5:03 am, October 17, 2014
I am a recovering tomato, and generally I'm getting acceptable at the game. Not yet hit t10 - my regulars are E75, T71, T-43 and I have just started the T29. My tops are E75, IS3.....and T69. And I ha [..]
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5:03 am, October 13, 2014
You know that sound I'm talking about...
I've just recently become aware that I've actually worked that damn sound into my situational awareness. If I'm zoomed and about to take a shot and [..]
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5:03 am, October 10, 2014
I never realized this when playing on my PC. A while ago I tried to play on a laptop, and that mini-map is tiny! Perhaps making it bigger would improve new player's situation awareness? It only takes& [..]
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5:03 am, September 23, 2014
Please don't upvote - only want to find this out: If a loader from T-54 who has situational awareness trained (since he is also a radioman) gets retrained to Obj.140 where the commander takes over the [..]
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5:03 am, September 13, 2014
My T-34 crew is going to finally be trained up to 100% and I'm not sure what perks to get them. The commander/gunner I transferred over from another tank with the mentor perk already in place (current [..]
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2:01 pm, August 29, 2014
Does anyone know if a commander with both commander and radio operator( the commander of my IS-6 for example ) main qualification can stack Recon & Situational Awareness and so get the benefit to [..]
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2:01 pm, August 25, 2014
(what I would do if I started from scratch w/ no premium tanks) Preparation - Setup: Comfortable Mouse (my fav list: Razor DeathAdder, Logitech 400, CM Storm-Spawn, 1800 DPI setting) Mouse Pad (Mono [..]
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2:01 pm, August 19, 2014
These are the first skills I picked (with the help of you guy's) C-Sixth Sense G-Deadeye D-Clutch Braking RO-Situational Awareness L-Safe Stowage L-Adrenaline Rush I was wondering what I shoul [..]
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2:01 pm, August 19, 2014
I know the game mechanics. I have basic tactical knowledge. I know where I should be, I do my job, and I try and survive until the end. I always try to win the battle, and have decent situational awar [..]
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2:01 pm, August 17, 2014
Any decent player will soon come to realise the immense frustration this damn game can cause. The horrible stock grinds, the cancerous pub games chock full of half wits with zero tactical awareness an [..]
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2:01 pm, August 13, 2014
Do you use XVM? That's nice. You get some useful information out of that thing. Do you have the win probability estimates activated? Alright, whatever. Do you like to inform your team at the o [..]
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2:01 pm, August 11, 2014
Now this is a bit of a rant and may come off as pure bitching. In my last few days of tanking I have had numerous encounters of teammates pushing and or blocking escapes. When I say blocking escapes I [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
I'm not asking that as a blanket across the board question. I don't think it's importance will change for lights and the sniper TDs/mediums but there is a section of mediums an [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
So about a month ago, I was asking people here if I was "good for 2k games." and had like 800-900 WN8. After 500 games I've got 1042 overall wn8 and I've averaged 1,4 [..]
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2:01 pm, August 5, 2014
I'm wondering if someone can help me to understand how the maximum spotting range of 445m factors in when you use equipment like binocs or coated optics that could extend it beyond that limit. [..]
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2:01 am, July 30, 2014
Hey fellow tankers, I finally finished grinding that Panther and got my Panther II fully equipped. I got my crew members to 200% (100% + 1 Skill/Perk) doing this. I plan on moving it with the tanks up [..]
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2:01 am, July 26, 2014
... the ability to continuously gather and process information, and making every decision based on the processed information.
That's it. Really. It's that simple. It's not about focusing on **** vs [..]
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2:01 pm, July 25, 2014
Currently this is my set up.
Commander: Recon 31%
Driver: Clutch Breaking 29%
Radio Operator: Situational Awareness 30%
Loader: Camo 30%
I personally like to play the T-34 as a scout and a sn [..]
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2:01 am, July 14, 2014
I am about to start my third skill on the Hellcat, and as of now I have: Commander: Sixth sense, Recon Gunner: Camouflage , Deadeye Driver: Camouflage , Off-road driving Radio Operator: Camouflage , S [..]
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2:01 pm, July 12, 2014
Some may take what I am going to say as a rambling rant, but don't be fooled by fools. This will be a wall of text, and if you honestly have care for the product you sell, you will want to read to the [..]
