Hello everyone,

since I recieved like 5 e-mails about this matter, I decided to have a look. Basically, what happened: in recent South East Championship portal post, Wargaming wrote a list of countries, that can participate in that particular tournament, dedicated to – as the name suggests – SE Europe. The list is as such:

Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Malta, Montenegro, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Turkey

In the corresponding forum thread, players took issues with that particular post. For one, earlier, there was “Macedonia” listed instead of the current “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. What is more interesting is that there is Kosovo listed amongst the names of the states.

Kosovo is a “country”, recognized only partially by the UN – Russia for example does not acknowledge its existence. As you can imagine, this did not please the Serbian players too much. The forum thread then got filled with WG staff, defending their decision.

Edit: removed controversial part of the post after sound advice

Hello everyone,

another video from the Balkan RNG series – it actually made me really laugh :) Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

today, yet another World of Warships interview was published, this time with a producer of World of Warships from St.Petersburg.

It’s not really interesting and the guy is very hard to understand, he speaks very quick and the sound is bad. The entire thing seems more like a basic introduction to World of Warships.

- tier 1 of the Russian branch will be cruiser Aurora
- there will be a hardcap on aircraft carriers (no more than two on each side)
- the MM will not be symetrical (one side can have two carriers and the other side four battleships to compensate)
- four classes: destroyers, carriers, battleships and cruisers

Most important:

Closed beta – December 2014

Hello everyone,

as was reported earlier, in 9.4 (with the change of the ramming system), there is a bug, where if two vehicles basically just touch one another, they will start losing hitpoints. A South Korean player “jaejin choi” made a video, where he demonstrates this bug. You have to run it on 720p and preferably maximized, so you see how both tanks lose hitpoints, when they are just touching one another.

Storm is aware of this bug and it will apparently get fixed.

Hello everyone,

for those, who missed it yesterday, the Panzer IV video by WG EU – from Panzermuseum Munster.

Okay, now a few corrections, because some stuff in the video was wrong.

- Schurzen (side armor) were NOT designed to defeat HEAT rounds, they were designed to protect the vehicle against AT rifles, that were widely used on the eastern front and could damage or even knock out the Panzer IV, when firing at vehicle’s flanks. In fact, in some cases, the Schurzen made the effect from HEAT projectile even worse. I kinda expected Challenger to know that.

- Panzer IV was not “so good” as to be used post-war by Romania and Bulgaria (it was used by Czechoslovakia), it was used because there was nothing else available and pretty much every tank in early post-war use came from former foreign units (in Czechoslovak case, the units from UK and Russia), or was salvaged from the battlefield. The vehicles were considered obsolete and were quickly phased out, as soon as T-34′s became available and then sold to Syria.

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Author: David “Listy” Lister

Hello everyone, since today it’s the Remembrance Day in Britain, here’s a little something from Listy to the topic.
-SS

As I live in East Anglia, for this weeks article it seemed fitting, considering the time of year, to visit the US Cemetery in Madingley near Cambridge. While there, I took a few photographs.

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Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3591257.html

I’ll just leave this here. It’s from a non-public section of RU forums for testers.

Question: “Mikhail, how many people work in WG Quality Assurance department? If it’s not a secret, of course.”
Storm: “I can’t tell you exactly, we are actively expanding. I consider our Quality Assurance department to be one of the best in the (gaming) industry.”

Right.

Hello everyone,

here’s a little preview of a potential premium tier 7-8 tank I’ve put together – you guessed it, it’s Czechoslovak. I am calling it “TVP Model 1946″ (it really has no official designation).

Actually, a quick stop here. Hightier premium medium tanks are in fact a problem for the European branch. This is one of the very few candidates, available for such a position. One might think that this issue will be mitigated by the presence of Swedish tanks in the EU tree, but – no. The Swedish – for all their interesting designs – have problems with hightier medium tanks, some candidates are pretty speculative (or without drawings whatsoever) and the medium branch is generally very strained (what the Swedish do not lack are hightier heavies and TD’s, but mediums are a bit of a problem). Italians are even worse, pretty much only clones or fantasies (Panther II) on high tiers. Hungarians and Polish have no hightier mediums at all and Yugoslavia has some candidates, but it was never really considered to be one of the “primary” EU tree nations (lack of lowtiers). They will probably come, eventually. Switzerland is promising by the way.

Anyway, back to Czechoslovakia. This is the first proposal for TVP by VTU from 1946. Its history is complicated and not really important at this point, if you are interested, check the earlier TVP articles on FTR. Today, we are going to focus on game characteristics and how to turn it into a premium tank.

Short description:

Initial proposal by Military Technical Institute (VTU) for a “medium tank of general use”, designated “TVP”. It was further developed by Škoda and Praga until the 50′s, when the program was cancelled in favour of licensed T-34/85 production.

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