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T28 Concept Tank

5:03 am, October 10, 2014 Info taken from FTR http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/10/09/straight-outta-supertest-t28-concept/   Because I love making comparisons I will be comparing the stats of the T28 Concept to the other [..] View

A story about the results of pi-polar tanking.

4:03 pm, October 8, 2014 A short story about my struggle with tanking, family and work, and how the three battled for my sole.   Some of you already know me from long ago as "The Unicum Hunter" in the forum [..] View

I hate the term "clan" for World of Tanks

5:03 am, October 6, 2014 And yes, I'm aware that it is the standard term used for player groups, but it really doesn't fit the terminology or the concept of World of Tanks. They really should be called Armored Companies, afte [..] View

Revised French Tree

5:03 am, October 6, 2014 At present, I don't feel that the French tree manages to represent French tactical thinking and armoured vehicle development, let alone provide sufficient variety for a nation that is so integral to t [..] View

So much fun, but I have questions...

5:03 am, September 21, 2014 Staff Sergeant Finnegan shouted over the din of the engine to his driver. "Allingham! We're exposed on this road! There's a slope on the side, right next to the lake. Take us along there [..] View

So after getting down the "basics", how does one keep improving?

5:03 am, September 12, 2014 The basics being the concepts of angling, sidescraping, hull down, general weakspots, general armour profiles, all that jazz. I recently checked my stats and in some places I'm purple, some I'm blue, [..] View

The multi-core and WoT misconception...

2:01 am, August 30, 2014 Recently, SS on FtR translated a post that Storm wrote regarding multicore support in World of Tanks. http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/08/29/storm-on-multi-core-support/ For those that can't acces [..] View

Turn an Elite Tank into a Premium

2:01 pm, August 28, 2014 Hi, y'all. So this game has a problem, and fortunately I have a solution. One of the things that bothers players is some trees in the game for some nations simply have no way to train a crew for a veh [..] View

Quick Guide for Starting Out / First 3K Battles

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 [..] View

Tank Skin Idea (Cumulative Battles Survived)

2:01 am, August 23, 2014 You know those games where you seem to be invincible? You are bouncing shots left, right, and centre, putting out good damage, and leading the charge. At the end of it all, granted you were able to su [..] View

Is the concept of AP and HE shells still in use in today's battlefield?

2:01 pm, August 18, 2014 I have been watching this anime called /r/AldnoahZero - it's a parallel universe with a war going on between humans born in Mars and humans born in Earth. They use robots holding huge rifle gu [..] View

What keeps you playing this game?

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 [..] View

Soviet Tier 5 Premium Up-armoured T-34 Suggestion

2:01 pm, August 3, 2014 As you may already know WG is struggeling to find premiums for the soviet tree. An idea popped up in mind, why don't WG just up armour the T-34? So the T-34 would have more armour but more weight so w [..] View

Circlederping.

2:01 pm, July 31, 2014 I accidently came up with the concept when talking with friends online in game. A platoon of three T49 Light tanks with the Derp all circling a tank and abusing it with their derps. A CircleDerp. sub [..] View

Thoughts and Gripes/

2:01 pm, July 21, 2014 Alright all, new to the forum not to the game. I have played since the beta off and on. I like the concept of the game, the fact that it's free is a plus especially in this economy. The graphics [..] View

ARTY, and the lack there of

2:01 am, July 21, 2014 I have posted several time on this matter, within the arty page, but to no lack luster. So I am going to put it here into the general discussion.. WG has been reducing the ability of artillery, due t [..] View

I would like to clear up some misconceptions about arty arcs

2:01 pm, July 11, 2014 A huge misconception I see about artillery, in almost every discussion of artillery, is that they have different arcs. I'm going to try to use trajectory instead of arc though, because it& [..] View

Daigensui's Rescript: Damn the Armor, Full Penetration Ahead!

