Having already explored medium and light tank options, heavy tanks are the next logical choice. You should already be familiar with how this works, so let’s get to it.
The first Soviet heavy tank is the KV-1, at tier 5. Its hull options were exhaustively explored in a previous article. I was going to suggest that the KV-1S hull be available as an upgrade to make the tank go a little faster than its current sluggish pace, but alas, the KV-1S (KV-85) was revealed to be a future tier 5 heavy tank literally today, making a lightened hull option very unlikely. The only remaining option is the KV-6 (KV-1 with 90 mm of hull armour) and KV-1 with additional armour screens (100 mm of hull armour). Both changes are rather predictable, a more armoured, slower tank.
interested to see, whether Wargaming succeeds or fails in real time? Tomorrow, at 3PM BST (British Summer Time, +1GMT), there will be a live stream here. Will Wargaming succeed, or will they fail?
what everyone whispered about and hinted at was confirmed by SerB: KV-1S is getting split.
KV-1S will be tier 5. KV-85 (KV-1S with a bigger turret), KV-100 and KV-122 (which is basically a KV-1S hull with bigger 1800mm turret ring and IS turret) will stay on tier 6 (all three as one tank, to be clear). Therefore, KV-1S will be a faster, but less armored alternative to KV-1, the tier 6 vehicle will not lose its 122mm gun (looks like SerB won the argument).
Update: For those fearing nothing will change – current KV-1S is a blend of “light” original KV-1S mobility and KV-122 firepower. The new KV-122 is likely to be a lot slower, less agile and I am sure they will have a look at the gun balance stats too.
A quick update on the affair I reported last night, thanks to WhiteWizzard
Hello everyone,
last night, I informed you about a nasty WG EU fail in the Polish community. And I somehow expected it to die down. However, it seems that instead, the affair gathers strength. Today, one of the most visited news servers in Poland, Gazeta.pl, had a link on its main page, linking to its own computer games subsidiary website, where the affair was also published. No new info there, but it’s very, very bad PR for WG EU.
Looks like the fails of Wargaming EU will not stay confined to forums and EU forums…
a few words about the new “Zlobny” weekly FTR QA. I have mailed Zlobny the first set of questions.
In most cases, I had to fix typos, or make the questions more comprehensible, but I tried to keep the original meaning. I am not sure whether to post the questions I asked here or not actually – feels a bit like spoiling the surprise. However, what I do realize:
- I closed the question thread too soon (this won’t happen again, I will let it open a full day next time)
- I was considering another interface for questions, but Edrard is very busy in real life right now (has a huge personal think going on – in a good way), so there is not much chance for that, I won’t bother him with anything at least until November
- there will not be an EU forum post on this topic, I want this to be for FTR readers only
- a lot of the questions asked were kinda “ugh” (stuff a player can either google, was answered before – even recently – or I can answer from head). Next time, I will sit on forums and answer those questions for you.
- several people told me to use Reddit interface. No offense, but I am not touching Reddit or anything around it, I want this to be only on FTR
If you have any ideas, suggestions, questions or anything to this topic, feel free to ask in comments.
Continuing from part 1
Please note that this text is fiction, an analysis of how superheavy tanks would fare in WW2. No prototype FCM F1 was ever built.
The FCM workshops were bustling with activity: 12 tanks, all 75 percent completed, were waiting to be finished. The construction of them began with significant risk for the company before the final approval, but this risk allowed to send the tanks to the army well ahead of the deadline, after the order was finally approved. True, most of the corrections the army requested afterwards were not implemented, but F1′s successor – the F2 – was already starting to appear on the designer drawing boards. The F2 was to have all the wishes and improvements the army wanted for the F1 design.
Translation of the post linked above, original author: Anton Fedyashov
The portfolio of Wargaming.net is constantly widening. Apart from World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and World of Warships, at least 3 new games will appear soon – those are WoT: Blitz, WoT for Xbox and WoT: Generals. The first two are simply World of Tanks releases for other platforms: Xbox 360 and Android/iOS. But World of Tanks: Generals sticks out from the crowd. I will tell about it in more detail – I was allowed to check it out at the “Igromir 2013″ expo (SS: Igromir is just as important for Russians as Gamescom is for EU). Unfortunately, we don’t have complete screenshots, but there are several pictures from the game.
it is not often that WG EU fails make it past the forums, but when they do, it’s usually something special. In this case, it concerns the Polish community. Today, on Glos Wielkopolski news portal, an article came out about the following event. I will try to translate from Polish (a mixture of google translate and the fact that I am Slavic and Czech isn’t that far from Polish, but feel free to correct any mistranslations).
The article by Krzysztof M. Kaźmierczak is called “World of Tanks: Financial scandal in popular tank game?”
“Polish fans of the record-breaking game “World of Tanks” feel cheated by a promotional gold (virtual currency) sale offer. This is the first dispute over consumer rights in the history of the game. Some users already have filed a complaint to Polish consumer-protection authorities and legal lawsuits are predicted. The game producer denies all complaints and one of the players, who took legal steps already, was already punished.”
It’s not every day that something pisses the Russian community off, but looks like The_Chieftain made that happen with his latest IS-4 video:
To be clear – it’s a great video, as usual with Chieftain’s Hatch. I really like the series and it’s nice to see some of the more exotic Kubinka tanks this way.
Strangely enough, Russians started moaning as hell – both in youtube comments (of the Russian video version). They didn’t The_Chieftain saying like that the IS-4 was in real life a bad tank and that some of its elements (as Chief mentions, the ventilators, this information comes from Yuri Pasholok!) were openly copied from Germans (Soviets actually did copy a lot of good solutions for other tanks too – notably some muzzle brakes, they’d be crazy not to, if the enemy produces something they could use).
Probably the peak of anti-Chieftain hate was this garbage post on Russian community forums, where the author tinwoodman1 moans like a little bitch that allegedly Chieftain praises crappy American and German tanks, while Soviet junk glorious Iosef Stalin tank gets shafted.
Funnily enough, Storm intervened in the abovementioned thread:
“The tank was shitty in real life. Why should it be praised? And in general – stop fucking trolling, dear community”
Well, there you have it. Gotta love Storm getting pissed. Russians are actually very sensitive about their tech, or – more the like – about western capitalists commenting on their tech. Despite their whining, personally, I think the video was good and to the point. Looking forward to part two.
