Author: Károly “Karika” Németh

Hello everyone,

some of you might remember the Tas – the ultimate Hungarian wartime project of a medium/heavy tank, inspired by the Panther. I wrote about the Tas here, in case you are interested. Either way, sometimes, some “information” appears that Tas was supposed to be equipped with German 88mm gun, like the Tiger. This is not true and Károly “Karika” Németh will explain it in detail.

Regarding the picture above, that was claimed to be the 88mm Tas – that’s not the model of the Tas with 88mm gun, there’s NO chance that the Tas could have been mounted with an 88mm, historically.

At first I have to make some things clear: the original plans, blueprints and documantations for the Tas medium tank are mostly missing (lost during the occupation of Hungary by the Germans, and then the Soviets), and the historians have to work with the limited written sources and many (less reliable) personal memoirs/flashbacks. Therefore, a lot of misunderstandings and delusions circulating around on the internet, and even in published books.

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Hello everyone,

this is some info for those of you, who like to follow Rita on stream (that “Stream” button on the upper bar). Rita now has (unlike before) regular schedule she will try to keep according to her own words. The schedule is here:

Enjoy!

PS: there is an interesting competition upcoming on the stream for nice prizes I think, I helped design it so you might want to refresh your knowledge of tanks… :)

Hello everyone,

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

S.R. (Poland) – DONKEY LIVES
L.H. (Germany)
Godsmacked (Poland) – large contribution, thanks mate!
F.K. (Germany)

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S.R. wanted to leave a short message for you guys. It says: “DONKEY LIVES”

Hello everyone,

you might have noticed the new poll on the main FTR page, regarding the premium vehicles (if you haven’t voted yet, cast your vote, please). This poll is there for a reason actually. Last night I had an interesting chat, was also reading some articles, looking through some books and realized, how tough it is actually to come up with a decent premium tank. There are some pretty strict categories and conditions to follow, when you make such a proposal. This can be very clearly seen on the case of the American premium tank destroyer.

Not that Wargaming drops historical requirements the lower you go by tiers, but first and foremost, I think it’s obvious that tier 8 premium tanks are the most “watched” tanks in World of Tanks. For example, recently (on 8.11 test), the shape of Type 59 armor was changed. It was changed in a completly insignificant way (the angle changed by half a degree or so, resulting in a few milimeters of shift), but there have already been voices saying “Oh, you changed Type 59, will there be a compensation?”

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Hello everyone,

not everything that appears as a leak is one. Today, I posted the following picture:

It’s supposed to be a “supertest tree”, including three new premium TD’s. I am sad (happy?) to report that it is a fake. The reason I fell for it is quite simple: last year (in May), both the GAZ-75 and IT-45 descriptions were leaked and icons existed too (as far as I know, even models do). I thought Wargaming simply decided to implement them with delay, but it is not so (yea, I had it confirmed by a real supertester).

By the way, those of you, who said it was a photoshop – nope, it wasn’t. It is actually possible to edit local client XML files to create your own “version” of the tree, that’s probably how they did it. Another leaked thing later today were “statistics” of these vehicles. These are also fake.

I am sorry for the confusion.

All credits go to Vollketten as usual.

This invention, submitted in 1944, seems to resemble a wartime version of the Soviet Mi-24 Hind…

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Hello everyone,

now, those of you, who read FTR for a while know I generally try to stay out of ESL and CW stuff. I don’t follow ESL, I don’t play Clanwars (hmmm – maybe I should, that invitation by KAZNA still valid? :D) and even though there is a lot of fail in Clanwars (last campaign there was a lot of issues), I try not to report things I don’t understand.

This nasty thing with the ESL finals was sent to me several times, but until now, I didn’t see any “whole” account, just some tidbits of information (mostly from Czech ESL players, who have insight) and I didn’t dare write anything about it without some sort of “official” post – or at least some proper summary by someone involved. That summary is now available. DeNova player Artur “Ronnie” Ulyanicki issued a statement on DeNova pages. Here is the original statement in voice.

Unfortunately, it’s in Russian, so I will just translate what is in there. Please keep in mind that I do not know much about ESL and might mistranslate technical (or commonly used) terms. Please note that this issue is not just “some guys playing games got mad” – ESL finals are about money – and not a little.

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