2:01 pm, July 9, 2014 This is Part 2 of the Japanese Tank Destroyer Series, dealing with the concepts and prototypes of thinly armored tank destroyers developed by the Japanese. Due to the rather sprawling nature of the de [..] View

Things that are funny: watching people whine and complain about the Hellcat nerf.

2:01 pm, July 8, 2014 It's like people have no concept of balance, the metagame, and how the two affect each other. Or the most basic of statistics. I've seen so many pubbies recently on various forums whin [..] View

Honest question, what is a good way to improve?

2:01 pm, June 25, 2014 So I am closing in on 2k battles and I am getting better at not sucking, I am just wondering if there is anything specific I should be doing to improve. I have been working on the basic concepts like [..] View

How to force my mate to take cover once in a while?

2:01 pm, June 23, 2014 I often party up with a real life friend. He is a very intelligent guy usually, but when it comes to WoT he seems to not grasp the concept of avoiding damage. He is quite happy to roll out from around [..] View

Vent: Fake Content Spreaders

2:01 pm, June 17, 2014 I just went to the Wikipedia page of the German E series vehicles and found that some Weraboo had edited the page to have the GW E-100 and JPE-100 included as part of the description of the E-100! Sho [..] View

Crew skills on 3 low-tier premiums

2:01 am, June 17, 2014 I recently acquired three premium tanks with 100% crews: M22 Locust (Tier III American light) Pz.Kpfw. S35 739 (f) (Tier III German medium) Ram II (Tier V American Medium) I've only ever had t [..] View

Method for Regular tank to become Premium tank

2:01 am, June 15, 2014 Hi, y'all. So I had the idea, and suggested it, almost 2 years ago of a way that a player could make a non premium tank a premium tank. I wish WG archived our topics and posts going back farther than [..] View

Skill Plateaus

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 [..] View

What are you going to do now. Reality kicks in!

2:01 am, May 30, 2014 I am changing up a little bit in this scenario. I am going to explain a situation which actually occurred in one of my games. The concept of what I'm about to explain of course can be any tank, any na [..] View

A Guide to Consumables

2:01 am, May 21, 2014 For the second installment of my Guide Series, I will be discussing consumables. Sure, they give your tank/crew certain bonuses in battle, but how exactly is the best way to use them? Many people use [..] View

When is the best time to do a reroll?

2:01 am, May 17, 2014 So someone has recently suggested I do a reroll to get stats that represent me better as when I first started out. If I shot one enemy in ten battles I was doing great. I grinded through my first T2 a [..] View

Solo Mediums

10:05 am, May 5, 2014 Hello again, Well seeing that all of my tier 10 tanks are either heavies or tank destroyers, some time agoI decided to try and grind some tier 10 mediums. I decided to go for the M48 Patton and the O [..] View

I need some serious help with this game. I cannot win any matches, I constantly get low amounts of XP and I cannot figure out how to play each role.

2:01 am, May 5, 2014 I'll try and discuss my problem in the best way I can. I constantly get raped in every single game I play. Ensk, Himmselsdorf, Mines, Malinovka, Province, it doesn't matter. I can& [..] View

How do I into sniping?

2:01 am, May 3, 2014 Now, I know this probably isn't the best place for it and I'll get told off most likely, the official world of tanks forums are hell. They practically told me "don't w [..] View

[SERIOUS] Players with over 5k Games & 47% Win Rate or less - Why do you keep playing?

10:05 pm, May 2, 2014 I am genuinely curious. I have never met a sober human who can say "losing is fun" and yet there are so many players who say "I play for fun." This concept really [..] View

gold redistribution ideas

2:01 am, April 29, 2014 Hello fine folks, I would suggest to rearrange territories gold values after the campaign. Total amount of gold would be relatively same or less so WG revenue will not be affected in any way. I have [..] View

Importance: Platooning & Having Fun!

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 [..] View

New Stream to learn competitive games! WoT Tonight!

