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The problem with matchmaking...

5:03 am, October 17, 2014 Isn't that you get completely lopsided battles. Sure, if one team is far more skilled than the other, the skilled team is probably going to win. The problem is that MM sucks at balancing vehicle types [..] View

92nd field Artillery aka The Red Devil's

5:03 am, October 15, 2014 Hey guys i didn't know where to post this on the forums. This is my first time posting. So here is my request/suggestion. I was curious whom i would  have to talk to about requesting the Red [..] View

Going through clans

5:03 am, October 8, 2014 So, I'm trying to (eventually) get into CW. I want to know wether it is better to get into a stronghold clan, or a training/sub-clan (are these two types mutually exclusive? Which one is a "bette [..] View

FPRRU Embassy and Propaganda Printing Press Center

4:03 pm, October 4, 2014 Welcome to the new and improved Jimmy Rustling Repository of Clan Wars Knowledge and Archiving Embassy. We (myself and some other guy) are dedicated to bringing our audience the best in jimmy rustling [..] View

Modern tank types?

4:03 pm, October 1, 2014 This could well be the wrong sub but World of Tanks is all I know so might as well start here. The question is: What 'types' of tanks are being created nowadays? I think I saw a documentary which men [..] View

Arty vs Light in TD mode.

4:03 pm, October 1, 2014 I was doing daily achievements missions in light tanks, and I have an interesting feeling that I trust. :) I suspect that RNG is rigged for arty shooting light tanks in td mode. I was ****** in a ligh [..] View

[9.3] I have no mods installed and cant switch ammo nor use consumables.

5:03 am, September 28, 2014 Anyone having this issue? its really starting to **** me off. Cant use my repair kit when I'm tracked nor heal any crew members. can't switch ammo types either. submitted by OyabunRyo [link] [3 co [..] View

How do I counter this tactic?

5:03 am, September 28, 2014 I don't know how to effectively counter the following tactic. On close quarters maps, I'll suddenly find myself facing a charging enemy tank. He'll then go nose-to-nose on me and will stay engaged lik [..] View

Maps, which are liked, which are despised?

4:03 pm, September 24, 2014 To add some clarity to what this poll is about, and why I made it so that you can indeed select all options: I see many complaint topics about this map or that map, but have not at this time seen an a [..] View

German Turreted TD line.(Tier 4-7)

4:03 pm, September 24, 2014 Sorry if this is another addition to the already overpopulated tech tree of Germany. So,Ok,I have this lined up for a while,But here I go:   The line is consisted the following: RSO/PaK 40 (T [..] View

I want to platoon with a much better player today

4:03 pm, September 13, 2014 WHO WILL PLATOON WITH ZACATECAS?   I'm a 7500-game baddie.  Recent WN8 tends to hover around 800 on a bad day and 1100 on a good day.  Overall WN8 is around 700 due [..] View

What has Happened? What Is Different?

5:03 am, September 11, 2014 I don't know what has happened or what is different but something about game play or game mechanics is way different resulting in almost every game being an absolute blow out for one team or the other [..] View

Imbalance of Tank Types.

5:03 am, September 11, 2014 I don't use winchance, but in pubs when I see their team with 4 out of the 5 heavies top tier and our team with 3 heavies and only one of them are top tier, the chances of us winning are usually not v [..] View

Lert's guides to shells, shell types and shell mechanics

5:03 am, September 9, 2014 Some good info in this guide to WoT ammo types and related game mechanics. http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/273627-lerts-guides-to-shells-shell-types-and-shell-mechanics/ submitted by [..] View

How do you pick tanks for battle?

5:03 am, September 9, 2014 Just curious, I tend to jump around and never play a tank of same type two games in a row, i.e. 2 heavies in a row.  Also, I avoid countries and types I have a loss in that night until later. [..] View

Moronic Monday #1: Spotting, Camo and Bushes

4:03 pm, September 8, 2014 We'd like to introduce a new feature for this subreddit. To help all you new players out there too afraid to ask a question or don't know what questions to ask, this will be your home. Any and all que [..] View

Patch 9.3 Release Event Idea! (Charity Event benefiting Ropkey Armor Museum) Help me out WoT Community and WG!