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2:01 am, July 9, 2014
I've always wondered whether stacking optics, situation awareness, recon and binocs not only increases your view range, but also increases the chances of seeing enemies within your view range. [..]
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2:01 am, July 5, 2014
Just got my first skill 100%ed and am now waiting for a crew retrain discount so I can change things around, just checking that the crew xp I am earning in the meantime while not having a second skill [..]
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2:01 pm, July 3, 2014
I know I need to do more. I can look at my stats and play and know I'm not getting as much damage as I'd like. It has to be map awareness for the TDs and other skills for the various tanks I play. Fro [..]
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2:01 pm, June 30, 2014
One says increases maximum view range and the other says extends view range. submitted by Obnubilate [link] [4 comments]
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2:01 am, June 29, 2014
Hey guys! I recently got a T-54, and I dropped the skills on my commander (I chose jack of all trades initially, it was taking forever to get sixth sense). I chose 6th sense as the first perk, and now [..]
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2:01 pm, June 23, 2014
so FINALLY, after nearly 13k games, I got my first t10 tank. The IS-7. It's pretty much everything I expected. The armor jump over the IS-8 is great!
So I need to know about equipment. I went with ve [..]
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2:01 am, June 23, 2014
So i am nearing the end of the Tortoise era and my crew has just finished up their 2nd perks. Since they will be in the FV 183 soon, i need to pick the skills accordingly. Here is what i have so far: [..]
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2:01 am, June 17, 2014
Hi, Im Ted, and Im a tomato. It all started a few years back when I jumped into my first Loltraktor. I couldnt hit the broadside of a Province barn and soon found myself a smoldering wreck halfway dow [..]
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2:01 am, June 14, 2014
...i was so happy but my stress level and rage is coming back faster than ever after 2 gaming sessions. the game is giving me ulcer again -_- i may yet still quit...
but aside from that. my skill [..]
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2:01 pm, June 13, 2014
Salutations fellow tankers. I'd like to hear the stories of how you guys faced skill plateaus and managed to overcome them gradually. Here's my story. I derped around like most new ta [..]
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2:01 pm, June 12, 2014
So I have playing wot for over a year, like most of us noobs I went and got a Lowe, KV5, and started playing like a dumb ars, now I am a bit better from say 6 months ago I play with greater awareness, [..]
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2:01 am, June 2, 2014
Formerly one of my least favourite tanks (I even preferred the AMX 40 to it at one point), the Leopard has really grown on me in the last month or so, being both a fun tank to play and, statistically, [..]
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2:01 am, May 29, 2014
Come play games with Wargaming America all day long to help raise awareness for these important military charities.
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2:01 am, May 28, 2014
So here's another advice for the week. You only need alert once or twice.
Recently I had a game in my Chi-nu. One side of the map had cleaned up neatly, the other side had been beaten (not without [..]
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2:01 am, May 27, 2014
Everyone I've ever heard say that Arty players are unskilled clickers, wouldn't last 2 minutes in an Artillery Vehicle in any battle, unless they were hiding. I'm tired of hearing that I have no skill [..]
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2:01 am, May 22, 2014
For WG's "free to play" business model...aka "PLAY END GAME CONTENT FROM DAY ONE!!!"
Loading into a game I do a quick check of our team via XVM, and notice a Tiger I with 7k bat [..]
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2:01 am, May 20, 2014
Hi everyone. One of our clan members TK'd a member of 3rd Army group, and I am here to both apologize and explain why on behalf of the 2th Canadian
The clan member who did this is colour blind. So [..]
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2:01 pm, May 12, 2014
As of this post
The Current RU Winrate for the AMX 40 is...
49.06 %
(wth!?)
There is a reason I bring this up. The AMX 40 is notorious for it faults to a point where it
is frequently labeled &q [..]
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2:01 pm, May 2, 2014
So I'm getting close to the 4:th skill on my tiger crew, and I'm not really sure where to go from here. I use automatic fire extinguishers so fire fighting seems kinda superflous. my i [..]
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2:01 pm, April 27, 2014
I find this very good and a must-read to everyone, sizeable as the text may be. This applies to everyone that plays WoT, no matter what tier you play or how much youre online.
The idea is that you [..]
