Hello everyone, this piece of text was written by a real life tanker and posted on other site. You know I did not like the movie, but for the sake of balance, I decided to post it as well as per our mutual agreement. -SS

A review is, of course, purely subjective, and it is shaped as much by expectation as it is by personal preference. I rather liked Fury, and believe that it achieved the goal it set out to. Before the movie was released, there was some major concern in the US tanker community (real tankers, not PC ones) that the film was going to turn out to be another Pearl Harbour or U571. It wasn’t until after people came back and started posting their reviews online that the concerns were allayed. I think our disagreement is because SilentStalker has rather missed the woods for the trees. He’s looking at it primarily as a war movie, involving tanks. Tankers view it as a movie about tankers in a war. Granted, like SilentStalker I could have done with a little less apartment scene, and a little more shooting, but what the hey. At least there’s no politics and little moralising, things I hate in a war movie.

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Hello everyone,

some things are just not funny at all. Like Wargaming EU’s Facebook posts.

Guess what tanks that are and where are they going…

I don’t think you even need three attempts.

A short video about how the player recruiting works.

Hello everyone,

just letting you know that the second hotfix patch on EU server is due tomorrow morning. Its contents:

- fixed the M53/M55 collision model
- fixed the incorrect display of regular XP recieved in the post-battle debriefing window (SS: that’s the “got wrong XP” bug)
- returned the sound of tracks when the tank is moving
- fixed the constant popping up of the tutorial window bug

Source: VK Wotleaks community

Let’s see if this map gets scrapped like the last historial map, Simferopol.

Thanks to MaverickShevy for the photos.

Meanwhile near Piesti, Romania – two T-54 tanks are randomly parked on the same spot since 1996 (or possibly even earlier). Nobody really knows who’s responsible for them and nobody seems to care. Apparently, they just get cleaned from time to time by municipal services. So, who wants a free tank?

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Hello everyone,

an universal invite code, that works for US and EU server (repeatable, at least that’s how it worked for me, I tested it). Thanks to Kohzo and Alfalis (both of which sent me the same code and I was like wut?)

Hello everyone,

by now, you probably know about the concept of individual missions. Simply put, they are missions that some players have and others don’t. Please don’t confuse it with the upcoming 9.5 feature, the individual missions for all players. The “first round” of these are the missions intended for players, who were inactive for a long time:

- for simple return and playing one battle: 7 days premium account
- play 15 battles: 10 gold repair kits, 500 gold, 500k credits
- win 10 battles: 10 gold medkits, 500 gold, 500k credits
- gain 25k XP: 10 gold extinguishers, 500 gold, 500k credits
- do all the missions above, get Dicker Max

Anyway, you already know that. What you do not know however is that this mission is time limited. It has to be completed until 1.1.2015 – this date seems to be common to all the players, so if you “return” tomorrow, you’ll have one day less to complete it.

Many thanks to maXTC for this info.