Hello everyone,

the IS-6 mission is in the client already, listed in future missions from tomorrow, under the same conditions as FTR reported. Basically, you have to get 100k XP in a tier 6 vehicle in order to get 3 days of premium:

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Hello everyone,

a few invite codes for you. This one’s from CNNK (from the Prague meeting I assume):

Three more from a guy who didn’t post his nickname (D.T.)

HN7RCD7PXD2X
HN7RNA4CHC6B
PH7TYP-R2KT6R

And as always, you can get an invite code at the Alienware site.

No version of the Soviet tech tree features a captured PzIII (or T-3, as Soviet documentation called it). However, a number of vehicles are based on it: the SG-122, SU-85I, and the somewhat recently announced SU-76I. Let’s take a look at these vehicles and the vehicles they were based on from the Soviet point of view.

Unlike the lukewarm reception of the Panther, the PzIII was very interesting to the Red Army. An early modification of the tank was received after the Polish campaign as a part of a deal with Germany. The 37 mm gun was laughable by standards of the time, but Soviet military minds and engineers appreciated many features from the vehicle: its commander’s cupola, torsion bars, shock absorbers. Various components of the T-50 light tank were inspired by these features.

After the Wehrmacht poured over the borders of the USSR, the Red Army captured a number of new and improved PzIIIs, with modern 50 mm guns. This new vehicle was tested extensively. The results of the testing showed that while the tank wasn’t as fast as the Soviets’ own T-34, and the gun not as powerful, it was still a very good vehicle, worthy of the Red Army’s attention. You may recall that the flamethrower modification of the PzIII alone earned more pages devoted to it in Soviet technical reports than the Panther.

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Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/263780.html

Hello everyone,

you might remember the post, where Storm was asking players, which tanks they consider really nasty/uncomfortable to drive. Well, today, he posted an analysis he made from that post. The analysis is available here (as MS Excel file), here it is:

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Hello everyone,

about an hour ago, in the QA from 14.12.2013, I posted:

- the size of Object 140 and 430 is correct according to Storm

However, that is not the case. The post above was translated from Storm’s answer, that was obsolete – I was corrected by Russian player (“suck_my_nya” or “lusty_argonian_maid”, whichever you prefer), who linked me this post (thanks, mate :)). Storm is saying the following:

“We doublechecked. We found production drawings with dimensions in them and checked according to them. There is a discrepancy in height (cca 14cm – all the known height numbers were referring to the height of the turret and not the height with commander’s copula and optics) and in width (the tank turned up to be 8cm wider than necessery, the known numbers about the width are a bit wrong, according to the production drawing, the width is 3120mm).

We will fix it in the next patch or the patch after that (right now the schedule is full).

But when we change it, there is no need for tears like now in the Ferdinand thread.”

So, there you have it. It will be 8cm narrower and 14cm taller. Not much of a difference, but still. There are other vehicles with incorrect dimensions in the game, let’s hope they will also be fixed in time.

Hello everyone,

here is last night’s stream with The_Chieftain. The beginning was plagued a bit by technical problems, Apart from the stream being actually pretty educational (Chieftain talks about things like why the M10 was in fact not called the Wolverine), Chief is actually not a bad player. Furthermore, around 30th minute, Chieftain decided to try out the roaming mechanism and transferred to EU2 – and asked me for a platoon.

It was a bit awkward, because I was watching the stream, that was for whatever reason delayed by like 3 minutes (and in low res no less, Twitch is messy), so by the time I saw what he was doing, it was already 3 mins ago of his time. Anyway, I had a short cameo, we played two platoon battles together where I was totally hopeless and then he returned back to US server. Apparently, the ingame voice chat doesn’t work while roaming by the way.

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Hello everyone,

here are a few T-127 invite codes from Rasho1982:

And as always, you can get more invite codes at the Alienware site.

…because lifting an armored tracked vehicle (what is that vehicle anyway? MTLB?) with a truck-mounted crane is just a brilliant idea…