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Leo On Track: Guide+Replays

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

Grinding with the A20

5:03 am, October 14, 2014 So because I stupidity bought a Xbox one I am stuck playing WOT Blitz on the IPad. I have been tying to get the T34 and stuck with the A20. The best upgradable cannon sucks. How can I get more points [..] View

Wild Finish - Video

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 [..] View

Glorious IOC is looking to fill it's last few spots.

4:03 pm, October 3, 2014   Enemy, [edited] the pride Come on over, to our side We're the same, just afraid What's the difference when we're all dying?   The real IOC is looking to finish filling our [..] View

I really enjoy my Aufklärungspanzer

5:03 am, September 28, 2014 Took me a while to figure it out (even after it was fully upgraded). It has high top speed but is sluggish so you cant rely on it's acceleration. So you have to pickup your speed out of sight. Right [..] View

Not improving. Time to uninstall?

5:03 am, September 25, 2014 I have been playing this game for quite awhile now. Like most people my first several thousand battles were played in ignorance of game mechanics and strategy.    But I found myself [..] View

Matchmaking System - Bug Issue Problem

5:03 am, September 25, 2014 Hello All,   Before i start please understand i have no problem dying. i enjoy the medium tanks and light tanks and know that i can die super fast if i am not careful.  So this is no [..] View

So I've been studying all the E-25 posts over the past month...

5:03 am, September 23, 2014 ...and just want to confirm that I made a very, very good decision purchasing this tank this weekend. Only have a few games under my belt, but even in loses I'm raking in credits. With my T34, if I ha [..] View

Did WG move their NA servers? Massive ping issues.

5:03 am, September 21, 2014 Seriously, i have no idea what happened after my 2 week break, but holy hell did the server room get flooded or mauled in some way? I've been running 150+ ping for the last few days on both NA East an [..] View

I'll be damned

4:03 pm, September 17, 2014 I have just started playing WOT and like it.  I had progressed through the Germans PZ II, IIIa and III but was frustrated with dying a lot and bouncing shots a lot.  So like any good [..] View

KV2: A sniping tank?

5:03 am, September 16, 2014 So I was playing a game today in the KV1s, and was holding a corner poorly. I ended up dying from being overwhelmed and being too far forward with no support, after doing a mediocre-to-kind-of-bad 900 [..] View

Back to the table: The Maus

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, [..] View

Please stop nominating Rommel and Patton as "best" of anything

4:03 pm, September 9, 2014 Only because I'm bored...   This was sparked by another topic in this forum. Every forum that has any connection to military ALWAYS asks this question: Who's the "best" gen [..] View

If I tell you what I like, can you tell me what to play?

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 [..] View

"Intentional Self-Destruction" Flaw

5:03 am, September 8, 2014 Screenshot of warning message I played a match as arty (9.3 test server), face hugged a heavy that attacked me, and then blew both of us up when I fired my HE shell. Afterwards I got this message. The [..] View

On the "Shut up you're dead" - argument.

4:03 pm, September 4, 2014 "Shut up you're dead."   A sentence usually outed by the fiery red (both statistically and appearantly in anger level) pubbie.   Usually goes accompanied with '..., noob' o [..] View

What is your opinion on the increased special weekends?

5:03 am, September 2, 2014 With the huge influx of special weekends in the last few patches, do you guys like the game any more or less? I for one dislike the amount of them recently, although that may just be my dying winrate [..] View

World of Cheaters

2:01 am, August 16, 2014 You know what I am sick of this. i am sick of the fact that you allow people to use mods which are CLEARLY illegal and you do NOTHING to stop it. World of Tanks is nothing more than a bunch of cheat [..] View

Survive for loss or risk dying for win?

2:01 am, August 11, 2014 Just wondering people's opinions. Say you've done 3k damage as bottom tier and as the last one alive, would you prefer to camp in a corner and get in some more free damage before your [..] View

Matchmaking?

