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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

Appreicating Help from Others.

4:03 pm, September 27, 2014 We obviously like when we have good matches.  We rake up lots of damage, get a bunch of kills, and you get the ending feeling of accomplishment.  But did you ever and stop to think a [..] View

Written Warning

4:03 pm, September 27, 2014 Just got a Written Warning from The Tribunal for inaction, with no option for a recourse. And a promise of "punishment" for further infractions. I gotta say, this ****** me off.& [..] View

Tired of arty taking the fun out of the TANK game.

5:03 am, September 22, 2014 Tried to get back into WOT, but again it is just no good.  Since the beginning arty mechanics have been a burden, cancer, plague, curse, what ever you want to call it to this great tank game. [..] View

Moronic Mondays #2: Armor Angling, Sidescraping/Wall hugging and Face hugging

5:03 am, September 16, 2014 For the second installment, we'll go over armor angling and sidescraping (also called wall hugging, not to be confused with actively bumping enemy tanks up close so they miss shots). SIDESCRAPING In e [..] View

Comparison

4:03 pm, September 12, 2014 WARNING LONG POST I do not if this belongs here but hell if it is moved then it is moved. This is a post about another comparedto warthunder staff and play wise. The other game is called Wart [..] View

What is with the RU players and discrimination?

5:03 am, September 7, 2014 I'm amazed by the amount of racism the RU players seem to be spewing on the test server. Nearly every time there is a US player in the game half of the RU players start typing abuse to them, 'Obama Mo [..] View

The reason a tier spread of 2 like the matchmaker currently uses is a good thing.

2:01 am, August 27, 2014 This turned out to be longer than I intended, but please bear with me. If not, there's a TL;DR at the bottom. I keep seeing "drunk MM" comments both here on /r/worldoftanks a [..] View

T-62A Deep Comparison between Obj. 140

2:01 pm, August 16, 2014 So I replied to someones post about him not sure about choosing the Obj. 140 or the T-62A. So I spent literally 30 minutes pampering this reply and thought that it would be good enough to create a top [..] View

How do you think arty should be balanced?

2:01 pm, August 14, 2014 It seems arty topics are rampant lately, so I decided if you can't beat them, join them. With out the removal of artillery(because we know WG will not remove them) how could they be rebalanced in such [..] View

Do you feel arties are effective in combat?

2:01 pm, August 7, 2014 Frankly when i play a arty anymore i feel like its roll of the dice. if i hit my target. i can be extremely careful and try to be exacting in my aim and my gunner whom is smoking crack will miss by 12 [..] 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

Please allow the players to choose whether or not to play arty

2:01 am, August 6, 2014 As an avid player of world of tanks, I completely understand why people would want arty to stay. I can also completely understand why people would want arty removed (as I am in this category). However [..] View

My World of Tanks

2:01 am, August 1, 2014 One thing, I think we don't do enough of on these forums, is talk about the game in a larger sense. It's all well and good to discuss arty changes or gold rounds specifically but I think a lot gets lo [..] View

[DISCUSSION] Is the 4502B the new E 75?

2:01 pm, July 31, 2014 With the 9.2 buff it seems the 4502B has become a real threat to the battle field. What was once seen as a weaker E 75 now has some serious game changing potential. Lets compare the E 75 to its rear-t [..] View

Could I get some non standard arty advice?

2:01 pm, July 13, 2014 I would like to know which line as a whole has arty with good accuracy and range. As well as tips on how to counter arty. Basically I am butt hurt. I hate arty so much it is almost enough to quit tank [..] View

How to Use XVM Statistics to It's Full Potential

2:01 am, July 5, 2014 *Disclaimer:I am not nor I am I claiming to be some super-skilled player whose advice is never wrong. I am just tired of people complaining about XVM win chance, saying it's either always wrong or tha [..] View

Here is what I think of arty

2:01 am, July 2, 2014 I come here not to explode on how much I hate arty, but to get people to understand why arty shouldn't take the hate for just simply trying to earn credits and experience. From playing endless game [..] View

A Poor Decision Made Right

2:01 am, July 1, 2014 Recruiting my friend LargeBrownBear into World of Tanks in February of 2013 came with it a sense of responsibility. Like anyone who had discovered something new and fun, I wanted to share this experie [..] View

Leopard prototyp A needs serious buff!

