Thanks to PlazmaKeks for letting me know!

Okay, after the arty mod rage, here’s another mod I really like for your consideration. I hope the reactions this time will be… less conflicting, because this is truly a work of art.

The Winter Mod is a complete overhaul of the game objects and maps to “winter” settings. Yes, that’s a shitload of work. Its author, Torsus_SD, did an amazing job (as did other people who worked on it). Here’s a 0.9.5 compatible version. You can download either a full, or a “light” version. Full version has everything, light version is missing the snowy tank textures.

Be warned, this mod is HUGE!

Full version link: here (3,1 GB)
Light version link: here (1,7 GB)

Please note:

This mod is NOT for very weak computers as it can decrease FPS drastically on older setups. If you experience such a thing and want to try it out, try turning off particle effects (the falling snow) by deleting the “particles” folder from the res_mods/0.9.5/ folder.

Hello everyone,

a couple of random newspieces related to Wargaming from all over the world. So, what’s going on with our favourite company?

Youtube cooperation

According to sbpit.su site, Wargaming and VSP Group announced an exclusive cooperation contract regarding the promotion of Wargaming-developed products on Youtube.

“Based on the license of Wargaming.net, the monetization of all the Youtube channels, that use completely or partially elements belonging to Wargaming.net will be passed over to VSP group.”

Ever since Novemeber 2014, a unification of all the official and fan channels, publishing World of Tanks videos to a single space is in process. This apparently already increased the quality of content of WoT video channels. I have absolutely no idea how that works, so if any videomaker wants to share what it actually means (if it means anything), now’s your chance.

Miss IT 2014

According to the site 42.tut.by, the “impression” category of Miss IT Belarusian competition was won on 7.12.2014 by Veronika Igosheva from Wargaming (developer in the “game stream” department). Congrats I guess.

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Hello everyone,

just a quick announcement: Battle Assitant artillery for 0.9.4 works in 0.9.5 as well – you can download it here. Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

GruntGuy (presumably from US server) sent me a bunch of photos of the M56 Scorpion, sitting in the Elmwood Park, New Jersey, USA. Let’s have a look at them. Notice the exposed ammorack and the strange steering wheel. Damn, I wish they restored it instead of letting it rust in some park….

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Hello everyone,

patch 9.5 brought us mostly nice things, but as it usually is, there are some screwups as well. Take for example the Mittengard map. Yesterday, I actually got it – yep, remember how Storm said it would be available to new players only? Well, apparently I am one. Oh well, whatever. So, this is how it started…

And this is 11 seconds into the battle.

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Thanks to Flametz from US forums for this one. Check this out, looks like this Pershing collision model is missing something…

What could it be, what could it be… oh, that’s right. The entire fucking turret!

Luckily (for us), this is not the real Pershing from the regular US branch. If you look at the name of the model – this is a special “Korean” Pershing. These vehicles with Korean letters in their name are special vehicles for Korean server only. They are used for internet café’s and can be rented for a price. Basically you go to the internet café (big thing in Korea, not so much elsewhere), rent a tank and play. So yea, I am sure the Koreans are thrilled.

And yes, I checked the real Pershing model, it’s fine. I still can’t wrap my head around it, how on earth is this crap happening? A random developer just goes around, deleting parts of models or something for the lulz? Oh well.

Well, it IS kinda cute…

2015WGNY

Enjoy.

Hello everyone,

today’s advent offer for EU server includes:

- Type 62 + slot
- 4500 gold
- 30 days of premium

Price: 42,70 EUR

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/12/dreams_of_steel_armada/

Hello everyone,

an interesting article about the background of the armor development by Yuri Bakhurin was published on the Russian portal. Here’s a translation of it (some parts are not literally translated to keep the meaning better). Enjoy.

The tank development is closely tied to the tactics and strategy of the use of armored forces. Unfortunately, few documents describing the use of these forces survived in the archives and each of them is a precious witness of the past. The following documents are the examples from the WW1 and WW2 era both. They show us, how naive (and sometimes even absurd) some of the ideas of that time were, but at the same time, one has to admire the authors for them caring about the fate of their homeland.

Land Squadron Kangro

In July 1917, E.V.Kangro, resident of Petrograd developed a project of a self-propelled artillery battery and presented it to the appropriate committee. His letter did not have any drawings or even sketches of the said battery, so we can only guess how his proposal was to actually look like, but the interesting part about the letter was the tactical use of these vehicles, proposed by the author.

The author stated that his planned SPG’s will be able to move offroad, traversing slopes up to 35 degrees, swimming over bodies of water and overcoming the obstacles in their way. In Kangro’s dreams, a horde of these vehicles was storming the northern front of 1917 along its entire length from Russia all the way to France.

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