World of Tanks (Vol 2)

[S3_Graham]

Here's My Pic from Bovington, I do like the Panther



Off Topic,

Do any of you guys play War Thunder? I understand that the Tank side of it isn't quite as good but I've been playing the flying side and really enjoying it! I play WOT on the Xbox so don't really fancy starting again but will give it a go!

[PanzerCommander]

S3_Graham said:

Here's My Pic from Bovington, I do like the Panther



Off Topic,

Do any of you guys play War Thunder? I understand that the Tank side of it isn't quite as good but I've been playing the flying side and really enjoying it! I play WOT on the Xbox so don't really fancy starting again but will give it a go!

Nice Panther; looks like an eastern front paint job. The rust red paint is iirc the red oxide primer used under the paint. But rather than paint it dark yellow and red brown (party to get the tanks out faster and partly due to paint shortages) they used the primer rather than the red brown as part of the paint scheme.

[bstb3]

I remember from when I used to play the E8 that the tier 8 matches were often frustrating as anything, as even when flanking at times the gun just didn't have enough pen (I never used prem ammo back then though). The Fury I suppose would have the same issue, which was why I had hoped the matchmaking might be just tier+1. It would be unfair if it were, but you never know.

As for a med crew trainer the Super Pershing at tier 8 isn't all that bad - and it only has tier +1. True enough its not anything as agile as other US meds so it wont train you as a med player, but the crew skills up all the same


Love the pics from Munster and Bovington, that Stug

[S3_Graham]

Bovington is well worth the visit.

Its a 2 hour drive for me and certainly worth it, They were running a stug round the track when I was there. In the back ground you can see the Sherman with the skirt to make it float.

They have a World of Tanks bit in the corner.

[Beati Dogu]

PanzerCommander said:

Nice Panther; looks like an eastern front paint job. The rust red paint is iirc the red oxide primer used under the paint. But rather than paint it dark yellow and red brown (party to get the tanks out faster and partly due to paint shortages) they used the primer rather than the red brown as part of the paint scheme.

That Panther was actually one of 9 built under the supervision of the British Army (REME) from parts left in the MNH factory in Hanover. There's a plaque on it somewhere to that effect. It was painted in that late war colour scheme in 2008.

The Jagdpanther at Bovington was also built that way & shipped over for testing.

Here's the Panther at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, which I went to in 2009. The tank is covered in a hard "Zimmerit" paste to supposedly stop enemy infantry sticking magnetic charges to it.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Thursday 16th October 12:00

[S3_Graham]

I read about that coating at bovington too. Sure it was on a tiger or tiger II

[PanzerCommander]

Beati Dogu said:

PanzerCommander said:

Nice Panther; looks like an eastern front paint job. The rust red paint is iirc the red oxide primer used under the paint. But rather than paint it dark yellow and red brown (party to get the tanks out faster and partly due to paint shortages) they used the primer rather than the red brown as part of the paint scheme.

That Panther was actually one of 9 built under the supervision of the British Army (REME) from parts left in the MNH factory in Hanover. There's a plaque on it somewhere to that effect. It was painted in that late war colour scheme in 2008.

The Jagdpanther at Bovington was also built that way & shipped over for testing.

Here's the Panther at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, which I went to in 2009. The tank is covered in a hard "Zimmerit" paste to supposedly stop enemy infantry sticking magnetic charges to it.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Thursday 16th October 12:00

Ahh interesting, the paint did look rather new in the picture

S3_Graham said:

I read about that coating at bovington too. Sure it was on a tiger or tiger II

It was indeed fitted to Tiger I/II and it did stop magnetic mines sticking to the tank but the Germans later stopped applying it as it was supposedly a fire risk. Even when this was found to not be the case they never rescinded the "do not apply" order, possibly because it helped get tanks out of the factory door faster.

[S3_Graham]

guys, can you remember the name of a documentary about tanks? Im sure there were 18 or 20 episodes. Each an hour long.

I watched them all via youtube but now I cant for the life of me remember the name and I cant seem to locate it. I want to say Victory by Design but thats the Alain DeCadnet stuff....

Hmmmmm

[Beati Dogu]

This is an interesting film by the Swedish Army that was done in 1951. It explains various tank suspension types and compares their cross country performance. They show a Panther, Churchill, Sherman and a home grown Stridsvagn m/42. It has English Subtitles you can enable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXEly5_u38

The Panther was bought by Sweden in 1948 for testing and given back to Germany in 1960. It's now in the tank museum in Munster.

[jimmyjimjim]

Back to having all the T6's elited. Wasn't amused at having to redo the MT-25. Still not amused at having to re-do the Awful Panzer (seriously, it's utterly worthless).

The autoloader on the Walker Bulldog is comedy!

Chi-Ri elited and sold, so only 8 T7's to go. Shame half of them are lights...