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10:05 pm, April 25, 2014
Greetings, /r/WorldofTanks, I've been playing WOT recreationally for a bit. I really like the game, I'm a big armored warfare buff, my dad drove a tank in the army, etc etc. Unfortunat [..]
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10:05 am, April 25, 2014
How do you think it works heavies? Do you station yourself at the base and hope the guy with 10mm of armor advances in front of you exposing the enemy position so you can fire from cover? When they ar [..]
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10:05 pm, April 23, 2014
So, we were discussing view range in another thread and the question of maximum effective view range came up. The tooltips for the binocular telescope and coated optics equipment in-game state that th [..]
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10:05 pm, April 17, 2014
After much waffling about what lines I thought I'd like and trying various things, I have finally progressed to the point of unlocking the Pershing and the T32. I have some questions about eac [..]
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9:05 pm, March 4, 2014
As the subreddit gets more and more hits by users asking for advice (for certain tanks or tiers) I thought about a program by players to take new players out for some games to help them get into the m [..]
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9:05 pm, March 4, 2014
MetaGriff (or Lord_Brailey_Griffington) has put together a 24 hour live stream event on twitch to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. All proceeds raised will go directly to the foundation. T [..]
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9:05 pm, March 2, 2014
My god the players on the xbox 360 are complete lemmings. Not all of them but the majority are. It's even worse that the xbox 360 wot offers training videos that are easily accessible to these players [..]
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9:05 pm, February 28, 2014
Ok so 'veteran' might be to overstate it a little, but I did play the hell out of Panzer Front back in around 2001 on my PS1. Having enjoyed Panzer Front immensely, and just started pl [..]
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9:05 am, February 19, 2014
There have been a lot of discussions about how to measure WoT "skill". In my mind, this is a very broad term that is composed of different (and some independent) competencies.
The challen [..]
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9:05 pm, February 6, 2014
Yesterday I download a lot of T1 Heavy replays to watch how other people play certain maps and I noticed that the equipment they chose was much different than mine. So I thought I would ask to see if [..]
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9:05 am, January 31, 2014
Alright, so I've been on quite the losing streak tonight while always coming in at top damage and XP. It's getting a little annoying, since my ***** usually signifies a loss in the games I've been in [..]
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9:05 pm, January 30, 2014
Hi all. Being a bit of an older gamer myself, understandably there are some gaps in my internet education. I seek clarification, if possible: Rerolls/Rerollers: I see people chastise others often for [..]
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9:05 am, January 15, 2014
Tired of people sneaking up behind you? Annoyed at those team mates yelling SOS? Done with those complainers saying east side is completely not covered/lost?
Try this:
Hit the [+] Key on your ke [..]
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9:05 am, January 9, 2014
Jagdtiger is one of those hated tanks. WG hates it so much, they nerfed it with the batch of German "balance changes". Is it still capable? Yes. Is it fun to play now? No. I rewrote [..]
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9:05 am, December 31, 2013
Having been playing for a while and recently breaking 1k eff, I've been wondering what separates statistically **** players from ones that are considered "above average" when [..]
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9:05 pm, December 28, 2013
I currently have: Repairs, Sixth Sense Repairs, Snap Shot Repairs Smooth Ride Repairs, Safe Stowage And i was thinking of going: Repairs, Sixth Sense, Situation Awareness, BIA Repairs, Snap Shot, [..]
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9:05 pm, December 13, 2013
Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things TheyAvoid
1. Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves. You dont see mentally strong people feeling sorry for their circumstances or dwelling on the way they've [..]
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9:05 am, December 11, 2013
Tonight myself and 2 of my pals got together and grabbed our KV-1's, mounted the 57mm project 413, and took to the battlefields. With an average 85 damage per shot leaving our guns every 2 sec [..]
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9:05 pm, December 9, 2013
Hi everyone. I want to ask advice on Hellcat. I'm a very average player, I play a lot of Tds. So far I got to tier 4-6, venturing into tier 7 with premium tds. Loved T40 and M8A1. Had win rate [..]
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9:05 pm, November 28, 2013
Yes, another one of these posts. I just broke the 1k battle mark yesterday and figured I should probably take the game a little more seriously. I have generally good map awareness, knowledge of what m [..]