2:01 pm, June 21, 2014 First off, this is my first post but this issue is bothering me really bad. Second I am aware, that it'spossible that everything is fine with the Leo PTA and I am just really bad with this tank due to [..] View

2-month break from WoT and...

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 [..] View

Is this a threat or was he wanting to team up with me outside the game?

2:01 pm, June 11, 2014 submitted by razaan [link] [55 comments] 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

Basic target priority: shoot the threat, not the non-threat

2:01 pm, June 9, 2014 Just a quick poll. Which tank should you shoot, and why? View

ToS Violation?

2:01 pm, June 8, 2014 I am curious. Just now I had an interesting game where a fail-platoon of hellcats almost cost us a loss. One of the hellcats begins by shooting up one of our arty units. After turning blue I immedi [..] 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

New NVIDIA drivers out, claiming performance gains in WoT

2:01 am, May 28, 2014 submitted by SystemThreat [link] [34 comments] View

Arty Players are NOT unskilled clickers!

2:01 am, May 27, 2014 Everyone I've ever heard say that Arty players are unskilled clickers, wouldn't last 2 minutes in an Artillery Vehicle in any battle, unless they were hiding. I'm tired of hearing that I have no skill [..] View

XVM should be banned already

2:01 pm, May 22, 2014 I tried XVM once soon I saw what it did, I understood that this gives a big advantage to the user, and I uninstalled it because it made me feel like a cheat but why? Firstly our play is determined [..] View

WTH WG?!

2:01 am, May 18, 2014 My antivirus just blocked the map "hills". Saying it was a threat to my computer. What did you guys do? Now I have to go and free the files, but it makes me worried. View

New and being Idle...

2:01 pm, May 16, 2014 Hi all, I've only been playing this for 2 days now, love the game and stunning graphics, well worth the 7.5GB download... lol But getting onto the servers can takeforever as not only do I have t [..] View

**** the FV304, really just **** it

2:01 am, May 14, 2014 I cant play any tank without getting plagued by these little *****, I generally dont dislike arty, but **** this ****** little machine. Playing the Black prince isnt bearable with the scum driving the [..] View

Questions & Answers threat [Wont let me post]

2:01 pm, May 6, 2014 It says I need to have atleast 20 battles. I have over 9500 battles... I think it needs to take a nap or just doesnt like me. Why isent it letting me post on Questions and Answers? 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

9.0 Issues (Anyone remember 8.0?)

2:01 pm, April 25, 2014 As expected with any major update and patch release, we've hit some stability and game play issues for some. Some are a few games followed by a crash. Some are crashing after each game. Some can't eve [..] View

How do you choose your targets?

2:01 pm, April 23, 2014 Hello there! My question is, well, the title! Some days ago i posted a replay and one of the replies was mentioning about how a specific enemy was the "biggest threat to me and my team. What& [..] View

Incoming damage effects don't always appear

2:01 am, April 16, 2014 I'm guessing this must be mod-related; looking for info if it's happened to anyone else. Simply put, the screen flash and threat indicator don't always work properly when my tank takes a hit. It's qui [..] View

Let's have a talk about XVM's "Chance to win:" percentage.

10:05 pm, April 13, 2014 Okay. So. I need to tell you guys this. Most of you probably know. Or know more and will correct me. But I see so much ******** in this sub about "XVM is always wrong about us winning or losi [..] View

My good deed of the day, back to the basics guide for all those noobs buying into high tiers......

9:05 am, March 4, 2014 So you just signed up and blew $30 on up on that fancy new Premium medium or heavy tank. After buying into a tier you never earned your way into, you are thinking: "I'm ready, man. Check it [..] View

when will the german lines handicapps be removed and the tier ranking for the whole german line corrected

9:05 am, March 3, 2014 by now its common knowledge that there isnt any german armour that is a threat head to head against anything,only time they score successes is when the enemy inst shooting at them and their back is to [..] View

Cromwell question

9:05 am, February 24, 2014 Hi, Ive been grinding towards the cromwell for a while now and have just recently gotten myself the crusader. While this does seem to be an improvement over the covenanter, I can't say I love [..] View

My Opinion on the T26E4 Super Pershing

9:05 am, February 22, 2014 Okay. So. After some serious thought into whether or not I should buy this tank, being a $34 investment that I want spent wisely, and being that I've never played this tank prior to the armor nerf, I [..] 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

Usefulness of WN8 compared to other benchmarks in XVM config?

