Thanks to Hiroshi Furusawa for sharing this!

Yesterday, on 24.8.2014, Japanese military excercise called Fuji Firepower 2014 took place in Japan. It was apparently more like a show for public and here’s a video – you can see all sorts of Japanese tech there, including the Type 74, self-propelled guns, AA guns and others. Pretty interesting I would say.

Hello everyone,

remember how the August missions and events got leaked? Well, guess what got leaked as well – September EU events and missions.

As reported earlier, the tier 10 discounts in September will be Chinese 121 (via light line) and British arty Conqueror GC.

Monthly events

3.9.-1.10. “Prepare your Anus Stronghold”
- win a battle and survive a Skirmish, 2000 bonus XP
- gain 5000 XP in Stronghold mode, get 2 gold fire extinguishers (doable twice per day)
- complete abovementioned mission 15 times, get 250k credits

1.9.-1.10. “Monthly missions”

A special event to grind for a “very exclusive” KV-220 – morale of the story: if WG tells you that a tank is “exclusive”, don’t buy it. Ever. You’ll get it for free.

- deal 12k damage, spot for 12k spotting damage, destroy 5 enemy tanks and gain 12,5k base XP (x2, prem bonus don’t count) in a tier 5+ light tank, get 2000 XP bonus, once per day
- complete the mission above 5 times, get 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 10 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 15 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 25 times, get KV-220

- deal 20k damage, destroy 25 enemy tanks and gain 13,5k base XP (x2, prem bonus don’t count) in a tier 6+ medium tank, get 2000 XP bonus, once per day
- complete the mission above 5 times, get 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 10 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 15 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 25 times, get Type 62 + garage slot

Weekly events and weekends

2.9.-6.9. “Back to School week”

- consumables and garage slots 50 percent discount
- play a random/team battle, tier 4+ tank, must be in top 10 in XP, get double crew XP
- win 2 random/team battles in a tier 4+ German tank, must be in top 10 in XP, get a chocolate consumable (3 times per account)
(same mission applies to all the nations with their respective “food” consumables)
- complete the mission for every nation at least once, get 1 day of premium time

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Hello everyone,

well, as you probably noticed from the previous post, WG EU September roster got leaked. Again. So, you’ll be probably happy to hear that you will be able to get the Type 62 and KV-220 as well.

1.9.-1.10. “Monthly missions”

A special event to grind for a “very exclusive” KV-220 – moral of the story: if WG tells you that a tank is “exclusive”, don’t buy it. Ever. You’ll get it for free later on.

Light tank missions

- deal 12k damage, spot for 12k spotting damage, destroy 5 enemy tanks and gain 12,5k base XP (x2, prem bonus don’t count) in a tier 5+ light tank, get 2000 XP bonus, once per day
- complete the mission above 5 times, get 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 10 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 15 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 25 times, get KV-220 + garage slot

Medium tank missions

- deal 20k damage, destroy 25 enemy tanks and gain 13,5k base XP (x2, prem bonus don’t count) in a tier 6+ medium tank, get 2000 XP bonus, once per day
- complete the mission above 5 times, get 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 10 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 15 times, another 1 day of prem account
- complete the mission 25 times, get Type 62 + garage slot

ASIA server has the same event as well, just with a slightly different rules.

Hello everyone,

the Top of the Tree for September on EU server (tier 10 discounts and such) will be as such:

30 percent discount, 15 percent income

1.9.-15.9. – Chinese “121″ medium tank, via the line WZ-132, WZ-120, 121
15.9.-1.10. – British “Conqueror Gun Carrier”

Source: FTR VK community

T37 Light Tank (US tier 6)

Stats for 100 percent crew

Weight: 23,380 tons
Hitpoints: 680
Viewrange: 390
Radio range: 745

Hull armor: 25,4/25,4/?
Turret armor: 31,8/25,4/?
Engine: 500 hp
Power-to-weight: 21,39 hp/t
Maximum speed: 66/22
Hull traverse: 48 deg/s
Ground resistance: 0,767/0,863/1,438

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Source: FTR VK community

Just to be clear: the FTR Vkontakte page is managed independently as a project of Russian players and I have no control over its content, thus the leaks come from them.

Either way, here goes.

T-54 Obl. (T-54 “light”)

Stats for 100 percent crew

Weight: 30,638 tons
Hitpoints: 1200
Viewrange: 390
Radio range: 800

Hull armor: 80/60/?
Turret armor: 160/120/?
Engine: 700 hp
Power-to-weight: 22,847 hp/t
Maximum speed: 58,7/20
Hull traverse: 50 deg/s
Ground resistance: 0,671/0,863/1,342

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Thanks to Adam for these invite codes!

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Hello everyone,

it’s time for another batch of insider information from Wargaming.

- as mentioned previously, the “super secret” reward tanks is indeed a “Fury” Sherman

Regarding the “8000 bots banned” – the actual number is more like 7900 and the detection was apparently based on procedures, not on WG pressuring the bot maker to release data (“not worth the trouble”). The detection is actually really simple, they took the players with highest amount of daily games and compared them with an amount of ingame bot reports (complaints) against each account. People above certain threshold were banned.

Players with high amount of reports but low battlecount were instead put on a “waiting list” and they get checked manually somehow, but there is no info on the exact procedures at this point. Winrate is not considered in the bot detecting procedures however. WG discovered that statistically, every botter has 2-4 accounts, there are plans to ban ALL of them (even the “main” accounts on which the bot program was not used).

- on RU server, an entire clan supporting the Ukraine separatists was permabanned for political propaganda
- the “developer trip” is indeed covered by “developers” (mostly community people), who get their tasks covered by other people, so WG will not be short of manpower. The WG convoy will have t-shirts and stuff, no Type 59 tho
- developers started to look into the Maus line. There is a vague idea of upgrading the Maus, possibly with another turret (SS: “Maus II” turret is historical) with deadlier weaponry. The problem with this approach is that Maus would become a “grind” tank, which is not exactly good. Shifting Maus to tier 9 or splitting it into Maus and Maus II are not an option. There is no ETA on this, nor is it sure that it will move past concept work.

Source: VK Wotleaks community

From left to right:

“Bonebreaker” – for hitting at least 5 enemy tank modules or members of crew in random battle
“Supersticious” – survive victorious random battle while recieving damage from at least 4 different enemy players
“Demolition Man” – for ammoracking an enemy in random battle

From left to right:

“Shoot to Kill” – cause more damage to enemy than is the amount of hitpoints of your tank. Fire damage and ramming counts, but it is not awarded to arty
“Reliable friend in battle” – do not damage any allied tanks in 50 random battles (damage to modules, unless they get destroyed, does not count, non-penetrating hits and ricochets also don’t count, series can continue on any vehicle)
“Impenetrable” – recieve more potencial damage (damage blocked by armor) than hitpoints of your tank, only in random battles and you have to survive the battle