World of Tanks - Free to play Panzer MMO

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Yeah, makes me kinda wish WoT was Steam served so I could trade TF2 crap for WoT crap or lend/gift people WoT stuff.

[Sigurd]

Depends on some additional info.
Did the JagdTiger take out some of your modules?
How far was he away when you shot at him and were you moving or standing still?
If you pumped 5 shots into his lower armour at 300m while going 65km/h then it's overpowered, if you were 100m away and standing still, that's okay.

I was about 200m from it and I stood perfectly still. I had my front towards him... and he took out my tracks and killed my driver (which I immediately fixed using modules to get out should I need to flee). I bet he was aligning his sights to punch through my weak turret, but what he should have done, was to ... I don't know, back up or something to get further away and maybe get a hull down. He was higher than me since I was just at the three line in base II. The Bat has amazing depression though. If I stand on level ground, I can practically get the gun to touch the ground.

But what I dodn't understand is why all the other Tier9 mediums have top guns that do 218-220 penetration, which is just below the "useful against most tier 9 and 10 tanks" threshold beginning at around 225mm pen IMO, but the french already get a 232 pen gun at tier 8, my Pershing has 180, a lower burst fire rate, 240 damage and a lower accuracy as well. What it does have is more armour but against that 6 shot burst of 232mm penetration at 300 damage a shot it's useless.

I can see a lot of games coming where it's gamer over as soon as you see the first french tank, which may just be the first enemy tank you see at all. Not very encouraging.

I think all the french tanks have better penetration. The AMX 50 (B or 68t) have a 267mm penetration gun, which I think is slightly better than other tier 10 heavy guns. There might be a compensation of lower damage.
The new client is launched today btw... I would suggest to try out the french... there will always be some with a hoard of free xp that will be jumping on the french tank and you might find yourself up against a lorraine or Bat soon enough.
The AMX 13 are only a nuisance to most, but very dangerous for arties with their 6 shooters.

[rajpoot]

So like the last time my client gave an error while trying to download the update (problem with torrent session initialisation) forcing me to manually download the update. Somehow I got the EU update and installed it. Now it won't let me login despite showing that my client is updated to 7.1
So I tried to go download the US update, and the link of the official site just gives my update_us_7.0 (or something to that effect)
I feel like mardering someone.

[Husar]

I think that's just compensation for the US getting the last update a week earlier.

So far I haven't come across many french tanks in the higher tiers, with the lower ones obviously being full of them.

I'm going to wait (and play Skyrim) a bit before trying the french tanks myself. After Sigurd's accounts I feel like killing many of them first...

[Sigurd]

I am doing a full client install on this one. I tried to download the full client with the 0.7.0, but the download rate was horrible, so I opted for the patch. This time around its ok with just under an hour to get the 2.5GB full client. (@83% as I type this)

Funny thing is, I have barely played the 0.7.0 on the public server. I just loved the fact that the last stats from 0.7.0 test was carried over to 0.7.1 test. Hope this trend continues. It's like having two accounts.

[Sigurd]

I just spent some free xp to move up to a tier 4 french and got this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

lol... I was a bit worried when I started out realizing that this is a light tank and it moved like a stock KV. But this is a bounce machine. Poor PzIII and T28 that met me on the swamps map. They got hammered by a relatively fast and good 75mm gun (not a 6 shooter). This tank just looks like something from Mars

Yeah that's one and the first game on the 0.7.1 public servers. Will play more later tonight.

[rajpoot]

Checked again. They've fixed the link for US updates. Hopefully I won't have to do a fresh client install.

@Sigurd
Three brigadiers in one light tank?

Edit:
Not my day...the latest patch won't install...I'll need to do a reinstall of the client...and that means having to redownload the whole thing.

[Sigurd]

@Sigurd
Three brigadiers in one light tank?

Yeah, and apparently they are amazing:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

If you want to see the replay download this (Save as)

[rajpoot]

I'm getting an error trying to download the video.
The stats are speaking for themselves though....63 hits....wow.

Why did they even classify this as a light? They could've easily made it a tier 4 heavy. Specially since a quick Wikipedia check says that AMX-40 MBTs developed in 1980s....shouldn't more modern tanks be higher up in the tiers?

