Source: FTA VK community

Just a couple more pics of the FV4005 Stage II model.

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Hello everyone,

when we say World War 2, most people, including probably most of us, imagine the classic stuff: the horrors of war, tanks rolling in, planes flying overhead, concentration camps and all the other awful stuff that happened. Few people are however interested in another part of the war – economics. Wartime economics are a complicated topic, that would fill several book volumes (it does in fact), so today, I’d like to write about one certain aspect of the war – the price of the Czechoslovak resistance in gold.

After the Munich betrayal, many politicians (including president Beneš) foresaw the need to assemble sufficient resources to finance the exile movement in case Czechoslovakia was ever occupied (despite the “guarantees” of the British and the French, only very few people trusted their word – after all, once a betrayer, always a betrayer). Surely enough, the worst happened and Czechoslovakia got occupied by nazi armies in March 1939, forcing many officers and representatives to leave Czechoslovakia to seek exile in other countries. Thus, as predicted, the need to finance the entire exile movement arose.

In the first phase, the exile (not yet an official army) was supported by the finances of the Czechoslovak offices (embassies) abroad, that did not accept the destruction of Czechoslovakia and represented its unbroken continuity until the war was over. Especially the ambassador in Britain (J.Masaryk, son of the legendary president T.G.Masaryk) and in France (Š.Osuský) recieved during 1938 large sums of money for “special purposes”. The president in exile, E.Beneš, also donated his professor’s salary and the money he recieved for giving lectures. Third large source early on was the money, collected by Czechoslovaks living in the USA.

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Hello everyone,

in patch 9.4, one German camo was changed – it became… lighter. Didn’t see a mention of that in patchnotes, guess it’s not that important. Just interesting.

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Hello everyone,

so, had enough bugs in 9.4 yet? No? Good, here’s another one and it’s pretty nasty. I discovered this after recieving an e-mail from a player, who complained about “ghost shells” when firing at enemy M53/M55 artillery. On a hunch, I checked the model of the vehicle and… this is the visual model:

And this is the collision model, that “should” correspond the visual one:

As you can see, it’s completely fucked. There’s a huge gap between the superstructure and the hull and when you fire at it, the vehicle will not get damaged, the shells will fly right through it. How the HELL does this shit happen? Do WG developers just randomly open models and fuck with them, guessing whether players will notice or not? Incredible.

Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

by now, you are surely already aware of the fact that SU-76i was removed from the shop. Hmm… why do I keep writing SU-76i, when it’s SU-76I? Bad habits I guess. Anyway, right – about the removal.

There are bits and pieces we can put together.

It took cca 40 hours to collect the SU-76i statistics on Russian server – essentially, the Russians had it 24 hours longer than us (their patch came one day earlier). From what I can tell, first feedback that it was not such a bright idea started arriving to the developers after a few hours of the patch day. The vehicle appeared in somewhat large numbers on its tier and Yuri Pasholok noted around noon on his blog that the vehicle might be overpowered (he reports 100 percent winrate in 14 battles), at which point he likely contacted other WG developers, who in the meanwhile started realizing what happened and started paying attention to the vehicle statistics.

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Source: FTA VK page

A couple more pictures of the two recently leaked vehicles – the AMX Chasseur de Chars and FV 4004 Conway.

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Hello everyone,

here’s another funny little RNG video, this time from the Balkans. There are several parts – the author (Heruvim89) made them very… specific for the region (quotes from movies and such), so I was a bit reluctant to post them (trying to avoid nation-specific videos, plus the way it was made could be improved), but this latest one made me genuinely laugh (specifically the AMX-13 scene). Enjoy!

Source: http://wot.kongzhong.com/zixun/banben/20141105/22012.html

Hello everyone,

first, many thanks to Chinese player Hesitation_Snow for sharing this piece of information. Basically, in 0.9.4, a new option was introduced to Chinese server – you can now hire premium tanks for a limited time. Now, as you probably know already, Chinese server is very special – it’s kept separate from the usual Wargaming servers and is license-operated by a Chinese company called Kongzhong, who basically just bought the license to operate World of Tanks from Wargaming.

The policies on such features are decided by the Chinese and the server thus has many unique features (and definitely more pay to win) than the regular main servers. Thus, it’s not known, whether this feature will make it to the regular servers, or it’s a Chinese exclusive thing. The basic points are this:

- players can hire tier 2 to tier 7 premium tanks for a limited time for gold
- maximum hire time is one month
- in the example, Churchill III (tier 5) can be hired for a month for 380 gold

Hello everyone,

just a quick post explaining something. Many of you were shocked yesterday by the upcoming tier 9 and 10 tank destroyer viewrange, which is:

FV4004: 320 meters
FV4005: 330 meters

While current viewrange tier 10 tank destroyers is (examples):

Object 268: 400 meters
Object 263: 410 meters
WT E-100: 420 meters

etc. (basically between 400-420 meters). So why introduce vehicles, that have such a low viewrange suddenly? Well, the answer is (unfortunately/fortunately) simple. I asked around and there is a massive viewrange nerf coming (likely in 9.5, the nerf was announced earlier by Storm). It will definitely concern tank destroyers (they will have viewrange nerfed to the FV4004/4005 levels) and it’s possible it will concern other vehicles to certain extent. Details are unfortunately not known yet, it’s not even in testing yet.

The goal of this nerf is to improve the role of light tanks and scouting in the game.