5:03 am, October 24, 2014
So, I wanted to try something else and figured the FV304 would be nice. The Birch Gun was actually fun to play and the turret pretty cool. Then I got the Bishop. WTF is this thing? It has an incredibl [..]
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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 23, 2014
The Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers was a Churchill III or IV equipped with the Petard, a 290 mm Spigot mortar, throwing the 40 lb (18 kg) "Flying dustbin" with its 28 pound high explosive [..]
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4:03 pm, October 23, 2014
Many people overlook this tank simply because the stats on it are not really that impressive. I mean, we are talking about a tank with slow top speed, slow acceleration, a little clumsy on the turns, [..]
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4:03 pm, October 22, 2014
Around a year ago, I started a thread about how I had started out this game just lol'ing around, and had terrible stats to show for it. I had decided to learn to play, and had worked my way [..]
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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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5:03 am, October 21, 2014
Mine would have to be the D.W.2, the grind was awful. No armor, practically no gun, no speed, and it was just useless. I see other playrs driving the DW2, and i feel sorry for them. The BDR, even thou [..]
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4:03 pm, October 20, 2014
So I have been familiarizing myself with the Japanese 犬.... the Chi Ri. It is big… it is somewhat slow. It is an awkward medium since it is basically a light [..]
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4:03 pm, October 19, 2014
Any old hand at this game will remember the 105mm HEAT spam PZ IV / M4 farming that was rampant from between when premium shells became available for credits until 105mm HEAT pen got nerfed from 150 t [..]
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5:03 am, October 19, 2014
I watched Fury tonight at the theater. I thought it was a good war movie - does not glorify war at all, yet still has several good very graphic battle scenes. Not preacherly anti-war either [..]
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4:03 pm, October 18, 2014
My armour is useless, my speed is non-existent, my gun pen is not up to scratch, my health pool is 75% of my enemies, i'm too slow to go after lights and meds, my view range is too poor to spot anythi [..]
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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
I am a recovering tomato, and generally I'm getting acceptable at the game. Not yet hit t10 - my regulars are E75, T71, T-43 and I have just started the T29. My tops are E75, IS3.....and T69. And I ha [..]
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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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4:03 pm, October 14, 2014
Just thought this would be a good point of discussion today. Should they split the states to a non-rated and globally rated (server) stats for the individual? What I was thinking i [..]
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5:03 am, October 12, 2014
I say nearly stock because I'm using the BL-9 for the obvious reason that I don't want to make myself suicidal before I've unlocked the IS-7. Anyhow I recently unlocked this tank and I'm having real t [..]
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4:03 pm, October 10, 2014
I normally don't have any issues, but today I'm getting battle load screens that only show the tanks (no names or tiers) and huge lag spikes in the count down and the first few seconds of each match.
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5:03 am, October 10, 2014
I've got a couple of lines I'm grinding up right now that I'm at a pretty low tier (Cruiser III, Luchs, and T-46). When I first started WOT I was like most newbies and rushed up the tiers pr [..]
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4:03 pm, October 8, 2014
I'm enjoying this game,I managed to play my T-46 rather decently than expected.Thought I will **** at it because I skipped the T-26.
Basically,What gun did you use on the T-46,The 45mm one or the 76mm [..]
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4:03 pm, October 7, 2014
I play Wot for a some months now and reached a point where I ask my self to go all in or just quit the game. I have mainly T6 tanks and 2 T7 tanks with a whole lot of T7's unlocked but no money to pur [..]
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4:03 pm, October 7, 2014
I'm not good as it is, but I do my best. That tank is very hard to be good with. When I see a good player that plays good with that tank, I know they are skilled because that tank [..]
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4:03 pm, October 6, 2014
When you're at as many battles as I am, reaching milestones in overall stats is a slow process. But:
I'd been hovering around 0.95 ~ 0.98 for the longest time. Now I finally not [..]
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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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5:03 am, October 6, 2014
Evening Folks, I am glad to be part of RDDT 0. Finally, clan that actually helps me get better. Just by being in 0 my 60-day wn8 has doubled and my win% has gotten above 50 and I'm glad for the kind f [..]
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5:03 am, October 6, 2014
At present, I don't feel that the French tree manages to represent French tactical thinking and armoured vehicle development, let alone provide sufficient variety for a nation that is so integral to t [..]
