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Some people need to learn the difference between abandoning your team and falling back.

5:03 am, October 24, 2014 The difference? The first would be if your heavies are in a fairly intense fight and have a fairly good chance of winning if you play it right. By this I mean if it's like 4 heavies brawling against 4 [..] View

Leo On Track: Guide+Replays

4:03 pm, October 15, 2014 Preface: My stats in the leo, http://i.imgur.com/JyNeD1L.jpg A wonderful (very generous) benefactor on reddit is gifting me a fury e8 if I do a leo 1 guide as well as guide him a bit in game, so here [..] View

The Chi-Ri's "Low" Penetration

5:03 am, October 9, 2014 After what I thought was a mostly pleasant grind through the Chi-Ri (2535 WN8 over 91 battles), I've noticed a lot of people talking about how it has such low pen. It's definitely right in the middle [..] View

It seems there is a significant in-game delay involving enemy guns swinging around to aim/shoot at you

2:01 am, August 26, 2014 I just experienced this phenomenon for the umpteenth time tonight. I own a BDR G1b, so I am painfully aware of its slow aim time and its inaccuracy when firing without any aiming, especially at target [..] View

Correct way to win?

2:01 pm, August 25, 2014 Hello learnedtankers It would appear that the makers of this game propose 2 broad strategies for winning. First is to destroy all enemies, second is to occupy the enemy flag for an amount of time.Bot [..] 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

M103 Guide

2:01 am, August 17, 2014 I think this is thetank I've reviewed on the forums that has changed the most since I bought it. A few (unrelated) tanks that really don't change all that much when you upgrade them are the Type 5 [..] View

Please don't park behind me and block me, tomatoes....

2:01 am, July 29, 2014 I know that you noodleheads think that somehow parking right behind me when I'm trying to take an initial position and pushing up against me is a good idea, maybe you think you're protecting me from b [..] View

Programmers, R&D and other positions of influence

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 [..] View

Good-bye KV-4

2:01 pm, July 3, 2014 I really tried to like you but it just does not seem to work out. I know 40 games are not a lot to get each other better, but I spent free exp to unlock your turret and top gun, so I drove you close t [..] View

1. What do you think of mid tier German heavies? 2. How do you decide when to move?

2:01 am, June 26, 2014 1. I figured I'd try to save some thread-space by asking 2 questions on the same thread. The first question is about German heavies from tier V to VII. I know the the tier IV DW2 isnt well liked, so I [..] View

First teamkill ban in 28500 games

2:01 am, June 12, 2014 Had a 1 hour ban for a Team **** yesterday, suppose I deserved it. Was driving an IS7 and starting taking fire from the front only to find another IS7 blocking my path to safety. I had time to tell hi [..] View

An Encounter on Mountain Pass

2:01 am, June 11, 2014 So, I had just hopped into my KV-2 to try and get the double for it, and got matched into Mountain Pass. It starts off as a fairly normal game - XVM users complaining, heavies heading middle, TD&# [..] View

What Are You Going to Do Now? Focus on - Tank Bully

2:01 am, June 9, 2014 Once again your reading "what are you going to do now?" Focus on Tank Bully G.I. Joe reporting. It has been days of continuous fighting it feels as if little has been accomplished as we [..] View

On track to: purple stats - tips & tricks

2:01 pm, June 1, 2014 What is this? A collection of little things that, to my feeling,contribute to a next-level gameplay. Many people have the experience of hitting a 'skill-ceiling'. They find it hard to perform better a [..] 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

What tanks, commonly recognized as ****** ones, did you actualy like?

2:01 am, May 22, 2014 There are my two favourites: Chi-Ri and Loraine 40t. First of them has low pen and is freaking huge, apart from being slow for a MT. But I liked this tank so very much - you just give out freaking 390 [..] View

Do you ever take a bad path because you forgot where you were at on a map?

2:01 am, May 12, 2014 We had a great standard battle going at Lakeville, where several of us sort of worked together and blasted our way through the town, and were headed towards the enemy base, nearing their end of town. [..] View

I love the T20

10:05 pm, May 4, 2014 Just had an awesome game in this little tank and I don't see it getting enough love around this subreddit. I know tier 7 mediums are considered a low point at many tiers, but I think the T20s [..] View

Noob Myths

10:05 am, May 4, 2014 Having played for over 11k games, here is what I have discovered are the myths believed by noobs. As an arty,it is the responsibility of my allies to protect me. If I get shot, it is their fault. [..] View

Camo Gods!

