Enjoy :)
How to become a Noob (new video)
Hello everyone,
another video from the “How to become a noob” series :) This REALLY should have English subtitles (translation provided below). It’s really funny in Russian though.
Scene 1: “Brother”
Enemy KV-1S got into hopeless situation.
Allied Hellcat really wants to take the shot, but team KV-1S doesn’t want to tank.
The dude got greedy… but what’s the difference, there are so many allied tanks left
The KV-1S however decides not to attack the enemy. Another person desiring the Invader medal?
Allies fall one after another to the enemy D25
Maybe go kill him? Nooo! We want medal!
Oh well, the base is almost captured. Victory!
But why!!!?
Did he also decide to finish the KV-1S off?
Or…
This is where the dog is buried…
A cuckoo (“a stranger amongst his people”)
Allied arty sensed there is a traitor in their midst
But too late
WG to open new mobile studio
Source: gamasutra.com article
Wargaming will be opening a new mobile game studio in order to develop – surprise – games for mobile devices. This studio is not yet named, however, its head will be one Mr.David Bluhm (formerly of Z2 studio) with other members being Joe McDonagh (Blue Manchu) and Julian Chunovic (Z2 and Nintendo). More info to follow in upcoming weeks.
Invite codes
Hello everyone,
today we have invite codes from Kitsun3 and Sadukar09
VB75TN-G9HZ2X (7 days prem + 1000g)
6BN7KZ5XU6AU5Y (1500g)
6BN7BN3AU4SM4E (1500g)
Thank you guys! And to all of you: if you have unused invite codes you don’t need, please send them to me at fortherecordwot@gmail.com, I will make sure they get published with your name!
Possible high tier light replacement: Panzer-Aufklaerer auf E-25
Disclaimer: this is an highly speculative article which tries to find a logical link to a tank design between secondary sources. The following has to be taken as author’s interpretation.
Late war Germany found itself lacking capable light recon tanks amongst its many shortages. There were a few obsolete light tanks pressed into the role but by 1945 they were mostly worn out, with the few working remains hopelessly outmatched by Soviet and Allied fast medium tanks. One answer to this was the usual flurry of paper projects, which however proved to be too complex and expensive (VK 16.02), using precious chassis and making little sense (Recon Panther) or being underpowered from inception for the role (early turreted Jagdpanzer 38 (t) with Panzer IV turret and to a lesser extent the Panzer 38D). Spielberger briefly mentions that the E-25 proposal included a recon tank version but gives no further details, leaving us still into obscurity. There is however one further, unlikely source that might bring us further details, although usually regarded as something very different altogether: Hahn’s “Klein-Tiger”.
The project as described by Hahn might seem a fantasy nonsense and indeed it doesn’t seem to match anything Tiger related, as very well described in this article. That is, as long as we consider the Klein-Tiger as a Tiger related project, however what if it was something entirely different in design and purpose?
7.11.2013
- SerB states that the S-70 gun could fit into IS-4 turret, but was not mounted in it in real life
- the IS-4 on tier 9 had the S-70 gun earlier (SS: as far as I remember, it was removed when IS-4 became tier 10), despite not being historical, it was there because “it was necessery”
- Chinese 59-16 light tank in game was based not only on drawings, there is allegedly a mock-up photo too
- WZ-131 85mm gun with “funny” muzzle brake: according to SerB this design was borrowed from the Americans
This is how it looks:
“Free” month of premium
Source: http://worldofwarplanes.eu/en/news/4/contest-first-to-top/
Hello everyone,
this concerns mainly tankers, who haven’t yet tried the World of Warplanes. World of Warplanes on both the EU and US server has a competition called “first to the top”.
What’s its goal?
