World of Tanks (Vol 2)

[Beati Dogu]

Asterix said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/in...

I've worked on, and driven most of these, or variants thereof...

Oh yeah? In the army presumably?

[Martin_Hx]

Just played my first 2 games tonight and scored 9k damage across both games and lost both.... If something tells you to turn this game off its that! All i have had all week is absolute ste teams!!

Oh well back to the PS3 :P

[TX1]

Not been playing much lately especially when sometimes cannot win a game whatsoever however Matilda does not let me down when the situation is right
Even ran out of normal ammo.
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Bit of cat and mouse towards the end. http://wotreplays.com/site/1139859#prokhorovka-etx...

[Beati Dogu]

^ A game coated in bacon and smothered in awesome sauce if ever I saw one.

I've never had 'that game' in the Matilda. It does OK, but nothing spectacular like that.

[TX1]

Probably not many tanks can do that apart from tilda.

[Dr Banjo]

TX1 said:

Not been playing much lately especially when sometimes cannot win a game whatsoever however Matilda does not let me down when the situation is right
Even ran out of normal ammo.
.
Bit of cat and mouse towards the end. http://wotreplays.com/site/1139859#prokhorovka-etx...

Mother of God.. look at the crew...

[Mastodon2]

I've been trolling in the Dicker Max again. This thing is ace! The gun depression is absolute lol, when you're shooting over steep hills pretty much all the enemy can see is the end of the gun barrel, it's like being the Chad, but instead of hunting out ration coupons I'm hunting T29s. The gun is a right laugh too, good alpha and seems blessed by the gods of penetrating hits. Of course, my survivability is not amazing with it, as once the game is in the bag I tend to push and hunt out as many hits / kills as I can score. Still, Ive got a 62% win rate with it at the moment, which will probably drop a bit as it evens out over time, but it suits my style and I find it fun to play.

Over the last week I've had a few hundred games, mainly smashing them in with fully upgraded Russian TDs and premium tanks, I've managed to up my over all win rate by 1%, which is not bad considering I'm rapidly approaching the 3000 game mark. Still, my overall W/R is not that great, but I'm not bothered about my stats enough yet to pad them by not grinding. Still, it's good to know I'm doing something right, even though I think running the SU line up to the OBJ268 could be painful, I've managed a 54% wr on the SU-152, all packages unlocked but I'm running the stock setup out of preference, apart from an upgraded engine.

[jimmyjimjim]

Dr Banjo said:

Mother of God.. look at the crew...

I quite like mine, though there are others on here with better:

[Beati Dogu]

I was watching a stream of someone playing the Xbox version yesterday. They were fighting in an absolute blizzard on the Arctic map. The most the PC gets is some spots of rain on the dreary Ruinberg on Fire map and the odd flake of snow on the new Kharkov map.


Also tonight I got this:



Steel Wall, High Calibre & Cool Headed.

It took 51 hits and 6050 potential damage was blocked by armour! They don't call it the KV-fortress for nothing.

I had to snipe the top of the Jagdpanther from long range in the last 20 seconds of the game to get the victory.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Friday 5th September 02:53

[Beati Dogu]

Good news for those with premium tanks!

.....once they release a small patch on 12th September.

Wargaming said:

Your Premium tanks will now bring you the following additional extra advantages:

50% bonus to crew experience. If the possibility of training your whole regiment of crewmen on one tank was not enough for you, you can now progress much faster.

Increased coefficient of battle experience depending on tier. In short – the lower the tier of the vehicle, the higher battle experience you get!

More details:


http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/pc-browser/46/premi...

[Martin_Hx]

3:30 am! Get some sleep lad!

Had some good gangs with Mr shining later on last night, we both played well (him more so than me) but lost every game bar one which as arty I couldn't hit a thing lol bloody typical!

[Mastodon2]

Just put in a 4679 damage game in the Tiger II, sadly we still lost so I didn't get the triple xp bonus. I also spent 45,000 on ammo as I ran out of AP and had to start firing the APCR and HE. Still, having done the majority of my damage to tier 9s, I earned 54,000 silver, so only made a slight loss on the match once I'd paid for my tank repair.

The Micro Maus is now on sale as a premium, it's apparently a heavily armoured tier 2 tank, the Pz.Kpfw.38H 735(f). Has anyone played this thing?

[Asterix]

Beati Dogu said:

Asterix said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/in...

I've worked on, and driven most of these, or variants thereof...

Oh yeah? In the army presumably?

Yup - late 80's to mid 90's. REME Vehicle Mechanic. Right at the cross over point where the old and new were changed. Some of the older stuff was still used for training etc...

[Beati Dogu]

Interesting. So you must have a different perspective on playing WoT.

I sat in the commander's hatch of a Chieftain tank once, but that was as far as it went.

Martin_Hx said:

3:30 am! Get some sleep lad!

Had some good gangs with Mr shining later on last night, we both played well (him more so than me) but lost every game bar one which as arty I couldn't hit a thing lol bloody typical!