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9:05 pm, November 28, 2013
Hi there, I am a new player and tomorrow i will for the first time reach 100% with the crew of my PzKpfw3/4 and i am unsure what skill to learn and how the whole skill system works. I allready read a [..]
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9:05 pm, November 18, 2013
Hey guys, I discovered that one of my Loaders on my IS-7 has Situational Awareness and it's written in red. Also the Message says that I can't use any Radio Operator Skills/Perks on th [..]
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9:05 pm, November 15, 2013
submitted by loonyphoenix [link] [16 comments]
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9:05 pm, November 12, 2013
Alright so im about 40K or less away from the AMX 50 120 (which i finally decided to get a Tier 9) Since i still have 40K or less Exp to grind out. What Crew Skills are good with the AMX 50 120?
Cirr [..]
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9:05 pm, November 10, 2013
Hey Guys, I was wondering, what would be the next skills I should get? Right now I have
Commander: Mentor (swapping for Sixth Sense)
Gunner:Snap Shot
Driver: Clutch Braking
Radio Op: Situational Aware [..]
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9:05 pm, November 8, 2013
World of Tanks Learning Curve
Level 1: Noob. Player believes that the game is Call of Duty in tanks, so he either camps or tries to drive around snap-shooting at enemy tanks on the [..]
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9:05 am, November 4, 2013
I'm almost done with my first set of crew skills & perks, which consists of:
Commander: 6th sense
Gunner: Deadeye, so I can detonate tanks more often... I learned where are most modules at for wh [..]
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9:05 am, November 1, 2013
Hi guys, forst posting on the forums. Have a question re the situational awareness skill.
as per wiki, it states that this skill "enables your Radio Operator to extend your vehicle's View Range [..]
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10:05 am, October 24, 2013
So in a match a teammate called out the enemy ELC AMX for not scouting an T8 Erlenberg Encounter. The ELC and myself both stated that the ELC was a poor scout. Well this ended up being face-palm conve [..]
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10:09 pm, October 16, 2013
Speaking from personal experience I can tell you that consuming alchohol could have negative effects on your battle performance. It slows down you reflexes, you reaction time suffer [..]
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10:05 am, October 10, 2013
Hey tankers, not sure if this has been posted or discussed here before, but after having 2 pretty good games in 1 night on my E-50M and Leopard PTA (pretty much just a Leopard 1 on baddie pills), and [..]
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10:05 pm, October 7, 2013
I know a lot of people know about this, but there was recently a post about certain unfair mods, here was my response: View range circles are pretty common, and if you have one around your tank you sh [..]
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10:05 am, October 3, 2013
First all I want to say how amazing the revived wt-replays.org is, especially with the minimap battleviewer and the entire chat record, help put in a lot of perspectives for spectators. Equipments: Im [..]
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10:05 pm, October 1, 2013
Like look at their reccs for the 268, for example. Comm: 6S -> Recon -> SA -> Camo Gunner: Deadeye -> Camo -> Repair Driver: ORD -> Camo -> Repair Loa [..]
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10:05 pm, October 1, 2013
Hello! In a few days I will get myself a brand new E-100 and I am trying to plan which crew skills I should get. I have a used tiger 2 that I am not enjoying that much since I got the E-75 because it [..]
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10:05 am, October 1, 2013
I'm curious if I were to take my cruiser III crew, where my commander doubles as a radioman, and earned a radioman skill for my commander. Then transfered that commander to another tank, retra [..]
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10:05 pm, September 30, 2013
Howdy Folks,
This is less of a rant and more of a wake-up call if you will. Pubbies will be pubbies. Can't change the impossible. This is actually directed to those players who have situational aware [..]
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10:05 pm, September 21, 2013
So I was in my 212A on Sand River today. Ended up taking 9 shots, getting 5 direct hits and splashing 5, which is not so bad. Also ended up with ~3500 in damage ( [..]
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6:41 am, September 18, 2013
Recently there has been lots of talk of game balance, and I mean more than ever since I started frequently lurking the forums. I, personally, have my own theory if you would like to indulge me with yo [..]
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6:38 am, September 18, 2013
Wanted to share some thoughts with the newer players in hopes it will help make the WOT more fun and also allow you to win more games as you play.
First,..a bit about the author. I was once a " [..]