If you manage to level up an entire branch from tier 1 to tier 10 between November 13 and November 27 (2 weeks), you will get a reward of one month of premium account for your account, that is shared between WoT and WoWp. That goal doesn’t depend on any other players. However, if you get that respective tier 10 warplane one of first 20 players on server, you will get a WHOLE YEAR of premium account for free. I don’t think that’s viable to any normal working people, but it’s an option. If you however have absolutely no life whatsoever manage to be the first person overall to buy a tier 10 plane, you will get 10 years of premium account.
So, I think that if any of you guys feels like trying WoWp but is not decided yet, November 13 is the good time to start.
Know your steel?
Hello everyone,
just a thought that came to me. So, I was checking by Facebook an hour or two ago and both Chieftain and Challenger linked to this article: Know Your Steel: KV-1 by Hunter1911. So I thought “this should be interesting” and went to check it out.
The post itself is… hmm… well, not very detailed, but it’s a forum post, not a book. However, what struck me as odd is this line in text:
“The main competition at entering mass production was the Czech model S-2 which was already being massively tested at army polygon of Kubinka with the aim of copying the good solutions.”
Uh…. what? What the hell is a S-2 tank? There was never such a thing as a Czech “S-2″ tank. So I guess the author means “Š-II”, right? I can understand how to a random person the S and Š or 2 and II might mix together, but given the fact it’s a “historically accurate” post I expected something more (Š referred of course to Škoda, while II referred to tank category: roman numbers served as identifiers thus: I – tankettes II – light/medium tanks, III – “breakthrough” tanks)
Tier 8 and 9 Japanese tanks
Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2784201.html
Tier 8 – STA-1 (some older trees have STA-1 as tier 9, but it will be tier 8 apparently)
6.11.2013
Two important things first:
- as you might noticed, FTR experienced some trouble for last few days, resulting in almost not being available yesterday and earlier today for some players. Edrard investigated and the culprit has been identified as the Hupso share buttons plugin. Edrard disabled it and now everything works fine. However, in order to fix other things, Edrard will be doing deep maintenace in the night. So, from like midnight till early tomorrow (no exact ETA, depends on Edrard), the server will be taken offline and will have its bugs fixed. So don’t panic if you won’t ba able to log on, FTR will be back tomorrow afternoon.
- because there is a prolonged weekend in Minsk (from tomorrow till Sunday), Cannoneer wrote me that people won’t be working since tomorrow and the FTR QA answers will be delayed. I will submit them later today, but the answers will not be available sooner than on Monday.
- WoT for OS X to appear earlier then War Thunder for OS X? “Time will tell”
- WoT is not considered a “historical” game according to SerB
- Q: “Are you doing something to improve the quality of the game? How much do you respect the work of your team, when you treat the game like this?” A: “Everyone knows we found the game in a dumpster and now are just cashing in”
- Q: “Who is the game made for, developers of players?” A: “Not idiots, that’s for sure!”
- WoT won’t be converted to OpenGL anytime soon
- Hurricanes (as in the British planes) will appear in WoWp
- new city maps maps Minsk, Kharkov and Konigsberg will appear in random battles too
- WoT API works on OS X using emulators (SS: no idea what that means or whether it is important)
- KV-4 in game is based on N.Dukhov’s design. It was picked because it is “most distinctive”
- there might be optional hulls even for “paper” tanks: for example it’s possible the E-50M will become an optional hull for E-50 and both will move to tier 10, but “paper tanks will have unlockable hulls only when really necessery”
- Object 430 prototype: “When it’s done it’s done”
- plans to use PaK 36(r) from Marder on other vehicles? “If there are any, I will tell”
- in historical battles the T-34/76 won’t be buffed to compete with Tigers in 1943 battles: “Either flank, or use ISU-152″
- FCM36 Marder I gun module too heavy? “How terrible”
- apparently perks rework don’t have exactly high priority
- the “detrack” XP bonus (shared XP) doesn’t apply when you knock out opponent’s engine and not tracks
- Dicker Max and Sturer Emil have identical guns, but their weight is different. The reason for it are different gun mounts