Grosstraktor – Short Review

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Hello everyone,

around Christmas this year (and a bit later on), I made a series of posts on not-so-public tanks, such as the MTLS-1G14, Panzer IV Hydro, T-44-85 and A-32.

Because I got my hands on a press account once again (thanks to the same person for high quality screenshots), allow me to continue this series with one more piece – the Grosstraktor.

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First and foremost, you can’t get this tank in the game – yet. It is one of those tanks, that were introduced some time ago (the model is not yet made in HD quality) and it is just not sure yet, when and how will the players be able to get them. It was speculated that given the recent Wargaming policy changes about the premium tanks (basically, lowtier tanks are awarded, not sold – either for clanwars, or during events), it’s going to be some sort of anniversary gift or something, but who knows? I don’t. The last piece of info was from like two months ago and said the tank would come, but nothing more than that.

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Sullivan Cup

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From The_Chieftain’s (US server historian and tank expert) Youtube channel..

 

 

Not sure what that is, but it looks very interesting. Perhaps an American version of the Russian tank biathlon?

Bryansk Historical Battle – Tank Setups

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Hello everyone,

since I forgot to do this for the Tobruk historical battle, I will at least do it for Bryansk, because we (hopefully) get that historical battle before they are removed in 9.2 (in case you missed it, it was today confirmed they are removing the entire mode for re-work). And I would like that medal :)

Anyway, here’s the historical battle overview:

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Soviet tank setups

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Wargaming invading Ukraine!

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3350776.html

Hello everyone,

Ukrainian channel TSN reported an interesting piece of news. It’s about the Russian tanks invading, moving through Donetsk in order to support the separatists (I assume you have heard about the incident – the most likely version is that three T-64 tanks were looted/transferred to separatists from the Ukraine army depot, one got destroyed and the other heavily damaged in fighting). However, to show the incident, the Ukraine TV showed an interesting footage – skip to cca 1:00:

 

 

Yup, that’s a footage from a World of Tanks event. Oh noes, Wargaming is invading Ukraine! Naturally, the reactions are some funny shit…

(“Haha, SerB is sponsoring the “separatists” with tanks with gold ammo”, “I am waiting for the Ukraine to report that SerButler is entering Donbas on a Waffentrager”, “Yes, Russian tanks in Ukraine – straight from the Wargaming premium shop” etc…)

WG RU Stream QA

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3349620.html

Hello everyone,

last night there was a stream on the RU server – WG developers and producers Alexei “Inaki” Ilyin, Anton “Evilly” Pankov and Yuri “Hukogum” Kuryavyj and the chief of map design department Vladislav “_p0zzy_” Markov – they were playing the football mode and answering some player questions, Maiorboltach was kind enough to provide a transcription. Thank you!

- at first, they tried out the football mode with AMX ELC. It took two months to develop. On RU server, roughly 2 million people played this mode.
- there will be no Katyusha rocket launchers in the game, but there will be an “artillery barrage” (SS: Stronkhold consumable IIRC)
- WG knows that historical battles need serious rework and in patch 9.2, the entire mode will be temporarily removed from the game for rework. Developers are working on “a completely new CW concept with new features”, developers are also considering special PVE mode for historical battles. After the HB’s are reworked, there will be a special test only for them, like the stronkhold has now in order to gather detailed feedback
- it’s possible that in the Stronkhold mode, there will be an option to hire non-clan players (“mercenaries”), apparently when Stronkhold gets active (?? – literally “but during this period”), companies will be closed (!) and won’t be reworked

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19.6.2014

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As you already know, the Stronkhold mode was started today. In the meanwhile, the suspicious lack of new info has been explained: Storm has vacation.

- recent changes in the “light T-54″ also showed that the frontal turret armor was reduced from 180mm to 160mm. Storm states that the 180mm most likely stays at the front where the turret armor is practically unsloped, 160mm will be the sloped part
- stronkholds not for players who don’t want to be in a clan? “Don’t want to be in a clan? Then don’t be. In random battles, there will be many events, missions etc.”
- Finding 20 decent people for stronkhold too difficult? “Strange how other players do find others and create clans? What makes them different from you?”
- stronkholds will apparently be useful even for smaller clans, that won’t have to wait for events and the bonuses will help them grind
- the raids (SS: what is the official English term? Forgot…) in Stronkhold mode are analogical to companies, but there will be no encounter or assault in them, the same analogy applies for the map choices (just like in companies)
- stronkhold consumables will come later – “follow the news”
- stronkhold resources will be awarded for defeats as well, but less
- stronkhold statistics will be kept separate, just like with team battles stats
- a clan cannot lose its stronkhold completely
- attacking and defending of stronkholds between clans will come later

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Stronkhold Test is Live

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Hello everyone,

as posted yesterday, a special “9.1 Test 3″ test is live with the Stronkhold mode enabled. You can download it with the link here:

http://dl.wargaming.net/wot/ct/files/WoT_internet_install_ct.exe

Please note that according to the portal news, the clan tags gonna be scrambled. You can however create your own stronk(hold) klanu for free on the portal (seems not functional right now).

ASAP on Stronkhold mode