many of you probably know the FPS Russia youtuber, known (apart from pretending he’s Russian) to blow shit up with various weapons. In the past, he cooperated with Wargaming people and made two episodes with tanks IIRC (Stuart and Hellcat). Well, anyway, he keeps promoting World of Tanks on his Facebook page:
Why am I writing this? Because there’s an invite code, that’s active: “FPSRUSSIA”
I have no idea what it contains and I also think it works for NA server only, but still – some people might find it useful.
this is one of the things that you don’t really see everyday – or, rather, not at all, in Europe anyway. If you follow this blog for a while, you might have read several posts, where I commented on how insanely popular the armored vehicles are in Russia. This popularity is one of the main reasons why World of Tanks became so popular in CIS. I guess it’s a part of the T-34 – war winner thing, combined with the traditional Russian patriotism, but unlike in Europe, in Russia you have armored vehicles as monuments in practically every town.
This includes vehicles on places where you wouldn’t really expect them, such as children playgrounds. In a post at the Englishrussia site, several examples are shown. Here, in Tomsk, a ZSU-23-4 (otherwise known as “Shilka”) is a part of the playground.
everyone remembers seeing the end of WW2 in various documents and newsreels, but what about the regular people? What about the regions outside of Berlin where the final hours of Third Reich were drowned in Soviet and German blood? How did the end of the war look in rural regions?
To find out, we are going to have a look at the except from a chronicle of the village of Jimramovské Pavlovice, as recorded by the village’s chronicler, Jan Krištof. You see, it was a tradition. Every town and village had a chronicler, who would write the events in the village into these really big, thick chronicles. I know this, because my grandfather was one. Sadly, this tradition died with him nearly two decades ago I think – it was never passed on to my knowledge.
Following is the tranlation of the account how the chronicler wrote it down. Above, you can see the map with the location where the events took place.
Saturday, 5.5.1945
An armed uprising against German invaders has begun in Jimramov. It started in the gendermerie station: two of our policemen disarmed the two German police officers and they are holding them in custody. Immediately after that, a Hungarian unit of cca 200 men was disarmed as well and the weapons and ammunition were distributed amongst the residents of Jimramov. The uprising is organized, its leader is J.Mrštík, a teacher. Letters were sent to all neighboring villages, asking them to send liaisons to Jimramov. In the evening, a letter arrived from Jimramov: to block the roads with fallen trees. We took axes and saws and went to cut trees down to all the sides of the village. No man has slept tonight. It’s raining.
Thanks to the bunch of people who sent me the link :)
So, ASIA server had this competition, where you had to draw an… armoured persona. Basically an armoured vehicle depicted as a person. This is apparently a thing over there. Anyway, the poll was public and the winner was… unexpected.
Yes, that’s a stick figurine winning an art competition. Now I’ve seen it all. Public votes are a wonderful thing.
not having a powerful enough mobile device? Ever wondered how to run WoT Blitz on PC? Here’s a guide how to make it run by Jeno. Please note that playing online on a PC is actually illegal on EU and RU servers. So this is just for testing purposes you know ;)
Earlier, it was written that WoT Blitz doesn’t run on Bluestacks. Well, it does now and here’s how to do it in several easy steps. The following description was made by Jeno. Enjoy!
1. Go to this download. This is Bluestacks App Player pre-rooted. Basically, if you don’t know Android, this is the hacked version of the Android 4.4 OS running through bluesetacks. We need to have it rooted so we can use the tool in a next step.
2. Just install bluestacks from the download and open it up. You will get some initial android config, just get through it.
this video was shared by The_Challenger on his Facebook. In it, The_Challenger has a look at the Hetzer. It was since uploaded to the page.
I have following things to add to the video:
- well, first, that’s not even a Jagdpanzer 38t in Munster, it’s the post-war G-13 (different gun, engine, other smaller things)
- at cca 1:04, the TD is incorrectly market, it’s a Marder II, not III
- “Hetzer” was not an official name or even soldier used name, but a post-war mix-up according to H.Doyle, not sure why this stuff gets repeated. The “chaser” translation – first time I heard that (usually it’s translated as “agitator”), but I asked a native German speaker and it’s apparently somewhat correct (in the “courser hound” sense)
- Panzer 38t was – as far as I know – never designated as a medium tank, it was always a light tank or simply “tank” (Panzerkampfwagen). In Czech service, 38t was known as “Light Tank Model 1938″.
- 7,5 PaK 39 was solid, but the gun you are looking at is StuK 40 converted to look like PaK 39 by removing the muzzle brake. So inside, you are actually looking at the post-war modification.
- this includes the aiming device and the instrument panel camera shots, those were refitted Swiss devices, not the original German ones (so again, sort of pointless to make a picture of)
Overall, it was good – I guess. Why on earth would they make a duplicate video of (much superior) Chieftain’s Hatch video on Jagdpanzer 38t (can be seen here – part 1 and part 2), I have no idea (unlike Challenger, Chieftain actually had a real restored Jagdpanzer 38t to describe along with the original engine. Very, very rare.)
having trouble being hit by artillery? Maybe this guide will help you. Sure, for some people the advice given in this video by _PizzaGuy_ (linking stats to show he actually knows what he is talking about) is obvious, but it might help some of the people.
Relive. History. Battles. Conqueror. Right. Good job, advertisers.
For extra lulz, check the Conqueror turret in the picture:
Got it? Now, look at the real Conqueror turret:
Quite different, hmm? That’s because WG artist fucked the Conqueror turret up – they basically “merged” a Conqueror turret and a Centurion turret for some strange reason, creating a Frankenconqueror. How on earth did that happen? Hell if I know. The screwed up Conqueror picture is quite old (from the time the British got introduced), not sure why it gets recycled. But I like that double mantlet part.
