Source: Quasar’s post
In an unexpected turn of events, 8.9 upcoming Japanese premium tank Chi-Nu Kai will be apparently available only via gift shop in 8.9, just like the Chinese 112 and T-34-3 were.
I wonder if this is a new trend to force people to spend more money, because (unlike the “Type 59 plague” fear with 112/T-34-3), there is IMHO no real reason for Wargaming to introduce Chi-Nu Kai via giftshop only, apart from ripping players off…
Thanks to SpectreHD for posting this :) For those who know the Attack on Titan anime. Pro-tip: wait till the end for SerB
- BIA having no effect on camo? “BIA increases the overall skill level of the crew. Furthermore the aim time and others are increased according to general rules.” – and, when confronted by some experiment a player made: “Your experiments are very important to us”
- some guy asks whether the rear-turret tank destroyer with turret based on Maus chassis will be the tier 10 German TD. SerB: “If there is info, there will be such a variant. We have info only about the E-100″ (SS: what a load of garbage, there was no such project)
Hello everyone,
regarding the 20-kill weekend mission (last weekend it was T-34, T1 Heavy and AT-2, get 20 kills with them and get 1 mil credits, 7 days of prem and some gold consumables):
The vehicles for the upcoming weekend missions are: M4 Sherman, BDR G1B and T49
(the reason we know this is the fact that Russian server has the same missions as the EU one and it was shown prematurely in the RU client)
Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/298430-hall-of-kv-4-design-proposals/
Author: Giganaut_EU
Silentstalker:
This was originally posted on the link above (I just corrected some typos). I repost this with Giganaut’s permission, because this is simpke too good to pass up. As some of you know, there were actually numerous KV-4 proposals – some relatively simple, while others were completely outlandish. Let’s have a look at them.
Giganaut_EU:
Note: I modelled these in Google sketchup, with existing plans provided in Battlefield.ru with their collected data given – somewhat proved to be a bit insufficient because it was missing a few things. This thread could be the official if not centralized discussion thread for all KV-4s.
This particular KV series is an interesting one in the Kliment Voroshilov heavy tank program. Its design purpose was to withstand any German gun and to destroy any opposing heavy German tanks. It was to remain unbuilt and its design proposals would be used if the time comes when it is needed.
Designers began to work on the KV-4 design in April 1941. Since the Kirov Plant did not have experience in this area, the chief of the SKB-2, J.Kotin, assigned almost all the engineers of his design bureau to the design of this tank and made the task a competition.
Hello everyone,
as I informed you yesterday, Polish magazine/portal CD-Action came out with an invite code (1200 gold, 3 days of prem IIRC). A bunch of players have sent me a number of invite codes, I’ll post them now. Also, there are some other codes mixed within (CeBit – 1k gold, 7 days premium).
Players, who sent codes: XC80, HaVoC_PL, Reffan, PhobosX (the Cebit codes are from him), matt_77, dONMis, sgtAngry, Darr_Anix, red_baron40, MH90, Cayden_Cailean, Wojtus
Thanks everyone, very much appreciated! If anyone has more invite codes they have no need for, feel free to send them, I will publish them like this and you’ll be doing a good deed.
(codes below the “more” line – and yes, the “weird” code works too)
Edit: Looks like all are used already.
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2545072.html
In August (during WG’s 15th Birthday event near the Stalin Line complex), various computer game journalists from many countries (including Czech Republic, Korea, Japan, UK and mone others) gathered after an invitation by WG to actually make a (short) war movie. Each journalist got a small part in the movie (separated into medieval, WW2 and “future” stages).
Needless to say, the WW2 stage is most interesting: working StuG, T-34 and T-26, not bad. Acting is terrible of course, but those aren’t actors, so no big deal.
Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/
Victor Kislyi urges the industry to change public perception and reach new heights of financial success. Wargaming’s Victor Kislyi has set the games industry a goal of $200 billion in total annual revenue by 2016.
Source: http://www.valka.cz/clanek_14856.html
Hello everyone,
today, we will have a look at one topic that I was wondering about now for a while. The long article what you are about to read (if you choose so), deals with the question, how Czechoslovak soldiers regarded the Germans and Italians during WW2.
The article came out on valka.cz and I remember reading it some time ago. At first, I thought about translating it, because it might be interesting for others than myself – and I did. After that however, I decided not publish it, since the topic (even though specifically concerning WW2) has little to do with tanks.
Well, this decision lasted until today. The impulse, or perhaps the “last straw” for me was an article about the Sudeten Germans and Austrians denying the fact that Czechs were chased out from occupied nazi territories. Obviously, that’s a nonsense (although the proclamation was probably distorted by the journalists to sound more sensationalist than it was), but the cold hard truth is – there are deniers and revisionists amongst us. Those people, who want to depict the nazi regime as something “not that bad” (here, we can draw a parallel with the communist regimes in Europe – sadly, 20 years after the fall of communism, communist party is on the rise again).
I think it’s very important to remember the past. Take this article as a part of that remembrance. Especially the personal memories and diary excerpts from people “who were there” are valuable. I hope you get to read it.
- Silentstalker
“The Picture of the Enemy” by PhDr. Ladislav Kudrna, PhD.
National point of view
Of all the nations in Europe, it was the Czech people, who had the dubious honor of being the first to feel the occupation might of the nazi regime. To be correct, we’d have to state that it was in fact Austria, who was the first, being “attached” (SS: “Anschluss”) by the Third Reich a year earlier than Czech lands. But it is prudent to also state that the vast majority of Austrians hysterically welcomed their beloved Führer with open arms, just like the German people in Czech borderlands in October 1938. The Munich treason meant not only the major loss of Czech territory, but also tens of thousands of refugees, arriving to Czech inlands. It was more than two hundred thousand refugees, consisting of Czechs, German anti-fascists and Jews. The two latter groups were not welcomed with open arms however. The reason for that was the nationality of Germans and the language (often German) of Jews.
Thanks to ShiftyN for this one.
Hello everyone,
I normally don’t write about WoWp, but this might potentially concern WoT players too. Apparently, WG EU made a new mission mechanism: in the new mission, you get double tokens (or any reward really) for 1st, 3rd and 10th victory of the day.
