…that’s right, not a branch, a tree. Here’s the link to source message.

Me: *related rant* According to this logic, we should have a Czech tree.
Storm: And who said there won’t be a Czech tree?

*evil smile* (tm Daigensui)

So yea, there will be one. Today, the two gentlemen that made the Swedish tree proposal (Sp15 and Renhaxue) met with WG representatives in Stockholm to discuss the Swedish branch (amongst other things). WG is actively working on what was previously an EU tree, but apparently decided to split the major nations (Czechoslovaks, Swedish, Italians) into separate trees. As far as I know, at this moment, according to WG representatives, the Czechoslovak branch is scheduled first, with the Swedish one (medium/heavy mix, sorry, no S-Tank) as a backup in the event of some major problem with the Czechoslovaks, which frankly is not expected (although there are some things that need to be cleared out).

To that end, me and two Czech historians, V.Francev and J.Tintěra, are meeting again the WG representatives in Prague at the end of the month. I think the final verdict will be known after that, but it’s looking good. Personally, I believe we have found a sure way to bypass the tier 9 issue without sacrificing the premium TVP (earlier “TVP model 1945″, now “TVP Concept”), even though WG doesn’t necesserily agree with me, but well – that’s what the meeting is about.

Well, this is certainly a weird video, thanks to ThorsassGaming for sending this to me.

Check this out. A player Fearkill98 from NOARM (Norwegian Army) clan was recently involved in a very strange Stronkhold battle against (Czechoslovak) clan X5 (will become important later). A tier 10 Stronghold battle – and the enemy X5 team led by an E-100 dragged an entire fucking team of bots in TOG’s into the fight. It’s likely it’s a multibox setup (notice the loading time). Incredible.

How do I know the clan is Czechoslovak (or, rather Slovak)? Well, for one, the E-100 guy has svk in it’s name, but more importantly, the name of the bots, “rota”, means “company” (as in, military unit) in Czech and Slovak.

The videomaker actually asks the right question – what is the point of dragging 14 bots into a battle with you? Especially those with AFK macro? Plus, it probably did cost a lot of money – 13 TOG’s… not cheap.

Anyway, as a result, the entire clan (save for one person) was permabanned, including the E-100 guy. Good riddance.

Author: Vollketten

Every now and then, you stumble across something extraordinary and this is one of those times. Filed 12th February 1969 by Bernd Schmidt, this very special patent is for a whole family of vehicles, using a common hull. The benefits of a single hull for a wide variety of vehicles are very obvious: the ease of maintenance, spares, repair etc. – and he even specifies that in an emeregency, one vehicle should be convertible into anothery. Numerous alternate configurations are specified and some come with a few unconventional features. And ALL of them are more ‘historical’ than some of the current ingame vehicles. Who knows, maybe a candidate or two for some high tier swaps or some premiums? So we’ll go through all 30 variants he specifies one by one.

The basic hull:

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Hello everyone,

just felt like posting this – two days ago I platooned with Rita and while I sucked in that particular battle, Rita did an ace tanker with her StuG. I just felt like posting this, as it was a really good battle.

Seriously though, I thought the term “banana” for the eastern corridor was well used. Or was it on RU server? Can’t remember.

Hello everyone,

Wargaming RU released another WW2-themed video from the “History of Great Victory” series. This time, it’s the memories of Dmitry Mikhailovich Malyshev, a wartime commander of a T-34/85 tank. Do watch it, the memories of veterans are always interesting and actually, we should record as much as we can, as these men and women won’t be around for much longer. English subtitles are available. The video is of distinctive “Russian” style, but still, worth watching.

In the video, Dmitry Malyshev explains how they trained, recieved their T-34/85 tanks, liberated Brest and captured a German Waffen SS general. He continued to Hungary, where he describes an event how he and other Soviet troops knocked out a Panther and a Tiger. He was wounded in October 1944 and remained in Moscow for the rest of the war.

Do expect many more of these videos this year, as the 70th anniversary of the end of the war approaches. One thing is absolutely sure though – no matter what you think of Russians these days, these men were simple soldiers and real heroes. It takes guts to go and fight for your country.

Hello everyone,

I am sure many of you guessed it already, but 9.6 test is supposed to start this Thursday (22.1.2015).

Just so you know :)

Hello everyone,

time for another contributor review. You might have noticed… I don’t know, perhaps more typos lately? That’s because I have less and less time than usually – trying to keep the post standard, but the first thing that went down the drain is proofreading. Working on something very interesting you will see in a couple of weeks hopefully, we’ll see.

And thanks for all the well wishes once again… I actually feel really good these days. The second half of 2014 was really shitty, but it’s better now.

So, today’s huge thanks – apart from all the folks that support FTR on Patreon as usual – go to the following guys, who contributed via Paypal:

M4R4Z (Italy)
cb99 (Sweden)
Eikarrramba (Germany)
SashaBellEntertainment (Michichan, USA)

The best way to help me and FTR is via the Patreon service

http://www.patreon.com/silentstalker

This is the Patreon account of For the Record. In case you read this for the first time and feel like contributing, here is an explanation what it is, how it works and how to contribute. You can find a list of all those, who pledged and help to keep FTR running here.

Thank you all!