5:03 am, October 23, 2014
Hello guys. I share this post because I'm happy and because I became better, I learned something and I want to share this experience with other tankers.
First of all - I started 2 [..]
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5:03 am, October 10, 2014
Looking to mentor people if they'd like to learn a thing or two, I don't have the most amazing stats however I do pull purple stats everyday so I hope that atleast qualifies me, If you are on the NA s [..]
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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 [..]
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4:03 pm, September 21, 2014
How to properly cater to every level of skill in WoT:
1) Create x number of groups, for sake of this example lets say 11.
2) Create a definition of each group, for example of thi [..]
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5:03 am, September 21, 2014
Heya folks Batlin here with a brand new product, called Get Gudtm
Tell me, has this ever been you?
Well now with Get Gudtm , even you can boost your stats to a deep purple level. I'v [..]
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4:03 pm, September 17, 2014
Worst tank in the game? The Sturer Emil was pretty brutal to grind through. The stock gun and totally different style of gameplay was pretty rough for me. I like to give a tank at least 40-50 games b [..]
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5:03 am, September 16, 2014
I am trying to break a losing streak so I downloaded QuickyBaby's XVM, haven't used it yet. It says players of different WR levels get different colors and if that is true doesn't it paint a target on [..]
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4:03 pm, September 14, 2014
Ever notice how most of the Purples (Other than me, of course) and high percentile Greens are almost always in Clans? Yes Clan based play helps to raise stats as does platoon play in pub games. There [..]
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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, [..]
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4:03 pm, September 11, 2014
It would seem Clan Wars powerhouse [BRIT] who was the leader of the once massive [EMPIRE] family of clans, may be losing another sub clan. Once the dominant clan in the game with la [..]
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4:03 pm, September 5, 2014
Warning: wall of text and positive thinking ******** ahead Lately I've been noticing a large increase in the amount of salty players in the world of tanks community. Lot's of rage, lot's of frustratio [..]
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5:03 am, September 4, 2014
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/09/03/insider-wargaming-thoughts-on-arty/ Summary: Players Whine about Arty, supported by Stats (a) WG sets to nerf arty Serb rages predicting TD will be whined about Spe [..]
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4:03 pm, September 2, 2014
My clan currently has 40+ players ready to play every night for clan wars. This means that not everybody gets to play.
How do clans that are full of purple people eaters spread th [..]
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2:01 pm, August 27, 2014
WN8 too easy to pad!Get a fresh start in World of Tanks...
Clan wars, competitions, scrub clan evictions, gold pot raiding, forum ignoring, gossip despising, past alleged history ignoring (We all know [..]
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2:01 pm, August 26, 2014
I'm looking for a very good clan wars clan that will look at my recent stats rather than my overall. my recent will likely break purple in a week or so. i am a 19 year old college student and am avail [..]
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2:01 am, August 25, 2014
So, I need a break from the current On Track, it's a punishment. Read some posts, reread some guides and started thinking...
Arty is still a problem in the game. If you can't see it, your logically [..]
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2:01 am, August 22, 2014
Disclaimer: I'm an average player (not in terms of WN8 labels, but how I actually affect the game's outcome). I'm around a 53% WR, my WN8 fluctuates but is currently averaged a [..]
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2:01 pm, August 17, 2014
Hello Tankers,
Welcome to my forum thread named;Free Subscription, Tanks and Gold for everyone.
Firstly I must apologise for I have deceived you slightly. For I can only right now offer you free [..]
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2:01 am, August 16, 2014
So..What does hitting Tab do? It shows you the tanks on the enemy team, and, if you are using XVM, win rate, wn8 etc etc.
Most players spend the first 30 seconds thinking about where they are going [..]
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2:01 am, August 7, 2014
So I've been using Quickybaby's mod pack with a different sixth sense .png. The WN8 it shows is completely wrong as it shows my current wn8 as 1075 but my actual is 1280 wn8. It also shows my friend a [..]
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2:01 pm, August 6, 2014
Little backstory: played a game with fcm, did pretty average/bad, still came like top 5, friendly is-8 messaged me after a game because I lold at him calling us a noob team (even tho we won) while he [..]
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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 am, July 24, 2014
Stop the skewed MM for certain players, and stop the unfair prosecution of retaliation against instigators of team damage, team killing, and "abuse of physics". I realize that Wargaming min [..]
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2:01 am, July 22, 2014
So I have been using this site to look at the projected damage for each color of WN8 of each tank. http://www.targetdamage.com/usa-tier-5 I noticed that the M4 Sherman requires more damage than both t [..]
