Hello everyone,

in one of the previous articles, I wrote about the Praga P-IIa and how it almost became the standard tank of the Czechoslovak army in mid-30′s. As written in the previous article, it was a tank of the IIa category, that emerged by splitting the earlier army category II (light tanks) into IIa (cavalry tanks) and IIb (infantry support tanks). Praga (as well as Škoda) attempted to compete in both of these categories for the so-much-needed army contract, but unlike in the past, this time, the entire competition resulted in a failure.

The objective for the IIb category (tanks for infantry support) was set by the Military Technical and Aircraft Institute (VTLU) in January 1935. Praga proposed the first offer and technical concept for the new tank October 1935 and repeated it in December 1935. After some negotiations, VTLU contracted ČKD to make one prototype of the vehicle on 13.1.1936 – from mild steel, without armament, optics, radio and other accessories. It was to be delivered within 4 months (mid May 1936).

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Thanks to Locastan for the pictures!

Arctic was strongly reworked. The popular south base camp position on the cliff above the base is practically gone – bushes were removed. North-western base was also reworked, now there is a hill obstructing the view. New paths opened for attack.

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Hello everyone,

every server staff has something. EU staff is known for its general incompetence, the flaw of the US server staff seems to be general confusion, when it comes to tanks. The US T34 event was accompanied by a wrong picture and now, the new STB-1 tier 10 discount event…

Let me tell you, that STB-1 looks very Soviet :) And on the same page:

That Chi-Nu Kai looks very much like the T-127 light tank… oh well :)

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, some time ago, the WoT Tank Viewer, one of the oldest and best tank softwares, allowing you to view WoT models and such was discontinued. Personally, I thought it was a terrible shame, because I used it extensively for model comparisons. Well, I have good news for you – its author, Rextimmy, is back.

You can follow the WoT Tank Viewer in this thread – and you can download the newest version from its official website.

The newest version (1.0.17) can view the HD models, a feature incredibly useful for the future tank updates. You can download it for free on the official website.

Regular model changes – not much has changed in this patch, apart from one quote big one. There have been a lot of really tiny changes, most of them are completely unrecognizable, like textures fixes, here for example a small texture fix on AMX50B turret:

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3304043.html

From Russian server.

One battle.

28 bots.

Enjoy.

Link for Replay

Source: Wotleaks VK community

A couple of new medals were found in the 9.1 files. Specifically:

Historical battles medals for

- Bryansk Front
- Siege of Tobruk
- Siege of Berlin (that’s a new one, so I guess that will be the upcoming historical battle)

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Hello everyone,

the “football mode” for the duration of the FIFA World Cup has been confirmed and in 9.1 test, a vehicle was added, that will be used for this mode. It’s T-62A “Sport” and here are its characteristics.

It looks like the classic T-62A, so don’t expect any wild paintjobs (might come later)

There are however significant differences. For one, it’s a tier 1 vehicle and it has 999 armor. For all intents and purposes, it’s indestructible. Forward speed has been increased from 50 to 60 km/h and the engine has 1500hp. The gun is a special SPORT version of the U-8TS firing only HE shells, so I am pretty sure shooting one another won’t be a part of the game.

My guess? Something like players pushing a Leichttraktor or something around to get it between the goalposts.

This info comes from Nushuk’s thread on EU forums – thank you, Nushuk (9.1 pictures by US player Burok)

Hello everyone,

as might or might not remember, in 9.0, Panzer III got screwed up. Specifically, the L/60 top turret mantlet lost its spaced armor part. More on that here. It seems that in 9.1, this issue was again fixed.

This is the top configuration of Panzer III in 9.0:

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