Hello everyone,

I modified the Czechoslovak branch proposal I made to reflect the findings and discussions with V.Francev and J.Tintera (Czech historians). I also threw out all the premium candidates save for the most likely one to make it into the game. Oh yes, and it’s horizontal now, I know – how many of you guys still actually remember vertical trees? I miss those.

The changes include:

- threw out Tiger II with 76mm completely, that was a fake
- added Tiger P with Škoda turret and 105mm L/40 to the list of possible premiums (more about that project here)
- premium TVP candidate redesignated from TVP Model 1946 to TVP Concept to properly reflect its nature
- T-50 (previous tier 8) redesignated to TVP Model 1946, as both the concept and the Škoda proposal were introduced in 1946
- T-51 (previous tier 9) changed to T 50, as sufficient info was recovered to reconstruct the T 50 before the merge with T 51
- T-50/51 renamed to T 50/51 (the dash was deleted as it is more historically correct that way, same goes for T 50)

So yes, this is how it might look in the game.

An alternative failsafe option (in case there are issues tier 9 T 50 tank – at this point however, those would be purely arbitrary, as in “we don’t like how it looks” and such stuff) is the following solution:

- removing the T 50
- replace tier 8 TVP Model 1946 with TVP Concept (removing its premium status)
- replace tier 9 TVP T 50 with Model 1946 (+ some T 50 elements)
- add something else as a premium (a lowtier or a clone most likely)

The original proposal is far better though. But yea, I think the line is pretty solid.

Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4089266.html

Hello everyone,

once again, Yuri Pasholok dug something interesting out of the depths of Russian MoD archives. In the autumn of 1942, a bunch of Soviet design bureaus were busy with creating a light self-propelled gun. Various designs were submitted and amongst them was this one, made by Factory No.92 under the leadership of V.G.Grabin. Grabin was a famous Soviet gun designer – his team developed for example the 76,2mm guns F-22, ZIS-3 or the 57mm ZIS-2. His “SU-76″ class project recieved the designation of IS-10 (not sure why) and the design embodied the principle he liked to use very much: re-using existing components as much as possible (in this case it’s a T-70 light tank hull and ZIS-3 gun) while keeping maximum firepower confined to the smallest chassis possible.

This project was not given the green light and was scrapped. Half a year later, it sort of was revived in the Plant No.38 as SU-38, but that didn’t go anywhere either.

Author: Chickentikka

It may not look like the Type 59, (I know you are like WTF, I found this variant very interesting). It is called the Jaguar (literal Chinese translation). This variant was developed on the chassis of the Type 59 with a slight extension in length done with American cooperation, featuring a Detroit 8V－92TA engine (8 cylinders) making it 14 hp/ton better road performance better than Type 59 but further upgrades were made. Since it was still not much better than they had hoped, it was fitted with the British Royal Ordinance L7 series or the gun on the M68 or the Chinese 105mm gun, depending on the buyers. However, it was never exported due to the poor price compared to the M60s and only just better than the Type 59 so no one would buy something that didn’t have the best performance nor had the cheap price.

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Hello everyone,

IS-5 and T-54 Prototype were changed in the current iteration of the supertest as thus (data for 100 percent crews):

IS-5

- terrain resistance nerfed from 1,055/1,247/2,11 to 1,247/1,342/2,11
- ROF buffed from 5,129 to 5,214
- DPM buffed from 2000 to 2033
- reload buffed from 11,699s to 11,507s
- gun depression buffed from -3 to -5

T-54 Prototype

- hitpoints nerfed from 1400 to 1300
- hull traverse nerfed from 44 to 42
- turret traverse nerfed from 45,9 to 41,7
- ROF nerfed from 8,022 to 7,725
- DPM nerfed from 2005 to 1931
- reload time nerfed from 7,479 to 7,767
- accuracy nefed from 0,345 to 0,364
- aimtime nerfed from 2,4 to 2,49

The stats look as such:

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Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/fair_play_wot/

Hello everyone,

Wargaming RU released some interesting numbers on their RU server. It’s up to you to decide whether it’s reality or propaganda. To me, it sure as hell looks like the latter. Check this out:

134341 players were punished as a result of the use of the “complain” function in the game

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Author: Chickentikka

Hello everyone. Type 59 is a legendary tank in WoT, but what do you know of its real life variants? Let’s have a look at a few of those in an article by Chickentikka – right from the “source” so to say, as he is a Chinese player. Enjoy!

The Type-59 is basically the clone of the T-54. But we have to get one thing straight here; the Type-59 is a licensed Soviet tank built for the People’s Liberation Army during the 1950’s, when Sino-Soviet relationships were very good. So the Soviet Union, as China’s big brother, brought engineers and equipment to build the first tank factory in China in Baotou (where they still produce tanks to this day). Amazingly, it is still in service but with enhancements, this is what I am going to show you.

This is a modernised type 59 sold to the Tanzanian Army. Look at how modern it looks!

At first, T-54 was virtually identical in every way to the Type 59, but gradually overtime, Sino-Soviet relationships took a turn for the worse, so China was left alone without foreign assistance to develop future tanks. This was of course a major problem since a country that had fought over 100 years of wars couldn’t keep up with the new advancing technology and without a good industrial infrastructure, it forced the Chinese designers to replicate existing tanks. During the late 1950’s and years after, China had to design a new tank or perhaps give the Type 59 better upgrades.

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Hello everyone,

need an invite code for EU? Try this one: DFE7KGDE – should contain 7 days of prem, 1000 gold and T2 LT (it can apparently be put in by multiple people, so no worries. Many thanks to Clearevil and Sczuka for sending me this.

Thanks to Crimea_RU (nice nick, bro) for this one :)

This arrived by email…

“Supreme gun”…. that’s something like “supreme leader”?

Many winrate, so fear, wow…

Hello everyone,

this video show the m/39 (a version of the Landsverk L-60) and m/42 Swedish WW2-era tanks action at Beredskapsmuseet in Sweden in 2013. Pretty interesting to see them moving around :) You can read more about the vehicles here and here. The strange truck at the end is the m/42 SKP/VKP.

Hello everyone,

I am sure many of you know and like the American server’s video series, “Chieftain’s Hatch”, where The_Chieftain, history specialist and former tanker himself, introduces various armored vehicles (last time, it was the IS-7). These videos are more detailed, longer and more accurate than Challanger’s and as such, Chieftain gained quite a fanbase and rightfully so.

His videos are in English and they run with subtitles in various EU languages (Polish, Czech, German etc.), with the Russian server having its own mutation (overdubbed in Russian). Well, they DID have the subtitles, until now. The latest IS-7 Hatch came out without the EU subtitles and some guys (now I am talking about the Czech section, although I am sure he has fans in Poland, Germany and everywhere else as well) were asking, why is that.

Well, it’s because WG EU is lazy as fuck as usual decided to discontinue making subtitles for the series according to WG staff (in Czech), as, and I quote, “it’s for NA server only”. As such, the IS-7 video will not recieve subtitles anymore either.

Naturally, I dug into this (even before this statement) a bit. Basically, the main decision was to prefer Challenger’s format of short videos, as they apparently are watched more due to the fact they are shorter (nevermind the fact they generally don’t go beyond wikipedia extent).

Oh well. English it is, I guess.