5:03 am, September 8, 2014 Dear WG and WoT Reddit, (TL:DR at bottom for those who hate walls of text) When Wargaming had the special event benefiting Bovington Tank Museum (certain % of gold sales being donated) I was amazed a [..] View

Please explain the mechanics of HE penetration, in regards to SPGs especially

5:03 am, September 7, 2014 I know most of the special rules for standard ammo types, and a lot of the tricks too (double and triple overmatch, shot traps, etc), but HE I'm still a little fuzzy on. I only recently realized that [..] View

Peacemaker (PCMKR)

4:03 pm, September 2, 2014 We are recruiting all types of players. Experienced or brand new to the game. We do not impose play times or any other rules like this. No requirements to join. However no bashing players or racists c [..] View

Intuition

2:01 pm, August 29, 2014 Intuition - Perk This perk creates a chance that the proper shell is already loaded when switching between shell types. Intuition comes into effect after it reaches 100%. The gun must be completely lo [..] View

Question on scout lines

2:01 pm, August 28, 2014 I've watched hundreds of hours of replays/walkthroughs/whatnots about all sorts of tanks and types. I recently picked the game up after a few year hiatus and been back for about a month now. I [..] View

I found out why German Tanks **** in WOT

2:01 am, August 26, 2014 World of Tanks is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Belarusian company Wargaming, featuring early to mid-20th century era fighting vehicles.[4] It is built upon a freemium business mode [..] View

Can you make XVM show only stats for the tank currently driven

2:01 am, August 25, 2014 as the tittle says can you make xvm only show stats from the tank players are currently driving? my reasons for wanting this overall stats are IMO a kind of a shotgunning of what peoples stats act [..] View

Platooning Up--Winning Down?

2:01 am, August 23, 2014 Is it just me? When ever I platoon up with people my win rate crashes. I'm a slightly better than average player (meaning 50% win rate) and when I platoon up my win rate crashes--40% would be [..] View

The Big List: Vehicles that should be included in WoT some day

2:01 am, August 22, 2014 The following is a list of tanks from currently in game countries, in Alphabetic order, that could at some point be put in to World of Tanks. I am not including vehicles, such as the M56 Scorpion and [..] View

Renovation and expansion of the French tech tree

2:01 pm, August 19, 2014 Picture of proposed tree This includes the entire length. Of note is that both tier 1 and tier 2 have been extended to two lines like with the German tier 4s. Also,MS paint skills off da chartz [..] View

Intuition perk

2:01 am, August 16, 2014 I'm confused about what this perk does. It says it has a chance to switch shell types, but when does it do this? Randomly, or after you have selected another shell? I've heard mixed th [..] View

Encouraging words for new players

2:01 am, August 15, 2014 You've probably turned on your T.V. and first discovered this game on a commercial or maybe even seen ads on the internet. I actually even watched a show on World of Tanks. I've had a deep passion for [..] View

Knowledge Base for WoT (Android App)

2:01 am, August 10, 2014 >> APP PAGE << Images Don't know how many of you have Android phones, but here's a very useful app that you should check out. This app has excelle [..] View

A Few Simple Tips for Arty Drivers

2:01 am, August 7, 2014 I only have one arty in my garage at the moment (212A), but I think I can collect a few facts for arty (AKA the frustration class of "tanks") drivers so there might be pieces of information [..] View

So much team frustration.

2:01 pm, August 4, 2014 Team, after team, after team. I don't understand. How is the 'average' player this... bad? I really don't get it.... I don't. Surely they don't like los [..] View

A technical question regarding the precise definition of 'accuracy' or dispersion in WOT?

2:01 am, August 4, 2014 Accuracy of any gun can be affected by human error in a big way if the person shooting isnt experienced and doesnt practice regularly. But when a gun's inherent potential accuracy is measured, we aren [..] View

Question about ammo types

2:01 am, July 30, 2014 Chechk the picture (paint edited) http://i.imgur.com/KvhG4qj.jpg so my question is why is the premium HE ammo type cost gold but have the same stat as the regular HE ? Why is that ? Expect the &qu [..] View

WoT Guide for all colors of WN8

2:01 pm, July 27, 2014 I'll go ahead an mention that /u/damienjaxx tempted me to do this by offering the possible banning of attention whoring posts that I hate, but hey, everyone benefits right? This is a relativel [..] View

Vehicles allowed on map types

2:01 pm, July 27, 2014 Nevermind, It was a stupid N00B comment. [..] View

Historical/Gameplay Tracer Colours

2:01 am, July 27, 2014 At the moment, tracers are colours are determined by shell type. I am wondering how people would feel about historical tracer colours in lieu of colours based on shell types. In Star Wars George [..] View

Statistics in XVM

2:01 pm, July 25, 2014 After learning the game I learned about the statistics and tried to become a better player to be more useful for the team. I stopped at tier IV for now and try to learn how to use the different vehicl [..] View

Music and or relaxing sounds to improve play.

