Hello everyone,

it’s time for belated contributor review. Thank you all for donating, much appreciated :) Specifically:

Myrt C. (Texas, USA)
Jiří N. (Czech Republic)
Thunderchase (Serbia)
KittenGray (Germany) – спасибо за пожелание! С новым годом!
Christopher S. (Wisconsin, USA) – thank you for your sizeable donation and the wish :)
Fireflower (Finland)
Gibril1942 (Sweden) – thank you for the wish as well as the donation :)
Mark J. (Oregon, USA)
Gregory J. (Texas, USA) – you guys sure love me in Texas :)
Elcomandante (Switzerland) – thank you for MASSIVE contribution, very, very appreciated! And of course the wish – will do my best next year as well.
cb99 (Sweden) – special thanks here for DOUBLE donation :) His donation note was “Thank you for the spine shown with the artillery “adventure” – you know, this really made me happy. It was my pleasure :P
Attila S. (Hungary) – again, special thanks for a sizeable donation :)
Michael H. (United Kingdom)
Joseph M. (United Kingdom)
Aigars B. (France)
Zhao S. (Singapore) – regarding what you asked: yes mate, I will look into this more, at this point WG RU got involved
Jovica J. (Switzerland) – who asked me to mention his WN Meter application at GooglePlay, which does look useful if you are into this kind of thing
Stephen B. (United Kingdom)
Durstix (Germany)
Sturmi (Austria) – thanks for sizeable donation as well as great Christmas wish, much appreciated :)
Ralf S. (Germany)
Paul G. (Texas, USA)

Once again, thank you all.

Of course, the same goes for anyone helping me out using Patreon, because…

..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 and wishing you all the best in the new year. Because let me tell you: now that my purpose is renewed, it should be very, very interesting.

Hello everyone,

as you already know, T-54 Prototype (AKA T-54 Model 1945) will be the Soviet tier 8 premium medium tank. Yuri Pasholok on his blog published (along with the photographs) a sheet of data for the vehicle. You can judge by yourself how historical the vehicle is in the game (in the brackets, game value for comparison).

Combat weight: 35,5 tons (35,5 tons)
Engine: V2-44, 520hp (520hp)
Power-to-weight: 14,6 hp/t (14,65 hp/t)
Groud pressure: 0,9 kg/cm2
Maximum speed: 43,5 km/h (44 km/h)
Average speed: 30-35 km/h
Offroad speed: 12-18 km/h
Speed at 1700 RPM with 1st gear: 6,12 km/h
Speed at 1700 RPM with 2nd gear: 13,25 km/h
Speed at 1700 RPM with 3rd gear: 18,65 km/h

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By Mrwanwan, enjoy!

Okay, as you probably noticed already, there’s this January Sneak Peek article on EU portal now.

Totally new, exclusive info, only a month after FTR!

Two things about it, there are two things I noticed in it:

- “sisterhood of steel” girl crew perk – trying to pronounce it made me cringe. It sounds even more stupid in Czech by the way. Why not “sisters in arms” as opposed to “brothers in arms”? It would make much more sense, even from the translation point of view – compare:

RU: boyevoye bratstvo
EN (literal): combat brotherhood
EN (client): brothers in arms

RU: boyevye podrugi
EN (literal): combat (girl)friends
EN (client): sisterhood of… steel?

Meh.

Anyway, if you are asking whether the girl crew perk is compatible with BIA… no, apparently not (eg. having a crew with BIA with one member with SOS will not activate BIA).

- “winter game mode” coming at the end of January? Why? Russians have it between 5th and 15th of January. Perhaps not to mess with the IM’s? But why is it no problem on RU server?

In any case, the IM’s are supposed to start on 15.1. on RU server (EU server’s arms would probably fall off if they, you know, gave us the exact date).

Hello everyone,

in the previous post, I forgot to mention one thing. If you bought the Hitlerpanther for old full price and do not wish to have it anymore (regardless of the 4200 gold compensation), Wargaming is offering to fully refund the vehicle – you get your money back, they will remove the vehicle and the garage slot.

