World of Tanks

[jakonovski]

I'm starting to think that there's some kind of a bug when shooting at close range. There's just too many point blank shots that miss without an explanation. If it's a HE shell, the game doesn't even show an explosion.

[Pennilenko]

I cant beleive the different buying a tank with at least 75 percent trained crew. The difference in effectiveness over 50 percent trained crew is astounding.

[Amarr HM]

Wait til you get 100% with ventilation. Also if you gold out a crew at 100% starting at Tier V or VI you can train them to 90% on the next tank for 100k.

[Sparky]

I'm starting to think that there's some kind of a bug when shooting at close range. There's just too many point blank shots that miss without an explanation. If it's a HE shell, the game doesn't even show an explosion.

Don't use autoaim up close or if a tank is travelling quickly horizontally to you or if only part of it is visible.  Manual aim is nearly always better unless you're just sniping slow moving/stationary tanks at medium to long range.

[snowwy]

Opened up a beer tonight. Finally got to sell that asshole machine, the T-44   The last 30k-grind almost made me stab my monitor.
Stock T-54 is superior in any way. Better accuracy, better RoF, it actually bounces shots, a LOT. And it looks better. Gonna play with this thing til i know every little dirty secret it has  
Next thing on the list, the grind for the Pershing. On M7 at the moment.
But first, get the top gun on the 54. Only thing i lack in the russian tree now is arty past SU-8. IS-7 was never a target anyway. Stopping on IS-4, which will be a tier X in a few months anyway. Sadly without my beloved S-70 apparently.
They are gonna put a beefed up 122mm on it  

[tmp]

Unlocked the 105 mm lolcannon on the Hetzer yesterday and loaded it with the HE ammo. Forgot how much fun that was

[Der Helm]

Unlocked the 105 mm lolcannon on the Hetzer yesterday and loaded it with the HE ammo. Forgot how much fun that was

Except for that (which I am looking forward too  ) which TD line is "better" (for a player who wants to play for free as much as possible)

[Amarr HM]

Guys you should try get the KV with the 152mm before the tech tree revision. It's a great money maker and it's so much fun, especially if you get a city map.

[FatuousTwat]

During beta, I prefered the 107 on the KV. Too bad it's 14k xp, ugh... It's pretty much required for the KV-3 though.

Better news: <10k xp for the vk36, woo.

[tmp]

Except for that (which I am looking forward too   ) which TD line is "better" (for a player who wants to play for free as much as possible)

I have only experience with german TDs so can't really say. Found them fun personally, but people seem to speak favourably about the russian TDs and these are definitely not lacking in the low tiers*, and beasts in the upper ones. And american TDs can be even more tempting once they put them in, given they're going to have actual turrets rather than largely fixed guns.

*) more specifically, mid tier german TDs can have trouble penetrating some of the opponents with the guns available to them. The russian TDs supposedly don't have that issue.

[Amarr HM]

During beta, I prefered the 107 on the KV. Too bad it's 14k xp, ugh... It's pretty much required for the KV-3 though.

107 is great for it's level but you're missing out on the derpness.

[veredus]

Unlocked the 105 mm lolcannon on the Hetzer yesterday and loaded it with the HE ammo. Forgot how much fun that was

Except for that (which I am looking forward too  ) which TD line is "better" (for a player who wants to play for free as much as possible)

Get an SU-85 w/ the 107. Only tier 5 so good for no premium and can reliably penetrate just about any tanks it can be matched up against.

[Numtini]

The SU-85 is also attractive because you can get to it from the T34.

[jakonovski]

I'm getting a bit tired of constantly facing Tier 5 TDs with my Tier 3 M2 Medium. The matchmaker is a totally shit.

[kildorn]

The ones that amuse me are T-28s. Those things just show up everywhere, no matter the tier. And they're terrible.

Anywho, I got my T20. It's okay, a nice change from the E8's machine gun to having a gun that can actually dent a 3601. Also slowly learning to love my T-34-85, in all it's paper thin armor and iffy gun glory.

[jakonovski]

I upgraded to M3 lee, now it's fucking Jagdpanthers. All I want is my Tier 5 American heavy...

[Furiously]

I loath the M3. That turret gets me killed.

[Bandit]

Playing WoT pretty much exclusively at the moment and making a bit of progress.  I have reached the T20 on the US line and was focused mostly on getting the Pershing.  However, with the upcoming revised tech trees, the Heavy T34 will become a premium tank at the time of switchover (and a collectible!).  So I am hoping to get to the T34 and just picked up the T29 last night.  I have reached Tier IV or V on most of German and USSR lines as well, just not SPGs.  

I would love to be playing in Platoons at this point, just can't nail down playing times with a new baby in the house.

[Engels]

Bandit, my clan's got folks on at odd hours, having yanks, canuks, brits, aussies and the occasional south african. Send me a holler in game if you see me, and we'll get you in a platoon.

[tmp]

Playing Pz3 atm (along with the Hetzer) ... i reckon when it gets placed in fights where it's top tier that's what playing T54 must feel like -- can zoom around the field at 55 km/h, duck out and back behind cover in an instant, the gun two-shots most of things with nice accuracy and the best of all it has armour both on the front and on the back that few things manage to penetrate.