2:01 pm, July 24, 2014 How does listening to certain types of music have an effect on your play? Fast music, slow music, orchestral, whatever it may be- I have one friend who swears by listening to relaxing ocean sounds on [..] View

T9 is so close, yet so far

2:01 pm, July 23, 2014 Dear redditors, today I realized that I have been playing this game two and a half years. I am not a hardcore player, nor am I a true casual - I play when I want to / can and I'd like to thin [..] View

How to face a Type 59 as a lower tier tank?

2:01 pm, July 15, 2014 I've been facing a lot of Type 59's lately as I am playing my Comet/VK 3002M/T-34-85, etc and as it is known, I find it very tough to damage them (from front they're pretty muc [..] View

recent rates for tanks

2:01 pm, July 15, 2014 from addict... EXPERIENCE PER MINUTE: 1. Heavy 28,374,682 76.79 2. Medium 22,919,416 75.75 3. Light 8,580,462 70.17 4. TD 22,914,408 64.49 5. SPG [..] 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

four, three, two,(Boom) one.

2:01 pm, July 3, 2014 Oh man. After this game I had to get up and walk around for a few. It was too close and nail biting. It literally came down to the very last second before I found and ****** the arty. Re [..] View

d3dx10_43.dll not found - solved

2:01 am, July 3, 2014 I installed WoT 9.1 on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, and immediately received the error listed in the title. Research on forums showed recommendations to install DirectX 9; since this system already has Direc [..] View

Sand River. How do you use the Southern half of the map? (Includes diagram)

2:01 am, June 24, 2014 I got a little fed up with pubbies always dooming themselves on Sand River. Please let me know if you agree or not. The strategy below might be totally wrong, but it is my best opinion. Feedback, plea [..] View

British TD or HT?

2:01 am, June 24, 2014 I started the game with American turret TD line, but then also feel in love with HTs, so I want to focus on these two types. Currently I have American E3E4E5 lines, German E100 line, Soviet IS-4 line [..] View

starting a new line. British or american

2:01 pm, June 23, 2014 I want to start a new line. I have only played German so far with around 8k battles. I have no interest in anything other than trying American or British. I play a little of everything as far as type [..] View

Please return the tier 12 to mm...

2:01 pm, June 22, 2014 About three months or so ago WG eliminated the tier 12 grouping in mm that forced most tier 10 matches to be against all tier 10's. As a tier 10 player...that was an outstanding feature....as I was ab [..] View

Re-organization of RDDT3 EU as a tank academy - help wanted

2:01 pm, June 21, 2014 With RDDT EU upping their requirements we don't want anyone to feel left out, so we are reorganizing RDDT3 as a training clan which will help you improve your gameplay, whether you are doing i [..] View

II-C Recruiting active players for Clan Wars. Ages 16+

2:01 am, June 21, 2014 II-C Recruiting active playersfor Clan Wars. Ages 16+. (looking for fun players, after all it is a game) min tier 9 tank, team speak a must, fun clan, active members, we try to clan war every night [..] View

Team Tracking, is this a new thing?

2:01 am, June 20, 2014 Just got back from a game where a player was being a complete troll. At the start of the game, he shot my tracks. I questioned him, he said he didn't do it when xvm clearly showed that he shot my trac [..] 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

Some additions to the "Historical Battles" menu

2:01 pm, June 12, 2014 Whyare Historical Battlesso difficult to launch, and why are the criteria so secretive? My clan isspending hours...yes...HOURS in que without success. We're aware that there are necessary criterea to [..] View

Comprehensive Ammunition and Damage Rework

2:01 pm, June 7, 2014 This is going to be a long one, so let me break this down. Ammunition Changes First and foremost would be the move to a system comprising a total of nine different ammo types(ten if you want to [..] View

[0.9.1 CT] Improved British and American camo colo(u)rs

2:01 am, May 27, 2014 I've never liked most of the US and UK camo patterns, because of the colors they use. I've done a bit of research, over the last few years, trying to find the best RGB equivalents of historical paint [..] View

German VK-30's renamed

2:01 pm, May 25, 2014 Currently there are 4 VK-30 tanks. 1 heavy and 3 medium. 2 of those medium tanks (VK-30.02 M, VK-30.01 D) are Panther prototypes. Why not label them Panther Prototype (M) & (D)! This is done wit [..] View

Meet the Tankers of WOT

2:01 pm, May 24, 2014 Meet Mr.MiniMapOblivious: He's the driver that hangs around base looking for sniping spots the first 5 min of the game, usually finding none. And then when one flank falls and he would accidently be [..] View

Reducing Structures in the game

2:01 pm, May 22, 2014 I do like that you can reduce some structures in the game to expose vehicles using it for cover. Was wondering if they might expand this in future upgrades to include all building types in the game. D [..] 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

Public apology to 3rd Army Group

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 [..] View

Pay to win this... pay to win that

2:01 am, May 17, 2014 General Chat Bystander : So yeah lube is very important. ... ... Best_Player_NA : HAY GUYS, BUY HEAT SHELLS, BYE ALL PREMIUM TANKS, AND CONVERT FREE EXP. YOU LOSE SKILL BUTT YOU WIN THE GAME AL [..] View

Two games with only 2 types of tanks. These have been some very fun matches.

