Hello everyone,
after a night’s sleep and a coffee, I decided to write a bit about my meeting with Yuri Pasholok and his colleagues (they are not publicly active, so I think giving out their names and positions would do them disservice) yesterday afternoon in Prague. Along with me were two of our historians, Jiří Tintěra and Vladimír Francev – both are well known in the Czech community, but V.Francev is a living legend, one of the few “old guard” historians left like H.Doyle for example.
The meeting was cordial and I had actually a lot of fun and learned some interesting things of how Wargaming operates – and of tanks, of course (like the WT E-100 replacement, but who knows when that’s going to happen). Despite our reputations, we did put aside our differences with Yuri Pasholok (who is actually a pretty okay guy in real life) to work on the Czechoslovak tree, specifically to start proper cooperation between the two gentlemen and Wargaming.
Now, before I jump to the Czechoslovak tree stuff (very interesting by itself), a little bit of Wargaming first. You see, I learned some things how Wargaming operates – and no, that’s not some stuff I want to publish, I have no reason to as the guys from WG were very honest and open. Some of the things made me laugh, some made me facepalm or shake my head in disbelief. But the biggest surprise was… Richard “Challenger” Cutland, or rather his activities. If half of what the WG RU guys said was true… that’s not even incompetence. That’s borderline sabotage. I really thought better of you, Richard. Oh well, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. But – as fun as it is to throw dirt on WG EU, at this point, I won’t do it. It’s pointless, because knowing what’s going to happen with (to) WG EU… yes, very very amusing (well, to me, not to WG EU I am sure).