Of course, for each match like that you get three when you are put at the bottom of the ladder and that's... less fun

[Bandit]

Bandit, my clan's got folks on at odd hours, having yanks, canuks, brits, aussies and the occasional south african. Send me a holler in game if you see me, and we'll get you in a platoon.

Cheers, most likely hook-up sometime this weekend.

[Dark_MadMax]

We are prepping for Drill Boot Camp tourney and  I predict domination by heavy camping teams .its just very hard to deal with all camoed su-85s , impossible to spot until 30 meters range

[Amarr HM]

If a game ends a draw both teams are knocked out, all out camping is not a winning strategy.

[kildorn]

Advancing with camo as is doesn't win, either. Unless maybe you run an arty-heavy setup and are trying to run someone to reveal, and hoping to bomb out 2-3 TDs per suiscout.

I predict ~5 minutes of nothing happening, followed by a lot of slow creeping if open maps are used.

City type maps at least have shit for camo cover and give mobility an edge if you know the street layout. I've flanked many a KV who didn't get the idea of me going around the block in my M5.

Though my brand new T20 also went around a block, ran into 2 TDs, ducked into a side street and ran into two more TDs, and had an IS move in from the street behind me. Seriously, they pulled five units back to deal with a lone T20. And I was in the bottom third of the listing, too!

[jakonovski]

Good lord, they should add a new tank class for the Lee, the Tier IV Piñata. There's constantly fights where I'm the only tier 4 medium and I always get killed first by tier 7 bullshit because I get spotted way more easily than everyone else.

[Bandit]

The Komarin map is definitely in need of revision due to current spotting mechanics (map with island in the middle).  It's the only map that I see consistently going 10+ minutes.  That map pretty much dictates that every tank, including light/medium must camp to be effective.  Otherwise it's pretty suicidal to do anything else.  First one to blink loses usually. 

I skipped the M3 Lee using free XP as I loathed it during beta.  The M3L/37 75 mm gun can sometimes surprise, but overall it has all the drawbacks of a TD, with hardly any of the firepower.  Plus the damn thing is used to branch out to too many other tanks.

[Amarr HM]

Komarin only becomes a camping map because of the lack of strategy in teams, not because of the layout. Get in a tank company and then just get your whole team to drive over your own flag and kill everything til you reach the enemy arty. Then hide in the arty woods shooting the guys who came over to save arty til finally taking out the rest of their team. The only way you can lose is if they do the same-thing which is quite rare. The problem is you can't do this in random battles cause there's little coordination and you need everyone to do it together ( Maybe leave one guy to defend arty ).

The two things that could help fix random battles turning into campfests are limiting the amount of arty per battle to like 2 per side & evening out TDS on each team.

[Tmon]

The Drill Bootcamp tournament is going to use only the Westfield map so there will be plenty of bushes to hide in. 

Agree about Komarin, I usually use the charge over our own cap to victory or death strategy.  If enough other folks follow me we win, if they leave me high and dry then at least I can move on to another tank.  If my clan manages to sync two platoons into the game it's even better.

[Dark_MadMax]

If a game ends a draw both teams are knocked out, all out camping is not a winning strategy.

As far as I know its best 2 out of 5. So camping team autowins first round and has room to squeeze 2nd out somewhere. Camo is just way too good , especially at tier 5, especially with  su 85 107 alpha strike. Main problem is on map like westfield scouts wont make it to spot tds.  (400+ view range vs 30 ), combine it with lots of hills and you dont have much chance to spot them in double bushes regardless of tactics before being instagibbed

[jakonovski]

Hahaha, I got Halonen's medal. F U high tier bastards!

[UnsGub]

The Komarin map is definitely in need of revision due to current spotting mechanics (map with island in the middle).  It's the only map that I see consistently going 10+ minutes.  That map pretty much dictates that every tank, including light/medium must camp to be effective. 

This map is like a few other where spotting rules the day.  Good spotter getting into the correct position with 20 seconds will just lead to complete roll within 5 minutes.  Their maps do a good job of mixing up the advantanges and disadvantages of the different tank.  Heavy, medium, Scout, TD, and Arty all have maps where they are gods and other maps where they are worthless.

[UnsGub]

The Komarin map is definitely in need of revision due to current spotting mechanics (map with island in the middle).  It's the only map that I see consistently going 10+ minutes.  That map pretty much dictates that every tank, including light/medium must camp to be effective. 

This map is like a few other where spotting rules the day.  Good spotter getting into the correct position with 20 seconds will just lead to complete roll within 5 minutes.  Their maps do a good job of mixing up the advantanges and disadvantages of the different tanks.  Heavy, medium, Scout, TD, and Arty all have maps where they are gods and other maps where they are worthless.

[Abagadro]

I'm in BFE with an old laptop so I am going through serious WoT withdrawal.

[Engels]

Aww!

Got Furiously on TS with the Evil Chickens gang yesterday. Twas fun!

[jakonovski]

Urgh, WoT is starting to be  the most epic disappointment ever. All because of the matchmaker. Can't get any exp with my M3 Lee, because I can't bloody well penetrate even the sides of the Tier 7 monsters that I constantly face. Are they trying to get me to pony up real money so I don't have to play this part of the game or something?

Edit: interestingly enough these matches never have artillery, like 99% of the time it's not there. It's as if the game is replacing Tier 4 spg's with the shitboxes of myself and some other unfortunate players.