9:05 pm, February 17, 2014 I may get downvoted into oblivion for this, but I'm genuinely curious what people think about it. I set up an XVM config way back in the day that would tell me the Efficiency of each player an [..] View

"Protect the arty"

9:05 pm, January 26, 2014 Last match I once again heard this, then had a T21 basically block my JT88 from moving till i had to threaten to shoot the little SoB. This claim "protect the arty." What a load of garbage. [..] View

false accusations = banned?

9:05 am, January 26, 2014 Okay lets just get this out of the way from the start, I am REALLY REALLY REALLY bad at this game (I can't stress enough on how bad I am) and I am well aware of my absolute terrible gaming skills but [..] View

Heavy Tank Driver's Licence Test

9:05 am, January 20, 2014 I'm not a super-experienced player, but I've noticed there are a lot of people driving heavy tanks that shouldn't. Sometimes they do not have the temperament or mental faculties to be suited to the ro [..] View

Am I progressing properly as an Artillery player?

9:05 pm, January 14, 2014 Warning: Opinions. Yours, mine, theirs. Share your thoughts but don't be a 'tard about it. I'm relatively new to this game, with less than 2,000 battles under my belt. As of late, I've found that [..] View

Very

9:05 pm, January 12, 2014 Very strange issue: Starting the launcher always works. When I hit play, "sometimes" it fails to launch the game. Any attempts to re-boot the game or launcher result in an error that the [..] View

Conqueror - The tank that conquers its competitors with its Superior Gun: a tarp

9:05 am, January 10, 2014 Conqueror is like marmite. You love it or hate it. I went from hating it to loving it. There was zero transition for me from absolutely hating the **** out of it to loving it. It's a tank that [..] View

Jagdtiger - The German box tank that was never meant to be: A disappointing fate for the average joe.

9:05 am, January 9, 2014 Jagdtiger is one of those hated tanks. WG hates it so much, they nerfed it with the batch of German "balance changes". Is it still capable? Yes. Is it fun to play now? No. I rewrote [..] View

IS8: the lost gem of tier 9 and why you should play it

9:05 am, January 8, 2014 General The much ignored IS8 has disappointed many players, while delighting a select few. It gets a bad rap for a number of reasons as people push the m103 and e75 over it. This is why not many expe [..] View

Double OTTER on the rocks; as Serb intended. [Otter Press Conference]

9:05 pm, January 7, 2014 This Otter knows what his nation wants. Citizens of OtterCo, the importance of the upcoming elections has brought me before you; we are one step closer to our goals. Victory is almost upon us but [..] View

WZ-120: T-54 without HEAT spam

9:05 pm, January 2, 2014 We all know T-54 is pretty damn OP with HEAT. Now imagine that, with better turret armour, and less need for expensive HEAT rounds. That's the WZ-120. It's easy to overcome its weaknes [..] View

WZ-111 Model 1-4 - The Go Getter

9:05 pm, January 1, 2014 The WZ-111 is one of those tanks. If you ignore it, you will never notice how it performs. But when you do notice it, there are subtle hints to how stronk this tank is. Going down the Chinese tank lin [..] View

Wow, just had the misfortune of having the worst teamate ever.

9:05 pm, December 3, 2013 I've found in my short time here that most of the players on WOT are pretty cool, helpful, etc. But man, this guy that was just on my team, jeez. He didn't like my position in my KV2 and started trash [..] View

PLEASE, make "WE'RE ON FIRE" a PRIORITY

9:05 pm, December 2, 2013 So, you are in sniper mode in battle and get ONE hit and you hear... "The loaders bought the farm" (though why he keeps buying agricultural buildings i don't know.) "The commanders bee [..] View

easy lads, it's a game

9:05 pm, November 30, 2013 So there I am, ready for a match in my TOG, and one of the higher level fellas says "follow me"... so I dutifully follow: of course, I lose him at some point due to the kph of the TOG. So, [..] 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

The most hilariously dumb thing just happened to me.