2:01 am, April 26, 2014 Hi! We're a new stream called Friday Night Gaming. Each Friday night at 7pm PST, we play 2 -3 competitive games and focus on improving our skill and the skill of our viewers. For example, if w [..] View

Looking to start an historical battle group for 2030 AEST

2:01 am, April 23, 2014 Hi all, Like many I love the concept of historical battles but feel let down by the application of it in game. Instead of whining I am looking to get a group of HB loving guys and gals together on [..] View

PSA for New Players: Stock Up This Weekend

10:05 am, April 12, 2014 Speaking of the three consumable pillars of grinding: Small First Aid Kit, Small Repair Kit, and Manual Fire Extinguisher. It is a misconception amongst new players that the three consumables are o [..] View

Battle Ratings/Random Battles - Event Idea

9:05 am, March 2, 2014 I'm tired of people who don't know how game dynamics work. Proposal: Give everyone a chance to earn a bonus for taking an in game tutorial... Firing without being spotted Getting hull down Side S [..] View

PSA: Zen and the Art of Self-Defence - How to Handle Trolls, Tk'ers, and Annoying People on Your Team

9:05 am, February 25, 2014 You can't. Shooting a green tank is never allowed. Ok, so you need some more than that. Sure thing. I'm noticing an increasing number of threads of people complaining about being banned for reta [..] View

The nightmare known as the D.W. 2

9:05 pm, February 15, 2014 hey guys, i just got into this thing and i feel like its a worse grind than the m3 lee would be if it had scout mm. I cant seem to grasp the concept of how to us this abomination and was wondering how [..] View

The upcoming TD Nerfs

9:05 am, February 10, 2014 So is everybody looking forward to upcoming TD nerfs? Im looking forward to unlocking the new King of the hill TD the E-100 :D Now that all the 850 dmg guns are getting nerfed to 750 the E-100 is basi [..] View

Ultimate Replay Recording Guide [video]

9:05 am, February 3, 2014 I have developed a method which can be used to make full resolution, high-quality, smooth replays, even with low-end PCs. First I will deliver the proof of concept. The tutorial itself is being worked [..] View

The Four Issues I have with WoT, and the ways I would fix them.

9:05 am, January 29, 2014 Hello, I have been playing for almost a year now. I have 4,200ish games, 23% Artillery, 40% TD, 12% MT, 25% LT, and 16 HT battles. Today I am talking about the things i have issue with in my short ti [..] View

So I believe I am improving.

9:05 am, January 29, 2014 So I believe I am improving. While playing the Comet and SU-100 during their last days, (I grinded 37k xp for the SU-152 in like 1 full day of grinding. And grinded the last of the 100k needed for the [..] View

[Noob] Penetration

9:05 am, January 26, 2014 Ok, so I am running into another issue, and it is very very confusing. None of my shells hurt the enemies. Like, at all. This isn't a case of missing, or ever fringe shots, but rather straight [..] View

Arty tears, MMMMM taste good.

9:05 pm, January 22, 2014 I don't mean tears from artys, but tears caused by. I LOVE to read all these arty whine threads. "I got 1 shotted by arty, please nerf" = I was stupid, got spotted, and still camped in t [..] View

Shells penetration in World of Warships, Probably the same concept for World of Tanks

9:05 am, January 22, 2014 submitted by War_Raven [link] [65 comments] View

Arty prevents camping - misconception

9:05 am, January 22, 2014 Judge for yourselves... that's all I got to say. View

The 10 Commandments of WoT (draft document)

9:05 pm, January 17, 2014 1. If thou runneth in the opposite direction of thine team, thou canst not expect support. 2. If though bitcheth about thine team before the countdown ends, thou art morally obliged to carry. 3. Thou [..] View

National Battles

9:05 am, January 17, 2014 If you've been reading FTR lately, you'd know that national battles will come. Interesting concept considering it was said before it would never come. However, I agree with SilentStalker that these ty [..] View

Is it time to change the MM to a one tier spread? And an explanation how MM should have always been done professionally.