10:05 pm, May 1, 2014 Ive been noticing a huge difference in camo/when enemy tanks are being spotted these days. just now i had a bat chat roll up at 40 or 50 kph, in the open(on a street in-fact), with nothing between him [..] View

The two most annoying things about World of Tanks.

10:05 pm, April 28, 2014 I find that the most annoying thing in World of Tanks is NOT the repetitive maps, it's not the ally that blocks your retreat when you're being shot, it's not doing 6 damage to a Nashorn in my KV-2 whe [..] View

Suggestion for Devs

10:05 am, April 28, 2014 For a long time I have wished there was a way to have some discussion with the 30 involved players after the game in a chat type exchange... It would be really nice if peoplecould congratulate and [..] View

A simple guide for the uninformed

10:05 pm, April 22, 2014 I've been seeing a lot of people lately needing a little advice here and there on the forums, so I figured I'd make a simple but effective casual's guide for the uninformed. I'll outline some of th [..] View

When enveloped, how do you equip your letter opener? (hardy har har)

10:05 pm, April 15, 2014 I've been trying to find advice or video tuts. about what to do when you find yourself outnumbered,being attacked from 2+ directions, and buildings/rocks can't save you from direct fire in either dire [..] View

Hitting my Stride in the AT15

10:05 am, April 15, 2014 Warning: This post is extremely long. Tl;dr I finally have that match in the AT15 that made me like this tank. Replay for your enjoyment. So I'm finally getting the hang of the AT15. Took me l [..] View

Solo Training Mode

10:05 pm, April 11, 2014 Back in the day...like a hunnerd years ago a bunch of us played a game...THE game Tanarus...the first team-based fps-tank battle game ever...we all still miss that game alot! We were talking about [..] View

Gotta love these

10:05 am, April 11, 2014 So yeah, I was on Mountain Pass, in my KV-1. Was top tier. We lost the battle, but this was the result: So yeah, I defended a single flank on my own against 5 tanks. The T14, Churchill [..] View

Need help removing the central minimap from XVM.

9:05 am, February 26, 2014 Hey guys, first time posting here on this subreddit. Not really sure if this is the right place (wasn't in the FAQ :P ), but here goes. Quite recently I've started playing WOT again af [..] View

challenge -- break down WoT "skill" into 7 independent competencies

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 [..] View

Lessons Learned After My First year

9:05 pm, February 17, 2014 TL;DR: Lessons learned from my year playing WOT...Read the forum guides they help immensely. My 1st WOT birthday is today soI thought I would writeabout what I have learned over this year to help an [..] View

AT-15, sneaky confederate.

9:05 pm, February 13, 2014 Malinovka Early on an enemy medium tank manages to move to K3 and spot our base defenders. Knowing what that could lead to, I decide to move my AT 15 to F7. The rest of our team decides to push throug [..] View

Best E-100 Performance Yet

9:05 am, February 7, 2014 I start out on Westfield, this is a relief as it is one of the few maps I can effectively counter TDs on. I realize arty is in the game and remind my team to stay mobile. I start off by going to the e [..] View

RNG +Derp = Confusion

9:05 am, February 7, 2014 I received a message from a guy that was in a game with me that we both got a laugh out of once we figured out what happened. I was south spawn on Ruinberg in encounter. In a Sherman with the 105, [..] View

What next?

9:05 pm, January 15, 2014 For starters, I am pretty sure I put this in the wrong spot, so if the mods could move this please? Ok, so soon, I will be getting my 121, and I'm left thinking 'what should I get next?'. I've got [..] View

Crew Skills/Perks Suggestions - Master Thread

9:05 am, January 10, 2014 The Master Thread for Crew Skills/Perk Suggestions - Feel free to add suggestions below! I will be editing this regularly with your suggestions, giving credit when due! I wish for this thread to be t [..] View

How To Improve WR, Efficiencies, Carry Ability, And In General?

9:05 am, January 10, 2014 To the better players out there, how do you increase your carry ability, which in turn affects win rate and performance? I am trying to improve my stats andability in WoT. Please don't say, "play [..] View

Finally 10 000 kills. (aka: how I doubled my amount of kills in about 3000 games)

9:05 pm, January 8, 2014 So here it is! I reached the mark of 10 000 kills (and the match I got it in was quite good) after a little over 10 000 games. (yes, that does mean I am under a **** per game, I used to be a 0.5 **** [..] View

You can't win by staring

9:05 pm, December 29, 2013 Lots of ways you can't win. Can't win by rushing ahead and dying, can't win by hiding in corner, can't win by letting enemy enter base and cap. Here's a sneakier way. Lately you see a lot of lifele [..] View

Super Pershing - great tank for morons

9:05 am, December 28, 2013 I needed to train some American crews fast, so I took advantage of the sale and bought me a Super Pershing. I'm a terrible player, yet in only my second game playing that tank, I had a delightful e [..] View

Twas the Night Before Tankmas!