9:05 am, November 18, 2013 I'm playing with my VK 30.01 (H) on Cliff and I am hiding in one of the dips toward the edge. I poke my head up and see probably half a dozen tanks or more. 3+ medium tanks, 2 light, and a tan [..] View

A dramatized story of a loss I had yesterday.

9:05 pm, October 30, 2013 As the StuG III Came around the corner, he rolled right back up to 40 k/ph as the turn loosened. The hard, toasty desert sand felt great under his tracks, and the sun beat down upon his armoured top. [..] 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

Camo Mitigation- View Range Mechanic for LTs

10:05 pm, October 22, 2013 This is a thought I've bounced around casually in a number of other threads as a possible way to help preserve light tanks' niche in high tier games without interfering with MM. The problem in a nutsh [..] View

Operation: Paper Sperglord Scrubby Pubbie Hunger Games

10:05 am, October 21, 2013 With the dust in Texas settling down, OTTER has had time to let our 17 tanks unlock and poke our heads up to have a look around the magical farm. What OTTER High Command has seen has caused dismay and [..] View

Just another guide on how to improve

10:05 pm, October 10, 2013 We all like to win and i think that most of us always try to get better at thing that we like, so i made this guide hoping it can help you -Don't rush to higher tiers (i.e. getting a prem tank that do [..] View

Ruminations on the Durchbruchswagen 2...

10:05 am, October 7, 2013 When patch 8.8 hit, I was pretty curious about the changes to the German tech tree, especially the addition of a new kid on the block, The Durchbruchswagen 2. I was expecting strangeness from the new [..] View

Proposal for the Future of Artillery

10:05 pm, October 5, 2013 Intro I have been on this sub-reddit for a while and one of the most frequently debated/hated things in the game is artillery. People hate being on their 5th **** only to be mirrecal sniped fro 1000 h [..] View

When do you see a "threat" player performance wise on the other team?

10:05 pm, October 4, 2013 Do you use xvm? do you recognize the name? do you recognize the clan? View

Any Way To Appeal A Ban?

10:05 pm, September 20, 2013 So I was just in a battle with my 1S and we had a Marder II on our team and somebody said something about it and I said stupid platoon, so they started threatening me and then they shot me for 1/2 my [..] View

RELIC Vs BAD META, a chronology

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 [..] View

How do you deal with tanks doing ******* rushes?

10:05 am, September 7, 2013 Not just aggressive players but people who do ******* runs against 2-3 people, kv-1s is the perfect example, it's fast and has a fantastic gun with bouncy armor. As a lower tier/less armed tan [..] View

Noobs, we need to talk

10:05 pm, September 3, 2013 I'm still a noob, but I have gotten enough experience to see some patterns of successful and unsuccessful strategies.  I've been involved in several lost battles the last day that co [..] View

Quick Survey about the minimap

10:05 am, September 2, 2013 Numerous times I've played I've had to wonder if my team is even looking at the minimap as no one seems to be reacting to an obvious threat. When I've messaged "hey, y [..] View

panzervormeanspanzervor

10:05 am, September 1, 2013 I've been sent as the official representative of our clan, NTR, to talk about the conduct of one of our newer members, panzervormeanspanzervor, a name that I'm sure you've become familiar with over th [..] View

PSA: Don't rush

10:05 pm, August 27, 2013 This is likely going to be about as Quixotic as my avatar suggests, but I'm going to go ahead and say it. This game is not a sprint to the finish, but it is a journey.  It's best tak [..] View

6th sense make the matches longer?

10:05 am, August 27, 2013 I think 6th sense artificially makes matches longer.  I ran a few tanks without 6th sense and the play-style is vastly different. For example, a tank with 6th can peek around then wa [..] View

Stats are stressful

10:05 am, August 20, 2013 I might be one of the only 'good' players that has this happen because I don't rage(much) but often I just get stressed out, and lose fun in the game often because of a perception I need to maintain.& [..] 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

Turned a weird MM (1 t7 & 29 t5's) around for the good, missing Bruno's medal by ~30 seconds!

10:05 pm, August 10, 2013 Game started of with the usual responses to retarded matchmaking, many WTF's and a LOL from me in my BDR. Game goes as usual, think my team was OK because I only damaged their IS-2 once and th [..] 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

A nice Sherman.