2:01 pm, July 27, 2014 So I've come back to WoT after a year. I seem to be doing alright, but I'm still VERY rough around the edges. But how does this matchmaking system work? The past 2 days, 90% of my teams consist of peo [..] View

Zebra Mission: Pershing Pt 3

2:01 pm, July 26, 2014 I will finish the current series on the timelines of the production and fielding of T26 General Pershing with Ordnance's view of the background to the Zebra Mission, the in-theatre combat testing of [..] View

Arty - a dying breed

2:01 am, July 12, 2014 I just hada great game: - I was playing a teir 7 match as a tier 7 arty (a rarity) - I did not get the usual bot group heading out and camping the field while two or three scouts came in and ****** [..] View

I just don't understand the CC3.

2:01 pm, July 5, 2014 So. Sometimes I have great games where I crush a flank solo, and sometimes every one of my shots bounce and my armour seems to have been replaced with warm butter, and it feels like I'm perfor [..] View

Overcoming Tier X performance anxiety

2:01 am, June 24, 2014 After 10k battles and quite a lot of time spent in tier 9 for many nations, I finally decided to get a tier 10 tank, the Obj. 140. I am not bad at the game. I never platoon and am not in a clan, so I [..] View

Issues hanging on battle loading - can hear battle taking place but can't ever join.

2:01 am, June 22, 2014 As title, since 9.1 I have had several games where I never get past the battle loading screen. The loading bar fills up, then I can hear the battle countdown clock while still looking at the loading s [..] View

IS help?

2:01 am, June 16, 2014 Seriously, it looks like that every single time I get something that's high tier andpopular in the game, it works against me by failing to **** whatever I'm facing, attracting teams that'll ruin the m [..] View

M46 Patton, A Commentary about the Tank I work on in real life!

2:01 am, June 12, 2014 I volunteer at an armor museum and I figured this would be a good way to see the tank in game (as I am playing the T20 right now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S6WEMUWEm4&feature=youtu.be [..] View

I'm trying to care, it's getting hard.

2:01 am, June 8, 2014 I wanted to get better. I wanted to be a team player. I wanted to be a asset and not a burden to my team. The motivation to want to get better is dying faster. I don't want to be the one screaming [..] View

Win/Loss Ratio gets worse as WN8 rating improves?

2:01 am, May 27, 2014 Seriously.. I thought it was just bad luck the last couple of days, but I simply don't get it. Now I'm just a new scrub, 2k games with highest tier tank being the Tier 8 IS-3. Whenever [..] View

Matchmaking and RNG Not Rigged? Yeah, Right.

2:01 pm, May 21, 2014 I had an amazing run the last three days and brought my win rate up to 50.31%. Tonight though, Matchmaker and RNG decided I needed to lose, and lose badly. EVERYTHING that I fired had its penetration [..] View

I am tomato, please help me ascend to orange

2:01 pm, May 14, 2014 2852 battles, and 499 WN8. I'm not even sure what I'm doing wrong, aside from dying with no damage a lot. I thought I was half decent, then I discovered WN8 and realise I'm rea [..] View

Advice needed for a reasonably new player

2:01 am, May 14, 2014 So I've only really played 1000 games and I fell I'm getting the hang of heavies, TDs and mediums. However, the one class I can not get the hang of is the light tanks as when I play my [..] View

Dealing with Noobs

10:05 pm, April 30, 2014 How do you all deal with the dummies out there that are clueless? I am a retired Army COL (MOS Cav and Intel) so I do know something about armor tactics (not to say I don't sometime make bone head mov [..] View

Help me love the t26.

10:05 pm, April 26, 2014 So, I am a fairly new player (<1k battles) and I generally **** but I'm learning. I do fairly well with Fast, light tanks i.e. Cruisers, Covenator, BT7, UC 2pdr. I also do VERY well wit [..] View

I'd really appreciate some advice on how to **** less

10:05 pm, April 25, 2014 Greetings, /r/WorldofTanks, I've been playing WOT recreationally for a bit. I really like the game, I'm a big armored warfare buff, my dad drove a tank in the army, etc etc. Unfortunat [..] View

How to keep my KV-5 from dying?