9:05 pm, December 25, 2013 Twas the night before tankmas when all through the server, not a battle was fought, not even with fervor. The camo was hung from the chassis with care, with hope no detection would be there. The tanke [..] View

TK System is Broken?

9:05 am, December 5, 2013 I was in my IS peek-a-booming around a corner (in a T7 game) and some Type 58 comes up (on my own team) and tracks me for no damage on purpose while I was out so he could use me as a meat shield. He k [..] View

sacrifice

9:05 pm, November 29, 2013 Sig. Line, assault, defense, Awfulpanther. That's the set up. At the start I rushed to the city gate, spotted the red deployment(bad), traded shots with the red scout and retreated into town. A TD was [..] View

What is happening here exactly?

9:05 am, November 28, 2013 I'm sure you've had it happen. You are trying to aim at an enemy and you crosshair absolutely refuses to line up with your aiming reticle. Here I was aiming at an IS but didn't take the shot becaus [..] View

Artillery; Nerf, Remove, or keep the same

9:05 pm, November 26, 2013 Dear Wargaming and fellow tankers, I am a player that, compared to others, is fairly new. I have a measly 3,000 battles, but of all the things I have seen in those battles, one thing bugs me the most; [..] View

PSA: Don't block someone's retreat

9:05 am, November 26, 2013 I've had this done to me 3 or 4 ******* times just in the past hour. Do NOT park behind someone and doom them to a swift ***** because you blocked their route back into cover. ******* doorknob [..] View

How to play the Pz.Sfl.IVc? (It's gun evelation)

9:05 pm, November 24, 2013 I am a heavy tank player but when the new German TDs came I took a look at them. I quite like them. Currently I am driving the PS4C. I know it has okay gun evelation (like only 83 or so) and very poor [..] View

Most underused button of all - the "S" key

9:05 pm, November 22, 2013 I see it time and time again  - people forgetting that reverse gear on their tank  exits.   (on my keyboard i remapped to the space bar for ease o [..] View

Scouting for pubies. Tips and tricks please?

9:05 pm, November 18, 2013 Hi all. Now I understand scouting is a very viable roll in WoT. It's often risky and requires some skill and knowledge but provides your team with valuable info and targets. However I became c [..] View

XVM, Stats, and Reliance?

9:05 am, November 18, 2013 Ok, to start off I haven't started using XVM until just a few updates ago. Only reason I even had it installed was because it was part of a mod pack that I regularly kept an eye on. That and WG appare [..] View

The problems of WOT and WG

9:05 am, November 16, 2013 Okay, this will be a long thread, there will be no tldr, if you cant read it, dont read it Let us watch 2 videos first from extracredits to give you an example what I am going to talk about http://w [..] View

Not spotting tanks in front of me?

9:05 pm, October 30, 2013 Okay, so I was in my M7, an enemy T49 was around the corner of a building, I figured I could take him because of my superior RoF, so I poke out, wait to spot him and then, 5 seconds after I pop out, I [..] 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

A justification for harming a teammate?

10:05 pm, October 22, 2013 I'm currently encountering a player in the mid-tiers on NA East who is driving a T1 Heavy and trying to provoke people into teamkilling him. On Mountain Pass's ice road he parked behin [..] View

Guide to Adequate Map Positioning (Cliff)

10:05 pm, October 21, 2013 I'll start with a standard disclaimer. I'm not a pro. There may be other spots to go to on maps that a great player can wring some benefit from. I'm just going for competence. If you go to a place I s [..] View

This was both unexpected and awesome

10:05 am, October 18, 2013 Okay, so lastnight at around 11PM, I was getting tired, but my grind on my Hellkitten continues. So, I was playing Lakeville, and it was a battle against Tier 8s, so I take my usual TD camping spot a [..] View

T-28 Russian Tier IV Medium Tank

10:05 am, October 16, 2013 I have been driving this tank for a while now. The armour is ****, gun is mediocre, huge target and is quite fast. I've been playing it like a 2nd into the breach tank like when we attack, I&a [..] View

The T29 grind.

10:05 pm, October 14, 2013 It's an odd one for me, and was completely the opposite to what I was expecting. You grind through the T1 heavy and the M6 to get to the beast of a tank. Except I didn't, I went throug [..] View

Disapointment : T-34-3

10:05 am, October 1, 2013 Being a medium tank fan, and the excitement I felt when I saw the new Chinese tier8 med tank with the 122mm, I flipped my wallet open and bought it. I knew the first couple of matches would take some [..] 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

Put Me In Coach: FV215B (183)

10:05 pm, September 9, 2013 Hello /r/WorldofTanks, Over the next few weeks I will be posting daily discussion thread focusing on Tier Xs and their usage in clan wars called "Put Me In Coach." The goal for this [..] View

Premium ammo has to be changed for gold only again.

