Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3540222.html

Hello everyone,

in the post linked above, Evilly confirmed that the individual missions are coming. Individual missions are missions, that have parameters different for every player and are thus possibly “tailored” to the tanks, that are in your garage. Yesterday, a number of Russian players (inactive) recieved an e-mail, in which they were invited to play World of Tanks individual missions. At first, it was considered some kind of scam, but Evilly (WoT producer) confirmed that it’s legit.

It’s the first (testing) round of the individual missions, aimed at inactive (incl. banned) players to make them return to the game. These mails are only a testing round, the individual missions will come after that.

This is how it looks in the client (for 75 victories between 10th and 20th of October, you can get a T-127 and a free garage slot):

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3540513.html

An upcoming tier 10 Soviet heavy tank (possibly a CW reward, not a regular vehicle). It’s IS-7 prototype, in case you wondered :)

These are garage stats, not 100 percent crew stats. The ones in brackets belong to regular IS-7.

Tier 10 HT
Hitpoints: 2100 (2150)
Engine: 1200 hp (1050)
Weight: 61,3 tons (68,19)
Power-to-weight: 19,57 hp/t (15,39)
Maximum speed: 60 km/h (59,6)
Hull traverse: 28 deg/s (28)

Hull armor: 150/150/70 (150/150/100)
Turret armor: 350/240/100 (240/185/94)

Gun: 122mm BL-13-1
Damage: 390/390/465 (490)
Penetration: 225/265/68 (250)
DPM: 1903 (2148)
ROF: 4,88 (4,38)
Accuracy: 0,37
Aimtime: 2,8s
Turret traverse: 26 deg/s (25)

Viewrange: 400 (400)
Radiorange: 720 (720)

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Thanks to Deadbeaver for this one.

Hello everyone,

ever wanted a Panzer IV Ausf.J? Well, here’s your chance. Well, it’s not in a very good shape :)

This Panzer IV Ausf.J was given to the Finnish army by Germans in 1944. It was never used in battle, only later on as a practice target. The auction can be found here – the current bid is 1550 Euro.

Of course, it’s in terrible shape, but I wonder, if it could actually be restored to its former glory. Hell, the KV-1 they pulled from the river recently looked worse.

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Hello everyone,

an interesting thing appeared on Russian server. Apparently, some players (oddly enough, banned ones, which might mean that the system is being tested on those, who got banned) got an e-mail by Wargaming on their account mails, where they are offered the opportunity to fulfill their own, individual missions between 10th and 20th of October. The conditions of these missions are unknown, but the reward is up to 5 days of premium time, 20 percent bonus to XP and credit gain and a premium T-127 tank.

Not so long ago, it was announced that individual missions (missions with different parameters for each player) are to come soon, so perhaps this is a test of the system.

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3539165.html

Hello everyone,

just a couple of screenies of the M4A3E8 “Fury” in the garage.

Tier 6 US Medium tank (premium)
Hitpoints: 750
Weight: 34,237 tons

Engine: 520hp
Power to weight: 14,6 hp/t
Maximum speed: 41,8/18
Terrain resistance: 0,9/1,1/1,5
Traverse: 44 deg/s
Viewrange: 370
Radiorange: 570

Hull armor: 64/38/38
Turret armor: 64/64/64

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Hello everyone,

you already know that we have an upcoming tier 9 reward tank (East German T-55). Here are its stats from the supertest (unmodified, just like you would see them in the garage). I am comparing it with elite T-54 (with D-10T2S) stats.

T-55A NVA DDR
Tier 9 German MT
Cost: 17500g (this is a temporary thing)

Hitpoints: 1700 (1650)
Hull armor: 100/80/45 (120/80/45)
Turret armor: 200/160/65 (200/160/65)

Engine: W-55W
Power: 580 hp (700)
Fire starting chance: 12% (12)
Power-to-weight: 15.59 hp/t (20.18)
Max speed: 50/20 (56/20)

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3539484.html (and VK Wotleaks community)

Behold the tier 7 American premium/special tank destroyer. Because, you know, Storm said “no more fakes”, so here’s another one.

These are garage stats, not 100 percent crew stats

Tier 7 premium TD
Hitpoints: 900
Engine: 960 hp
Weight: 70 tons
Power-to-weight: 13,71 hp/t
Maximum speed: 29 km/h
Hull traverse: 18 deg/s
Armor: 203/101/50
Gun: 105mm T5
Damage: 320/320/420
Penetration: 181/224/53
ROF: 6,74
Accuracy: 0,4
Aimtime: 2,1s
Viewrange: 370
Radiorange: 570

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Hello everyone,

today, we are going to talk about what happened to the 21 LLT tanks, produced for Lithuania, but never delivered. If you are interested in that story, please get back to part 2 of the series.

In Summer 1940, Czech arms production was already firmly in the German grasp and the manufacture process was changed to suit only the German wartime needs. As a result, ČKD (now renamed to BMM) was forced to cancel all previous export deals and that included the Lithunian one. After all, Lithuania, being fully occupied by Hitler’s allies, the Soviets, was in no shape to order and pay for those vehicles anyway. All the future export deals required German export permissions in any case. And so, the produced vehicles were just standing in the ČKD factory at Slaný, waiting for their final fate.

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Hello everyone,

an interesting video appeared on WG video channel – it describes the basics of tank design.

It’s… well, accurate enough I guess (there are more reasons for “frontal transmission tanks are taller” than just the drive shaft for example, it had to run above the floor because there were torsion bars below it).

Also, Great Patriotic War? Here, we call that Second World War and it started in 1939. Great Patriotic War begins in 1941 – that’s how the Soviet monuments depict it, you wouldn’t want the Russians to be reminded they were Hitler’s allies before that, would you?

The series looks promising however.