10:05 pm, April 22, 2014 So I know people are gonna tell me 'HIDE YO R2D2' but the issue for me isn't R2D2. I can hide it just fine, and barely anyone aims for it anyway. Instead they're aiming elsewhere, and they're penning [..] View

What happened to the wiki?

10:05 am, April 22, 2014 Hello, I am a kinda noobish player overall but I have been improving my gameplay by watching replays with commentaries, reading numerous guides, etc. I have been studying every tank that I am decidin [..] View

Latency Issues?

2:01 am, April 16, 2014 I booted up world of tanks this morning to play a few rounds (that's why how it always starts :P) and noticed this (obviously fluctuating slightly but still in this league) on my login screen: [..] View

Understanding Camouflage Mechanics

10:05 pm, April 15, 2014 Lately I've become disillusioned with World of Tanks as I can't seem to get my win rate above 48%. I've played almost 7K games and feel like I understand mechanics for the most [..] View

Studious, Disciplined player looking for High level Mentor

2:01 am, April 15, 2014 Hello Tankers, My name is 1n_Soviet_Russia and I am a relatively new player with less than 2.5k battles under my belt, however I am learning quickly as reflected in my recent stats. This is not fro [..] View

How To Get a Top Gun when the ammo is gone

2:01 pm, April 14, 2014 Forgive the several bad shots, but... I really wasnt expecting to run out of ammunition, or my platoon mates to scrub out! It leads to my favorite all time (thus far) ending to a game! My platoon mat [..] View

As a newcomer I fell like I have 2 options. 1. Sit still behind a rock all game 2. Move and instantly die to artillery

9:05 am, February 26, 2014 It's not fun and is getting kind of old. They are ruining everything for me. The sore point for me is once artillery targets me (which is basically whenever I move) then there is no way i can keep [..] View

Noob things you thought about the game when you started world of tanks.

9:05 pm, February 21, 2014 For example: I thought my crew were dying, becuase I went up to tier 2, and they were 50%. I swore they were hurt, so I didn't play for a day. I also used to yell "Damn invisitanks!&a [..] View

play with my tier

9:05 pm, February 6, 2014 Since I have a tier IV tank, I only came with tanks heading level V and VI, which is almost impossible to do anything, whatever they see you and destroys you in one shot, one in every 10 matches were [..] View

So, apparently I'm a horrible noob. (KV1-S)

9:05 am, January 31, 2014 I've been playing this game for about a month now, trying out German TD's, American artillery, and Soviet heavy tank lines. My main weird experiences with other players' comments began when I sta [..] View

So I believe I am improving.

9:05 am, January 29, 2014 So I believe I am improving. While playing the Comet and SU-100 during their last days, (I grinded 37k xp for the SU-152 in like 1 full day of grinding. And grinded the last of the 100k needed for the [..] View

I really want to love WoT, but...

9:05 pm, January 18, 2014 I guess I'm just terrible at playing it. I've been sticking to low tier (1-2) tanks and have been dying left and right consistently. I have played War Thunder longer than I have WoT, [..] View

A couple photos from hopping onto my EU account for the first time in 2 years. (A brief look into a CBT players thoughts after returning)

9:05 am, January 17, 2014 Notice in the photos in the American tree, I've got the easy 8 unlocked but not the M4. Back in the days before the Chaffee was introduced, what you had to do was follow the M3/M5/M7 scout lin [..] View

You can't win by staring

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

Former clan DC looking for a clan wars participating clan.

