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a video was linked on Yuri Pasholok’s blog about the first test drive of the BA-10 armored car. BA-10 was a WW2 Soviet heavy armored car, armed with a 45mm gun. It was developed in 1938, produced from 1941 and served until 1945. Can’t help it, the car looks pretty badass I think.
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looks like the Russian version of WoT Wiki is now functional and updated. Check out the new design, it looks quite nice. I wonder if any such a thing will be available for the EU/US one soon…
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to finish the series of obscure Czechoslovak projects, here are two interesting vehicle proposals you might have heard about – but you probably haven’t.
10,5 cm le.F.H. 43 auf Selbstfahrlafette T-25
This is a proposal (as the name suggests) to mount the 105mm light field gun LeFH43 on the T-25 chassis. LeFH 43 was newly developed Škoda project by the way, not the old 105mm LeFH 18 howitzer. It was created by Škoda as a part of the light artillery competition probably in late 1943 – in this case, its competitors were Krupp (with its Heuschrecke IVb) and Alkett (with its 10,5cm le.F.H. 18/40/2 (Sf) auf GW III/IV). Drawings were made and a wooden mock-up was built, but the project never progressed beyond the mock-up stage. The vehicle was designed to weight 24,2 tons and had between 16mm and 30mm of armor on various places. The howitzer was removable from the mount (much like the German proposals had it). The 105mm howitzer could fire a 14,8kg HE shell at 610 m/s velocity.
Special Panzer Variants by Spielberger state the parameters of this vehicle as such:
Gun:
105mm LeFH 43 L/30, 14,81 kg shell weight, 610 m/s maximum muzzle velocity, -5/+75 elevation, 60 rounds carried
Vehicle designation: Grille 12
Crew: 5
Weight: 24,2 tons
Maximum speed 60 km/h
Engine: 450 hp
Hull armor: 30/20/20
Turret armor: 30/16/16
15 cm s.F.H.43 auf Selbstfahrlafette T-25
This is a “sister” project – a proposal to mount the 150mm howitzer on the same chassis. Technical drawings are confirmed to exist, but a mock-up was probably never made.
- the KTTS (ASAP) video for patch 9.0 will come out “quite soon” (no exact date though)
- Storm states that it’s not known, when the drawing distance will turn to the circle
- Apparently the drawing distance circle will be of 565 meters radius, not 600 meters, so that the area drawn remains the same
- there are issues with traffic apparently (SS: connected to the size of 9.0 patch? Not sure I understand the context)
- apparently, the 6.3. date of 9.0 test is incorrect (SS: oh well, I said that it’s from an unverified source)
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the Jagdpanzer 38(t), (incorrectly) known as the “Hetzer”, was one of the few late-war vehicles, supplied to Germany’s allies. However, due to its late introduction, this tank destroyer was actually officially supplied to only one foreign ally of Germany: Hungary. The reason for Germans allowing the export was that Hungarian industry was unable to produce this type of vehicles (a tank destroyer) in sufficient numbers, although there were attemtps to arm the Honvéd (Hungarian army) with an indigenous version of the Sturmgeschütz (Zrínyi self-propelled guns).
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if you’ve read FTR yesterday, you might have noticed the new “Stalingrad” map leak. Here it is.
This map is actually based on the real life Stalingrad picture. This is Stalingrad picture, as seen from a (Luftwaffe) bomber during an air-raid (photo courtesy of Maiorboltach):
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as promised, here is the overview of this week’s FTR contributors. I value all your help equally, no matter how small, so I just want to thank you all once again.
Contributors
Derping4Dollars (USA)
D.S.H. (Romania)
Paldawin (Germany)
J.M. (Poland)
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Again, not much today…
- Storm confirms that the Stalingrad map leak is legit
- he doesn’t know whether there will be a statue of Lenin on the Stalingrad square
- 0.9.0: “when it’s done it’s done”
- in 0.9.0, there will be an ingame FOV setting
- apparently there was a bug in the VK4502 (the rear turret one) where crew got killed too easily, it was fixed
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3072350.html
According to the post linked above, this map schematic in game resources is designated “95_Lost_City”. A direct quote of the person, who leaked it: “Absolutely symmetrical map” – it was apparently tested for 7/42 battles, everything was fine – and for 15vs15 as well.
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this might be “old news” for somebody, but I think it’s better to make sure everyone know. Recently (and I am not sure this change came in 8.11, but I think so), teamkilling a member of your platoon is punishable by ban the same way it is punished when you teamkill any other player in random battles. The official reason behind this decision is an attempt to try to eliminate “troll” platoons, where three platoonmembers (especially on high tiers) could kill one another without punishment, screwing the rest of the team in the process.
You can see a guy rage on this video (thanks to WinG_HU for linking it to me) after being banned for 3 months (!) for teamdamaging a platoonmember of his (apparently, the fact they were in the cap circle played a role)
EDIT: Yes, I know that the guy from the video did teamkill before and just returned from a month-long ban, so the 3 month ban is justified.
