the upcoming replacement for tier 9 VK4502B, Mauschen, has basically two gun options. One is the 128mm Maus gun, the other is the 150mm L/31 (?). Here’s how the model and the stats look with the Maus gun (the 15cm ones are in brackets for comparison). Oh and yes, the vehicle only has one turret.
Tier: 9
Hitpoints: 2000
Engine: 1500 hp
Weight: 170 tons
Power-to-weight: 8,82 hp/t
Maximum speed: 20/15 km/h
Hull traverse: 20 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 1,726/1,822/2,877
Turret traverse: 18,8 deg/s
Viewrange: 370
Radio range: 740,4
- Storm confirms that the Mäuschen vehicle is historical, it was made based on this drawing
- the replacement of VK4502B with Mauschen will come “soon”
- VK4502 Ausf.B will not be made premium, it will be removed from the game, just like the FV215b (120)
- for now, there are no other replacement plans for the Maus branch
- for now, there are no plans to give Maus an alternative 150mm gun
- accuracy nerf being really bad for inaccurate fast tanks like the T49? “Wait for the aim circle to aim fully and you’ll be fine”
- the only accuracy change was the distribution of shells inside the center of the aim circle, the sigmas were not touched: it does NOT mean the shells will fall to the edges of the circle more often
- the accuracy nerf in 9.6 applies to both arty and premium vehicles
- Q: “The accuracy nerf is really bad for artillery!” A: “Do you often fire snap shots with arties? :)”
Since this is not on EU portal yet (would be marginally more useful to post this instead of another premium shop bundle), here’s the Russian server explanation for the accuracy change in 9.6.
Basically, the official reason for the nerf is that the tanks were too accurate (shooting too often to the center of aim circle) even when the AC was not fully aimed. Thus, the developers decided to separate the aim circle into 10 zones and each zone has a certain probability to have the shell land in it. This is how it looks in 9.5:
The broken lines represent the various sectors and the circle, designated by unbroken white line – 70 percent of shells fall into that circle. The red dots represent the shell impacts within aim circles, the amount used for this sample was 3000 shots. Now, there wasn an issue allegedly of the “snap shot” accuracy (shots without aiming), when people, who were not aiming properly just managed to hit even fast low-armored targets repeatedly. Therefore, WG had to nerf this. This is how the distribution compares from 9.5 to 9.6
Czech company Excalibur Army (an arms dealer) won a contract to supply the Iraqi army with more than a hundred of former Czech tanks (likely of the T-72M1 type) and other armored vehicles (BMP-1 variants) to help them fight the muslim radicals from the Islamic State. Dozens of these refitted vehicles are ready in the army depot in Šternberk today and the Iraqi representatives are inspecting them. According to the news server, they are very satisfied.
Jaroslav Strnad, the owner of Excalibur, commented that this is only one part of a larger deal, involving more than a hundred of former Czech army vehicles, mothballed in the depots. The Iraqi representatives looked for a suitable supplier all around the Europe, but also in Ukraine and Russia. In the end, the chose the Czech company due to the good ratio of price versus state of the vehicles. Another advantage is that the Iraqi soldiers are already experienced with the former Soviet vehicles. According to Strnad, this contract is worth of dozens of millions of USD, the first one of its kind for the company, as previously, the Russians and the Ukrainians always won these contracts by using dumping prices.
This contract was approved by the Czech government and army officials as well as much better alternative of helping fight the terrorists than sending our own troops to Iraq, although our representatives are not united in this opinion, as for example Czech president Miloš Zeman recently urged the NATO states to start a full-blown land campaign against ISIS.
pretty much every large nation’s tank industry produced at least a proposal for some strange superheavy tank and the Soviets were no different. In 1933, this monster (designated T-39) was designed by the Kirov plant special design bureau (ОКМО Опытного завода Спецмаштреста им. С. М. Кирова) under the leadership of N.V.Barykov. It was never built, but here’s how one of its variants looked. You can read more about its properties here.
But wait, this is not all. The French “journalists” and “historians” from the French magazine, that brought you the “Panther is better than IS-3” article produced a drawing of this tank:
In case you didn’t get it, the drawing says “Glory to Stepan Bandera” – these French guys are some SERIOUS wehraboos. And this is not the only crap they produced, by far… stay tuned :)
this is connected to the previous article about WG firing the Kharkov staff and I am including it here for teh lulz, because it’s basically a PR article.Another article was published a day before the last one on how Wargaming helps the Ukrainians get jobs, because the offices of Wargaming in Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev) lately grew by 38 people. Wargaming was 16th largest IT employer in Ukraine at that point, they hired 142 people 2014.
And a day later, the Persha studio layoff was announced. Guess that didn’t work out.
