Thanks to Daigensui for this one.

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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.

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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.

Thanks to Martin K. for this one. The museum at Saumur on its youtube channel published another video – this time sound recordings from the Tiger II sound. Apart of having the sheer delight of seeing this monster moving (the only one in the world), it’s reasonable to believe that the guys recording the sound are from Wargaming, so we might in the end have a truly authentic Tiger II sound as well!

Okay, a tidbit that might be interesting for you. Recently (not sure when, but can’t have been long ago), Wargaming apparently – according to the words of of a Wargaming employee (no names for now) – 3D scanned the AMX-30 in Saumur (for some strange reason, WG scanned a middle-late production vehicle apparently instead of the prototype, which is there also – why? No idea). So in case you were wondering, yea – the next branch is probably the French AMX-30 one (heavy tanks on the other hand – not in 2015, or probably ever).

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yesterday was the annual celebration of the Independence Day in Finland, related to the date of 6.12.1917 – thus making Finland 97 years old this year. As a part of the celebrations a military parade took place, featuring some rare pieces of equipment, including the Finnish StuG III and the Landsverk Anti vehicles.

According to an accompanying article in Finnish news (thanks for the link, Nalle), the StuG is really thirsty – its fuel consumption is cca 150 liters per 100 km.

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/remember-everything/cmvs_30_11_report/

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an interesting piece of info. You know how WG claimed on several occasions not cooperating with the Russian army?

Well, apparently, that’s not a problem with the cadets (you know, that’s only the FUTURE army, so it doesn’t count). It took place in Moscow in the computer room (education class) in the Moscow military museum. A part of the tournament was the tour of the museum and – I quote: “the holiest of places – the Hall of Victory” to “taste the spirit of 1945″.

I don’t know… doesn’t it look a bit odd? I mean, I guess that in the end, they are just young guys wanting to have fun. But considering they might be sitting not long from now in real tanks heading west as “volunteers”…

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Video by FlankerWOT. I think it shows the map (graphically) nicely. Enjoy!

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this is not really a new issue, just never got the time to write. But the day before yesterday, I was talking to a friend who brought this up and I realized, it’s actually still a valid question. Check this out:

This is the model of the Panzer IV Ausf.H in the game, with its elite turret, featuring spaced armor belt. Spaced armor on German tanks was developed to counter the anti-tank rifles, that were used en-masse by the Soviet forces. Contrary to their reputation, these weapons were quite nasty and could penetrate the side armor of various Panzers (including, in some cases, Panthers), damaging the internal parts and wounding or even killing the crew. Various methods of fighting this menace were considered by German engineers from 1941 onwards, including simply making the side armor thicker (that was the main raison d’être of the Panther II project), but in the end it was discovered that placing a spaced armor plate at certain distance from the vehicle has the same effect than creating a whole new tank model with improved side armor. From 1942 or so onwards, various tanks were equipped with the “Schurzen” and this protection on some models included the turret.

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this is a video ad for the Android Blitz from Russian server. I mean… well, just watch it, there are English subtitles.