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today, we will have a quick look at some of the more interesting German Universal Carrier conversion. The Germans captured a number of these vehicles from three sources. First captured vehicles came from the stocks of the army of Belgium – an unknown number of Universal Carries was “obtained” there, but probably not many. Second source was the British Army – after the evacuation from Dunkerque, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) left dozens of these vehicles lying around for the Germans to capture. Later, more vehicles were captured in Africa and on Crete – and brought to Europe. Third source was the Soviet Union, that operated lend-lease Universal Carries and some found their way to German hands. Overall, Germany is believed to have operated over a hundred of these vehicles.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2756108.html

Tier 7 Japanese medium tank, it will have basically an equivalent of the 75mm L/70 with three round autoloader, it will be as big as the ARL-44 roughly, it will go 45km/h and will have thin armor.

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invite codes from Kurt28 and Rymcio

MTG47X-3S95ZA (Tetrarch + 3d prem and 300g)
PKR29W-77P7N4

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I don’t usually talk about mods, as I don’t use them. But what Locastan brought to my attention is mighty impressive.

Winter is coming and with it the winter mood. Several modders on RU forums (here is the original thread) have come together to remodel the ingame maps to look like winter maps.

The mod is simply called “Winter Mod” and is not yet available, the guys are still working on it (they are currently looking for a Flash specialist – alas, a Russian speaker). But from what I can see, it’s very well done. Oh yes, and “summer” and “sand” tank visual camos will be reworked too. Overall, it’s a LOT of work, these guys do deserve respect. I will be keeping an eye on the thread and will tell you when it’s done.

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Good morning everyone!

You know what time it is? Time fore a few invite codes.

These are from Radosz and sopelsiu

PKR29M-37N7V5
PKR29V-57E3K9

And, something special from 0romis:

Not an invite code, but a bonus code. The problem is, 0romis is not sure what it does, but it should add T2 Light Tank.

7BY8EK-GY6MSH

Well, literally minutes ago, WoT won Golden Joystick in the Online Game category.

Let’s face it: EU forum raged, Russians raged, US forums weren’t too happy either. Since it’s usually the forum goers that are passionate about a game enough to do the voting, makes me wonder, how on earth did World of Tanks win with all the fire it was gathering on forums.

What really stuck me as odd though was the fact that Wargaming.net was in fact the sponsor of the show. I mean, can you even lose, if you sponsor the competition?

As for the Golden Joystick show itself stream (that goes on here, if anyone is interested), what the hell was that? It looks terribly amateurish and hasted. Considering it’s allegedly the “most important” computer game award, it looked cheap and hasted, there was no talking, no speeches, no winning game footage, nothing.

Well, grats to Wargaming I guess. Can’t say I sincerely believe WG deserved to win, but it’s a good game.

Source: Dom1n’s blog

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here’s a Russian leaked video of the World of Tanks: Generals. I guess the alpha tester was already banned :) There is not much info about it, so just so you know how it looks in action.

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before we continue with the article on French superheavy, a piece of info emerged yesterday, that is too good to pass up, especially since you know how I like German tanks. Very special thanks go to Thor_Hammerschlag and Zarax for providing this info.

Let’s imagine for a moment a fourth German TD branch (third being heavy assault guns, Sturmtiger and such). Yes, that is science fiction for now, such a thing will definitely not come before 2015, but just cope with me. How would it like, what is there left? Well, the Waffenträgers. Some vehicles are pretty clear, such as the Steyr Waffenträger for example. If you are interested in how such a line could look, I already wrote a post about it in the past.

But what about tier 10? Waffenträgers are fragile and on such light platforms, I think there would be no room for “classic” cassette autoloaders (leaving you with hydraulic assist, but that’s a story for another time). We already have the King of Burst WT E-100 for now, so it has to be a different platform. Ideally with the gun in the back, for better weight distribution, probably limited rotation, not to tip the whole damn thing over when firing. What I like most is this (yet another Rheinmetall Borsig) proposal setup:

Of course, other platforms are available and perhaps the Panther one would be more suitable for such a vehicle. But that’s not what I wanted to write about, perhaps I will at some point in the future.

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Theatyhannington submitted some invite codes for US server (not sure they work for EU):

HPG-FA7-YYB-68 (1 week prem + 1000g)
N8M39G5MUX24WV (1 week prem + T14 tank)
N8M39X6FAM64BS (same)