9:05 pm, December 21, 2013 Hey guys, I am looking for a new clan as I can't seem to get back into snoo, after being kicked for inactivity while I was having pc problems, I have a t110e5 and soon an e100I have 100 exp on my e75 [..] View

my game keeps freezing up and when it unfreezes I'm usually stuck somewhere dying is there anything I can do to fix this

9:05 am, December 17, 2013 When I play world of tanks on my Xbox it freezes sometimes and then when it in freezes I'm usually dead or dying is there any way to fix this View

What is the biggest problem in your game today? (self criticism thread)

9:05 pm, December 9, 2013 After some introspection into my game play and trying to figure out my biggest problem that I need to work to overcome I've decided that I simply die too much. The reasons are myriad; sometimes i am j [..] View

Unexpected results?

9:05 am, November 28, 2013 What kind of games did you have were when you saw the battle screen your face was like: Here is one i had in my OBJ 704. I only have around 10 games in it and i was sniping on steppes and eventually [..] View

Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD!

9:05 pm, November 27, 2013 Here is a tidbit i learned the hard way and beleive it may be useful to other newbies like me. I always had the mindset that bigger/higher tier is better. I didnt invest much time in learning the bas [..] View

[ROLLN] Wanted - Active Players (Casual or Tankaholic)

9:05 am, November 25, 2013 We Park Where We Want www.ROLLNclan.com ROLLN is a clan dedicated to training players, and creating a winning atmosphere from which a strong sense of camaraderie thrives. ROLLN is right for you [..] View

Think before answering a SOS ( never reinforce failure)

9:05 pm, November 22, 2013 So today in the lighthouse map 2 brave and stupid tds, -  hellcat and a Dicker max   rushed to help a dying heavy.   Problem with that was that 3 [..] View

Get rid of the scout medal

9:05 pm, November 22, 2013 Or rework the requirements to get it.  It only encourages yoloing into the enemy base and dying. If you are worth anything as a scout you should have a growing collection of Patrol D [..] View

Most underused button of all - the "S" key

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

Amusing anecdotes that belongs here. Don't be this guy. (share yours)

9:05 pm, November 13, 2013 Terribad#213543 (42% WR) Is the Top tank on our team in his T29, the ONLY tier 7 (go figure) in a mostly tier 6 match. Map is Steppes (North) Early chat went like this: Terribad#213543: About time M [..] View

Daily Missions appear to be "working as intended"

9:05 pm, November 12, 2013 So I stumbled across something interesting a second ago - I was 2 kills and 1 random battle away from claiming 250,000 credits for completing the daily 24/7 mission. I started a game in my Hellcat so [..] View

Rhm.-Borsig Waffentrger needs a Buff

9:05 pm, November 11, 2013 It does not have enough armor to go anywhere on the map without dying and one shotting all opponents to cruel sudden *****. Other than that I like everything about this beast. View

PSA ***Port Forwarding***

9:05 pm, November 7, 2013 QuoteGood Day fine ladies and gentlemen, and even you scumbag SPG drivers out there. Today from ancient Cairo, I bring you a procedure that will be the most superb medicine for all WoT matches that ai [..] View

Never had this happen in 2 1/2 years of playing this...

9:05 am, November 6, 2013 Just had a rather odd glitch my last game in my Jagdtiger 88. When I initially saw the loading screen, I thought MM REALLY screwed up. As the game continued to load, no additional tank icons popped up [..] View

The single best way for you to improve your winrate if you are average or below, assuming you have somebody better than you on your team...