Well, I'm off today anyway. We had no luck at all, so I though I'd try again later and it paid off.

Even my T30 won! I've got an impressive 29% win rate after 31 games with it now.

Man I just luuuuuve playing the fail team magnets that are stock tier 9s.

[Mastodon2]

Asterix said:

Yup - late 80's to mid 90's. REME Vehicle Mechanic. Right at the cross over point where the old and new were changed. Some of the older stuff was still used for training etc...

Did you ever sit inside one while large calibre weapons were fired? I've always wondered what it must feel like, in terms of vibration, noise, pressure reverberation etc, when a big gun is fired with the crew sitting under and around it.

Also, just how loud are they inside? I know the crews wear headsets for communication, and modern tanks are probably much better noise damped than older ones, but they must be bloody loud. In high school, we had a Royal Navy guy come in to do a careers talk, and he said one of the good things about joining the RN was "not sitting in a tank going deaf by 40".

[Asterix]

Mastodon2 said:

Asterix said:

Yup - late 80's to mid 90's. REME Vehicle Mechanic. Right at the cross over point where the old and new were changed. Some of the older stuff was still used for training etc...

Did you ever sit inside one while large calibre weapons were fired? I've always wondered what it must feel like, in terms of vibration, noise, pressure reverberation etc, when a big gun is fired with the crew sitting under and around it.

Also, just how loud are they inside? I know the crews wear headsets for communication, and modern tanks are probably much better noise damped than older ones, but they must be bloody loud. In high school, we had a Royal Navy guy come in to do a careers talk, and he said one of the good things about joining the RN was "not sitting in a tank going deaf by 40".

Not when firing sadly - they don't get to live fire all that often given the cost of the rounds - so they wouldn't let a non-tanky like me sit in.

General noise? Loud but great - The Scimitars etc... even used Jag car engines (low compression though) early on so could sound quite funky.

That said - hearing a squadron of Challengers starting up and then moving out is superb.

Edited by Asterix on Friday 5th September 13:56

[Mastodon2]

Asterix said:

Not when firing sadly - they don't get to live fire all that often given the cost of the rounds - so they wouldn't let a non-tanky like me sit in.

General noise? Loud but great - The Scimitars etc... even used Jag car engines (low compression though) early on so could sound quite funky.

That said - hearing a sqadron of Challengers starting up and then moving out is superb.

Interesting - even just to sit in one would be an experience and a half for me, I've always been interested in tanks and armoured warfare in general.

I was reading a "Tank of the World" book yesterday (total nerd, I know), and in a summary of tank involvement in conflicts throughout the last 100 years of war, it mentioned that in the cold war era, live firing training became increasingly hard to perform, as the effective ranges for the guns increased, and they needed bigger and bigger spaces to reflect the range they needed to train the gunners to shoot at. They also needed more of a safety margin to ensure the rounds would not leave the range and cause damage and harm elsewhere!

[Beati Dogu]

The British Army uses the Suffield range out in Alberta, Canada. Plenty of big open spaces to roam around there.

[Mastodon2]

So, it turns out the official Xbox WOT forum is full of "bronies" - creepy adult men who are into a cartoon for little girls. I am now subtly trolling them.

Because I am trolling them, I do not have the opportunity to ask, "Micro Maus", the Pnzkpfw 38H 735, is it worth buying? There is a special up at the moment on it, I've heard it's a laugh, and it comes bundled with some spare garage slots, silver and 3 days of premium. As I intend to be pounding WOT hard this weekend, it doesn't seem like a bad deal. Thoughts?

EDIT: On reflection, I don't really play lower tier games, and I don't play lights, so I think I will give this a miss. It doesn't seem like a bad deal though, but I just won't get to play it enough to warrant the spend. I will continue to troll the bronies though.

EDIT2: Deliberation over, the American T14 was on sale for half price, so I've picked one of those up. It's fking hopeless as an assault leader, quite quick so easy to get too far ahead of the rest of the team, where it's gun will be found to be seriously lacking - not enough pen to tackle other tier 5 heavies head on, and not enough accuracy to reliably hit weak spots at anything above short ranges. I think as a heavily armoured flanker it could do well. Also, as a bonus, it looks like a miniature American Maus. I bought it as a crew trainer for Yank heavy crews in case I eventually get onto American heavies, so I'm not asking the world of it.

Edited by Mastodon2 on Friday 5th September 23:54

[Beati Dogu]

The 9.3 test server is up now.

I had a game with the new KV-85, which is what you get instead of the KV-1S. I used the new 100mm gun, as the old 122mm has a 20 second reload now.

It's still a good tank. The mobility seems to be the same (i.e. good) but the gun depression is a lot worse. It was only a six a side game, but I got a couple of kills and a new medal for doing more damage than the hit points of the tank.


I haven't played it yet, but they've revamped and enlarged the Murovanka map. The magic forest has fewer trees and now includes small hills to provide some cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05O1na6QZJE