Source: http://lenta.ru/news/2015/02/05/wargamingkharkov/

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according to the news linked above (thanks to Maiorboltach for bringing it to attention), Wargaming announced they closed the office of Persha Studios in Kharkov (Ukraine). The Kiev office does continue its work. There were cca 50 people working in the Kharkov office. The key staff was offered positions in Minsk in Kiev, the rest was fired. The decision was, according to Wargaming Russian representative, taken “in connection with the restructuralization of the company’s web department”.

Persha Studios was the game designer studio responsible for World of Warplanes and was recently working on World of Tanks: Generals online card game, as well as creating specialized web application for Wargaming. The studio was independent until 2011, when it signed an exclusive contract with Wargaming, becoming for all intents and purposes Wargaming branch.

Source: VK Wotleaks community

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as expected, the tier 10 AMX-30B (should be AMX 30 B, but meh, both are acceptable) was buffed on supertest, and the tier 9 AMX-30 Prototype was nerfed. Here’s how.

AMX-30B (tier 10)

- terrain resistance buffed from 0,959/1,151/2,014 to 0,863/1,055/2,014
- viewrange buffed from 400 to 410
- DPM buffed from 2392,4 to 2741,9
- reload time buffed from 9,781 to 8,534
- ROF buffed from 6,134 to 7,03
- accuracy buffed from 0,326 to 0,288
- aimtime buffed from 2,3 to 2,01
- accuracy on the move buffed by cca 10 percent

That means the vehicle stats look like this now:

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Hello everyone,

Wargaming released a map picture of an upcoming map (there are speculations it might arrive in 9.7) on their instagram. Check it out.

Seen it before? Yea, that’s the map, that was first supertested (leaked) in August 2014. Wargaming is asking players, how would they name it – the original name was “D-Day” and it is clearly inspired by the Normandy landings. Here is the previous video, showing how the map looked back then:

Hello everyone,

if you read this blog carefully, you might have noticed one piece of information: Yuri Pasholok (WG’s main military history advisor) and his colleagues visited not that long ago the Hassleholm Militar vehicle museum in Sweden to make a whole bunch of photos of tanks and stuff. They had the opportunity to examine the Swedish vehicles carefully and there’s no doubt that at one point, the Swedes will appear in World of Tanks as well.

As a part of the effort, just out of curiosity and “for teh lulz”, Yuri Pasholok made – without any preparation or moviemaking gear – a quick lecture on the Landsverk L-60 light tank. The impressive part is that Yuri Pasholok is doing this just so from the top of his head, no pre-written script reading there. Whatever you think of him, you gotta respect that.

If you speak Russian, it’s actually very interesting. The thing is, he speaks fast and not very loud, so it’s really hard to catch some of the words and some parts I didn’t understand at all (could try making subtitles though). Still, even if you don’t speak Russian, it’s an iteresting look inside the L-60.

Source: http://wot-journal.com/news/index/id/227

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based on the data of a popular Russian clan rating site ivanerr.ru, a table of the most useful tanks for Clanwars was collected – I think it’s actually quite interesting. To explain: some tanks are useful for clanwars and some are useless. The usefulness tank poll was made and distributed amongst Russian clan commanders and their deputies (people, who decide what tanks to use in CW). These polls happen repeatedly (every time the parameters of tier 10 tanks are buffed/nerfed).

The higher the vehicle is on the table, the more useful it is in Clanwars.

It’s not that big of a deal, but it kinda made me laugh (well, that upper right corner part for some reason) :) Thanks to eXterminus for this one.

Oh and if you are wondering about the guy’s answer: “The bug you encountered is known and we are trying to solve it. It should be fixed in the next update.”

Hmmm… so it’s not a mod issue, interesting.

Hello everyone,

this is the upcoming tier 9 medium tank, the “first prototype” of AMX-30. It will be unlocked from AMX-13/90.

Description: Created as a part of the competition to create a “unified European tank” and took part in the comparative trials with the Leopard 1. It surpassed all the tanks (except for Leopard 1) in mobility and power-to-weight ratio and had the longest effective firing range. Even though its armor was weaker than the majority of contemporary tanks, the development of anti-tank shells made up for the difference.

Characteristics (for 100 percent crew):

Hitpoints: 1650
Engine: 720 hp
Weight: 32,5 tons
Power-to-weight: 22,15 hp/t
Maximum speed: 65/23 km/h
Hull traverse: 36 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 0,863/0,959/1,726
Turret traverse: 45,9 deg/s
Viewrange: 390
Radio range: 782,1

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Hello everyone,

the individual missions have been around for a while now. Many players have their StuG IV’s already, some have the T28C, some have the T55A and more than a thousand (on RU server anyway) have Object 260. I am sure many of us noticed the change in gameplay style in randoms, occasional retarded behavior of a player, who wants to complete the mission at all costs and all that. It was to be expected and I am sure Wargaming counted on it. But there’s another really serious side effect the individual missions have, the rigging.

Rigging is a process, during which the players on both teams, instead of fighting one another are working together to complete the mission objectives, screwing the rest of the team in the process. The most notorious mission to be rigged (as far as I can tell) is the last mission of the heavy tank series, where a lot of bounced shells is required. The standard rigging process of this mission looks like this:

- you take three (or five, works better) friends (clanmates) and form two platoons
- you wait until very late in the night for the best chance to appear in the battle together
- you coordinate (via Teamspeak for example) it so that both platoon leaders click “battle” at once (simply by counting down on TS). In late night hours when very few players play, the chance to appear in one battle (on the opposite sides, one platoon each side) is very high
- you meet on some spot in the battle (preferably without witnesses) and you shoot each other’s tank strongspots (frontal turret, mantlet, spaced armor parts) to accumulate as much “damage saved by armor” as possible. There we go, mission done!

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