Welcome to the 13th edition of Ensign’s Q&A. You know the drill: email me questions at tankarchives@gmail.com, and I will answer them. The previous Q&A can be found here.

Q: Were all KV transmissions as bad as the Aberdeen one?

A: No, the one Aberdeen received was “gently” used. KV transmissions were typically much more reliable.

Q: How much did the various KV designs have in common?

A: I don’t know exactly, but there are requirements for parts commonality in some project specs (usually SPGs based on an existing vehicle). I’d have to read the specs to see exactly how much, but parts commonality with existing vehicles can be a great bonus to getting your design chosen among competing ones.

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Another great video by Darth_Woras :)

- Storm on fixing longer waiting times on RU server: “It is now needed to trace (SS: as in ‘pin down’) existing problems so they can be fixed later”
- Q: “Why are Japanese tankers now so blonde and have names like Emil and Dietrich?” A: “Those are allied kids on an exchange trip” (SS: currently, Japanese crew in Chi Nu Kai – upcoming 8.9 premium Japanese tank – consists temporarily of German crewmen”
- when you lose, if you recieved certain awards, you will get the same XP/credit bonus as if you won (“curagous resistance”). Storm stated that other variants (SS: the asking player for example mentioned for damage done) are worse for various reasons (and when nagged further about this, he only replies: “envy is bad”)

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Despite being unannounced yet, the weekly missions for next week appeared in the Missions table already.

Tank Destroyers For The Win! – win 10 battles with tier 4+ tank destroyers, win 50k credits (once per day)

Hide with Pride – destroy 60 enemy vehicles with a tier 4+ tank destroyers within the event limit, recieve one Enhanced Gun Laying Drive (once per account per event)

Missions start on Tuesday (17.9.) 7:10 CEST AM and end 21.9. 7:10 CEST AM

Attention! For once (and this time only), this post is in Czech, because I honestly won’t translate this garbage. Wouldn’t make much sense anyway. If you understand it, so be it. If you don’t, maybe it’s better this way.

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Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/294157-wargaming-ambassadors-have-arrived/

In the “heat” of the Stalin rage, 8.8 patch, 8.9 patch preview and Golden Joystick flame, one thing kinda “slipped thru the cracks” on EU forums: the implementation of Wargaming Ambassadors.

What actually IS a Wargaming Ambassador? Hell if I know. The thread above doesn’t offer too many details. Apparently it’s a bunch of… I dunno, WG employees or players, who are representing Wargaming on third party forums and websites, probably to make it look better.

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Thanks a lot to Perrinu (EU) for this :)

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Invite codes working for EU server: 1000g and 7 days premium, if you want.

Edit: all are used

Hello everyone,

yesterday, I wrote that (unlike last year) I wouldn’t be voting for the Golden Joystick for WoT in the Online Game category. A while after that post was made, the EU annoucement came.

Last year, WG – when asking for the award – offered an… incentive. Some might call it bribe. At that time I defended that policy, but I think we all deep inside had the feeling of “something off”. Yea, it was a bribe and we took it.

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