[FiF]

S3_Graham said:

guys, can you remember the name of a documentary about tanks? Im sure there were 18 or 20 episodes. Each an hour long.

I watched them all via youtube but now I cant for the life of me remember the name and I cant seem to locate it. I want to say Victory by Design but thats the Alain DeCadnet stuff....

Hmmmmm

Well the only ones I can bring to mind are Discovery Channel's Top Ten Tanks.

And of course Greatest Tank Battles.

[Beati Dogu]

I got called an idiot 3 times yesterday, which I think is a record for me.

1) Tier 9 Waffle - I could see there wasn't time to win by capping, so I went looking for the final 2 enemy arty instead. Game ended in a draw. Even got PMed after to tell me I was an idiot in case I missed the chat message. I have looked at the replay and I was right.

2) M103 - I declined to cap so I could successfully kill the last enemy arty, get a Top Gun and win the game that way.

3) KV-4 - I'd done about 3K damage & killed 2 tanks already, but failed to defeat the simultaneous attentions of an E-100, Tortoise and Tiger II. I did kill the Tiger II and shot up the others, but I'm sorry, it's hard to carry a game when your own tier 9 and 10s donk out.

In all 3 cases the person who called me an idiot had done fk all to help us win.

[PanzerCommander]

Beati Dogu said:

I got called an idiot 3 times yesterday, which I think is a record for me.

1) Tier 9 Waffle - I could see there wasn't time to win by capping, so I went looking for the final 2 enemy arty instead. Game ended in a draw. Even got PMed after to tell me I was an idiot in case I missed the chat message. I have looked at the replay and I was right.

2) M103 - I declined to cap so I could successfully kill the last enemy arty, get a Top Gun and win the game that way.

3) KV-4 - I'd done about 3K damage & killed 2 tanks already, but failed to defeat the simultaneous attentions of an E-100, Tortoise and Tiger II. I did kill the Tiger II and shot up the others, but I'm sorry, it's hard to carry a game when your own tier 9 and 10s donk out.

In all 3 cases the person who called me an idiot had done fk all to help us win.

It’s always the same, those that die in the first 30 seconds (whether by being in the wrong place at the wrong time or just by being stupid) are the ones to start shouting the odds.

I have had numerous occasions where some halfwit is calling me the idiot, Monday night a mate and myself were out in a platoon, Arctic region map, both of us in E-75's. We got embroiled in the usual bottom corner fight, taking lumps out of stuff and having lumps taken out of us. My first 5 shots bounced (the RNG really was having its way with me) the rest penetrated, apparently we were to be reported for being bots. Strange that we were in the top 5 for XP earned (I think I was top damage done) after the loss.

Ignorance is the best policy.

[s2000db]

I just love the light, or fast mediums, that go blazing across the map, shouting help, getting blasted in the first 20 secs or so, and then moaning for the lack of support.... Errrrr no one could keep up, lol!

[Jayfish]

A quick xvm check and a public 'shut up 46% winrate guy' usually keeps em quiet

[Martin_Hx]

Well I get back from holiday on sat so no doubt will be even more terrible than normal, I must admit I'm ever so slightly missing posting tanks with strangers lol

[S3_Graham]

FiF said:

S3_Graham said:

guys, can you remember the name of a documentary about tanks? Im sure there were 18 or 20 episodes. Each an hour long.

I watched them all via youtube but now I cant for the life of me remember the name and I cant seem to locate it. I want to say Victory by Design but thats the Alain DeCadnet stuff....

Hmmmmm

Well the only ones I can bring to mind are Discovery Channel's Top Ten Tanks.

And of course Greatest Tank Battles.

Ah remembered. There are actually 12 Episodes. "Tanks! Evolution of a legend" Its very in depth and has sole episodes devoted to tank killers etc. When I started playing WOT I found it massively interesting, so much so that I'm going to watch them again.....

[bstb3]

S3_Graham said:

Ah remembered. There are actually 12 Episodes. "Tanks! Evolution of a legend" Its very in depth and has sole episodes devoted to tank killers etc. When I started playing WOT I found it massively interesting, so much so that I'm going to watch them again.....

Thanks for that - just watched the first one, "Tigers in the Desert", and it was really interesting. Looking forward to the rest of them now.

[Beati Dogu]

I was in another Quickybaby game last night on his livestream.

It was the Sigfried Line assault map and he was on my side, driving the tier 10 Chinese medium. I had the T30 tier 9 tank destroyer, which as I don't have to top gun yet, is basically a T34 with a faster reload - ie. it's terrible.

We won. He got 4 kills. I was down to minimal health, but managed to kill an ST-I after getting in his face and panicking him into shooting my gun mantlet. I got a Lucky medal for that.

[Fane]

I've always wondered about the ingame chat when QB is playing. I should imagine it's a curious mix of sycophancy and abuse. Does he communicate with the team much, or just do his own thing?