Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/4199853.html

Hello everyone,

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 :)

Sort of an older video, but still good. This is what happens when you park your car wrongly in Vilnius…

Source: http://42.tut.by/434310

Hello everyone,

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.

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

Hello everyone,

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

Hello everyone,

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

Hello everyone,

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.