World of Tanks

[Furiously]

I ran a platoon today with my 8 year old. 

Just imagine how well cheddar's family could do!

[WayAbvPar]

They would have to run companies to fit them all 

[angry.bob]

I didn't see any mention of it in here so I thought I'd mention that 8.2 adds a new US medium line branching off of the M7. A line of US mediums with autoloaders. Autoloaders, autoloaders everywhere. aaaaaauuuuuuutttttooooooollllloaders.

[Gets]

Pop pop pop, watching motherfuckers drop.

[Merusk]

Oooh, sweet.

[Nebu]

That may be the end of me.  I hate playing against autoloaders. 

[Abagadro]

F13 Evil Chickens, we are going to attempt some Clan Wars landings tonight. Just a heads up:

http://worldoftanks.com/community/clans/1000000282-EVIL/battles/

[Strazos]

Hmmm...I mostly have T3/4 tanks, with a single T5 German tank which I bought - is it pointless for me to try to play with you all? I haven't been in a rush to move up the rank, as I mostly just die from impatience with anything but my American SPG.

[Abagadro]

When we do platoons and count-ins we drop down to lower tiers all the time.

[Gets]

Yeah, I didn't buy a thousand HEAT shells for my PzIV by accident this time. Tier 5 is ridiculously fun right now.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdds57rO5Mg ~autoloaders uguuuu     

[Merusk]

Thanks for pointing-out it was off of the M7 line, Bob.  I hadn't gone down that one yet so after blowing a bunch of free XP I'm working on getting the last 4k I need for the M7 itself.   Along with it and the M18 I picked-up recently it's a nice change from always getting my ass handed to me in T8 fights due to the slow load of the T34.   

Also, was it just me or were there more "Everyone charge one side!" idiots out this week than normal?  Seems like every game it was me and 2-3 other tanks left to defend an entire flank and we'd get rolled or I'd go the side the other team had left undefended and we'd roll.  There were no real brawls, just a series of steamrollers.

[Engels]

The pubs were particularly bad for me this weekend, don't know why. After clan war battles are done, there's a sudden influx of decent players for about an hour, then it tapers off to a modicum of decent behavior. Of course, clan battle players are their own kind of headache, since they're often sporting gold by default and are often so good and coordinated that if you're facing 3 guys from a top clan in their tier 10 meds its often a done deal before it even starts. That's one reason I like xvm; it quickly identifies who's going to be absolutely necessary to eliminate in order to win, since these often these top dogs are better by orders of magnitude to even a 'decent' player.

In other news, Evil Chickens won five our of 7 clan matches last night. We got curb stomped on the final round for territorial control by RUS_Hardware, a well seasoned clan wars group. Considering this was EVIL's first serious foray into clan wars, we did alright :)

[Ginaz]

I'm done with the British tanks.  I got up to the tier 9 med and stopped.  The only one I had any fun with was the Cromwell, so I'm keeping that.  The rest are very underwhelming, to say the least.  I never tried the heavy line.  Saw the speed, armor and guns and knew they would be bad.

[Merusk]

Grats on the wins, Chickens.

Ginaz, I don't know why you even tried but, wow, respect for trying.  At some point I heard the Brits had all the armor of the French with the Speed of the Russians and the massive Firepower of a tank one tier below themselves and I knew that was enough to not bother.

[Strazos]

When we do platoons and count-ins we drop down to lower tiers all the time.

But but but, what is everyone's name? I *THINK* I have Engels now, but that's about it.

[Bungee]

My handle is Uamel. I'm on the EU server and usually online around 9pm GMT. I do have TS, somewhere, but usually just skype it up with some mates.

[Abagadro]

Same name as here.

[WayAbvPar]

Same name as here.

^^^^^^

[Merusk]

Same here, if you can find me online.

[Der Helm]

I'm done with the British tanks.  I got up to the tier 9 med and stopped.  The only one I had any fun with was the Cromwell, so I'm keeping that.  The rest are very underwhelming, to say the least.  I never tried the heavy line.  Saw the speed, armor and guns and knew they would be bad.

That bad ? I am driving the A13 right now and having quite some fun with it thanks to the auto loader. So it does go downhill after the next tier ?

[Bungee]

I'm done with the British tanks.  I got up to the tier 9 med and stopped.  The only one I had any fun with was the Cromwell, so I'm keeping that.  The rest are very underwhelming, to say the least.  I never tried the heavy line.  Saw the speed, armor and guns and knew they would be bad.

That bad ? I am driving the A13 right now and having quite some fun with it thanks to the auto loader. So it does go downhill after the next tier ?

