5:03 am, October 24, 2014
This is my new way of reviewing tanks, including the grind from stock (albeit I only play a few games while stock) to help people that do not like to use free experience. Beware, as this is m [..]
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4:03 pm, October 22, 2014
1) We are not a heavy tank - leading charges is not for us
2) We do not really have armor - so do not play pe ca bo games
3) We do not have the speed of the Easy 8
4) We are often [..]
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5:03 am, October 22, 2014
Ok, to address the kind of awkward pacing and formatting of this post, I actually wrote it as one 15,318 character post, but obviously that doesn't work too well with Reddits format. I'll link to the [..]
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4:03 pm, October 21, 2014
As a relatively casual player of Tanks but a big video game fan and someone that like to analyze things I just do not understand how arty functions in the game as it stands now. They have some super f [..]
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5:03 am, October 21, 2014
Ok so I don't come acros this often so I am at a loss at what to do against a good player who does this. The only method I've come up with is flank them. (Not always possible if it's a choke point and [..]
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5:03 am, October 19, 2014
http://imgur.com/go9yZfE http://imgur.com/iXp4PSA I figured this might just go unnoticed at the bottom of the previous Lakeville post, but this seems to me like an easy fix to help Lakeville flow a li [..]
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4:03 pm, October 18, 2014
Well, the 1st 3k battles are all fun and games. But now, I'm looking to get a little better at the game. I know the basics, hulldown, peek-a-boom. side scraping, flanking, circling ETC. I fe [..]
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5:03 am, October 18, 2014
I'm currently on the T-34 Russian Med and was wondering which med would suit me better. I am looking for fast flankers like the M7, Cromwell, Crusader, etc. I am less interested in another T-34 like t [..]
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5:03 am, October 17, 2014
These moments are why I keep playing this game.
It's been awhile since I left a match visibly shaking. It was a very violent end of a [..]
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5:03 am, October 16, 2014
tired of playing 3 tier 9 top tier mediums vs 5 top tier 9 heavies on your 3 route maps, where the mediums cannot flank the damn heavies.
this has been a problem since 8.3 please fix this!
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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 [..]
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4:03 pm, October 15, 2014
Like the title says, I just got ace in my brand new fury tank and brought home my first Tiger pelt.
1988 damage done
1694 assisted
3 ******
6 more damaged for confederate
41,451 cr [..]
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5:03 am, October 14, 2014
The Hellcat seems to be a hot topic in WoT as some tier 6's are better than the rest and used for pub stomping. Like the old KV-1S, Hellcat, Su-100. etc. Tanks with big guns that can carry games. Now [..]
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5:03 am, October 13, 2014
(Title is wrong...should say "M48A1 needs rebalancing")
The Patton used to be a great tier 10 medium, but after some nerfs...it has lost its competitiveness.
It feels very redundan [..]
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4:03 pm, October 12, 2014
As a medium player, recently I've been in the struggle. Playing T10 mediums solo feels so underwhelming. Time and time again I run into situations where doing 4000 damage in my 140, bat, leo, etc. get [..]
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4:03 pm, October 11, 2014
Here's a game where two of us got six kills.
http://wotreplays.com/site/1231659#murovanka-3bac-m10_wolverine
Clearly, the guy in the Churchill single handedly won his flank and without ques [..]
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4:03 pm, October 11, 2014
PLEASE NOTE: This does not apply to arty players that know what they are doing.
The 3rd strike is when some of you forget that your role is to support. The inability to [..]
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5:03 am, October 10, 2014
My teams never have their turn with the mini map. Only the enemy team has one. Buff my teams mini map and nerf enemy mini map and let's us finally have a fair fight.
(Sarcasm to v [..]
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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 [..]
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5:03 am, October 8, 2014
The data is collected from worldoftanks.com and vbaddict.net profiles for 1799 players across all of the Reddit clans in NA, EU, and SEA. Per-tank data is only available for 621 (38 more than 2 weeks [..]
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5:03 am, October 7, 2014
Never seen a final score like this before... Need to give serious props to 'Artur1964', would not have survived without him. Normally I'd thank the rest of my team but in this case [..]
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4:03 pm, October 6, 2014
With the advent of the matchmaker tier range changes, all the new tanks, and various map changes to encourage brawling, the Lowe is suffering as a result. Even with the most recent minor buf [..]
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4:03 pm, October 4, 2014
I'm so sick of seeing people sit there in a corner doing nothing cause their team is mostly dead and they dont want to pay the repair bill for a last ditch effort. Make no mistake, this is almost as b [..]
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4:03 pm, October 3, 2014
Tankers.
I have seen a lot of sad posts lately from players with 2k to 5k games who are struggling with the game. Poor win rate, WN8, bad stats, low esteem. I am no guru, so please don't ge [..]