10:05 pm, August 7, 2013 Took a few pics of a Sherman I drive by every once in a while located in Auburn, NE. http://imgur.com/a/F8Pxb - Gallery http://goo.gl/maps/Hn5gz - Map if you wish to creep submitted by SystemThreat [..] View

KV-5 and you, a love/hate relationship (Guide/Discussion)

10:05 pm, August 1, 2013 I posted this three months ago during the last sale, and it seemed to slow the number should I buy threads, so I'm throwing it up again with a few revisions. Pros The armor is really strong [..] View

You are not safe when a SU-101 is watching you.

10:05 am, July 28, 2013 After game battle report: Short story of the battle (TL;DR at the bottom) Match was set in Malinovka. The game started pretty slow as usual for this map until at one point, 5 enemy tanks decided to ru [..] View

Changing Color of Threat Arc?

10:05 pm, July 12, 2013 Hi Folks:    My apologies if this turns out to be a double post.  I thought I posted this a half an hour ago, but I don't see it in the forum.  &nbs [..] View

Why can we see tanks outside our spotting distance if an ally spots them?

10:05 pm, July 9, 2013 By gross analogy: Lets say my tank has a spotting distance of 100m because my crew is lazy and doesn't wash off the lens between battles. An ally, say 200m in front of me, spots a tank a furth [..] View

T-44 question again. 122 or 100mm?

10:05 am, July 3, 2013 Hello again, and welcome to Gunman407's newest n00b threat about the T-44! Very simple, please choose what gun you use/used if you have/had the T-44, then tell me why. View

One does not simply threaten Reddit!(FV 183 one shot bat-mobile)

10:05 pm, June 29, 2013 submitted by assassinator [link] [26 comments] 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

Next in line for nerf

10:05 am, June 21, 2013 Arties appearing less in pubs and being less effective overall, the whining about arty being OP slowly declines (not counting the in-game-rage after being one-shotted by arties). The question is what [..] View

My Personal Opinion on Scouting Strategy

10:05 pm, June 20, 2013 This is by no means intended to be a definitive guide on how to scout, just my personal opinion and observations. As a scout, your primary mission is to give the rest of the team the information they [..] View

A bit of insight from a Fun Loving Player on the artillery issue

10:05 am, June 19, 2013 Over the years Players have begged, pleaded, groveled, raged, cried, threatened, hated, whined, complained, roared, demanded, vented, ranted and blustered about Artillery. Over the same years, Wargam [..] View

8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars is looking for tankers.

10:05 pm, June 15, 2013 We are looking for tankers over the age of 21, who have at least 1000 battles and a win rate around 50%. We are building a historicaly accurate clan running armor the British would have used during th [..] View

Normalization

10:05 pm, June 12, 2013 The second stage of the Campaigns is over (good times in that T18) and the CW map changed it's appearance,but before that something interesting happened also,here let's take a look: 1st day of the C [..] View

A tale of a light tank not understanding how to scout/rant

10:05 am, June 11, 2013 Its not uncommon for my jimmies to get rustled while playing tanks but something came to a head for me that I think any competent light tank driver has had to deal with. other ****** light tank drive [..] 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

Daily Discussion Topic: Airfield

10:05 pm, June 8, 2013 Today's discussion topic is the map Airfield (wiki link). Airfield is an unusual map - while it is classed as an "open" map it contains a lot of short sight-lines and cover f [..] View

Listen and listen well (new players) in artillery.

10:05 pm, June 8, 2013 Here it is arty. I don't like you. I think you should be removed from game completely but WG has said that will not happen so I have to tolerate you but I refuse to tolerate your sub-standard play. No [..] View

Entry Level Players Requirement

10:05 am, June 3, 2013 There is a concern by players (veterans) that the minimap is the least used tool on the interface during a game.  This creates unrest in every game I have played, that to one degree [..] View

W0T, 15 OOO games

10:05 am, May 28, 2013 So l am a few games out of this milestone. 15 OOO games. l started in June, just about 2 years ago, so l guess that makes me a Veteran. Though l'd never consider myself good, l take pride at not being [..] View

Declaration of War: May 25th 2013 4:13 Est.

10:05 pm, May 25, 2013 Today at 10:24 Eastern Standard time diplomatic contact between the rogue state known only by their moniker Wargaming North America (WGNA) , and the peaceful and recently unified community known as CR [..] View

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