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2:01 am, July 15, 2014
Gents, Just got the top gun on the conquerer and looking for input from the green/blue/purple community on when to use AP vs HESH. Do you guys typically throw HESH at higher tier turrets when they are [..]
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2:01 am, July 13, 2014
WIN9 is a clan that are all ways looking to become better tankers in world of tanks we are looking for solid green players blue and purple players if you have what it takes apply to join.Must be 16 or [..]
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2:01 pm, July 12, 2014
I startednoticing players with marks of excellence on their gun barrels. It got me thinking that this simple mark could be a better indicator of whether the player knows how to play his tank. I have n [..]
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2:01 am, July 4, 2014
I am interested to see if anyone regards a clan as having respectable players regardless of skill. My friend mentioned people were talking negatively about my clan on a stream, views I can share about [..]
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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 [..]
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2:01 pm, June 23, 2014
Skill based MM in random battles is what some people think the game is missing and there are is a very vocal minority that basically postulates the following: Random matches should have some sort of s [..]
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2:01 pm, June 19, 2014
I jotted down some thoughts after playing 37K battles and unlocking every tank in the game. It's a wall of text in the spoiler. Enjoy, rage, argue as required...
Spoiler
I thought I would write [..]
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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 2, 2014
well, it seems that anyone under 49% WR / Less then 1000 WN 8 is pretty well staying there, I have said before and I am saying again that the Slanted, stacked , rigged Teams are worse then ever. Full [..]
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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 [..]
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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 [..]
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2:01 am, May 9, 2014
HELPFUL LINKS FOR BEGINNERS King Alphyn's Noob Friendly Tips Helpful tips for before you start playing Wot Guru Beginner's guide Lert's collection of guides Assortment of gu [..]
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2:01 am, May 7, 2014
Here is an observation I made and want to bring up to the rest of you tankers out there.
I've been playing Tanks since June of 2011 and ever since that time I have gone thu all the patches as the r [..]
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2:01 am, May 4, 2014
Although we've been fighting for several days now the entire Hardware RUS been feeling terrible for not putting enough effort into officially wardecing -G-.
Now that I've polished off half a bottle [..]
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10:05 pm, May 1, 2014
In the last 3 days I have seen two purples and a blue drown themselves at the end of their losing match. I thought that was something purples and blues frowned on. The three were a Heavy, Arty, and a [..]
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2:01 am, May 1, 2014
Hey, so I just set up a stream and I figured maybe some of you might like to watch. I'm about a 1800 WN8 player 60 day and I play mostly meds heavies and some TDS
I figured I may be able to help so [..]
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10:05 pm, April 24, 2014
About a month ago, my 60 day WN8 was around 3000. More recently, I have been averaging around 2400-2600 every day. Consistently. Granted I have been playing a lot more X's lately, but my avera [..]
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2:01 pm, April 24, 2014
Right now I'm a baddy. No clan worth joining would have me, even if I had the garage loaded out with T10s.
But, someday I might get good enough to start wondering about joining up with a clan. Mayb [..]
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2:01 am, April 24, 2014
How can a match be considered balanced with mediums on one side vs heavies on the other?
If XVM can show a 38% win chance, how come match maker can't balance a team?
Seriously, tier 10 match all [..]
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10:05 am, April 12, 2014
After playing after the past couple weeks i have seen a drastic dropin the quality of MM (Match Making)
I should not be getting matches such as this pathetic example.
Or getting matches where there [..]
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2:01 am, April 11, 2014
I'm looking for green, blue, or purple players who are willing to platoon with me and give me pointers on how to improve my game play. I've already taken a look at the community mentoring post, and un [..]
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9:05 am, February 20, 2014
When I come across two or three purple players platooned together it is usually either a very good sign or very bad sign, depending on which team they're on. A guy from [-G-] did an AMA yester [..]
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9:05 pm, February 14, 2014
I installed a mod pack and now my enemy tanks are purple. They outline red and in the map they are red, but icons are purple. I checked settings and didnt see any color option. I figure its XVM. Anyon [..]
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9:05 am, February 9, 2014
I am so sick of getting stuck on a team with some dipshit loser platoon that thinks its funny to drag a tier 2 or 3 into a tier 9/10 battle. Seriously WOT why is this even possible? Fix it already. s [..]
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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 18, 2014
Hey there, community. I have a bit of an odd request, but hear me out. I'm looking for a good clan that is cool with an alright player who can hardly ever be on for Clan Wars times.
Top tiers: [..]
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9:05 am, January 17, 2014
submitted by vazzaroth [link] [10 comments]
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9:05 pm, January 14, 2014
I often see posts here, well, not often, everyday, that basically show how X team sucked and how they were uncarriable scrubs who uninstall. First off, these get old extremely quickly(pubbies are bad, [..]