2:01 am, May 16, 2014 submitted by GalaxiesInABox [link] [comment] View

"Victory Boost" event

2:01 am, May 16, 2014 Victory Boost - *** Begins Saturday, May 17, (04:00 PDT) Every Victory of the Dayx2 Experience Mission:Compensation for Defeat. Lose the battle but place in the top 10 in XP earned. Al [..] View

Those moments

2:01 am, May 15, 2014 So I was driving my Jagd Pz E 100 recently where I had a nice juicy shot on the side of a ***** star. I shoot and a Waffletraktor IV derps in front of me for full damage. Then types in "lol, [..] View

Heat Shells

2:01 am, May 14, 2014 So, there are two types of premium ammo (mainly, excluding arty and 183) HEAT shells, and APCR shells. Some tanks fire APCR and some HEAT. I have tried to use heat shells myself, while upgrading a tan [..] View

Idea for alternate tournament format

2:01 pm, May 12, 2014 A standard tournament format is 7 tanks, 42 tier points. We usually see a couple of tier 1s plus a handful of high tier tanks. How would things be different if we still had tier points but a maximum [..] View

Guide: Teamkilling

10:05 pm, May 2, 2014 Time and time again I see posts of people complaining that they were recently banned after "defending" themselves. I'm here to explain why this is the incorrect course of action, and when th [..] View

Holidays mode (Block ACC)

2:01 pm, May 2, 2014 Hello dear friends, I play this game looot of years already and something I think will be good for the game play is one mode for stop completly your acc for some time, something like a ban but not [..] View

SPG Based Consumable: Artillery Tables

10:05 am, April 29, 2014 SPG is no where near what it used to be, while that might be intentional, SPGs are still one of the toughest grinds in World of Tanks, requiring more EXP per tier upgrade. In WWII and forward Artiller [..] View

Arty crew skill question

2:01 pm, April 27, 2014 I finally finished my Arty crews first skill (BiA) and now I'm working on my next set. My question is, does the Intuition loader perk work for artillery? Will my GW Tiger P have a chance to in [..] View

The 5 Simplest Habits to Success

10:05 am, April 27, 2014 I'm writing this as a follow up to an older thread, "The Top 10 Mistakes for Newcomers to Avoid", link here: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/339748-the-top-10-mistakes-for-new [..] View

Ideas to salvage Historical Battles

10:05 am, April 27, 2014 (Caution; the following opinions / ideas are free of charge, and you know what free stuff is worth) I've read a number of posts about HB mode, and so far I really haven't see a tremendous calling ( [..] View

REMOVE tank ID during combat?

2:01 pm, April 14, 2014 Lets be honest here.. We all know how to identify a tank with it's nice little symbol over it's head.. Now here is a game that prides itself with realism, etc etc.. When in life is there a symbol say [..] View

historical battle mode with Maus

10:05 am, April 14, 2014 :) Recreate the possible battle that could (some sources claim did)have taken place in the last days of world war 2 between the two maus prototypes and the Soviet hordes. View

How I think spotting mechanics should work

2:01 am, April 14, 2014 This my idea of how the those controversial spotting mechanics should work. Love them, hate them, use them to blow your nose I don't care but this is just my ideas on how they could work.First off, ve [..] View

Types of Players

2:01 am, April 12, 2014 Hello Tankers, As you can all see that title pretty much says everything that will be mentioned in this thread... So I ran a poll a long time ago in which I waited for at least 200 players to vote [..] View

hello there, Object 907!

10:05 am, April 11, 2014 i spy with my little eye... a tank hiding in the game files! meet the object 907. Gun: 100mm Ammunition types: AP, 219 Pen, 320 DMG HEAT, 330 Pen, 320 DMG HE, 50 Pen, 420 DMG Top Speed: 55 KPH [..] View

[Xbox 360] Help distinguishing the different turret types.

9:05 am, February 20, 2014 I began playing the Xbox version of WoT a few days ago and am having one hell of a time navigating through everything. The tank upgrade system is terrible IMO, and seems to vary from the PC version (w [..] View

Keep getting owned by stuff I can't see?