[Sigurd]

I'm getting an error trying to download the video.

Did you try right click -> Save Link As...

The stats are speaking for themselves though....63 hits....wow.
Why did they even classify this as a light? They could've easily made it a tier 4 heavy. Specially since a quick Wikipedia check says that AMX-40 MBTs developed in 1980s....shouldn't more modern tanks be higher up in the tiers?

This is the 1940 version of the AMX 40, and yes against other tier 4 tanks it is formidable, but it stops there. I squished the Stug III because he was out of ammo. If you look closely he was out of ammo with 8 kills when I encountered him trying to take our base. There was a tank trying to shoot me when I was dancing with the Stug, but he couldn't penetrate my armour I finished off the poor Stug and then the bugger who dinged me maybe half of those hits before moving towards where I thought their arty would hide. I had no hope of encountering it with a top speed of 20 on flat ground. But to my luck I met him half way to our base... Game over. It was me against three enemy tanks at the end and I took out the last one about a minute before end time.

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B1 is the worst grind I've ever experienced. This tank has no redeeming qualities to speak of.

Gift Shop is up. So who wants to gift me a Lowe and earn my eternal friendship (which is worth at least twice as much, if you ask me)?

https://worldoftanks.com/personal/gifts/

https://worldoftanks.eu/personal/gifts/

[Veho Nex]

B1 is the worst grind I've ever experienced. This tank has no redeeming qualities to speak of.

Gift Shop is up. So who wants to gift me a Lowe and earn my eternal friendship (which is worth at least twice as much, if you ask me)?

https://worldoftanks.com/personal/gifts/

https://worldoftanks.eu/personal/gifts/

50$ piece of crap.

I like my type 59 even after its recent nerf

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Yeah I'm ready to cave and get a Type next paycheck.

[rajpoot]

Those are pretty steep prices....!

Edit:
Replayed KV today to make up for all the money I lost in my IS. And I can say with conviction that KV and KV3 are the best heavies relative to their tier, in the USSR tree. All heavies after them seem to be more like heavy-mediums.

@Sigurd
Actually the only option I get is 'save link as' and that gives an error.
Also, tt would seem all the French tank crews are brigadiers......brigadier in French is a soldier, an officer...or what?

[rajpoot]

For those of you who were oblivious about it like me, till today, there's a new promo code that gives you MKVII Tetrarch and a garage slot.
North America - NEWYEARNA
Europe - NEWYEAREU

[Graphic]

How much does a Type 59 earn on an average game?

I'm wondering if I'll need one eventually to support the 105 on the King Tiger or if my Church and Ram will be enough. They both almost never earn less than 20,000 (on premium now, so I guess thats 12-15 on standard).

[Sigurd]

How much does a Type 59 earn on an average game?

I'm wondering if I'll need one eventually to support the 105 on the King Tiger or if my Church and Ram will be enough. They both almost never earn less than 20,000 (on premium now, so I guess thats 12-15 on standard).

It all depends .. ya know.. win/loss, kills/detection/damage etc...

But I think you can count on getting around 20k - 100k. With repair costs that are rather low you will always earn credits win or lose. I can't remember the exact numbers.
My desperation after credits came with the IS3 and beyond. The IS3 was barely making a profit and I realized that I needed to do something if I wanted to go beyond tier 8. It would take forever to get those 3.5 million credits to buy the IS4.
With the Type.. it didn't take too long... and I did run a double game for a while; Type + premium account. (I am too old to spend hours on hours like the young students do, getting to the good tanks by pure grind).

[Sigurd]

@Sigurd
Actually the only option I get is 'save link as' and that gives an error.

Don't know what is causing this... anyone else having this problem?

Also, tt would seem all the French tank crews are brigadiers......brigadier in French is a soldier, an officer...or what?

In the test they had different rank names until it was pointed out by someone that they were wrong.

I think they might have changed them sometime during the test. My early test pictures have the old ranks, but my AMX 40 has the new ranks.
I think they changed them during the last stages of the test.

