Hello everyone,

numerous people reported a strange bug in the 0.9.5.1 minipatch. This issue caught my attention because I recieved 7 mails from people describing it and of all of them, 5 claimed that they had no mods present.

Basically, the bug is, when you want to sell a tank and open the “sell” window, the window quickly closes before you manage to type in the price. There is an emeregency workaround for that  – you just type the price into the chat, copy it (ctrl+c) and paste it (ctrl+v) into the window before it closes (thanks to CadyDady for this one).

I tested it myself and I was unable to replicate this bug even after multiple attempts, leading me to suspicion that this is not something caused by a bug, but that it’s caused by bad mods. One of the people in the thread mentioned he’s using Oldskool’s mods, so that probably is the issue.

Please be aware: some modders are pigs, who make their shitty modpacks overwrite ORIGINAL files in the game folder (copying mod content over the ingame files) – even if you then remove such a modpack from the res_mods folder, its traces (the files it has overwritten in other game folders) will remain and possibly fuck your game up during the nearest update. In other words, be careful what you install.

A day later, but better than never :) Called “Personal Missions”.

Author: Chickentikka

Part 1 can be found here.

The Type 69 was known as the WZ-121 in industrial designation. In 1966, Factory 617 managed to produce the first prototype. The development was very slow because of the cultural Revolution (it’s one of the biggest failures, caused the delay of the development of the WHOLE country by around 20 years at least, so no doubt it affected tanks as well) and the lack of any help from anyone.

The breakthrough happened when China had a border clash with the Russians at an island called Zhenbaodao, also known as Damanskii Island.

Russians, knowing that the T-62 was a top secret tank that should not be captured, launched artillery shells at the T-62 sinking it into the river. None the less, the battle heroes, while reporting in the People’s congress, told the leaders that there is a T-62 on the bottom of the river. China then got divers and machines to take it out of the water.

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Author: Chickentikka

So, I wrote the Type-59 article last time and it seemed to get some praises and some of you guys requested more tank history articles on Chinese tanks, since there isn’t many info on them in English.

In this article, I am going to write about the 121 and other vehicles such as Type 69 and more.

First, I MUST make this fact clear: 121 is not WZ-121! It seems like a lot of you thinks 121 is WZ-121, but it’s not. 121 was China’s first generation tank. As I have mentioned in the Type 59 article, China and USSR broke apart in relationship and so, China had to produce Type 59′s (copy of T-54A). In 1962, China’s engineers predicted the likely future threats to tanks – and so, 121 was selected as the designation for the first generation tank plan. Later on, the 121 program was abandoned due to the development of 2nd generation tanks and the designation number 121 was passed over by the Type 69 (designated WZ-121). So technically, there are big differences between 121 and WZ-121.

Background

121′s goal was to be a tank on par with Soviet and Western 2nd Gen tanks, such as the T-62. To give you guys an interesting extra piece of information, China’s main tank development was divided to medium tanks (later called MBT), heavies and lights are kind of secondary importance compared to the mediums. In terms of heavy tanks, 111 and 112 used different road wheel layout, similar to that of IS-4 and ST-I, but after some debates, 111 tank plan won and it was further developed (I don’t want to go into too much details on heavies here, but I am sure on FTR, there was a WZ-111 article previously).

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The beginning is a bit odd, but then it gets better :)

Warning, this post contains large pictures.

Author: Kawagreen

Introduction

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Hello everyone,

those of us, who were born earlier probably remember the legendary Polish T-34 “Rudy” tank from the famous TV series “Four tankers and a dog”. While coloured with Soviet propaganda, the movie was nevertheless well liked amongst the people of the former Warsaw pact. Now, it was confirmed that Wargaming is actually working on the implementation of this tank in the game. It’s a part of an initiative to bring more “famous” tanks into the game, the way they did with Fury.

So that’s good. The Polish, one of the two largest, if not THE largest community will get their very own first premium tank! I am sure many are looking forward to the feature of driving their own vehicle with their own crews and possibly Polish voiceover.

Ahahahahaha….

Hahahaha…

Got you, didn’t I?

So, dear Polish players, you want a Polish tank in the game? Well, here’s a big fuck you from WG, because Rudy is a Soviet tree vehicle. It MIGHT however have a “special” crew the way Fury had Brad Pitt lookalike.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3718346.html

Many thanks to Awasaky for this one.

Hello everyone,

there are several new hangars again in 9.6 client, let’s have a look at them. Just a small remark however… most of the hangars are usually related to China or Asia. Storm generally expressed concern about the size of the client – why does Wargaming include hangars in the client, that will never be “legally” activated for western users?

Oh well, at least they are pretty. Well, some of them anyway.

Chinese hangar

Can be downloaded here

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Hello everyone,

on 24.1.2015, one of the last surviving well-known Tiger commanders, Otto Carius, passed away after a short, but serious illness.

Otto Carius was a German tanker ace of WW2, fighting on the Panzer 38t, Tiger and finally the Jagdtiger. It is estimated that during the war, Carius’ crew managed to knock out 150 enemy vehicles and many more soft targets and AT guns. He survived the fighting and after the war, he opened a pharmacy called Tiger-Apotheke, that exists to this day. He is best known for writing a book of his memories about fighting on the Tiger, called “Tigers in the mud”.

Rest in peace.

This time in English.