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9:05 am, January 6, 2014
So at the beginning of the match I pointed out we got the usual player with those beautiful padded purple stats. He calls me a "noob" and then proceeds to **** me as I count out the [..]
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9:05 pm, December 26, 2013
The new Japanese Mediums have been a lot of fun for me so far. The Chi To reminds me of when I first found the Hellcat. I have over 5,100 battles in my Hellcat and that number is pretty high because I [..]
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9:05 pm, December 25, 2013
Perhaps one of the most confusing things new players face, beyond the greater understanding of their vehicles, is just what the win rate means. How it's figured, what plays into it, and whether or not [..]
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9:05 am, December 18, 2013
Gentlemen:
Let me start by saying that I am not a stat genius or math wizard like some of you are, but I've been trying to improve my skills at this game going through the grind. The one where you [..]
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9:05 pm, December 6, 2013
This is a big deal for the likes of me.
Much love for the peeps I toon with but most of this is solo-pub torture.
Apologies if I have raged at you in-game in the past. Trying to work on that.
Any a [..]
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9:05 am, December 3, 2013
I'm posting this in the hope that some blues or purples or hell, anyone better than I, can rip me a new one, and tell me where I went wrong with, now looking back, two decent games. I normally [..]
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9:05 pm, December 2, 2013
Hello tankers! As you all probably know, we have lots of players who visit this subreddit who devote themselves to being extremely good@tanks. In order to recognize these achievements in internet tank [..]
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9:05 pm, November 21, 2013
I know this seems like a stupid idea, but a lot of people need to know what to ask for when they ask for help in regards to their gameplay. So i decided to create a "list" of things [..]
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9:05 pm, November 19, 2013
Hi guys, So... I've got a spinal cord injury and thus no money to chuck at WoT for the time being (my wife is a PhD student who works part time and we're expecting a baby). I'v [..]
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9:05 pm, November 18, 2013
I was just curious to see if others think that certain actions - especially those generally considered as bad or douche-like are magnified because you are blue or purple rated player by WN or Eff or w [..]
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9:05 pm, November 18, 2013
Apparently, the StuG III is a statpadding TD, and I statpad in a TD I don't even have in my garage anymore. For me, the StuG has nearly 10% of my matches (810) most of which are L/7 [..]
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9:05 pm, November 12, 2013
My grandfather got me interested in the game (he has almost 6000 battles so according to him he is still new). He has blue 60 day win rate and wn7, and green overall so he says he is average or a touc [..]
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9:05 pm, November 8, 2013
This last week I have seen my wins improve and seem to be in top 3 ranks after battles more then I have before. Is it because there are more 40-45%ers or have I started to really get this game?
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9:05 pm, November 5, 2013
...is probably to learn to avoid the extremes of camping or YOLOing/*******-rushing. Seriously, assuming you've already got the basics covered of not shooting HE except from derps, [..]
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9:05 am, October 29, 2013
submitted by rocketbrainsurgeon- [link] [1 comment]
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9:05 am, October 29, 2013
The title says it all:
Done this while playing solo most of the time (about 3 out of 4 matches).
Unfortunately, it was at the cost of taking more damage to save some teammates, which made my WN7 d [..]
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10:05 am, October 24, 2013
The way I see it there are 4 categories of clans.
There are the elite clans. They hold territory when they choose to hold it. The are highly structured and have [..]
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10:05 am, October 23, 2013
So I've had a 50% wr for about 6-7 months now, since it dropped from 52% in one weekend. I've tried to raise it, I've platooned, tried to improve my playstyle, but it keeps dro [..]
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10:05 pm, October 15, 2013
I did a few searches, but could not figure out the meaning of:
- Unicum
- Purple player
1- Do you guys usually master a tank before you jump to the next tier? do get your crew to 100% first before yo [..]
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10:05 am, October 14, 2013
Saw this pop up in my subscriptions on youtube, I honestly havent been paying much attention to the patch incoming, as i had no plans to start a new line other than the chinese mediums and the british [..]
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10:05 am, October 10, 2013
So any whos, I was in this tanking battle with fellow comrades(meaning solo pubbing) and we are off to a decent start kicking some butt. I was in the leopard prototype spotting and [..]
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10:05 am, October 7, 2013
I decided to put my new rig to the test and see just how well it would handle my video editing software. This lil guy is slightly divergent from my older, more hilarious works. It has more of an Anfie [..]
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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.& [..]
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10:05 am, September 29, 2013
How much training do you think a clan needs to do for CW battles? What kind of training gives the best results? (both long term and short term) Hey guys, Another interesting CW discussion that we (Fo [..]
