KV-1S is op lol

Hello everyone,

8.9 test is getting close (perhaps next week? just a speculation) and with it, everything we know and love: teamkills, insults in Russian and other such “joys”.

Here’s an average Russian test team:

(comes from a Russian – the pincers and the horns are there because in Russian, both the word “rak” (crayfish) and “olen” (deer) are the expressions for a noob)

Want to evade teamkills? Here’s how. Whenever a Russian noob targets you for your EU/US tag, you can save your skin by writing this:

“Не стреляй дурак, я советский шпион!”

(“Don’t shoot, idiot, I am a Soviet spy!”) – sounds stupid but it actually works, Russian players tend to let Americans/Europeans be after that and start laughing :) You can replace “Soviet” with “Russian” too (“Не стреляй дурак, я русский шпион!”).

Of course, you might want to write something to Russian players too :) In my experience, following sentence produces very funny reactions, when written by someone with EU/US tag:

“Я европейский нагибатор и вы все олени.” (I am an European pwnerer/unicum and you are all noobs, for US account replace “европейский” with “американский”) :)

Have fun and survive out there!

Hello everyone,

tired of the Golden Joystick hype? Of WG EU community shoving it down your throat?

Well, here’s a competition just for you then :) You see, thanks to generous donation of player Takato, I have here two bonus codes for 7 day prem + 1000g (Gamescom codes – please note this code will NOT work if you redeemed one code of the same type already).

Your task is simple: create a picture (I don’t care what size, if it’s a poster or an avatar) mocking Wargaming and Golden Joystick competition. Its motives can include (but are not limited to) a Donkey, Stalin, WG cheating the competition with bot votes, SerB – or anything else you can think of.

One abovementioned code will go to the funniest picture, the second will go to a randomly selected participant :) The results will be published. There are no serious rules, but stay within at least basic decency limits (can’t publish it if there’s a huge donkey dick across the whole picture for example).

Important: Send your submission to this address:

competitionftr@centrum.cz

You have until Sunday (competition ends on 6.10.2013, 23:59 CEST). Don’t forget to write your nickname!

Hello everyone,

once again, Wargaming EU (or possibly NA?) fails with the special weekend events. You know, I wouldn’t even notice or care about that that, were it not for Ectar and his big proclamations on how the US and EU weekend specials would be the same.

This weekend Sputnik Special:

European version:

American version:

No 50 percent premium discounts for you, Europeans! As for the Americans having the “Earning your Steel” mission extra – that’s alright, that event was apparently shifted by one week forward for US server. Apparently, WG is “looking into it“.

In any case, the point of this fail is not to show WG can’t synchronize events, the point is “don’t make loud proclamations and then screw it up”.

Hello everyone,

so, uh, I checked the special event for the weekend and one thing really hit me: Sputnik? What the hell? What does Sputnik satellite have to do with tanks? Who makes up this stuff?

Anyway, so I guess there is nothing to “celebrate” (or – more like – remember) this weekend? Oh, wait, that’s right. On Sunday, it’s the 40th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most destructive conflicts after World War 2, the Yom Kippur War!

Yea, the biggest armor clashes since Kursk, including one of the most famous tank warfare events in history (Zvika Greengold’s one-tank rampage, fully comparable to the legendary Villers Bocage action of Michael Wittman) are surely totally insignificant compared to fucking Sputnik.

Anyway, so I checked the October calendar again. You know, there was this thought in my mind: last year, WG remembered German Unification and Polish Independence, so uhhhh… where is the Czechoslovak Independence Day, celebrated on 28.10.? With Czechoslovak community being 3rd largest in WoT EU and Czechoslovakia being World’s biggest arms (including armor) exporter in early 30′s, I kinda thought they’d remember. Or Hungarian, French, Italian and other events? Is it such a problem to actually include such events instead of a fucking Sputnik? It’s not like WG doesn’t have time to prepare such stuff in advance.

Anyway, rant over. This weekend I think I’ll write a special on Yom Kippur.

Hello everyone,

as some of you might have noticed, the 8.9 KTTS video showed us the new upcoming Chinese light tank Type 64 (more about its history here). Only one problem: it’s a Taiwanese vehicle, but in the movie it has a PRC emblem:

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As usual, some EU invite codes from CD-Action this morning (1000g, 3 days of prem) :)

Players, who donated: x_Eskel_x, Xardas060

Codes:

PKR29S-74S5X3
PKR29E-72V9F6

Edit: both used

Disclaimer: the contents of these articles merely illustrate the resources available for a historically accurate buff. This article does not imply that these changes should happen or will happen, either in combination or individually. Please pay attention to this disclaimer before being butthurt in the comments, thanks in advance. 

Earlier this week, I did an article on the KV-1 tank. I was going to do the Kirov trinity in one go, but the KV-1 had enough material to stand on its own. The KV-1S and IS are too intertwined, however, so they will have to share an article.

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New 8.9 North-West minimap

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Hello everyone,

Russian 8.9 ASAP video is up, you can watch it here:

In it:

- in 8.9 German TD’s will come, new map, and 7/42 companies, 3 premium vehicles

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