This post was kinda inspired by omggamer.com, some of their articles are very good, especially the last one.

Hello everyone,

today, I’m going to post something about an upcoming historical battles mode. First and foremost, what is actually the upcoming Historical battles mode (likely to come in 2014)? Well, in short, it’s a WoT mode, where historically used vehicles (no paper tanks and prototypes) ride around in their historical configurations (sorry, no more 88mm L/71 Tigers) and numbers (1 Tiger = 10 T-34′s) and fight their historical enemies (so Tigers will meet T-34′s, not AMX-13′s) in certain time periods, probably defined by either years, or battles (July 1943 Prokhorovka for example). It will be played on standard (although roughly corresponding) World of Tanks maps, so the battle of Prokhorovka will not be played on Westfield etc. In addition, it’s possible there will be some new “historical” maps introduced, but maps modelled completely according to reality are unlikely, as they would not be balanced for gameplay (sadly, WW2 forces did not choose the battlefield according to what would or wouldn’t be playable in a computer game 70 years later).

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Hey everyone,

I have one EU server invite code here (from Lešany) – only one, sorry (I am not like the “other guys” who get dozens of those for their streams because they are “tight” with certain WG community organizers).

Whoever needs it, just take it:

REVB23-TP5USX

(it’s just an invite code, no need to make a competition with it)

Edit: already spent

Hello everyone,

here are the active EU missions for today.

The Way to Glory – win 15 victories, get 250k credits once per day
Learning by Doing – be one of the top 3 XP earners in your team (no matther whether you win or lose), get 20 percent more crew XP
Know your Trade – earn 50k XP per day, get 1 day of premium account (once per day)

Small but Deadly – kill 30 enemies with your tier 4+ light tank from 3rd to 7th September, get 1x ventilation and 10 gold repair kits, can be done only once per account
Featherweight for Victory! – win 10 battles with your tier 4+ light tank (you can use more light tanks to fulfill the criteria, it adds up), get 50k credits – once per day

Seeing the summer – win any battle on a summer map (maps that use summer camo), get 10 percent credit and XP income bonus
Hard to learn, easy to fight – win and survive a battle, earn x3 crew XP, doable only on tier 1-4 tanks

Also, don’t forget the buy the consumables, they are on discount!

Hello everyone,

just a quick addition to the Horses vs Tanks article. There have been some mocking comments (as usual) about the Polish using horses in warfare in 1939. When someone says “World War Two”, everyone immediately imagines German Panzers rolling, with armored infantry following them in their halftracks – or scores of Soviet T-34 tanks advancing. Few people imagine horses, but the harsh reality was that all the Axis countries (but Soviets and Japanese too) were heavily relying on horses for logistics – in fact, Romania and Hungary logistic forces were nearly 100 percent hippomobile.

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Based on this article: http://www.valka.cz/clanek_13222.html
Original author: Zbigniew Mikesz

Hello everyone,

the myth about Polish cavalry charging into tanks is one of the most outrageous and blatant WW2 myths to ever see the proverbial light of day, yet it keeps popping up over and over on Worldoftanks forums, most of the time with malicious intent to troll Polish players. Recently, a Polish author (named above) wrote an interesting article about it and I will be taking it as a starting point to address this issue.

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Author: thodt (EU)

Player Thodt was kind enough to send me better quality photos of the Lešany event. Warning, this post is very picture heavy.

LT-35

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Hello everyone,

US players probably do remember Garbad, the arty-hating, recently forum-banned cocky uni-cum (see what I did there?)

Well, looks like unicums themselves are susceptible to rage. Looks like the artillery makes him go over the edge indeed…

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Hello everyone,

for those who don’t know, Ilosz is the guy on EU forums, who makes his own (monthly I assume) WoT magazine. Its 2nd issue has some significant improvements from the 1st one, so if you want to have a look at it, you can find it online at this adress:

http://www.joomag.com/magazine/world-of-tanks-magazine-september-2013/0387111001378062631

And no, promoting it has nothing to do with the fact there’s an interview with me! Or…. does it? :D

Discussion: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/291056-world-of-tanks-magazine-issue-2/

Perhaps we should switch the meme from “Terrible E-100 driver” to “Terrible M60 driver” :)

Replay available here (thanks No_more_siemka) :)