Hello everyone,

before we continue with the article on French superheavy, a piece of info emerged yesterday, that is too good to pass up, especially since you know how I like German tanks. Very special thanks go to Thor_Hammerschlag and Zarax for providing this info.

Let’s imagine for a moment a fourth German TD branch (third being heavy assault guns, Sturmtiger and such). Yes, that is science fiction for now, such a thing will definitely not come before 2015, but just cope with me. How would it like, what is there left? Well, the Waffenträgers. Some vehicles are pretty clear, such as the Steyr Waffenträger for example. If you are interested in how such a line could look, I already wrote a post about it in the past.

But what about tier 10? Waffenträgers are fragile and on such light platforms, I think there would be no room for “classic” cassette autoloaders (leaving you with hydraulic assist, but that’s a story for another time). We already have the King of Burst WT E-100 for now, so it has to be a different platform. Ideally with the gun in the back, for better weight distribution, probably limited rotation, not to tip the whole damn thing over when firing. What I like most is this (yet another Rheinmetall Borsig) proposal setup:

Of course, other platforms are available and perhaps the Panther one would be more suitable for such a vehicle. But that’s not what I wanted to write about, perhaps I will at some point in the future.

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Hello everyone,

Theatyhannington submitted some invite codes for US server (not sure they work for EU):

HPG-FA7-YYB-68 (1 week prem + 1000g)
N8M39G5MUX24WV (1 week prem + T14 tank)
N8M39X6FAM64BS (same)

Having already explored medium and light tank options, heavy tanks are the next logical choice. You should already be familiar with how this works, so let’s get to it.

The first Soviet heavy tank is the KV-1, at tier 5. Its hull options were exhaustively explored in a previous article. I was going to suggest that the KV-1S hull be available as an upgrade to make the tank go a little faster than its current sluggish pace, but alas, the KV-1S (KV-85) was revealed to be a future tier 5 heavy tank literally today, making a lightened hull option very unlikely. The only remaining option is the KV-6 (KV-1 with 90 mm of hull armour) and KV-1 with additional armour screens (100 mm of hull armour). Both changes are rather predictable, a more armoured, slower tank.

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Hello everyone,

interested to see, whether Wargaming succeeds or fails in real time? Tomorrow, at 3PM BST (British Summer Time, +1GMT), there will be a live stream here. Will Wargaming succeed, or will they fail?

We’ll know…

Hello everyone,

what everyone whispered about and hinted at was confirmed by SerB: KV-1S is getting split.

KV-1S will be tier 5. KV-85 (KV-1S with a bigger turret), KV-100 and KV-122 (which is basically a KV-1S hull with bigger 1800mm turret ring and IS turret) will stay on tier 6 (all three as one tank, to be clear). Therefore, KV-1S will be a faster, but less armored alternative to KV-1, the tier 6 vehicle will not lose its 122mm gun (looks like SerB won the argument).

Update: For those fearing nothing will change – current KV-1S is a blend of “light” original KV-1S mobility and KV-122 firepower. The new KV-122 is likely to be a lot slower, less agile and I am sure they will have a look at the gun balance stats too.

A quick update on the affair I reported last night, thanks to WhiteWizzard

Hello everyone,

last night, I informed you about a nasty WG EU fail in the Polish community. And I somehow expected it to die down. However, it seems that instead, the affair gathers strength. Today, one of the most visited news servers in Poland, Gazeta.pl, had a link on its main page, linking to its own computer games subsidiary website, where the affair was also published. No new info there, but it’s very, very bad PR for WG EU.

Looks like the fails of Wargaming EU will not stay confined to forums and EU forums…

Hello everyone,

a few words about the new “Zlobny” weekly FTR QA. I have mailed Zlobny the first set of questions.

In most cases, I had to fix typos, or make the questions more comprehensible, but I tried to keep the original meaning. I am not sure whether to post the questions I asked here or not actually – feels a bit like spoiling the surprise. However, what I do realize:

- I closed the question thread too soon (this won’t happen again, I will let it open a full day next time)
- I was considering another interface for questions, but Edrard is very busy in real life right now (has a huge personal think going on – in a good way), so there is not much chance for that, I won’t bother him with anything at least until November
- there will not be an EU forum post on this topic, I want this to be for FTR readers only
- a lot of the questions asked were kinda “ugh” (stuff a player can either google, was answered before – even recently – or I can answer from head). Next time, I will sit on forums and answer those questions for you.
- several people told me to use Reddit interface. No offense, but I am not touching Reddit or anything around it, I want this to be only on FTR

If you have any ideas, suggestions, questions or anything to this topic, feel free to ask in comments.