Author: sp15 (US server)

Part I: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/07/swedish-tanks-part-i-strv-m21-29/
Part II: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/12/swedish-tanks-part-ii-strv-m31-strv-fm31/
Part III: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/15/swedish-tanks-part-iii-landsverk-l-100-and-l-120/
Part IV: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/21/swedish-tanks-part-iv-landsverk-l-60/
Part V: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/27/swedish-tanks-part-v-strv-m37-and-strv-m41/
Part VI: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/04/08/swedish-tanks-part-vi-sav-m43/
Part VII: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/04/18/swedish-tanks-part-vii-strv-m42/
Part VIII: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/08/swedish-tanks-part-viii-pvkv-m43/
Part IX: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/12/swedish-tanks-part-ix-tlp-46-and-strv-leo
Part X: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/15/swedish-tanks-part-x-strv-lansen/
Part XI: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/17/swedish-tanks-part-xi-ls-50/
Part XII: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/06/01/swedish-tanks-part-xii-emil-1951/

In 1952, the development of the next Swedish tank was well underway – despite the fact the work started as early as in 1951, it was only now when it really picked up the pace. In 1952, the project was reworked from a set of basic requirements and schematics into a functional design. More outlandish ideas were scrapped in favor of technologies, that had already been prototyped or tested and several new ideas were being tested as well. As an example, the suspension was changed to a hydraulic one, based on the Lvkv 42 prototype self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and work started on a prototype gun on the basis of the old 15cm Haub m/39 howitzer.

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Hello everyone,

this movie trailer appeared on English Wargaming channel, with the following commentary:

Tankers! Saints and Soldiers: The Void (http://wotcode.com/ssfb) is the third installment in the eponymous franchise, and the first that focuses on tanks. The film follows a cat and mouse chase between two M18 Hellcat crews and three Panzer III’s through the Harz Mountains of Germany at the end of WWII. We’ll be bringing you behind the scenes footage featuring The Chieftain over the coming weeks. For now, head over to the World of Tanks Facebook page (http://wotcode.com/wgvfb) to enter to win a free film t-shirt! The film opens in select theaters August 15, with an expanded NA theatrical release Aug 29.

After seeing the trailer, it’s obvious that this movie is not about tanks or war, but about racism, so thanks, I’ll just wait for Fury.

Author: Vollketten

Okay so the title is a little tongue in cheek, because the tank is regarded as being rather mediocre, but there were worse tanks, maybe not by much but there were. Either way, it’s an important tank for Italy both historically in terms of combat and in terms of technical development. No future branch of Italian medium tanks is going to be able to do without the M.11/39, as it will be required for historic battles, so we need to take a look at this rather maligned vehicle. It’s also a nice followup from the last tank of Italy we looked at in the ‘William Foster’s Italian Tank’ article here.

M.11/39 pre-production version outside the Ansaldo factory, July 1939

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Thanks to David Solomon for this one.

Hello everyone,

you probably know the WatchMojo Youtube channel, known for its top 10 lists of various things concerning movies and games. On 12.7.2014, a list came out with top 10 free to play games and World of Tanks is in it! On sixth spot that is. The list is as follows:

10 – Smite
9 – Hawken
8 – Tribes Ascent
7 – Path of Exile
6 – World of Tanks
5 – Dota 2
4 – Planetside 2
3 – Star Wars TOR
2 – Team Fortress 2
1 – League of Legends

Personally, I’d rate WoT higher and it also seems the author used some old footage. You can watch it here:

Thanks to Opferlamm113 for this one :) Celebrating World Cup victory with tanks? Why not…

Hello everyone,

this is a nice little useful tool I got today from Locastan – thanks mate :) He’s not the author of it, it comes from the RU forums (author: s0me0ne, original thread here)

Basically, it allows you to load the map and fly around it like this:

It can be downloaded here:

http://www.ulozto.net/xkSWAE2b/map-observer-92-zip

Installation (a bit complicated):

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Thanks to Locastan for this one (he took the pictures)

Most of this stuff was already leaked before the patch ever came live.

So, the changes between Prokhorovka and Arc of Fire (or however is the map called)

As you can see, the hill really was changed a bit (as I wrote earlier) – it’s not necesserily lower, but the slope towards it is a bit different.

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Source: http://habrahabr.ru/company/wargaming/blog/229475/

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to have a look at an article, published on the Wargaming blog, about the public API system. Now, I am not a programmer, so excuse me if something gets mistranslated – I think it’s interesting for quite a few folks (especially some modders and web programmers) so it would be a shame not to attempt to translate it, but if I make a mistake somewhere, feel free to correct me. Here goes.

Wargaming.net Public API is a set of public programmer interfaces, providing access to Wargaming projects, including the game content, player statistics, data from encyclopedias and many other things. In this article, we will talk about the background of the API, how the interaction of our internal components looks and about how the API is built and how it works and a bit about the developer contest we are planning to do in the near future.

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