Crusader is more of the same basically, the Cromwell is just flat out fun (fast, agile, fast firing and accurate on the move), Comet is well... it's a bump. Centurion is like playing a heavy- as a matter of fact it looks nearly exactly like the tier 8 heavy and drives just a little nimbler while sharing a virtually identical gun. Don't know how it is after that, but I quite enjoyed driving it. Only did those on the test servers though. But they didn't change much before going live...

Here's the review done by them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBW0mhhBeA&feature=share&list=ULjmBW0mhhBeA

I like how they just basically skip the Comet. Pretty much sums up the tank really well ;)

[Ginaz]

I'm done with the British tanks.  I got up to the tier 9 med and stopped.  The only one I had any fun with was the Cromwell, so I'm keeping that.  The rest are very underwhelming, to say the least.  I never tried the heavy line.  Saw the speed, armor and guns and knew they would be bad.

That bad ? I am driving the A13 right now and having quite some fun with it thanks to the auto loader. So it does go downhill after the next tier ?

The Centurion and the tier 9 after it aren't too bad, its just that they aren't all that great either.  I find both of them to be too large of a target for a med. tank and don't have the armor to make up for it.  Gun for the tier 8 is good, esp. the pen, but it bounces a lot and has a low alpha.  It isn't much better in the tier nine as it is almost the same tank as the tier 8 with the exception of the top gun.  I have no personal experience with the heavy line but from all indications they are mostly junk.  The "best" British tank IMO is the Cromwell.  In hindsight, I would have stopped there.  Its a keeper.

[Brolan]

If you haven't used the promo code TURKEYDAY yet, time is running out.  Gives one free day of premium.

[Merusk]

Thanks for pointing-out it was off of the M7 line, Bob.  I hadn't gone down that one yet so after blowing a bunch of free XP I'm working on getting the last 4k I need for the M7 itself.   

Holy shit is the M7 a flimsy piece of crap!  I've been one-shot by equal-tiers in the first 3 matches I've played with it.

[angry.bob]

Holy shit is the M7 a flimsy piece of crap!  I've been one-shot by equal-tiers in the first 3 matches I've played with it.

But on the bright side you have a choice of several shitty guns for it's tier! Nothing better than having to shoot a Panzer IV about seven times to kill it while rolls up on you and one-shots you with it's derp. I put a 200% crew in the thing to earn XP in it and I still can't figure out how to not suck. It looks neat though.

[WayAbvPar]

I am now the proud owner of my first Tier X (BatChat). Smell that catbox?

[Bungee]

Holy shit is the M7 a flimsy piece of crap!  I've been one-shot by equal-tiers in the first 3 matches I've played with it.

But on the bright side you have a choice of several shitty guns for it's tier! Nothing better than having to shoot a Panzer IV about seven times to kill it while rolls up on you and one-shots you with it's derp. I put a 200% crew in the thing to earn XP in it and I still can't figure out how to not suck. It looks neat though.

Just grinding through it myself and finding myself doing not that bad at all with it. You just have to treat it as the disguised light tank it really is to get something going. Once you maxed the engine and suspension it pretty much doesn't matter what gun you carry, but I found myself to be using the 6-pounder even with the higher guns unlocked.

[Merusk]

I'm elite on it.  I had gone the alternate route to the E8 before, so I had only the turret and tracks to buy and that was a piddly amount of free xp.  I'll admit I've been treating it like a medium and wondering why it felt like a light. Back to light playstyle, I guess - which I hate.  I'll give the 6# gun a try.

[Amarr HM]

I have bad memories of the M7, mediocre at everything.

[Merusk]

Yeah, I recall hearing stuff a while back about how bad it was, which was the reason I went the alternate line to get the e8.  The only reason I'm even playing it now is to have some EXP banked to unlock the autoloaders when they're patched-in.

[Kageru]

I actually worked towards it because there's people who champion it on the forums. The mobility is pretty good and the gun fires fast and can actually do a surprising amount of DPS. The problem being that with no alpha to speak of you need to spend too much time on target and that tends to end explosively. Plus there's lots of fast light tanks now.

So dumped it for the M4 because if you are a lighter tank you want to give people a sudden surprise rear Derping and skedaddle.

[Engels]

After a few exciting days of white knuckle action, Evil Chickens now owns a few spots on the map! We have Sicily, Calabria and Basilicata, in a tenuous alliance with Hazardous

And grats to Way for his BatChat.

[Brogarn]

I have bad memories of the M7, mediocre at everything.

My entire time in the M7 was accompanied by a nonstop string of rants over Vent while I ground it out late last year. Both my Clan and myself were quite happy when I was all done with it.

[kildorn]

The M7 is in theory an okay tank that I don't mind driving, but at no point in WoT has anyone said "oh shit, an M7!"

[Nebu]

I know that I'm late to the party for mentioning this, but am I the only one that really hates the new tech tree presentation?