Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753123.html and http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/2753022.html

Hello everyone,

Yuri Pasholok (no matter what we might think of him personally) posts some pretty interesting stuff occasionally. This time, it’s a couple of photos of the Valentine tanks.

Here, a demonstration of first Valentine VI tanks, created by Canadian Pacific Railway, Angus Shop, Montreal, 17.8.1941

And these are the photos of the Kubinka Valentine II, located outside of the museum under the open sky – and apparently, it’s the only tank of this type, left in Russia. The vehicle is well preserved, including its serial number:

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Hello everyone,

because I recieved two e-mails about this, just to clarify to avoid confusion.

You might have noticed that Wargaming EU decided to give us a free day of premium account during the Valentine event. That’s cool and all that, but it wouldn’t be Wargaming, if they didn’t do it without a fail. You see, they activated the “mission” to get the free day early. All of us who logged in this week (specifically ever since Wednesday) recieved it already.

The thing is, most of the people thought it is a compensation for the disastrous last weekend server behavior. It is not. There has been no compensation for that (and as far as we know, there will not be any), this is the “Valentine Gift” for everyone. Instead of a day of premium, I’d rather hear:

- what went wrong
- how was it fixed
- that it won’t happen next weekend again

If WG staff argues this one day serves as a compensation – no, it isn’t, the Russians got a day of premium as well and they didn’t have server trouble like this.

Or did I miss a post explaining all this?

Hello everyone,

according to all the signs (pingplotters etc.), EU1 server was moved from Munich to Amsterdam. Apparently there is a problem with Munich as a whole, because RU3 server, that was situated in Munich, was ALSO moved to Amsterdam (you can imagine how “happy” the Russians with low RU3 ping are about it). The latter is officially confirmed, the EU1 move is not, but it’s almost certain it happened.

This explains by the way why many people wrote on forums and other places that they experienced ping changes on EU1 (including me – earlier, 40-50, now 70-90, not including the lags).

Source: http://habrahabr.ru/post/212307/

Hello everyone,

apparently, in Belarus, WoT tank theft is taken very, very seriously. A criminal investigation was opened in the Belarus’ Brest region in a case of a World of Tanks account theft. WoT player, a 30 year old man from the town of Pruzhany contacted local police and said that his WoT account was stolen. He said to the police that his account contained an IS-8 tank and he spent like 1,2 mil BYR (cca 91 Euro) on that account.

After the report, the police contacted Wargaming, that helped them find the thief, because the account was continuously in use. The account was also blocked as a result. According to the police, the “hacker” managed to steal the account using the owner’s e-mail, because the password was really simple to guess.

Either way, according to the report, the “hacker” was charged with the crime of “illegal access to computer information”.

Hello everyone,

Wargaming usually presents us with articles, that are kinda nice. For example the history of the British flamethrower tanks (was it by Listy? I think so) – or Challenger’s historical posts. Every now and then however, they have what Rita would probably call a “brain fart” and just copy stuff from Russian portal.

Needless to say, that is not a good idea. For all their vaunted “remember history” campaigns, what Wargaming generally means is “remember Russian history”. SerB wrote it himself: if you want to do business in Russia, you have to be patriotic. No “we are all equal” – it’s more like “Russia stronk”. This of course comes with a “price” of having the historical post somewhat biased. I actually hate the word “biased”, but I guess it describes the situation best. This is not the first time Wargaming EU did this (some of you odlschool players might remember the Kliment Voroshilov weekend), but it’s not very common, thanks god.

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Hello everyone,

remember the bot-hunting mod Locastan and St0rmshadow did put together?

Well, now a version is available for 8.11, with the list of bots actualized practically every day. You can download it here. And how do you know it actually works? Simple. Wargaming EU locked its thread on forums and deleted several more. That’s the best reference ;)

The Internet is a truly wonderful thing. At the touch of a button, you can access information that would have taken days, maybe even years, to discover previously. Over the past months (nearly a year, hooray!), SS, myself, and many other talented authors and researchers on this blog, as well as an uncountable number of others, have provided you with volumes information about historical armoured vehicles. Countless numbers and statistics have been provided to the public, countless questions asked and answered.

Except this one. This is a very important question, and many man-hours and millions of dollars have went into solving it in various other fields, but goes unnoticed by the average person.

How do you poop in a WWII tank?

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