázky v tom vlákně ale vidím, ptejte se jako obvykle. Je to na forum bude muset hodit někdo jiný, pošlu někomu PM s překlady.
Hello everyone,
recently, V.Kislyi, the “big boss” of Wargaming talked with Will Wright, the SimCity creator during the GamesBeat 2013 event. The two original articles can be found here and here, but I’ll just post here a quick summary of what Mr.Kislyi said. Feel free to read the full articles, they are quite entertaining.
- the important part behind WoT is the fact it’s accessible to old players, who can’t keep with the games such as Counterstrike
- WoT is aiming at average families not having too much gaming time to spare
- 15 minutes match (with 5-7 min average) was one of the first WoT requirements
- V.Kislyi is happy that the game makes people go look the tanks up on Wikipedia to learn more
- apparently, the biggest enemy of WoT is not competition but players’ wives and the justification of the game in their eyes
- WoT didn’t do one special thing “right”, its success is the combination of its elements
- Wargaming has 20 to 25 mathematical analysts, who check the post-patch statistics, analyze them and alert developers
- a part of the game is building a culture around it, including “museums, eSports, books, a historical department, and archives”
V.Kislyi: “If you want a mass market product, you have to create a culture”
- V.Kislyi also supports cloud gaming (SS: a type of gaming where the processes and calculations are done on main server and the picture is streamed towards the client console, that has in the end to do very little, prolonging its potential longevity)
- V.Kislyi is also not worried about WoWp and WoWs success
Hello everyone,
just so you know, Wargaming is now recruiting alpha testers for World of Warships. For both servers, the criteria are basically following (in order of importance)
• World of Warships forum activity (at least 150 good posts, no spamming)
• WoT and WoWp alpha test veterans
• experience in alpha testing other games
• being a professional tester, or an IT specialist
• proactivity and decency
What has NO effect on the application:
• amount of battles in WoT and WoWp
• win rate
• age
• country
• city
EU players can aply in the appropriate EU forums thread, US players can apply in the US forums thread. Good luck, captains!
Also (not as important but still interesting), Wot-news.com report that another round of alpha-testers recruitment for World of Tanks: Generals (browser card game based on World of Tanks) is also underway. Russian players only though.
This is connected to this article.
Hello everyone,
just a quick correction: talked to Cannoneer about leaks and it looks like there was a misunderstanding. Zlobny did say WG controls the leaks, just like I wrote, but what he meant were the “controlled” leaks, like when Storm posted the entire 8.9 line early and Quasar re-posted it on EU forums in English. Apart from that however, there are also leaks that are not controlled, such as the one with the Stalin-swastika Type 61, which Wargaming has nothing to do with.
- SS