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, [..] View

The Best Feeling

9:05 am, November 4, 2013 Hello again, So the weekend has been full of **** teams and the overall level of skill has been rapidly declining. But there is always someone stupid to come along and make everything better. Insert T [..] View

8.9 is bugged all to H

9:05 pm, November 2, 2013 What is going on with 8.9?  Been hearing the community is an uproar to the bugs and glitches in 8.9.  I can't help but agree! I was a little late doing my update, n [..] 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

I found the problem

9:05 am, October 27, 2013 Hello again, I usually don't get anal about stats when it comes to other players, as its bad for my blood pressure. But after witnessing and act of utter stupidity from one of my fellow teammates in a [..] View

Mythbusting: "You need to survive to win more" - a tier 9/10 Solo YOLO experiment

10:05 am, October 21, 2013 It is a well-known saying that "You need to survive more to win lots" in pub matches, especially high-tier. The rationale is that if you play more cautiously and survive more, you will do mo [..] View

Staying Frosty

10:05 am, October 21, 2013 OK so I'm bored, tired and I cant sleep due to the axe that is a calculus midterm hanging over my head so I thought I'd give my take on some issues that seem to affect a large amount of the player bas [..] View

Is it possible to keep your win rate up playing alone?

10:05 pm, October 14, 2013 I've been losing my rating for a month now, down from 52.6 to 51.9, even though my other stats are up. It's incredibly frustrating doing your best and getting better, while the teams y [..] View

Let's discuss the power creep

10:05 pm, October 10, 2013 I don't really know who does the Daily Discussions, but I would like if this issue is discussed. Power creep is a gradual unbalancing of a game, caused by contents of each patch undermining th [..] View

SUPER DUPER Guide to becoming orange. A must read.

10:05 pm, October 10, 2013 Hi tankers! Are you 8k games in and just discovered XVM?  I know that program is a well guarded secret and hard to find, but welcome aboard! Already grown tired of that deep shad [..] View

See inside the Russian Tech Tree

10:05 am, October 10, 2013 http://www.wirtualne.muzeumbronipancernej.pl/ Not sure if this has been posted before, and I just found it. You can see the outside- and INSIDE- of the Russian vehicles we are throwing around so casu [..] View

Reported!

10:05 pm, October 5, 2013 Is it just me, or does the reporting system do NO good. Case study: A while back, in my Hummel, I was grinding for the GW Panther and in one random battle, a T49 (Tier V American TD) Blocked me the w [..] View

Is Highway as unbalanced as I think it is?

10:05 pm, October 3, 2013 It seems that every time I play Highway the team that spawns at the southern base has an incredibly difficult time seizing the town and every tank that goes that way ends up dying. Is it just me? or d [..] View

Short list of common mistakes that mediocre and weak players make that can easily be avoided. (Through observation of my terribad platoon mates)

6:13 am, September 18, 2013 So I've been playing platoons with a bunch of friends who range from mediocre to quite bad and have made a list of mistakes for them, and i'm gonna share it with you. Here goes : (Disclaimer: i'm not [..] View

A plea for help

10:05 pm, September 17, 2013 So I recently finished grinding over 500k on the T-54 over the last 2 weeks, and having finished it, I wanted to get back into the usual routine of losing every game that I ever played. This is the r [..] View

A few questions from a newbie

10:05 am, September 17, 2013 Hi, with some 2k games I still consider myself a newbie. I have done my fair share of sucking in light tanks (rushing to the front, dying fast), found out out that heavies are what I like to play and [..] View

Aggressive players - How do you tip toe the fine of aggressive and wreckless?

10:05 am, September 7, 2013 How do you manage to be an aggressive player without dying too quickly? *Should've said, "tip toe the fine line..." submitted by Intolight [link] [15 comments] View

Looking for a fun clan, one that doesn't take WOT too seriously

10:05 am, September 6, 2013 Hi all, I am a veteran of the Air Force, (yeah, I know, why am I not playing World of Warplanes? lol) I am 46 yrs old and have been enjoying this game for a while now, but have kinda hit a rut, I wan [..] View

XP for AFKers needs to always be 0

10:05 pm, August 30, 2013 Just played a battle on Mountain Pass where an AFK / Idle KV (The biggest tank in the match) did nothing at all the entire battle.  The gun was still pointed down meaning that the gu [..] View

A Noob's Guide with MS Paint #3

10:05 am, August 24, 2013 I'm back for a 3rd round of MS Paint guides. In case you were looking for the previous guides I've posted, here are the links. 1st Guide 2nd Guide This one, I'm going to quick [..] View

The Premium Ammunition Conundrum

10:05 am, August 24, 2013 After grinding my Ferdiand out all day, seeing mostly tier 10 tanks, and losing more than winning. I started to become fascinated by people using premium ammunition. I was studying how they played and [..] View

Best Tier 5/6 tank to deflect shots?

