World of Tanks - Free to play Panzer MMO

[Husar]

The game is fully playable without gold.

Well, it's quite likely that you will actually lose money if you use a Tier 8 or higher heavy tank without a premium account.
And they want 30€ for the Tier 8 premium tanks, that I consider a bit of a letdown, I'm never going to pay more than 5-10€ for a virtual tank, actually 10 is only not a lot because it would probably help a great deal with earning money. If you need free experience it's even worse because converting experience costs extra again.
So I'm not very happy with their price model but the game itself is quite fun, and free.

[Samurai Waki]

Something had to be done about the way their tiers were set up anyways. I found the game less and less enjoyable beyond 5th Tier. KV-1s/2s are simply no match for an IS-3 or Ferdinand.

[Sigurd]

I never used a premier account until well into my Tiger I. I spent gold on 100% crews during the beta. Playing today, I can certainly see that people are not spending gold on training crews. The marksmanship of current players are poor, mine included. You should think every shot hits if you wait long enough.

I had a laugh yesterday evading 4 arties trying to take me out. I was the top ranked tank on the desert map. My team camped at home base and I danced the tank jig among their front line ATs. Using auto aim I took out three of them before they tracked me. Sitting like a crippled bug facing 6 tanks is suicide no matter how fast your crew works at getting the tank mobile again. Esp. in a 350 hp PzIII.

[Graphic]

I almost grinded my way to a T-34 in the beta. It was boring and tedious but the promise of finally a good tank kept me going.

It's a boring grind to get out of light tanks. Sadly, I can't do it again, especially with no gold.

[Sigurd]

I almost grinded my way to a T-34 in the beta. It was boring and tedious but the promise of finally a good tank kept me going.

It's a boring grind to get out of light tanks. Sadly, I can't do it again, especially with no gold.

Not deliberately trying to promote the game, but why? the T-34 is what? tier 5? I have enough credits to buy the PzIV (tier 5) with 75% crew and have earned enough experience to research it without using one ounce of gold.
Some of my latter games got me plenty of experience (around 1000 a game) and if you are lucky you do very well in your first game of the day and get double experience in a what would be high yield game.

The tier 4 PzIII is actually pretty fun tank to play, esp. if you play it like a light tank, sneaking around the flanks and taking out your enemy SPGs. It can save your teams game as the enemy seem to panic when they suddenly realize I am there. They will send a lot of resources trying to take me out which just gives me more experience when I "detect" them. If my team is paying attention they get great intel and can move accordingly and we win.

I will get into the PzIV soon and grind it up to the long 75mm sniper gun, which is also a fun way of playing. The vanilla tanks are what is really boring to play. A fully upgraded tank is rather fun.

[Sigurd]

The game on the EU servers got upgraded to 0.6.5.
Two new maps and re-do of a few other maps. The US got their TD line.

I might have discontinued my German Heavy Tank line as I did that line already in the Demo (well up to a top performance Tiger II).
I went with the SPG Hummel instead of moving to VK36.

I want an IS so I am building up the Russian Heavy Tank line. Currently I am playing with the KV - 107mm and will be moving to KV3 when I have enough experience.
Pulling PzIV to Hummel took 35 400 experience which naturally generated a lot of silver and I will need them when I grind the Heavies up to decent performance.
The Hummel is cashing in. High yield Silver and little expenses even if you lose.

[Sigurd]

The creators of War of Tanks have a new game in development: World of Warplanes.
I will be watching when they release the beta. It is currently being alpha tested.

[Graphic]

Not deliberately trying to promote the game, but why? the T-34 is what? tier 5? I have enough credits to buy the PzIV (tier 5) with 75% crew and have earned enough experience to research it without using one ounce of gold.
Some of my latter games got me plenty of experience (around 1000 a game) and if you are lucky you do very well in your first game of the day and get double experience in a what would be high yield game.

The tier 4 PzIII is actually pretty fun tank to play, esp. if you play it like a light tank, sneaking around the flanks and taking out your enemy SPGs. It can save your teams game as the enemy seem to panic when they suddenly realize I am there. They will send a lot of resources trying to take me out which just gives me more experience when I "detect" them. If my team is paying attention they get great intel and can move accordingly and we win.

I will get into the PzIV soon and grind it up to the long 75mm sniper gun, which is also a fun way of playing. The vanilla tanks are what is really boring to play. A fully upgraded tank is rather fun.

"but why?"

I'm not sure what you were asking me.

If its "why did you want the T-34," the long and short of it is that its a cool tank and I like it.

[Sigurd]

"but why?"

I'm not sure what you were asking me.

If its "why did you want the T-34," the long and short of it is that its a cool tank and I like it.

You said: 'Sadly I can't do it again, especially with no gold'.
I asked why, because there is not much grinding up to a level 5 tank. Getting past that and we can talk again. I got the Hummel by grinding it from a PzIV.
I decided that I found it tedious to grind my way back to a Tiger, so decided I should start another line. A Heavy Soviet line. (I always had problems with the same tiered IS, playing as Tiger I)
I have now a IS with the sweet 122mm and I haven't spent an ounce of Gold yet in this game.

The IS is however problematic due to its rather expensive ammo. I break even or just over in not so good wins. And almost always lose money in games where we are defeated. On a rare occasion when I do brilliantly I can rake in up to 30k, but will fork out about 10k on ammo. That is why I keep the Hummel. I need it to get me into plus money wise.

I think the IS is the very top tank you can have in the Heavy line before needing a premium account.
I want to continue to a IS-3, but then I might have to spend some money on this game. I dread the idea of running around in a stock tank - now that is boring.

Advice for the day, try to research as much as possible if your tank has components that the next tank also uses.
The 100mm that I unlocked with the KV-3 was invaluable for the IS as that had only a 85mm as stock.