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4:03 pm, October 5, 2014
Courtesy of our friends at WG, soon I'll have 3 new garage slots. Currently I have all the german lines, the french light/medium line and the brit "cruiser" line up to the Cromwell (which I [..]
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5:03 am, October 5, 2014
Now, the A-44 has many drawbacks, including a frontal mounted engine that gets damaged every other shot, slow aim and reload times, awful gun depression, easily damaged tracks, but hell, it can ram. [..]
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5:03 am, October 5, 2014
I'm sure some of us have gotten Patrol Duty in tanks that have no business scouting such as heavies, or slow moving Tds. So I was hoping the community would share some of these wacky instances just fo [..]
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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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5:03 am, October 2, 2014
After what feels like forever I finally completed the mission 'Long-Distance Run'. Now, let me just say this - I have a love-hate relationship with this map now. The rewards: http://puu.sh/bVx1Q/b19b8 [..]
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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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4:03 pm, October 1, 2014
This could well be the wrong sub but World of Tanks is all I know so might as well start here. The question is: What 'types' of tanks are being created nowadays? I think I saw a documentary which men [..]
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4:03 pm, October 1, 2014
(From personal experience and just a opinion, not based in any fact)
#1 Your tank seems oddly slow as you start off while the other teams tanks seem unusually fast.
#2 Your team is busy spaming insult [..]
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5:03 am, October 1, 2014
We've had Karl, then the Soccer mode during the World Cup, and now we have Chaffee racing. I for one think it's great to have something a little different on occasion, even if only for a good laugh. S [..]
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5:03 am, September 30, 2014
So one of the most common gripes in WoT involves gold/premium ammo. Some players use it sparingly, some not at all but some use it as a crutch, a way of guaranteeing they will pen without going throug [..]
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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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5:03 am, September 28, 2014
When I'm zoomed in whilst behind foilage, the transparency drops out for about 50ms or so, causing it to blink in and out of transparency. I'm glad I don't have epipepsy or I'd be drooling into my key [..]
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4:03 pm, September 26, 2014
I'm fairly certain anyone who also owns an IS-4 would agree with me when I say this. The tank feels very underwhelming to play. It has much weaker armor than the IS-7, it on most terrains is [..]
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4:03 pm, September 25, 2014
Hey guys, is there another way of installing WoT other than downloading the whole 8GB game via the Client? Since it's patch-day it goes super slow for me and downloading the 8GB are gonna take forever [..]
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4:03 pm, September 25, 2014
Reading FTR and reddit showed me that 9.3 release got rekt. The following stuff happened: Sites unavailable Launcher not updating (working after several restarts) If finally downloading: very slow Han [..]
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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
I'm newish to the game with just under 1200 battles now. My first 500 or so were horrendous but have been feeling much more comfortable recently. Stats in the last couple weeks include 55% wins and WN [..]
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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 [..]
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5:03 am, September 24, 2014
can wargaming help us out with more speed please???? once spotted the tanks are too slow to get into cover from arty!!! are am i supposed to play them like TD's?? great tanks but they are j [..]
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4:03 pm, September 23, 2014
This tank has potential. I can feel it. Others feel it, but I can't use that potential! I have every single modules unlocked and I am running the 8.8 with some gold to compensate for the low penetrati [..]
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5:03 am, September 23, 2014
I'm enjoying how (relatively) mobile my KVS1 is compared to my KV1, and although in keeping my KV1 I would like to avoid slow, lumbering heavy tanks and TDs in the future. Which heavy tank and TD line [..]
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4:03 pm, September 21, 2014
Few more battles until 2k with my loveable B1...It is wrong to get emotionally attach to a tank and giggling like a girl every time I think of it? That tank emotionally help me get back into WOT, I fe [..]
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5:03 am, September 21, 2014
I started playing the French tree because I heard the have the 'best' light tanks. I love being mobile, scouting and that sort of thing. I bought the tier 3 tank. It was probably the worst tank I ever [..]
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5:03 am, September 21, 2014
Staff Sergeant Finnegan shouted over the din of the engine to his driver. "Allingham! We're exposed on this road! There's a slope on the side, right next to the lake. Take us along there [..]
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4:03 pm, September 20, 2014
When there some tanks that seem to be really bad, like the Sturer Emil, or some that need just a slight buff like the AMX 50 120, does Wargaming even care?