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5:03 am, October 3, 2014
I'm a heavy tanker at heart (and, admittedly, not a very good one- still trying to break that 50% overall), but in prep for 9.3, I started going back down light tank lines again. So far, I've arrived [..]
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5:03 am, October 3, 2014
I'm so tired of being prioritized and focused by. No matter what tank I drive, no matter which position of map I go, the same craphappens.
I'm in my Obj 140 with full HP, and near me my tea [..]
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4:03 pm, October 2, 2014
most the team goes to one choke point the one or two lowest tier tanks complain about MM (then die within a couple/few minutes) the remaining 3 or 4 tanks go to other choke point the tanks at first ch [..]
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5:03 am, October 2, 2014
Lately I've been doing quite a bit of tier 6 strongholds and encountering a lot of teams that seem to have no idea what they're doing. I'm hoping to write some guides maybe when I have more experience [..]
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5:03 am, September 30, 2014
Warning: Very long post ahead, and please read the article on FTR before posting, thank you!
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/09/26/corridors-really-such-a-problem/
So SS basically stated that [..]
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4:03 pm, September 29, 2014
So I pulled out the tog and played a match last night. My goal was to try and get a percentile jump on the mark of excellence. I was one of the higher tanks which is a great set up [..]
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4:03 pm, September 29, 2014
Hi everyone do you guys have a funny shot that you have taken in arty, TDs, HT, LT, MTs if so please explain about it below the funniest one I have done was when I was in Hezter and guess what a A20 t [..]
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4:03 pm, September 28, 2014
Hey guys,Just like the poll says,Which tank/s should I get?
I just want a fun and reliable tank,But I'm too lazy to grind multiple lines.
So far,These tanks are the one I found,W [..]
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5:03 am, September 26, 2014
I seems to have a German fetish. Not quite sure what it is but I keep going back to Germans. I'm currently grinding out both med lines. I have the 3001d fully unlocked now just grinding xp to next tan [..]
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5:03 am, September 26, 2014
Everybody loves arty, right? No? Exactly the opposite, you say? Hang out on the forum long enough and you'll probably notice terms like "skycancer" and "clicker" being thrown aroun [..]
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5:03 am, September 25, 2014
I've played the SU-100M1 all the way through (and a little more), and I am one of the few that actually really likes it. Everyone's complaining that it sucks, but I will try to help and let people see [..]
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5:03 am, September 25, 2014
Let's face it. Most of the people on this forum are not bad. They know the mechanics. They know all the weak spots. Map positioning. Spotting. Crew layouts. And all the other stuff. Those threads help [..]
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5:03 am, September 24, 2014
Just had a game where I was covering our flank, Cent 7/1 hurr durrs and reveals himself to a Rhm, and a couple other tanks. When backing up, BEHIND the hill covering us from the rhm and co, he bumps i [..]
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5:03 am, September 23, 2014
So, I'm here to ask about what you guys (and girls) consider an acceptable *****. I got into a T9 encounter battle on lakeville in my T21. I did a quick spotting pass through the cap zone, then waited [..]
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5:03 am, September 23, 2014
Alright I need to vent, because this is driving me freaking insane. I swear one in every 4 battles, if I am lucky, I get a team that lemmings off to one side, all the heavies, mediums, etc, leaving th [..]
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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. [..]
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5:03 am, September 21, 2014
Please stop telling people to save their HP till the end of the battle. Most of them are thinking, "Okay, don't do sh*t and stay back till the end of the battle...GOT IT!"
It prett [..]
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4:03 pm, September 20, 2014
So yesterday after coming home from a 13 hour shift at work I decided to hop on WOT and derp around a bit. Hopped into my PzIII/IV because I needed to get another 65 xp for the top gun and then work o [..]
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5:03 am, September 20, 2014
The data is collected from worldoftanks.com and vbaddict.net profiles for 1781 players across all of the Reddit clans in NA, EU (RDDT1 EU and RDDT6 EU recently added), and SEA. Per-tank data is only a [..]
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5:03 am, September 20, 2014
I'm debating to get one of them and carry on, had a 34-85 LONG time ago(like 2 years) and now there is a new line. Decided to grind out both heavy lines as my T-150 is elited and just need cash for KV [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
I've been playing this thing for 3 hours. 3 god damned hours. I'd think after that I'd have some idea on what to do with the thing. I tried brawling. Got the **** shot out of me, ammo racked, etc. I [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
Tonight's session was horrible. You might read that one statement and think "man, another tomato's thinking he's the top of the world and is about to ***** about the baddies and the bad mm and th [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
It had been months since I played arty, back in 8.7/8.8 I remember the game being all about beefy TDs and heavies, not many "soft" targets wandering around, or targets in general as TD's cam [..]
