Part I – Introduction
Part II – Italy, Czechoslovakia
Part III – Hungary
Part IV – Sweden
Part V – Yugoslavia
Part VI – Poland
Part VII – Spain

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to finish the European tech tree vehicle count with an overview of the nations, that could also fit in in one way or another. And then, in part IX, we will conclude the series with some of the most frequently asked questions and arguments against the EU tree.

Switzerland

The Swiss can build – with some efford an entire branch of medium tanks, even though they have some real issues around tier 6 and 7 (tier 6 is a bit worse). In case you are interested in Swiss tank development history, Vollketten wrote a first part of the Swiss series already (about medium tanks), can be found here. To sum it up though, the Swiss line is revolving around the Panzer 58, Panzer 61 and possibly Panzer 68 development.

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Hello everyone,

today is the 1st anniversary of the new For the Record, hosted on the wot-news portal. Much has changed ever since last year, both in the game and on For the Record blog, but one thing remains the same – I am still having fun doing it (as exhausting as it is sometimes) and I am still trying to mine the internetz for the best content about WoT out there.

At this point I would like to thank Edrard, without whose intervention and help over the past year, For the Record would certainly not be here. He was able to get along with me (a feat by itself), running this site, fixing its bugs – a tremendous help. Thank you.

Secondly, I want to thank all the contributors, who helped me finance FTR over the past months and months, both via Patreon and via the Paypal donations. You guys are the best.

And last but not least, I would like to thank everyone else, all of you readers, for your continued support and – earlier – for putting up with ads, that’s what kept me going and keeps me going. Now, enjoy your Saturday (I hope you have as nice weather as it is in here), there will be a competition in the evening (well, at least evening of EU time), so you better refresh your game and tank knowledge :)

PS: Those, who were banished and forgotten, might just return yet…

Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, the new Stronkhold mode is coming. A part of it are NPC defensive buildings – turrets, controlled by bots, that protect your base from enemy assault. The turrets will allegedly be constructed as buildings in Stronkhold mode. They are allegedly going to appear as team members, so in the end, a team can have 16 or 17 players in the team like that.

This is an E-100 turret, with 10k hitpoints, allegedly it’s possible there will be other tank turrets used this way as well.

Part I – Introduction
Part II – Italy, Czechoslovakia
Part III – Hungary
Part IV – Sweden
Part V – Yugoslavia
Part VI – Poland

Hello everyone,

today, we are continuing the the European tech tree vehicle article series with an overview of the Spanish tanks. Now, there is a little problem with Spanish tanks from my point of view. All the info is in Spanish. And I don’t speak Spanish. Fortunately, there is Mr.R.Delineante, who was kind enough to provide us with his tree proposal. The way I see it, the Spanish can actually build a serious medium branch and have a couple of interesting vehicles of their own.

And here is a 16 page document, roughly describing the Spanish tank industry I don’t know how about you, but this does sound pretty ínteresting to me. The file was originally in PDF format (available here), but I decided to convert it into jpegs for easier viewing. Enjoy.

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Thanks to Mesotronik for this one. Taken from this thread.

Konstaninovka, Ukraine, June 2014 – “separatists” idiots, trying to rev up an old IS-3 tank, that has been there as a monument for god knows how long. Poor thing. It’s not going anywhere in this state anyway, just let it rest.

Meanwhile on the new map…

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3327127.html

Hello everyone,

you might probably remember that some time ago, a game World of Tanks: Generals was announced. Basically a web browser card game, it’s being tested now. There was a leak from WoT Generals though, about some of the new tanks, that will appear in it. Since I was curious, I asked around, whether these tanks will be introduced or not in World of Tanks. This is the original leak:

Now:

- T-21 fate is not yet decided (thanks god, it might still appear in the EU tree)
- T-24 is theoretically reserved for a regular branch
- Grosstraktor is already in the game
- the rest (T-35, T6, Liberty) is actually planned for WoT

I will make a post later on the brief description of each of the planned tanks.

Source: wot-news

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