For example, the [..]
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5:03 am, September 20, 2014
Is there anything that you have done that makes this game any less monotonous? I am getting pretty bored with the game, even after taking a several month break from the game due to a summer job. I'll [..]
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5:03 am, September 19, 2014
I recently bought an IS-3, and I've been playing like garbage in it. Right now I don't have the upgraded turret, or the BL-9, but I still expected better than this trash. It feels like a slower IS wit [..]
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5:03 am, September 19, 2014
I play really aggressively. Usually too aggressively. I have an e5, an M48, an E-75, and a KV-4 (and some scouts but I don't think light tanks are what I'm looking for). What are some lines that are g [..]
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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
Another one of my earlier videos, thought I'd showcase it here while I'm recording the next review for later this week. The British Centurion Mk1, the tier 8 medium tank, can be a tricky one to handle [..]
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5:03 am, September 17, 2014
Despite having played alot of games this is actually my first post topic on the forums. Simply put I need to be able to call better. I don't consider myself a bad caller, but at the same time [..]
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5:03 am, September 16, 2014
Welp today I took up the quest to get the free premium tank from the on track to 113 event..... yes I know there are other events which would have been better to aim for, but those take 25 days -_- So [..]
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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 14, 2014
Why all the hate for this tank? I really enjoy it, arguably one of my favourite tanks atm. Decent gun, fairly quick and maneuverable, heavy as **** so ramming other scouts and roombas and **** for all [..]
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5:03 am, September 13, 2014
I first started out in WoT playing scouts. I saw my ex playing and decided to give it a shot and when he asked what I wanted to do I just said "go fast". So the first tank I went after was t [..]
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5:03 am, September 13, 2014
First, I made the title of this thread easy to find in a search. And it says about all. I have been getting random advice in the games about this seeming piece of **** tank, and do [..]
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5:03 am, September 12, 2014
Question:
With a typically dismal start to WOT my WR was a lowly 47%. Doing some study however jumped it quickly to almost 49% within a few 100 games, but then although my games stats increas [..]
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5:03 am, September 11, 2014
Ok, so the super Pershing is a regular Pershing with added on space armor in the front. So naturally it is slower, but still a medium. The armor is mediocre and does fairly well at long ranges. I woul [..]
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4:03 pm, September 9, 2014
Hello /r/WorldofTanks, I am new to WoT and was looking for some advice. I am currently only on Tier 3, I have only been playing for about 2 weeks. I seem to like scouting and faster tanks more than fi [..]
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4:03 pm, September 9, 2014
I just had this tank restored - sold it in frustration in my noob days :) And i am pleasantly surprised by it. The gun is very crappy, but it has good view range of 457 [..]
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5:03 am, September 9, 2014
I have had 3 different ones. tier 2,3 and 4. They are all somewhat slow and not especially strong facing another tank which you have to face cause the turret does not spin 360. If at least they had a [..]
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4:03 pm, September 8, 2014
1) situational awarness. I'm constantly watching my mini map
2) Deal damage. Pound tanks. Killing isn't the end all. Reducing their hp is. Your team, hopefully will **** the weakened tanks [..]
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5:03 am, September 8, 2014
Dear WG and WoT Reddit, (TL:DR at bottom for those who hate walls of text) When Wargaming had the special event benefiting Bovington Tank Museum (certain % of gold sales being donated) I was amazed a [..]
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5:03 am, September 7, 2014
I got my E-100 a couple months ago and I'm slowly getting better at it. I try to use AP unless I have no other choice (like a sidescraping Maus or a 110E3 who's hiding his lower plate). The only tank [..]
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5:03 am, September 7, 2014
Don't like not being able to quit a match just because you aren't top tier or because xvm gives you slow win chance?
Then quit the game, no one will miss quitters like you.
& [..]
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4:03 pm, September 6, 2014
So, I've been wondering, "Why use a T110E5 when you can have an E-50M with better DPM, mobility, accuracy, and ROF?" I mean seriously, the DPM of the E-50M is slightly better, the T110E5 is [..]
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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 3, 2014
The screenshot doesn't go the match justice, sure I did well, though to be honest here I didn't until the middle of the match where enemies just decided to YOLO me in slow TDs, letting me take them ou [..]
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4:03 pm, September 3, 2014
As title said, 1 month later using my new laptop and i been slowly grinding my overall stats little by little since it hard to do if you already have 16k battles under your belt. now i am at 17k+ batt [..]