9:05 pm, January 13, 2014 This idea of the MM spread change does not apply to all tanks equally, some are more capable of handling a higher tier spread than others, like the tier 8 RHM german turreted TD, great at every tier [..] View

Changing tank weights, using weight solely for Matchmaker

9:05 pm, January 10, 2014 Disclaimer: I'm just going to pull numbers out of my *** here. This is a concept, I'm not going to figure out hard values. I do not want criticism of how much each modifier is, but criticism of the ov [..] View

How my WoT career became better after abandoning scouts

9:05 am, January 6, 2014 I started the game with the amx series (admittedly I was a pretty crappy player as you can see in my amx lights and trying to fix my W/Rfor the 13 90 :P ) . Then moved on to get the t71 which I found [..] View

German MAN Medium Tank Line

9:05 pm, December 31, 2013 We currently have a MANmedium tank line, but it only begins at tier 6. Fortunately, there are designs by MANN that could fit from tier 2 to 5, making a full line from the Leichtraktor to the E 50M: [..] View

Kazna Kru Drunken Birthday Stream 2013 - EU/ENG

9:05 am, December 27, 2013 Listen up boys and girls! December 10th 2012 the gold was spent for the creation of this marvelous clan. Thats just the spark that lit the plug. The real birthday have been moved somewhere to December [..] View

World of Worthless TD players

9:05 am, December 26, 2013 HI WOT The upcoming nerf to high Tier Tds is overdue and frankly it should cover all TDs at all tiers (at least as far as camo is concerned). This debacle, idiotic experiment and finally a admissio [..] View

Suggestion for a new British Premium tank.

9:05 am, December 25, 2013 So bored I was browsing the Wiki pages and I rolled across this Super Heavy British tank concept called "The Flying Elephant". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Elephant Looks like i [..] View

DingBat's Threads o' Common Sense: Statistics

9:05 pm, December 9, 2013 Stats. Oh god. Stats. Virtually nothing else has the potential to cause extra long threads, bruised egos, whining, and intellectual dishonesty. I vowed to stay away from the topic, but rules are made [..] View

Official WN8 thread

9:05 pm, December 6, 2013 Since its inevitable there will eventually be explosive threads full of misinformation about WN8, I'll go ahead and just make the official thread myself, so that at least I can easily locate it for re [..] View

Should there be a cap on how much damage cupolas and turrets can take?

9:05 pm, November 28, 2013 I like the concept of weak points in tanks but in certain cases it's a bit ridiculous and kind of game breaking. Case in point: The T95. Arguably the toughest tank in the game, yet I was destr [..] View

Lessons from History #12: Midway

9:05 pm, November 25, 2013 In the first six months of the Pacific War, the Japanese had been successful beyond their wildest expectations. They'd taken an enormous swath of territory, including the Dutch East Indies, the Philip [..] View

[NA] The Great North American Reddit Clan Bloodsport Tournament [NA]

9:05 am, November 17, 2013 The Great North American Reddit Clan Bloodsport Tournament Jean Claude Van Damme approves. Time to put your money where your mouth is. Are you the best battle caller in all of the Reddit clans? Prove [..] View

War Thunder Listens to Clients-WOT-->fails!

9:05 am, November 14, 2013 HI WOT We asked... we asked....... and we asked........ So War Thunder is shoving this in your face WOT and you deserve all it and probably a good kick in the *** as well...... War Thunder has learned [..] View

Truths and misconceptions about BIA

9:05 am, November 14, 2013 As noob I have followed the many interesting threads about crew training, skills and perks lately in this forum. Instead of hijacking someoneelse's thread I decided to post a separate thread about the [..] View

WOT Learning Curve: a roadmap

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 [..] View

Tier V "scouts"

9:05 am, October 27, 2013 Okay, so I get the concept. You need 'scout' tanks as fodder for the heavy tanks. Here's the deal, though: it doesn't work. The only thing this does is **** off tier V tankers who get in the way of th [..] View