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10:05 pm, September 16, 2013
Hi guys, thanks for all the feedback in advance. I'm currently hitting 3rd skill with my crews and I want to know what should I pick next. T-54: I'll write the skills I'm not s [..]
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10:05 am, August 24, 2013
I'm back for a 3rd round of MS Paint guides. In case you were looking for the previous guides I've posted, here are the links. 1st Guide 2nd Guide This one, I'm going to quick [..]
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10:05 am, August 24, 2013
I've been playing my Matilda Black Prince a lot lately. I'm closing in fast on 400 games played and I've really been enjoying myself. For such an awful tank, it's been a real treat to play, particular [..]
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10:05 am, August 20, 2013
Kind of a rant so please bare with me. So I was playing a battle on Mountain Pass in my Hellcat, suffering lag due to high ping (lunch time at work so internet was congested) but managed to **** 2 tan [..]
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10:05 pm, August 19, 2013
After working with a vast compendium of players in both a formal and informal way Im going public in offering cheap replay reviews.
Tanks is a game of fighting through plateaus of skill and ability, s [..]
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10:05 am, August 16, 2013
Important note: using this mod REQUIRES good situational awareness, as you will not see anything your allies tell you I got tired of having to see all the stupid **** that goes into the chat, and trie [..]
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10:05 am, August 10, 2013
You know it means trouble when match is rigged badly against you....
Spoiler
That's right, two T29s against our Panther and T20. And I'm driving the Panther, not some random [..]
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10:05 pm, August 7, 2013
Salute Tankers,
Still very new to the game and I would like your input in regards to the topic.
I am enjoying my Jadgtiger 8.8 and beginning to learn it's traits.
In regards to equip modules I am c [..]
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10:05 am, August 7, 2013
I have had several games in my T71 today where the boneheads on my team did not assist where doing so would've made a huge difference.
Game 1: Fjords, west side. I run into an enemy Type 62 who like m [..]
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10:05 am, August 4, 2013
I'm looking over the various skills and perks one can acquire, and I realized that I don't 100% know exactly what those three skills do and under what circumstances they would be effec [..]
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10:05 pm, August 3, 2013
I'm hoping not to have him go through the terribad phase that lasted a while (3k battles) for me. What tanks do you think would be best at stuff like passive scouting, peek-a-booing, armor ang [..]
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10:05 pm, July 28, 2013
Hi Guys. I just reached 300 battles on my Centurion 7/1 so this got me thinking. I use the standard setup for my Cent *EGLD *Vert Stab *Medium Rammer But is this setup actually effective? The Rammer o [..]
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10:05 am, July 25, 2013
I am used to playing with all kinds of players. Ones that are still learning, ones that don't care, good ones, bad ones, and all of them I have gotten used to and am fine with.& [..]
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10:05 am, July 23, 2013
Hey all,
I'm about to pick up the T71 sometime this week and was hoping to get some advice on recommended equipment for it in 8.6 and beyond. I understand that camo in general has changed drasticall [..]
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10:05 am, July 19, 2013
The title probably isn't clear, but one of the challenges I have is figuring out which enemy tanks to pay attention to because I can see where many of them are, even if there's a friggin' mountain bet [..]
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10:05 am, July 18, 2013
Hi guys,
Been playing this game for close to 2 months now. To be honest, when I first started, i basically rushed through tier 1-6 in order to get the "better tanks"; because of this, my st [..]
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10:05 pm, July 17, 2013
Not a awesome Situational Awareness moment for me or stellar performance but just amazed at PUB match where a pub (Jackson) and i were on same wavelength and it was amazing. Worth a look if you got a [..]
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10:05 pm, July 11, 2013
Afternoon all. I was just looking at my stats (yes, I know, they ****, no need to tell me that) and noticed something about WN7 scoring. Not going to bother posting screen shots because there is no ne [..]
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10:05 am, July 11, 2013
Hi Folks:
I'm planning on finally getting a new PC next month. It's for work, but I want to let it relax at the end of the day with these new HW demanding game [..]
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10:05 pm, July 9, 2013
By gross analogy: Lets say my tank has a spotting distance of 100m because my crew is lazy and doesn't wash off the lens between battles. An ally, say 200m in front of me, spots a tank a furth [..]
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