Author: Yuri Pasholok
Hello everyone,
Yuri Pasholok posted a set of interesting materials from IS-3 “pike nose” testing. Here’s what he posted:
The first part of the document states that the hull armor elements were tested under following angles (from the axis of the vehicle, eg. 0 means shooting directly from front, 320 means it is being shot from the left side unde 40 degrees)
In a previous article, I explored potential hull upgrades for Soviet light tanks. Today, I will go one weight class up, and do the same for medium tanks.
The first medium tank encountered in the Soviet tech tree is the T-28, at tier 4. Tanks produced before 1938 had riveted cemented armour, tanks produced after had homogeneous welded armour. However, the game does not distinguish between the two, and the changes would be largely cosmetic. A much more noticeable change would be brought by, once again, applying armour screens.
Addition of 20-30 mm armoured plates increases front armour to 60 mm, but also increases the tank’s mass to 32 tons, which would definitely result in a performance hit. For those of you looking for photographs of these up-armoured tanks, go no further than here, as this website contains photos of 60 out of 111 vehicles that received additional armour.
Hello everyone,
some of you already noticed the new WoT login screen.
So, the upper tank on it is obviously a Waffenträger, but what is the lower one? One guy asked me and I honestly couldn’t produce the answer. He suggested it’s a T95 Medium Tank, but the roadwheels on the WG picture have no gaps, unlike the real T95 ones…
Edit: I am blind as a bat: it’s a Crusader with 2pdr (and stock turret).
Hello everyone, for those who haven’t seen this:
Today is the last day of Golden Joystick votes and two days ago, Wargmaing brought the “big guns”: Girls und Panzer. On SEA server, they made this awkward GJ page and… ugh… so I guess there will be more GuP and WoT ads in the future, since WG obviously licensed the franchise.
Please note that today is the last day you can vote for Golden Joystick and claim your free game (Civilization V or Mafia II).
Not much today
- SerB states that there were three official letters (from official adress) from German authorities regarding the Wittman medal, they won’t be made public though
- SerB openly states that there is (and always was) more XP reward for kills than just for damage done (SS: odd, I thought damage was rewarded and not kills, a player made “experiment” states that a kill XP bonus is worth roughly 500 damage dealt OR damage dealt after your spotting, what the hell?)
- in personal rating, your average vehicle tier won’t play a role in the future
- SerB confirms that top guns are not always “the best”, in some cases there are two alternative “equal” setups (SS: as in the new WT line, where you can play both a 128mm or 150mm guns on high tiers), but not always
- amphibious tanks won’t be implemented for now, there was an idea to implement them as premium vehicles without the ampbhibious parts (SS: floaters, boat boarding and such), but this idea was scrapped for “a number of reasons”
Source: wot-news.com
Pz.Sfl. IVc (tier 5)
- nerfed the FlaK 41 gun traverse from 7 degrees to each side to 5 degrees to each side
Rhm.-Borsig Waffenträger (tier 8)
- turret turnrate nerfed from 24 to 18
- hitpoints nerfed by 50 (from 1150 to 1100)
- stock tracks: nerfed hard terrain resistance from 0,9 to 1, nerfed medium terrain resistance from 1,1 to 1,2
- stock tracks: nerfed hull turnrate from 38 to 34 deg/s
- stock tracks: accuracy spread from moving hull nerfed from 0,22 to 0,24
- stock tracks: accuracy spread from turning nerfed from 0,22 to 0,24
- elite tracks: nerfed hard terrain resistance from 0,8 to 0,9, nerfed medium terrain resistance from 1 to 1,1
- elite tracks: nerfed hull turnrate from 42 to 38 deg/s
- elite tracks: accuracy spread from moving hull nerfed from 0,2 to 0,22
- elite tracks: accuracy spread from turning nerfed from 0,2 to 0,22
Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog
I normally don’t post modern stuff, but this footage is pretty unique. According to the Russian man commenting the situation, Syrian government T-72 is looking for enemy combatants, hiding on 1st floor of the building. At one point, the terrorist shoots a RPG-7 at the vehicle, misses and the T-72 blasts him to hell.
Hello everyone,
this will be possibly the last article about the Panther, as we covered pretty much everything that looks like an interesting option for the Panther. Only one “specialized vehicle” is left: the Turbo Panther. Of course, that’s not its real name, that’s a name SerB used for it. You see, SerB admitted (several times in fact), that there is a possibility (not guarantee), that the E-50 and E-50M will be merged into one vehicle on tier 10 (with rear-transmission E-50M being an optional hull for the E-50) and on tier 9, it might be replaced by something called “Turbopantera” – “the Turbo Panther”.
What is meant by that is most likely the gas turbine Panther. This topic has already been covered and there is a pretty good article on Wikipedia (it’s good mostly because its content is practically copied from the A.Kay’s book German Jet Engine and Gas Turbine Development 1930-1945).
Hello everyone,
what would be a weekend event without at least some WG fails? Just a quick update: while both the US and EU servers are supposed to have the same event (the “Alpha Force” (US, EU) – with 30 percent discount on Dicker Max and SU-100Y amongst other things), the US server has not 30 percent discount on both, but 50 percent:
No 50 percent discount for you, European capitalists! And as for the American players, get them while they’re hot :)
Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/293068-what-does-a-guy-with-15-years-of-premium-do/
Hello everyone,
well, it looks like some people just aren’t happy with what they got. American player Kuroialty recently had a pretty strange request on the support service. He won 15 years of premium account in a competition, but he requested the premium account to be removed for following reason:
“I do not want the premium time on my account. I view its impact on my account as negative, artificially inflating my numbers for experience earned, thereby blurring my performance”