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5:03 am, September 3, 2014
ok so i have been playing for a year and a half now and i want to take another step in world of tanks. I was to start taking some of my replays and putting them on YouTube/ editing them to share with [..]
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5:03 am, September 3, 2014
Turret Traverse Drive
Cost: 500,000
Bonus: +25% to turret traverse
Anything less than 25% is a waste of 500k. Tanks with slow turrets would benefit and light tanks would benefit as well.
Sorry if this [..]
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5:03 am, September 3, 2014
Someone explain to me why this tank gets matched in tier 11 battles. It's got ok view range. It's got terrible cammo. It's got an ok gun for tier 7-8 maybe. It' [..]
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2:01 am, August 31, 2014
I'm (very very slowly) grinding my way up with my M3 Lee. I can either go for the M4 and head down that line or T1 Heavy and head down that line. I'm also working on getting my KV-1 at [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
This has been aggravating me more and more lately, perhaps because I've been playing a few tanks with larger-caliber, slower rounds. What I mean by 'auto-ballistic adjustment' [..]
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2:01 am, August 26, 2014
I just experienced this phenomenon for the umpteenth time tonight. I own a BDR G1b, so I am painfully aware of its slow aim time and its inaccuracy when firing without any aiming, especially at target [..]
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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 am, August 25, 2014
I just unlocked it, and its completely stock except for the second engine and the 30mm cannon. Now, playing the Pz II G got me a bit into the mentality of the scout tank; go fast, find things, fight o [..]
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2:01 am, August 25, 2014
Here is my idea since there is so much premium ammunition flying around now days. Add a module that is bolt on armor. It would add ~20-30 mm on all base hull armor minus weak spots. It would have a de [..]
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2:01 am, August 24, 2014
Interesting article.
Here is the link: http://wotlabs.net/articles/best-tank-lines-world-tanks/
Here is the copy/paste:
Best tank lines in World of Tanks
By RBS - 10/30/13
What tank line [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
With my recent purchase of the M41, I have come to own every non-premium tank tier 5 and below in the game excluding the Chaffee (100 more games in the M5 Stuart isn't worth it). I thought I w [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
The T28 Prototype is a very sub par machine. It is horribly slow, has unreliable armour, poor DPM, terrible camo and trollish accuracy. It has sup par average win rate, WN8, damage and XP per battle. [..]
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2:01 pm, August 23, 2014
I've been slowly grinding through the Panther to unlock both tier 8s it leads to. It's been a really difficult tank to get the hang of. Large for a medium (camo rating is basically zero), slow and has [..]
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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 am, August 22, 2014
The following is a list of tanks from currently in game countries, in Alphabetic order, that could at some point be put in to World of Tanks. I am not including vehicles, such as the M56 Scorpion and [..]
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2:01 pm, August 21, 2014
An idea that I think new and old players alike might enjoy, an expansion of the Karl game mode where every tank is the same and perfectly balanced,but let's add to it a little!
We add a medium tank [..]
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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 am, August 21, 2014
I keep getting in matches against tanks that are higher tiered than me, and I feel like i'm driving a slow bus. submitted by About_76_Tigers [link] [8 comments]
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2:01 am, August 21, 2014
Well I must be gettin' better'causeas my stats (although stillabysmal to some) rise the "cheatin" seems to be lessening-lol Anyway I decided to move WAY up to tier II medium and tried out t [..]
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2:01 pm, August 20, 2014
this tank is fooking shite -Had I not got it at half price I'd be more annoyed than I am. I wanted a british medium trainer and this is all there is and it is pretty much the most dreadful tank I've e [..]
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2:01 pm, August 20, 2014
ok, so i'm ready to go back to clans after a long break. before you saying anything, yea my stats LOOK bad, but my hit rate goes up at least 0.1% every battle, my win rate goes up and down, my damage [..]
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2:01 pm, August 20, 2014
I have been playing world of tanks for a while, most of my early stats show how much of a noob I used to be, and as time when on I realized it too. I have played the US medium line all the way to the [..]
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2:01 pm, August 20, 2014
TL;DR at the end. So I was talking to my dad the other day about how we would make WoT more enjoyable for ourselves, if we were involved in the development of it. We both play WoT and really do love t [..]
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