10:05 pm, September 3, 2013 I came here because I think this "experiment" called premium ammo for credits was a disaster, I can upload tons of replays when you only heard the burning metal on your tank after the enemy [..] View

A Noob's Guide with MS Paint #3

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 [..] View

A noob's guide with MS Paint

10:05 am, August 10, 2013 I was bored and figured I'd help beginners out with some basic tips using MS Paint. I got some good feedback with my last guide so I figured I'd do another quick one for any beginners [..] View

Cynics' Guide to Heavy Tanking

10:05 am, August 10, 2013 Since my last cynics' guide (to scouting) was entertaining and informative to so many people, I thought I'd add a cynics' guide to heavy tanking as well. Again, I hope the guide is entertaining and in [..] View

When cowardice is the right option

10:05 am, August 4, 2013 http://www.noobmeter.com/replay/1003485279.26204120834503337 Skip replay to 8:30 for the action described below; otherwise feel free to watch the entire thing. Scene: Tier 10, Mountain Pass. End-gam [..] View

Tips for Pub Matches!

10:05 pm, August 1, 2013 Pub matches has been **BAD** all this days... Here I have some TIPS for new players, or maybe to old players that dnt know how to be a *Team Player*. I though it will be good to do something construct [..] View

Things I did before and after 2000 games to improve my play.

10:05 am, July 12, 2013 So I was at first hesitant to do this but since some people were requesting it, I thought I'd finally write this guide out. It'll probably be a long read so bear with me. This is the t [..] View

The Israelis would be proud.

10:05 pm, July 6, 2013 If you didn't guess what this was already, going to tell you right now in case you don't like hearing stories from others about a single match they had ('cause we all have our [..] View

Move Mini Map to top Left; Smoke rounds; Double or nothing

10:05 pm, July 6, 2013 I'd like to switch the mini map and the team rosters, I'd rather have the minimap right up top instead of the roster. It's more of an effort to look down and left then to check the top left.Smoke roun [..] View

Lessons From History #4: The Bladensburg Races

10:05 pm, June 21, 2013 While the term psychology would not arise until well after the Age of Muskets, that didn't mean that the military men of the time didn't have some understanding of it. Indeed, if you read them, you wi [..] View

Pz 1Cs and APCR

10:05 pm, June 18, 2013 So, I was in my T-28 grinding trough it, when a Pz 1c shows up. now I was already angled against the initial scout rush and he stops and fires a clip. only does 12 damage, and retreats. after his relo [..] View

How to: Scouting

10:05 am, June 14, 2013 Howdy folks Lately I have been seeing a lot of new players that struggle with finding the right way to play a light tank, and a lot of people on the forum and in game asking about this 'scouting' thi [..] View

So - About all the "Arty is OP!" Whining ...

10:05 pm, June 10, 2013 /rant on ... Earlier, in a match I lost as an arty player, another player started up the familiar refrain of "Arty is OP!" As usual he had been 1 shot or something and didn't like it (for t [..] View

Why I love my Matilda.

10:05 am, June 10, 2013 The Matilda may not be the fastest or strongest tank in the game but I still love it. When its just me and one other tanker verses 4 enemies it begins to show off. When my friendly tanker somehow knoc [..] View

I've just had my first "Air Jordan" moment. I liked it and it feels so wrong... What are your best ramming stories?

10:05 pm, June 5, 2013 Some background: Was in a Tier 5 fight where we were basically exchanging fire between a cliff corner. A Stug was corner-fighting between me in a Pz4 derp and I think was a another Pz4, could be a 3/4 [..] View

Guide for (fast) mediums

10:05 pm, June 1, 2013 I've been playing WOT for a few months now, and I have about 3.4k games and a 51% win rate, so I know the basics, but I still have a TON to learn. I've played quite a few different lin [..] View

Tank line question.

10:05 pm, June 1, 2013 How do Russian TD's feel compared to German TD's? I've already got my precious JagdPanther and want to know how the Russian TD's feel, are they as 'sniper&# [..] View

A Guide Written by an Average Player

10:05 am, May 18, 2013 First,I am just an average player with 50% WR, not an unicum. This guide do not contain complicated technique, but ways to improve WR in another view point closer to noobs. Lets begin: 1. Stop gettin [..] View

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