10:05 am, August 7, 2013 I love the Valentine II, I find it to be able to deflect a lot of shots but I want to move up to a higher tiered non premium tank, which tank would allow me to get up close and tank a bunch of shots w [..] View

Clan War and Company Battles

10:05 pm, July 27, 2013 How do I go about finding and getting accepted into the decent clan that does clan wars and company battles.  I know I'm not ready for clan wars, but company battles I'm dying to rol [..] View

So where is this nerf to arty accuracy? Autoloaders!

10:05 am, July 19, 2013 Wow so once again had a batchat point and click I win dumps 4 rounds on me as fast he he could fire and figure the odds everyone hit!  I mean why should a hill between us, his spotte [..] View

Why you can carry - A guide to mindsets

10:05 am, July 9, 2013 Before I begin, let me give you a little background knowledge about myself. I am currently maintaining a 49% win-rate. I have been studying the forums, wiki, etc for a while now and constantly improvi [..] View

[0.8.6] Theo's Freespace 1+ 2 Music Mod

10:05 am, July 4, 2013 Quote Thirty-two years have passed since the Great War. The Shivans vanished half a life time ago and now, we live in the mausoleum of history. We inherit the legacy of ghosts who haunt these ruins [..] View

Tips on playing the game for a somewhat new player

10:05 pm, June 29, 2013 I was wondering what I need to do to win more battles, I'm in a Tier 3 German tank, the one required to get a Panzer IV, and I can't seem to live long, and can't seem to damage [..] View

Milestone - 51%!

10:05 am, June 21, 2013 On my continuing effort to rise from a 46% Terribad, I've hit two major milestones in the last couple weeks, and one of them just today. All my 60-day and newer numbers are green (though I need to ma [..] View

A bit of a noob, need a tank recommendation

10:05 pm, June 17, 2013 I played for a while a couple years ago, and put the game aside... coming back to it I remember little. I apparently got to the KV-2 on the Russian tree, and did a bit of work on the US and German tre [..] View

Will the Russians sell their game to the players so it can be turned into GREATNESS?

10:05 pm, June 17, 2013   After studying the next patch I was very interested in the accuracy buff.  Then as further study of the change and how the mechanics of the accuracy works now, I [..] View

Summer Teams and their sucky ness

10:05 am, June 16, 2013 Hello fellow tankers, i have been involved in this streak of crappy teams (and that's a compliment) and I can't seem to do good at all. Before you start raging at my stats, you have to realize I've on [..] View

Gameplay & Stats &- trying to stay alive...to learn.

10:05 pm, June 13, 2013 I'm looking for some advice on playing on the public WoT server. Generally speaking most of my games are a struggle. I understand tanking basics (flanking, "hull down", keep moving, aim for [..] 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

///RDDTCAR a Sunday racing event, sponsored by dyingwolf!

10:05 am, June 10, 2013 submitted by dbBlack [link] [15 comments] View

Newbie question - What's the best/worst nation for beginners?

10:05 pm, June 1, 2013 Hey all, I've only started playing WoT a few days ago and so far have played around 30 games in tier one to get used to the controls. Now that I've learnt the basic controls and not dy [..] View

Leo 1 OP?

10:05 pm, May 27, 2013 I read Leo's win rate is high and climbing, but forget about win rate. Tank's been out a while, does it seem OP and if so why? Weaknesses, it dies fast to everything, arty splash 1-shots it, easy amm [..] View

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