World of Tanks (Vol 2)
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Mastodon2 said:
I was doomed in my FV207 on Live Oaks earlier, so I loaded an AP round and waited for the inevitable. Before I got mugged, I managed to catch a VK36.01h in tactical view at 100m out, nailed him in the side he had already taken a little bit of damage, I nailed him in the side with the AP round, 750 alpha and 258mm of pen, where is the "OVERKILL" soundbite when you need it? 
Did the same with HE to a Wolverine on Mines the other day. Four of them closing in on me, he wanted the kill and beat them to 6" of HE at a range of about 6'. I also felt the need to apologise to a tiger 2 the same evening (in the SU-14-2) for one shotting him while aiming at someone else, and to an E50M(finally got one for master tanker!) for finishing him off while aiming at someone else.
The CGC is the most stupidly broken vehicle in the game. The splash damage radius is so huge (11m) he shouldn't have fired anywhere near me. I was directly between him and the IS-7, so he was bound to hit me as well.
A similar thing happened a few weeks ago with the WZ-111 1-4 and an IS-7. I was right along side him waiting to reload and finish him, but I was hit in the back by their arty, killing us both. These arty idiots are so desperate for kills that they'll shoot anyway.
Anyway, I managed to ace the tier 4 Stug yesterday:
http://wotreplays.com/site/1583791#mountain_pass-s...
Killing 3 scumbags was a nice bonus too. I had to loop the last shot through a gap in the crates on their cap.
I'd tried it originally with the 75 mm gun (the same as the mission reward Stug IV gets), but it's not very good. So I switched to the 105mm derp of Hetzer fame. Yeah, it's pretty good with that. So many one shots it was ridiculous. Reminded me of playing the Hetzer back in the day where you could force a flank on your own. I was just firing standard AP as well.
A similar thing happened a few weeks ago with the WZ-111 1-4 and an IS-7. I was right along side him waiting to reload and finish him, but I was hit in the back by their arty, killing us both. These arty idiots are so desperate for kills that they'll shoot anyway.
Anyway, I managed to ace the tier 4 Stug yesterday:
http://wotreplays.com/site/1583791#mountain_pass-s...
Killing 3 scumbags was a nice bonus too. I had to loop the last shot through a gap in the crates on their cap.
I'd tried it originally with the 75 mm gun (the same as the mission reward Stug IV gets), but it's not very good. So I switched to the 105mm derp of Hetzer fame. Yeah, it's pretty good with that. So many one shots it was ridiculous. Reminded me of playing the Hetzer back in the day where you could force a flank on your own. I was just firing standard AP as well.
I think I read (hoped) that there are to be no new SPG lines in 2015, so at least the Chinese / Japanese lines will be a while yet (although it is WG so who knows, they could turn up sooner if they run out of ideas).
It's depressing a bit how determined they seem to be to s
t on their own game at the moment. More powerful Arty, Op lines on introduction that need nerfing, then they screw about with the accuracy in the next patch just to add that bit more RNG feel. On top of that they add a load of potential for new content with the missions, then gimp them by barring most of it unless you platoon, and some of the bits that are still open are RNG hell holes 
At least they are 'fixing' the WFT E100 by replacing the autoloader with some new single shot doom cannon.
It's depressing a bit how determined they seem to be to s
t on their own game at the moment. More powerful Arty, Op lines on introduction that need nerfing, then they screw about with the accuracy in the next patch just to add that bit more RNG feel. On top of that they add a load of potential for new content with the missions, then gimp them by barring most of it unless you platoon, and some of the bits that are still open are RNG hell holes At least they are 'fixing' the WFT E100 by replacing the autoloader with some new single shot doom cannon.
I've been in some games with the CGC, I don't have mine yet but it doesn't seem to be unbalanced - 58 second reload, lowest shell velocity of any arty, worst accuracy in the game, shortest range of any tier 10 arty etc. When it hits, it's like an asteroid coming down, but it doesn't hit often. It must be a punisher to play, I was RNG'd out of 10 fully aimed shots in my FV207 in a row last night, and I was raging, and that is with a 22 second reload...
The premium ammo splash range is big, and with friendly fire turned on care should obviously be applied when shooting "danger close" allies. Shell price is about 6500 silver a shot too, not a cheap runner if you're spamming the good stuff.
There is a good view of Circonflex reminding people to play arty safe on the test server / trollface
The premium ammo splash range is big, and with friendly fire turned on care should obviously be applied when shooting "danger close" allies. Shell price is about 6500 silver a shot too, not a cheap runner if you're spamming the good stuff.
There is a good view of Circonflex reminding people to play arty safe on the test server / trollface
This is a CGC shot taken from Circon's live stream the other day on the Highway map.
You can see the shell trajectory coming in over a 2 storey building, landing just outside the map, but the splash damage knocking off 4-500 hit points to kill his tier 10 tank.
Serves him right for camping of course.
There's a reason these things are infesting the game at the moment.
You can see the shell trajectory coming in over a 2 storey building, landing just outside the map, but the splash damage knocking off 4-500 hit points to kill his tier 10 tank.
Serves him right for camping of course.
There's a reason these things are infesting the game at the moment.
Edited by Beati Dogu on Monday 2nd February 18:50
Another torrid night, despite getting a good selection of arty maps I got stuck with teams who just camped, sat back and let the enemy TD's have their pants down, and gave the enemy arty easy targets. Oh what I'd have done to be on the red team. The only penetrating hit I scored all night was a one-shot into the side of a Comet, other than that it was surface splash for 400 damage a pop. I can't fking wait to get into an artillery that has a proper gun for it's tier. I think the last time I played an SPG that really felt like it had a gun that could give it properly to the tanks it faced was the Hummel, and that was a loooooong time back. Hopefully the 7.2" gun on the FV3805 will be better.
I noticed the Wespe and Sfl IVb in the wiki the other day, two German SPGs I didn't even know existed, I wonder how they have escaped my attention before now.
king wait to get into an artillery that has a proper gun for it's tier. I think the last time I played an SPG that really felt like it had a gun that could give it properly to the tanks it faced was the Hummel, and that was a loooooong time back. Hopefully the 7.2" gun on the FV3805 will be better.I noticed the Wespe and Sfl IVb in the wiki the other day, two German SPGs I didn't even know existed, I wonder how they have escaped my attention before now.
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