- looks like Russian players playing on EU server want the “Stalin” inscriptions back. SerB reacts: “Write an appeal to the appropriate office, that’ll be more useful.
- WoT is influenced by real life politics too: for example in China, it’s forbidden to use real map on CW map
- it’s possible that when roaming is implemented, the chat will be disabled for the roaming players (SS: in order not to promote tension between players, spam etc.) – “measures against excesses from both sides will be taken”
Lorraine 40t depression not historical?
Source: Daigensui posts (US forums)
Hello everyone,
a lot of people ask themselves, is the Lorraine 40t depression really historical? Ingame -6 depression seems a bit low. After all, let’s look at the turret picture:
4.8.2013
Listy wrote a new article about… tanks with rockets, yes please :)
- In connection with making the Panthers more realistic:French Maybach engines changed to historical parameters? “If needed”
- SerB states that you will get the same results, whether you play WoWp with mouse/keyboard or joystick – this was planned (SS: as in, no advantage for joystick users)
- when using roaming, it won’t be possible to buy a tank (SS: for example with discount) from another server
- SerB states that various “Stalin” inscriptions (that were removed from EU server) were historical
- European office can do what the main Minsk office allows it (delegates the authority). SerB thinks that by removing the Stalin inscriptions, they have overstepped their authority, but won’t make a problem out of such a small thing
- new things purchaseable for gold in the future? “Only such things, that won’t directly impact effectiveness in combat”
- World of Tanks Blitz requirements? “Will tell when the time is right”
- when the battle ends, the tracks (and apparently gun too) module repair costs count for 0 (SS: as in, tracks get repaired automatically for free)
- SerB would like to make a full Soviet scout branch, but he states that unfortunately there is no possibility to do that
- the (dark) anniversary hangar has nothing to do with night battles
- apparently, the news that the players will be able to disable the chat completely were wrong, as it (according to SerB) breaks the teamplay
The not so Duel at Dessau
This article is to debunk the myth of the Duel at Dessau, an engagement where the Super Pershing knocked out the Tiger II.
So the story, told by gunner Cpl. J. Erwin, goes that the single T26E4 “Super Pershing” to see combat in the 3rd Armored Division was advancing into the city of Dessau on April 21, 1945. The T26E4 was the American “response” to the German Heavies, especially the Tiger II. By fate, the Super Pershing finds itself in a one-on-one shootout with a Tiger II in the streets of Dessau. The Tiger II fires first and misses then the T26E4 fires an HE shell and that just bounced off. “Something” hits the T26E4(making the reader assume that it was the Tiger II). The T26E4 then fires an AP shell that goes through the Tiger II’s underside and ammo racks it, making the turret fly off in the process.
Now the closest recorded Tiger II units(SS 502) were ~70 miles from Dessau fighting the Soviets around Berlin. The Germans had fairly good documentation on the locations of their units throughout the war, so it would be extremely strange for them to lose track of a working Tiger II for no good reason and having it be 70+ miles from where it is suppose to be. Also it just seems more unlikely knowing that this engagement pits the rarest American tank to see combat with the rarest German panzer in a one vs one battle.
American reports after Dessau also never mention any German tanks in Dessau and defiantly don’t mention anything about a Tiger II being knocked out by the “Super Pershing”. No other source mentions this engagement either. Irwin’s own account, in the book Another River, Another Town, also never states that the vehicle was specifically a Tiger II, rather just “Tiger”. A Tiger is a more plausible candidate, however it is also plausible that the vehicle could have been a Panther or even a humble Pz IV(which were commonly misidentified as Tigers).
So in conclusion this story is a fictionalization and glorification of the T26E4′s action in Dessau. The vehicle destroyed on the 21st of April was more than likely a Pz IV misidentified as a Tiger. Later this snowballed into a Tiger II somehow in a retelling of the story by Irwin(outside of his book) and then picked up by the 3AD website because it is a neat little fairytale. I guess Super Pershing vs. King Tiger is more interesting than T26E4 vs Pz IV.
Cheating at Statistics
“I must say, that the increase in dead and wounded was greatly inconvenient for German officials, filtering information from the front, and attempting to present it in the best possible light. As one of them admitted to me later, they worked on the principle of “Let us lose the war in reality, but we must win it on paper.”” - Hendrick C. Verton, In the Fire of the Eastern Front, The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer, 1941-1945
In the wake of the apparently controversial M4 vs Panther myth article, I was asked to write a similar article for the Eastern Front. However, since there is no “authority” on the subject that claims any kind of ludicrous ratio like Belton Cooper did for the Western, I’m going to have to do my own legwork.
E-Series according to Fritz Hahn
After having talked about the Sturmpanzer E-75, we will now take a further look to the E-Series using data from “Waffend und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945″ by Fritz Hahn.
The translation has been done mostly by Google Translator with later adjustment by hand so please bear with me any mistakes.
While the author did not participate in tank development, he worked on the V2 project and claims to have had access to the original papers of tank designs during WW2.
Some stuff has likely to be taken with a grain of salt and I will try to compare passages with Spielberger where possible.
3.8.2013
Well, first and foremost (so he doesn’t kill me or something :) ), Ilosz (EU server) made an interesting WoT magazine – 1st Issue. Graphically it’s very pretty, you can check it out at that post adress.
- SerB on why the various “Stalin” inscriptions were removed from the game (apparently only for EU client): “It wasn’t me or Storm – European office deals with Europe and despite they (at least a part of them) yell “For Stalin!” when drunk, they thought it’s not worth it to have a conflict because of him with a part of the local internet-patriots – not ours, not Soviet, burgeois people.” (SS: I hope this translation is ok, someone correct me if it isn’t)
The curious case of Klein Tiger
Special thanks to Zarax for tracking down the source of Klein Tiger.
Hello everyone,
today we I address one of the most notorious garbage “tanks”, that keeps popping up occasionally even on “respectable” forums and sites, the Klein Tiger. So, what is the Klein Tiger and what does it do?
How to make the anniversary garage brighter
Author: _Awasaky_ (RU server)
Hello everyone,
do you think the anniversary garage is too dark? Here’s a mod by _Awasaky_ to fix that, to make it look like this:
New RNG video
What more needs to be said?