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5:03 am, September 19, 2014
I've done a few of things in the past, and a few guys messaged me after this battle (from both sides) saying gg, and wondering how I did it.
http://wotreplays.com/site/1175387#sel [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
My performance on my AMX 13 90 is far too dependent on the team. The moment my team secures an edge, I am a storm personified, solidifying the battle by assassinating lone targets. But when my team [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
I don't know why. All I am doing is trying to push the team to win by trying to do as good as I can on my own.
Had a game in my KV-1 and was called a Damage Farmer because I pushed hard, driving the e [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
I have been brainstorming about what is missing from my WoT experience. Thought of the solution this morning while distracting myself by dreaming of TANKS during a 2 hour ruck march!&nbs [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
Karelia... regular match 2 flags... we're south... I'm in my GWE100 arty and our team has 2 other arties, Bat Chat 55 & 58... literally every player on our team rolls up the East where the mou [..]
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5:03 am, September 18, 2014
This is just going to be a bit of bread and butter stuff. It'll show a few battles from a string of matches on Himmelsdorf just to show some of these tactics in action. Also if you are expecting some [..]
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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
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 [..]
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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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5:03 am, September 16, 2014
Before: Once the great and fearsome Grey mouse, it would make ennemies cower into concealment, waiting for their moment to strike the beast, but the beast stood, proud, under the punishment inflicted, [..]
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5:03 am, September 15, 2014
I honestly cannot figure out why someone would choose to play a type 61 over a centurion 7/1. The centurion has a better gun and better armor all around, and less speed and mobility than the type 61. [..]
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4:03 pm, September 12, 2014
Hey guys, I have a t69 which crew can choose a 3rd skill. Now what should I take? I also use this crew for my superpershing. They already have these skills commander : BiA, 6th sense gunner: BiA, Sna [..]
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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 [..]
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5:03 am, September 8, 2014
I'm currently going down both German medium lines. At DW2 and PZ III/IV. Also on Marder 38T and have the Russian T-150 as the current lines I'm doing. I FREAKING LOVE the maneuverability on the III/IV [..]
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5:03 am, September 7, 2014
Hey everybody. Title says it all. I'm looking for the best tank to flank with. I love the T71 but I'd like to play something similar but with better damage. submitted by NullEgo [link] [28 comments [..]
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5:03 am, September 5, 2014
The Great Reddit Officer Hunt Hey Guys, im just re-posting this to keep people aware of this. I still run this. Are you tired of those pesky officers always telling you what to do? “Push th [..]
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2:01 am, August 31, 2014
Just the general stuff, what is this med.'s roll, support sniper flanker ect. submitted by the0ddmanic [link] [5 comments]
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2:01 pm, August 30, 2014
Just had this game in my T-28 Prot, 1 one 1 against a SP. Found aut that u can actually miss the top of its turret or hit too low, for something like 5 or 6 times. But I guess the gun on Prot is not t [..]
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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 [..]
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2:01 pm, August 26, 2014
It has come to my attention in a situation today (will tell the story if asked) that not many players know the role played when driving an Aufkl., or telling a player what to do in his/her Aufkl. I ca [..]
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2:01 pm, August 26, 2014
Where the hell do you pen this thing frontally? I was forced to face it down with a Centurion Mk. 1 and switched to premium rounds.
Lower glacis, bounced.
Commander's cupola, bounced.
Front driver [..]
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2:01 pm, August 25, 2014
(what I would do if I started from scratch w/ no premium tanks) Preparation - Setup: Comfortable Mouse (my fav list: Razor DeathAdder, Logitech 400, CM Storm-Spawn, 1800 DPI setting) Mouse Pad (Mono [..]
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2:01 pm, August 25, 2014
So it seems that scouts is not very useful right now because of the versatility of meds, maybe adjustment should be made to MM so that scouts only get into games with only a handful of meds but a lot [..]
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2:01 am, August 25, 2014
Already have T-34 almost enough xp to get A-43. Had a kv2, currently with a kv1. Debating on if I want to go the med or hvy route. I keep hearing about the kv1s split. If I have a kv1s and it gets the [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
After playing quite a number of tanks this is the second tank that I've really clicked with (the first being the KV-1s). I really love the versatility of the tank, it can scout / flank well if [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
After playing about 70% of my 24k games solo pubbing, I thought I was a competitive player, I obviously play tier 6 mostly as solo pubbing is brutal in this game.
Then Ithink I'mcarrying a tier 7 t [..]
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2:01 pm, August 22, 2014
When you look at the minimap, what influences where you go at the beginning of the match, and how? If you're not playing up a scout, how far behind/ahead of the rest of the flank do you & [..]