DingBat's Battle Reviews #9: Getting By With a Little Help From My Friends

10:05 pm, October 25, 2013 There's been a long running debate on how much of an influence a player can have over a match. I'm a little surprised by it, but there it is. This replay isn't going to clear up that debate, but what [..] View

Panther 1/2 and E-50 Guns- Errors & Rework

10:05 pm, October 14, 2013 HI WOT The 75mm/L100 and 88mm/L100 need to be removed. Neither of these guns actually existed. The 75mm/L100 was one of Hitlers whimsical ideas which was never carried out or even studied. As of now [..] View

If you could "undo" playing some tanks what would you undo?

10:05 am, October 11, 2013 Like the title says, if you could delete/undo playing some tanks which would you undo? For me, I'd undo playing the Hetzer, T-28, and T-34. T-28 and Hetzer: Both because I played them when I [..] View

SUPER DUPER Guide to becoming orange. A must read.

10:05 pm, October 10, 2013 Hi tankers! Are you 8k games in and just discovered XVM?  I know that program is a well guarded secret and hard to find, but welcome aboard! Already grown tired of that deep shad [..] View

Suggestions for the Low Tier German Heavy Line

10:05 am, October 9, 2013 So as everyone already knows, WG added a low-tier heavy German line in the last update. It consists of the Durchbruchswagen 2, the nerfed VK 30.01 (H), and the newly designated heavy VK 36.01 (H). As [..] View

New Map Idea! A Maze!

10:05 am, October 6, 2013 Our current maps make too much of a pretense of appearing too realistic. This game isn't a Sim, we always hear said, so why not allow for one or two maps not too seriously based on real world location [..] View

New Battle Matching Filter for Pubs

10:05 pm, October 5, 2013 I would like to sugjest that a new filter be put in place for public matches... This filter would take into account all of a players stats with their currently selected tank, and place them with playe [..] View

A Letter From A Purple On 7/42 "Team Mode"

10:05 pm, October 4, 2013 Dear Wargaming, Thank you so very much for finally giving us a mode we've wanted for ages. Me and the other purples have been ecstatic every time we've seen an FTR or official post about 7/42 TC.& [..] View

Are dedicated scouts an antiquated concept?

10:05 pm, October 2, 2013 What I noticed is that dedicated scout tanks are wastly outperformed by high-tiered lights (and in case of the British lines, even some mediums). Have not played the Chaffee (and the MT) yet, but all [..] View

One of the most frustrating games ever made

10:05 pm, October 2, 2013 As a sucky noob still trying to experiment and learn the ways of WOT, this game is one of the most anger inducing games I've ever played. The amount of people who forget to abide by the basic concept [..] View

Public Service Announcement: Lemming trains

10:05 am, September 30, 2013 First let me start with the definition of a lemming taken straight from Wikipedia. Lemming "Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic, in tundra biomes." "Lemming [..] View

Competition Means Big Trouble for WarGaming

6:40 am, September 18, 2013 This post is hot on the heels of lagging out for 20 seconds, sending my incredibly well armored T-44 hurling into the enemy base on Mines.. what a fun target my tank must have been. SO.. this is a lo [..] View

Short list of common mistakes that mediocre and weak players make that can easily be avoided. (Through observation of my terribad platoon mates)

6:13 am, September 18, 2013 So I've been playing platoons with a bunch of friends who range from mediocre to quite bad and have made a list of mistakes for them, and i'm gonna share it with you. Here goes : (Disclaimer: i'm not [..] View

Downside to disabling Encounter and Assaults?

10:05 am, September 4, 2013 Is there any downside or penalties for disabling them in the options? I have been debating on disabling the encounter modes simply because the majority of the encounter modes are just one big lemming [..] View

Polish-UK Concept Tank Revealed

10:05 pm, September 2, 2013 submitted by FrellPumpkin [link] [54 comments] View

Free 2.5 months of premium by playing WoWP

10:05 pm, August 28, 2013 From WoWP site news: Starting tomorrow you can earn up to 240 tokens per day by playing World of Warplanes. These tokens can then be converted to premium time shared with WoT. Yes, you can get premiu [..] View

Quitting after 22,500 games + Review of WOT.

