Soviet tier 3 TD – SU-76i

This vehicle was built by the Soviets on the captured Panzer III chassis. The turret was removed and a superstructure, carrying a 76mm S-1 gun (a modified version of F-34 gun) was added. About 200 were made.

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Hello everyone,

what follows is the list of new regular tanks in 8.10 and their parameters in game. Please note that in the final release (and possibly round 2 of the test, scheduled for 12.12.2013), the color of Japanese tanks will change to green. The armor scheme posted is that of the elite version.

Warning: this post is also very picture heavy.

Japan

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Just quick heads up:

8.10 test server is updating. You can download the client here.

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/261557.html

Hello everyone,

as reported earlier, the Japanese tanks in final release will not be brown, they will be green. Storm posted this with a picture of the tier 10 STB-1:

Furthermore, Storm confirms the STB-1 will have the depression of -10 degrees:

- according to Storm, test will also come “very soon”

Hello everyone,

yesterday, I recieved a relatively large number of e-mails and FB messages from confused players, all saying the same thing: “Silentstalker, look, in the December calendar event Wargaming advertises 30 percent off the M10 Panther, when in fact the Panther bundle is only 20 percent off in the gift shop, how can that be?!”

An illustration here:

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Hello everyone,

welcome to the 8.10 test server day (well, unless something unexpected happen, that would be a damn shame).

It’s possible to download the client downloader here, but it won’t update until the server gets online:

http://dl.wargaming.net/wot/ct/files/WoT_internet_install_ct.exe

You will be informed immediately when it does.

Hello everyone,

just a quick update. After talking to my Polish colleague Dom1n, it seems that once again fake gold is on the rise.

Some of you who were around WoT forums a year and a half ago might remember what this is:

It’s basically a scam, that uses gift shop. Some 3rd party (not Wargaming) promises you to sell you cheap gold. Here is how Wargaming describes it on their website:

Tempted by an offer which usually sounds too good to be true, you pay a swindler to purchase the discounted gold he offers. After receiving your payment the scammer buys the gold from our website at full price using a stolen credit card (this is called “carding”). He sends you the gold in form of a gift that you receive in the game. Then, when the real owner of the credit card or his bank notices the unauthorized activity, they withdraw the money from us for the purchase of the gift package which annuls the transaction. But since the gold has already been credited to you, we’re forced to temporarily suspend your account as its associated balance becomes negative. To unlock it again you – the initial gift recipient – will need to pay us the full amount of the value of the gold you received to finally equal out your balance. The defrauder gets your money; you lose time, temporarily even your access, and get stuck with a new bill on top of it all. A less common but similar way of fraud is when the impostor uses a regular bank card and then himself orders his bank to withdraw the money for the transaction claiming that the associated services were not rendered. (This is called “fraud”).

Be aware that recent experience from the Polish community (so called “Allegro Gold”, Allegro being a Polish trade portal, infamous in the past for this stuff) shows that Wargaming is cracking very hard on this stuff. There is a post on the main forums.

In other words: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Use common sense and be careful.

Hello everyone,

this is a propaganda/educational video, made by Disney studio for the Canadian army in 1942. It depicts the .55 Boys AT rifle in a blend of regular footage and animation. The initial scene with Adolf Hitler is pretty funny :) But by 1942/1943, the AT rifle as a weapon has reached its limits. Despite the Russian rifles (the 14,5mm round was significantly more powerful than the original .55 Boys, penetrating cca 40mm at 100 meters, while the Boys rifle could only penetrate roughly half as much) were occasionally capable of knocking out even the dreaded Panther tanks, their mass use triggered a countermeasure development, resulting (amongst other things) in the Schurzen side armor plates, significantly reducing the German tank side armor vulnerability (no, Schurzen were NOT developed as a defense against HEAT weapons).

By 1945, the AT rifles have become all but pretty much completely obsolete. Many of the Boys rifles have been actually rebored to the US .50 caliber and used as heavy anti-materiel rifles. The original .55 Boys ammunition is in fact so rare nowadays that such a round it is considered a prized collectible.