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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 21, 2014
1) WOT knows when it's gonna patch or has to do an emergency patch. Why can't the RSS feed for alternative downloads be updated at the same time?
Yet when we had to do manual patching (due to Launche [..]
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2:01 pm, August 18, 2014
Looking for a good tier 9 medium tank For my playing style. My garage is mostly filled with light and medium tanks. I like decent speed to flank around heavy tanks and good damage to were I'm [..]
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2:01 pm, August 18, 2014
So far I've only got the Black Prince gun unlocked and with that being the case I am at the mercy of my team.. but this thing is pretty nice. I haven't really gone down any sniping lines yet as I've f [..]
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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 [..]
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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 15, 2014
So I've recently been playing only American TDs. I like to sit back and fire from the back line but my gun is so weak that it never pens the enemies from the front. So I go and try to flank to [..]
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2:01 pm, August 12, 2014
I've seen and heard that going to the southeast open hills is a bad idea (from sela's map guide and sirfoch's videos). But honestly, the town and surrounding hills doesn [..]
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2:01 am, August 12, 2014
SirFoch's video today really got me thinking about how Wargaming has been going about making maps lately and its effect on gameplay and general classes in World of Tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/wa [..]
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2:01 am, August 11, 2014
This tank is so hard for me to get used to. My playstyle is either sit and snipe, (german mediums, TD's) or Scout (chinese lights, french tonks). This thing is too slow to effectively scout, [..]
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2:01 am, August 11, 2014
I want to address all the "Not Farisms" going around the game. It's not fair I play two tiers down. It's not fair that the other team has all those heavies. I'ts not fair I turn blue when I [..]
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2:01 am, August 11, 2014
It was a tier 5 match on the one on "Highway", after streaks of losses I turn towards my M41 to perhaps cheer me up. I had a good team (based off of the amount of heavies, T.D's, etc.), but [..]
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2:01 pm, August 8, 2014
Hi guys, so this is one of the maps in WoT where I know where to go in my medium tanks...yet I am reluctant to do it as it just doesn't feel right and it doesn't seem like I can have g [..]
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2:01 am, August 8, 2014
So.. Here I was, having a match in my PTA, and there's a friggin LolTraktor platooned with a tier 8 in the match. It was really annoying, especially when he started talking all cocky about how what a [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
I'm not asking that as a blanket across the board question. I don't think it's importance will change for lights and the sniper TDs/mediums but there is a section of mediums an [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
Ok, here's the setup...Driving my Crusader on El Haluf, my platoonmate & I swept from the north spawn to the south spawn, took down the arty & a few TDs, then got into overwatch on the cap. I [..]
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2:01 pm, August 7, 2014
I'm interested in grinding out a medium line that focuses on punchy accurate guns. Sniping in the back or supporting heavies. I've got the Chi-Ri and Comet so I'm not sure which line to dedicate my ti [..]
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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 [..]
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2:01 pm, August 6, 2014
I have been looking all over the forums for this and each one is bringing different opinions on which tank is better at making creds, the Jagdtiger 88 or the American T34. Some are saying that the T34 [..]
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2:01 am, August 6, 2014
We've all had moments where we look back at our actions and wonder "why the hell did I pull out sideways in front of that E100?" Well this is dedicated to those moments where [..]
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2:01 am, August 5, 2014
Alright guys. I can't figure this thing out. Everywhere I read says it plays just like the T69, but I just can't find the same success. I think my issue is its larger hull. I used to [..]
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2:01 pm, August 4, 2014
On most maps and tanks, I have a general idea where to go. Unfortunately, JT 8,8 is this vehicle, where I often don't know - and eventually, fail. It has too many known limits, which make it w [..]
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2:01 am, August 4, 2014
I'm open to negotiation on the specifics. But I've had quite enough of im_nine_irl (M3 Stuart): Attention to sector C3! im_nine_irl (M3 Stuart): Attention to sector D1! im_nine_irl (M [..]
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2:01 pm, August 3, 2014
Howdy fellow Uropeans, Question as titled. I get 32% WR, although doing ~1800 WN8 (not late game damage), grinding mostly mediocre vehicles (e.g. Black Prince, Jagdpanzer IV) and platooning... Lemmin [..]
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2:01 am, August 2, 2014
It's kind of embarrassing. I've been playing for a while, 9k games, 1400 WN8 for the last 60 days (not a good player by any means, but not a tomato, either), and I do know the fundamen [..]
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2:01 pm, July 31, 2014
T-50 : although i'm not fond of the idea of scouting, i can have a absolute blast when im in a tier 5 game because I actually stand a chance of surviving when i have a 45 mm VT with me. plus, [..]
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