9:05 am, February 20, 2014 I am new (not good) but have played these types of games before I know you need to practice to get better. The thing is I cannot see who kills me even in replays so how can I improve? A battle star [..] View

Undefined Language Boxes 8.11

9:05 pm, February 13, 2014 Good evening to those reading this. I just updated my World of Tank launcher for the 8.11 update and I noticed that when I start up my game, all the words are replaced with those undefined language bo [..] View

Missing Replays

9:05 pm, February 9, 2014 Since the last update, WoT has "lost" a number of replays, some of them good enough I wanted to keep. When this happens, I see a file in my Replays folder named "temp1.wotreplay" [..] View

I am at my limit with this game

9:05 am, February 7, 2014 I've been trying to learn all the mechanics of this game, but it just stopped making sense after a while. Problem #1: Matchmaking, to start with something universally hated. I am on track to a [..] View

Visual guide detailing the two types of vehicle fires for new player.

9:05 am, January 29, 2014 submitted by stockyzeus [link] [48 comments] 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

German TD's, Proto-type tanks and alleged "balance".

9:05 pm, January 26, 2014 I've been playing for a few years now and all I can say is; The new line of German TD's are way too over powered. And a clip loader? One Waffle E 100 held off a KV-4, Obj 268, Obj 263 and a T-54E1, [..] View

Removing the counter

9:05 pm, January 22, 2014 Is there a way to modify the counter on the top of the screen? I want it to just show the number of tanks on both sides, not the little icons of tank types left. submitted by GreenUmi [link] [9 co [..] View

Can someone provide a link or info on where to look up how many and types of medals won by players on the servers.

9:05 am, January 21, 2014 Just curious to see what kind and how many of each medal is won on the NA server and around the world. thanks... View

So historical accuracy and prototypes.

9:05 am, January 20, 2014 now, in patch 8.8 WG for historical reasons have removed many of the top engines out of the Herschel line of tanks, however I stumped upon this- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT_101 a prototype panthe [..] View

German Prototypes: A list of the VK numbers.

9:05 pm, January 18, 2014 submitted by Roflkopt3r [link] [4 comments] 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

A few Potential Premium Tanks we may see in the Future

9:05 am, January 15, 2014 This is just more or less a list of tanks that I think we could end up seeing as premium tanks. They are largely found from my book: The World Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles This [..] View

tankaversary. 1 year, 11111 battles later. p1

9:05 am, January 13, 2014 disclaimer! >experienced players will likely find this pretty boring. feel free to clankity clank to somewhere more interesting! (theres a lotto' text!) >its probably best to save [..] View

tankaversary. 1 year, 11111 battles later. p3

9:05 am, January 13, 2014 conclusions: . if won/lost numbers are your thing - beware the weekend grinds! 20 battles or 3 losses in a row is probably the best policy here. i would also recommend trying not to force a tank on [..] View

Map Inflation- Are there too many maps?

9:05 am, January 9, 2014 Do we have too many maps in World of Tank's map pool? Currently, there are nearly forty maps in World of Tank's "Random Battle"rotation(Not including Assault and Encounter varients- with the [..] View

DEAR WOT : I AM BREAKING UP WITH YOU, FOR 10 REASONS

9:05 pm, January 7, 2014 Since 2011, I have had a relationship with World of Tanks. Like few other games in my long gaming career (which dates back to the 1980s), I have poured my heart, energy and even money into this one. I [..] View

More Maps?

9:05 pm, December 30, 2013 If WG could (or did) add more maps, which types would you like to see added? Record what you would prefer in the poll. If what you would like to see falls under "Miscellaneous", then specify [..] View

Role of the MT at Tier10

9:05 pm, December 26, 2013 Greetings tankers, I started playing WoT in early 2013 and mostly in a very casual manner and trying out many different vehicles up to tier 5. I have started playing WoT a lot more often now, with two [..] View

German Tank Destroyers, the "Imaginary tanks part 2"

9:05 am, December 18, 2013 Ever since the 8.0 update has been released, I was kind of bummed out cause people are now starting to use these new tanks that were "never heard of". They were not in blueprints nor they we [..] View

Tribute to great Ideas and You! By IronHide77777 "V 1.0"

9:05 am, December 8, 2013 This post is a compilation of all the posts that I have Checked out/Created/or found to offer wonderful ideas. I have even posted some of the Persons who's post inspired me to come up with this variat [..] View

Iz MM Makin' Progress?

9:05 am, December 8, 2013 Allow me to preface this by admitting that I've recently begun using VM-whatever mod it is.  Among other actual USEFUL stuff, I get a Pre-Battle Odds for Victory calculation. TONITE [..] View

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