10:05 am, August 27, 2013 This ain't a rage quit post, I still really like WOT and I think that the game improves quite a lot almost every patch. I'm quitting because it's just too addictive and I have **** to do. Review. Gam [..] View

Tanker Mentality

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 [..] View

Serb Facts August - "Stalin's Summer of Rage"

10:05 pm, August 19, 2013 Sorry about the wall of text, but I figured we would have different opinions as to what is important/unimportant. So I've gone ahead and copied and pasted everything and bolded the the interesting tid [..] View

Reinforcement Game mode.

10:05 am, August 17, 2013 I made a picture to help me describe my concept. Now it took me about 20 seconds to make it so don't judge my ineffectiveness at art :P So, I really enjoy this game, especially at lower tiers. The c [..] View

Why is it called Russian Bias?

10:05 am, August 8, 2013 Whenever reading forums or playing the game, I run into this concept "Russian bias". I find it completely understandable in the early life of the game but for the last two years, Rus [..] View

STAY ON CAP

10:05 am, August 7, 2013 THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT Sorry if I'm really, really upset right now but I just lost a game because somebody left cap. I died, yes, but only after securing plenty of damage and doing my part t [..] View

It's coming - Multicore support, and more

10:05 am, August 6, 2013 Source: RU thread Hello everyone, here is a translation (or more like, summary) of the official Russian developer FAQ. This info is official, its not my summary of developer post. This FAQ was created [..] View

Got a friend who's starting WoT. What tanks (tiers 1-3) should I have him use to teach him the basics?

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 [..] View

Physics Jump Damage Is Off the Scale!

10:05 pm, August 3, 2013 What the title says, Im sick of 3-foot jumps knocking off 250+ hp, my tracks, my gunner knocking his head and going unconscious, and my turret breaking all at once.  The physics are [..] View

E-100 Turret and 17 cm Gun

10:05 pm, July 25, 2013 Every once in a while, we have suggestions of adding new turrets and a 17 cm gun to the E-100. Allow me to say that whoever supports that should actually get a brain before writing about it. 1. Turr [..] View

Another Snoo + WoT concept

10:05 am, July 25, 2013 submitted by Noctulus [link] [3 comments] View

My 2nd Snoo + WoT concept

10:05 am, July 24, 2013
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Snoo + WoT concept

10:05 am, July 23, 2013 submitted by Noctulus [link] [2 comments] View

Light tanks - quick question

10:05 am, July 11, 2013 So first I'm not sure I posted this in the right forum (I haven't been on the forums in a while); if its in the wrong one, sorry and kindly move it the proper place. Down to brass tacks. I decided to [..] View

[ATTENTION] Looking to revamp Community Night events & activities

10:05 pm, July 6, 2013 Alright everyone, The time has come for the traditional activities of Community Nights to be reexamined and new events added. Ever since drifting was made possible with the introduction of physics in [..] View

WOT "What if?": World of Tanks 80.4 Cold War Edition

10:05 am, July 6, 2013 I've seen quite a lot of posts about people asking what it would be like if tanks with smoothbore guns and ATGMs and composite armor was added to the game, if maps would get bigger then, or how they w [..] View

Artillery Suggestion

10:05 am, July 4, 2013 I have seen many people coming up with different reasons as to why artillery is over powered. Wargaming also nerfs the artillery almost every patch. I do believe they took the nerfs too far in the rec [..] View

Can you remember when you were a noob?

10:05 pm, June 13, 2013 Everyone was a new player at one point but it would seem that some people have a harder time grasping the concept of this game than others.  W.O.T. is a very common sense based game, [..] View

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