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10:05 pm, September 28, 2013
Wargaming has done quite a few nice things for World of Tanks. They have nerfed some tanks that were OP, and tweaked some things that needed to be tweaked. The only problem is that for every good thin [..]
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10:05 am, September 26, 2013
Everybody who uses VOIP has a certain way they call different stuff, but I'm trying to make a list of things to call stuff that dont include the name of the things themselves.
Here' [..]
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10:05 am, September 19, 2013
1.) The rusler of Jimmies post - lozarus, on Sep 17 2013 - 05:43, said:watson1002- "And it was because of CR/D. We didn't lose on the field and we didn't lose because we didn't have enough player [..]
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10:05 pm, September 15, 2013
Today I learned that the Centurion type turrets are not all the same, specificly in the area of the mantlet. These turrets are found of the tier 8 and 9 British mediums and heavies (the two Centurion [..]
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10:05 am, September 6, 2013
submitted by TTF [link] [6 comments]
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10:05 pm, August 31, 2013
I have low end unicum stats, but I hate CW. I just want to platoon with other higher end players. Is there a non CW clan of purples out there? [NA] submitted by 3dot14Rocks [link] [3 comments]
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10:05 am, August 24, 2013
There's a new service up and running that has been designed to help people of all skill levels improve their game-play in World of Tanks. One of the nicest and most patient purple unicum playe [..]
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10:05 pm, August 23, 2013
DunxtonChexton, on Aug 19 2013 - 19:00, said:
The King is tired, see him to his chambers.
DunxtonChexton, on Aug 23 2013 - 18:30, said:
He'll hang Edmure if you don't surrender Riverrun.
BeepBeep123, [..]
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10:05 pm, August 22, 2013
lately, there has been a lot of talk about IS6 or various TDs or US autoloaders being OP.
yes, they are, but, nothing press the "Holy Sh*T" button to me then when I see an opposite team wit [..]
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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 19, 2013
This game needs a match making rating, i know mm has problems with tiers but the bigger problem is being in games with people that are far worse or better that make the game awful. An example is like [..]
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10:05 pm, August 16, 2013
29 tier 8s and an Object 261...
Chat in game was absolutely hilarious.
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10:05 am, August 15, 2013
Like the title says, theres no more PURPL. Anyone know what happened? They were a formidable force, I don't see any reason for them to disband if that was the case. submitted by xerotoxik [..]
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10:05 am, August 4, 2013
I know there's two major hit zone skins out there. One has shaded, color-coded areas to shoot at and the other has graphical depictions instead (i.e. the former has I think purple shaded areas [..]
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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 [..]
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10:05 am, July 28, 2013
Just read a quick thread on the EU-WOT Forum - I'll post the link here:
http://forum.worldof...es-impressions/
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The part that caught my attention was this guy "DOva_SPALE" - said,
[..]
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10:05 pm, July 13, 2013
Despite what it says on the win chance, don't take it too seriously! You always stand a good chance!
The flaw of this calculation is that it over calculate the performance of individual purple player [..]
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10:05 am, July 9, 2013
*WARNING* EGO FLARING MAY BE APPARENT *WARNING*
This is a tale of how a blurple platoon became rage-filled forklifts.
There once was a platoon that contained two bads in an AT-15. Said bads threw a [..]
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10:05 pm, July 1, 2013
Place Tag Clan Name Place 1 VOLT Revolt 1 2 SIMP S.I.M.P. 1 3 BAD The Brotherhood Armored Division 1 4 SKITT Skittles 5 5 ANVIL Anvil 2 6 CRABS CRABRON 5 7 HAVOK HavoK 2 8 SU Scrubs [..]
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10:05 pm, June 24, 2013
Place Tag Clan Name Place 1 CRABS CRABRON 1 2 SIMP S.I.M.P. 3 3 VOLT Revolt 4 4 BAD The Brotherhood Armored Division 2 5 HAVOK HavoK 4 6 -G- Guerrillas 3 7 RUS Hardware_RUS 3 8 PURP [..]
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10:05 am, June 24, 2013
For those paying attention to the contest rigging thing, the continuation of the blog post on "For the Record" : http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/06/23/competition-rigging-aftermath/ edi [..]
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10:05 pm, June 23, 2013
Place Tag Clan Name Place 1 HAVOK HavoK 11 2 CRABS CRABRON 8 3 -G- Guerrillas 2 4 RUS Hardware_RUS 5 5 SIMP S.I.M.P. 2 6 BAD The Brotherhood Armored Division 1 7 VOLT Revolt 1 8 PUR [..]
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