Hello everyone,

World of Warships developers decided to allow wider playerbase to play World of Warships for a weekend. This event is apparently shared by all servers (RU, EU, USA), but you have to win an invite code somewhere.

You can read the whole news here (there are some limits). Certain community contributors recieved a bunch of codes as well, so you can find that stuff on the forums.

You might have noticed from my tone I am not exactly hyped about that entire thing, but if you wanted to be an alpha tester and didn’t get in, now’s your chance. Yay.

New issue, enjoy!

Hello everyone,

today’s advent offer for EU server includes:

- SU-100Y + slot
- large caliber tank rammer

Price: 16,90 USD (13.75 EUR)

Meanwhile on Russian server, today’s offer is: 50 percent discount on crew training and re-training

A word of advice to you: soon, the Christmas marathon will start and common premium tanks like SU-100Y will be on like 30 or 50 percent discount. I strongly suggest you wait a week or two.

Hello everyone,

check this out. This was published on IGN some hours ago – World of Warships gameplay trailer.

The graphics do look good, don’t they. Still… we’ll just have to see how well this goes.

Hello everyone,

it’s time for weekly contributor review. This time, following people donated via Paypal:

Johan M. (Sweden)
Daniel A. T. (Romania)
Ciliaris (Norway)
Glenn W. (New Zealand)
R.Z. (name redacted at the request of the contributor, Israel) – thank you for a very large contribution, much appreciated! :)
Radek M. (Czech Republic)

Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it.

Now, for the Patreon cycle:

Out of the 593,59 USD pledged at the point of the cycle activation:

- 520,10 USD came in successfully (the rest didn’t go through for some reason on the contributor side, insufficient funds on account etc.)
- out of 520,10 USD, after the Patreon and CC fees and all that, 469,88 USD were left for FTR – much appreciated! The list of contributors can be viewed here. Once again, huge thanks for the support to all of you :)

Hello everyone,

probably for the sake of clarity, Wargaming NA decided to make a Q&A thread, where players can ask whether that respective mod is legal on US server. While in general terms the same conditions apply for all servers, please note that something being illegal on one server does NOT mean it’s automatically illegal on other servers – no idea why this is not unified, Wargaming is just funny that way.

From the thread:

- Warpack is illegal (duhhhh)
- the Battle Assistant (the arty mod) is legal
- XVM is allowed
- sniper-mode zoom-in and zoom-out mod is not allowed, except for replays for free camera

Explanation for the zoom mod from WG manager Pigeon_of_War:

This goes back to our Lens Scope prohibited mod rule. If you can zoom with your Sniper mode so much it removes foliage from the position you are in or the position you are zooming, it is Prohibited. These mods do exist and it seem to be caused be a mix up in someone coding it (accidentally?) so that you can zoom so for that it incidentally causes the foliage to be removed. Just note, it’s Prohibited if it removes foliage. Regular Zoom Mods that allow you to just increase the the area you are currently looking in are fine (for right now, we do reserve the right to change this at anytime, of course

So if you have an account on US server, you can ask whether a mod is legal or not. Haven’t seen any such thread for EU.

Hello everyone,

it’s always exciting to see some new unpublished drawings come to light – stuff that was never shown in any book or anything. In this case, it’s the Škoda T-23M (designated on the drawing Am 41738 from September 1940 as Panzerkampfwagen T23). This drawing was borrowed with kind permission of Mr. Vladimír Francev and Mr. Jiří Tintěra from their personal collection. I usually don’t use watermarks, but in this case, since it was not posted anywhere else, I will.

Anyway, the backstory for this tank – in detail I wrote about it here. Summarized: this tank was the final development of the original Škoda Š-IIc (T-21). A prototype was built and tested, but was never accepted in German service. T-21 was instead produced and improved in Hungary as the Turán medium tank. The Hungarian development was their own, the only thing in common with this vehicle is their common ancestor, the T-21.

From the official German vehicle summary (accompanying the drawing, late variant – early variant had less armor and was lighter):

Weight: 18000 kg
Engine: Škoda 15 liter V8, 260 horsepower at 2200 RPM
Power-to-weight: 14,44 hp/t
Maximum speed: 45 km/h

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Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

according to the supertesters, WG is planning to rework (in some case, heavily) certain maps, possibly in patch 9.6 (but this is not sure). These maps include:

Prokhorovka, Karelia, Steppes, Swamp, Siegfried Line, Live Oaks

Siegfried Line – the changed spots will be following – white lines show the changed spots:

Live Oaks – spot marked as 1 will be covered with houses and spot marked as 2 will have a small hill. Both changes are designed to make the north-eastern base harder to scout. Changes at point 3 are not known.

Thanks to Daigensui for this one.

Hello everyone,

those, who like to read about history – seriously, I mean – know of the poor repuation of History Channel, when it comes to real historicity. It is thus no surprise to find out that the History Channel’s “Never Surrender: The World Wars” show, that tries to appear “historical”, is sponsored by Wargaming.

And here’s a trailer for the series. It starts innocent enough, but just wait…

Why the fuck is there a World of Tanks footage in a historical show trailer? Why are there completely unrelated vehicles? Gosh… no wonder History Channel has such a poor reputation.

Hello everyone,

from the Insider (another one, there are several) comes something interesting, an exclusive leak of the English WoT Blitz skill/perk guide.

Okay, maybe that “interesting” is an overstatement, but what the hell. It’s a leak, it goes to FTR.

You can download the guide in PDF here.