So after Maréchal des Logis-Chef (can't confirm this rank 100%), my commander became adjutant, adjutant-chef, Sous-lieutenant and then Lieutenant, if I am not mistaken.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[rajpoot]

Well this is something new I've learned. Very weird though.

On a different note, I got my first (two) top gun achievements today. ironically both were in my KV

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Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[rajpoot]

So who won?

[Graphic]

We did. As usual, they considered themselves invincible and that was their undoing. One of the IS-3s got 7 kills.

[rajpoot]

Oh you were in that match? Which one are you...I was looking for Graphic.

On different note, my KV crew reached 100% today, and I have to pick a skill. Which one is better for USSR heavies? (since I plan to retrain my crew for IS4 eventually) Repairs or camouflage?

And to boast a little, I got myself in a situation where I faced off against a T29, a KV3 and a Lowe all together, in my IS today. (All our team's top tiers were mediums and it was the Steppes map).
I was being battered, and there was no hope, until I managed to kill the KV3. I had damaged the T29 but he'd managed to get behind me...luckily though, for some reason he got behind me and hid, and never came out to attack. I'd got another lucky hit on the Lowe and reduced it to 12% after which he seemed to lose nerve, and fled, only to be taken down by mediums from the rear.
First time ever that I actually felt like a powerful heavy in the IS.

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My game name is Horrorsh0w

[scottishranger]

The AMX 38 is absolutely worthless. I cannot damage anything, i barely hurt tier 1's...

[Graphic]

KT is awesome even though I have a terrible win streak with it and don't have either of the 105s or the turret. I need some equipment too. My Tiger right now is much more effective with the long 88 right now because of the crew and the equipment on it.

[Sigurd]

Did I mention that IS4 is only great with the S70? It is a GRIND!!! until you can mount that sweet 130mm. Oh hallelujah... I got it this Monday.
Now I can finally get that suspension and engine that it needs to move better.

You just smile when you penetrate a Löwe with hull down at 500m and see him retreating not understanding what happened. Since he didn't see you, he peeks over the ridge again and you smoke him.
And the M6A2E1 who thinks everybody forgot how to kill it, takes two shots to the turret and dies.
And the cocky E75 who shoots your angled side, where your tracks soaks up all the damage and rages when you keep hitting that same sweet lower front plate.
And the JagdTiger who frantically backtracks after he bounces your front plate, loses 50% of his health after your first shoot, realizing that he is facing a 130mm that will shoot clear through his tank, making gravel of several internal hit-boxes via the lower front plate.

*sigh* It is fun to play this tank when it is elite.

[Husar]

You're a horrible person Sigurd.

So what about the clever E-75 who is slightly above you with his lower front plate hidden by terrain, penetrating your front plate like a knife through butter while a Löwe comes from behind since your team ignored a flank?

And I don't understand why a JagdTiger cannot penetrate you? My Ferdinand with the 128mm can and the JagdTiger starts out with it and gets an even better gun later on.

[Veho Nex]

I watch IS4's scream in pain and curl up in the fetal position crying with my 128 on my Baby maus

[Sigurd]

You're a horrible person Sigurd.
So what about the clever E-75 who is slightly above you with his lower front plate hidden by terrain, penetrating your front plate like a knife through butter while a Löwe comes from behind since your team ignored a flank?
And I don't understand why a JagdTiger cannot penetrate you? My Ferdinand with the 128mm can and the JagdTiger starts out with it and gets an even better gun later on.

1. That was before the S70 gun, mind you. And were you part of that team.. I wonder? In the tinbox called Pershing?
2. I don't know... It seems the JagdTigers gets a little scared when the shots no longer bounces on their front armour. They realize that the next shot will be fatal. And don't talk to me, the Ferdi-killer, about those puny rolling coffins. Those were already blazing ruins with the BL-9 gun...

I watch IS4's scream in pain and curl up in the fetal position crying with my 128 on my Baby maus

Those must be the Tier rushers with D-25-Ts. I encountered one the other day asking about the 130mm. "Are the 130mm better than the 122?" I was like: "lol" ...
Then he continued asking... and seeing he had the D25 mounted, I was... "you didn't try the BL-9 in your IS3?" and he said.. "no" I just replied... *facepalm* I got 4 kills in that game and he got none.