If you want that, you have to contact the support service.

Keep in mind one thing however: it’s holidays and so your ticket will probably take long to be processed. It’s also possible your account will be locked until this situation is resolved (have seen that happen with other matters concerning money issues, specifically various chargeback cases).

Another thing also is that according to data from wot-news and Russian forums in general, the Hitlerpanther is the worst sold hightier premium EVER (with very poor sales during first days), which means WG can afford this (the complicated nature of refunds via tickets means few people will do this anyway), as only a couple were sold. That on the other hand means that this will likely not be repeated, like ever. Unless they release another equally unpopular premium :)

Thanks to Adam C. for the video (guys, when contacting me, leave some nicknames!)

Hello everyone,

basically, it’s some Spanish TV show or whatever, not too interesting. What IS interesting however is the end of the video, where (starting from cca 9:00), you can see the Spanish modification of the Leopard 2 (Leopard 2E) driving around. Leopard 2E’s full name is Leopard 2A6E (E as in “España”, Spain). It was produced between 2003 and 2008 with 219 built. It’s a significant upgrade over Spain’s previous 2A4 and M60 battle tanks, carrying a 120mm Rheinmetall L/55 smoothbore, 1500hp MTU powerplant and new type of composite armor, capable of reaching 68 km/h. It’s expected to stay in Spanish service until 2025 along with the older Leopard version, as current financial situation of Spain does not allow for notoriously expensive armor upgrade programs.

And no, you won’t see it in WoT :) Armored Warfare on the other hand….

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/facts_about_2014/

Hello everyone,

WG RU posted an article, where they are listing the 2014 results of World of Tanks. Here’s what happened with WoT in 2014 (I assume the numbers are RU server specific, not for the whole world):

- the amount of registered tankers increased 1,6 fold from 70 mil to 110 mil (SS: that’s odd, didn’t they say in late 2013 they have 100 mil?)
- the peak on RU server happened on 14.1.2014, with 1.114.222 players playing WoT at the same time
- WG team travelled 16500 kilometers from Vladivostok to Brest in France and met players in 24 cities
- WG organized 55 events through the year and met 100k players on them, they handed out cca 100k bonus codes
- there were WG League finals in Warsaw in April 2014, the stream was watched by 1,7 mil people

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Hello everyone,

on 5.1.2015, the new Winter Mode is starting (on RU server anyway, but I am pretty sure it’ll be unified). Here’s a video for the event (with English subtitles). It will last until 15.1.2015.

In short:

- 10 vs 10 mode
- either “random” or “superplatoons” (5 man platoons)
- duration of battle is 7 minutes
- goal: to kill all enemy tanks or to capture the base (there’s only one like in the Encounter mode)
- three tanks: T110 aka Mammoth is a “tank”, then there’s Foch that’s a sniper and T-50-2 is a “scout”
- special type of shells – one normal AP and one that actually heals your allies, those are premium shells (for credits or gold)
- there will be a special medal

Russians also have a bunch of nice missions for this mode:

- take part in 25 battles (while dealing at least 500 damage, only 5 times per account), get 25k XP, 25k crew XP, 250k creds
- deal at least 3300 damage in a TD (repeatable), get 1500 XP, 1500 crew XP, 10k credits
- deal at least 2500 damage in a HT (repeatable), get 1500 XP, 1500 crew XP, 10k credits
- deal at least 1700 damage in a LT (repeatable), get 1500 XP, 1500 crew XP, 10k credits
- deal at least 15k damage (while playing in a platoon, the damage of the entire platoon adds up), get 2500 XP, 2500 crew XP, 20k credits

Just like with the Chaffee races mode, the XP gained will be transferred automatically after the event is over:

- from HT to T1 Cunningham
- from LT to MS-1
- from TD to Renault FT

Thanks for AnarIQ for this one.

Not a big deal, but it’s kinda funny, WG marketing at its finest.