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
1. understand the roll of your tank and its strongpoints and weaknesses.
a t-34 should not be up on a hill sniping , and a toaster should not be up at the front of a charge.
don't ******* if your a sc [..]
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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 18, 2014
Used to be that I'd play scouts all day erryday and I could adapt to the map to spot tanks. However, more and more maps tend to have corridors and choke points which limit my ability to call out targe [..]
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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
why can't we blacklist 2-3 maps so we don't get them in the matchmaking? some players like x, some like y. and same goes for disliking maps. There are plenty of maps in the game and plenty of players [..]
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4:03 pm, October 14, 2014
Leo is is mai waifu and my best performing t10. I've developed a play style in it where I can consistently solo pub 70% w/r in it as well as average 3600 dpg. With the on track a lot of people have be [..]
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4:03 pm, October 13, 2014
Ah yes, with the influx of new scout tanks people have been throwing out "OP OP OP PLS NERF TEARS TEARS TEARS" in pretty much every game now. Lets take a deeper walk into this mindset, dis-s [..]
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5:03 am, October 13, 2014
So today I got my first chance to lead a few skirmishes for my clan. We play the tier 6 games due to more people having tanks available. Our current team composition used by the other callers is a com [..]
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4:03 pm, October 12, 2014
Hello rddt, so everyone is familiar with K3 for the north team and H1,J2 for the south team rushes. Now my problem is that south team really doesn't know how to deffend against it.Game after game when [..]
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4:03 pm, October 12, 2014
According to FTR there will be a poll to determine which maps to remove from the game. The correct answer is NONE. Even more unbalanced crappy maps are better than 4 or 5 boring 'balanced' ma [..]
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4:03 pm, October 9, 2014
In the first question there are 10 maps i consider unbalanced, in wish they go away :) In the second the maps i think ARE balanced
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4:03 pm, October 9, 2014
Just got out of the battle where a Ram II driver cost us the game by doing his own thing and not supporting his team when it was needed. He ****** 3 tanks just not where it mattered in the g [..]
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5:03 am, October 6, 2014
Sat comfortably between [RDDT] and the rest of the RDDT social clans (not [RDDTX] ... we still don't really understand those guys), [RDDT1] acts as a slightly less intense alternative to the main [RDD [..]
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4:03 pm, October 4, 2014
Thanks WG for the credit and crew buffs to lower tier tanks, but the main reason I don't play them is because they ****. Look at the T15. There is no comparison between t [..]
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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 seem to be getting matched onto this map so much, Im forgetting how to play alot of other maps, Im actually happy to see Komarin and El Halluf just to get some different maps, This is over many tier [..]
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5:03 am, October 3, 2014
Here's the map. We all know the north spawn has spotting bushes in E4 and can snipe across from E2/3, and can get in those positions well before anyone from the south can cross the H5/6 gap. This le [..]
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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, September 30, 2014
it's ridiculous that when i ride my GW TIGER P i suceed 2 clean shots and i do 1600damage=about 1600win8. I would rather choose wot nerfing arty more(a bit) but in exchange i do want arties banned fro [..]
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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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5:03 am, September 28, 2014
I don't know how to effectively counter the following tactic. On close quarters maps, I'll suddenly find myself facing a charging enemy tank. He'll then go nose-to-nose on me and will stay engaged lik [..]
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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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4:03 pm, September 24, 2014
To add some clarity to what this poll is about, and why I made it so that you can indeed select all options: I see many complaint topics about this map or that map, but have not at this time seen an a [..]
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5:03 am, September 24, 2014
You know what time it is, 9.3 should go live tomorrow 24 September for EU. You all know the drill by now, listing mods here with the link to their last known update page and waiting for them to become [..]
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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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4:03 pm, September 22, 2014
Today I am very upset with the WGLNA HTPM and their tier cliff dropping on the Match Maker Program, it seems that when Tiers 1-4 enter into any of those missions WE GET RAPED AND M [..]
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5:03 am, September 22, 2014
http://i.imgur.com/PavIdqc.png < ???? I've been using the meltymaps crosshair for a while and I want to try a different one. Someone posted a gif of ammoracking the VK 4502a through the front t [..]
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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
I loved the Nashorn, but the Emil has been a curse on me. I finally gave in and spent 31k in free xp to unlock the top gun (58k for a gun at tier 7? Really, WG?) It's nice to unload a 500 damage shot [..]
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4:03 pm, September 20, 2014
I'm trying to get better, I swear I am. I have tank inspector and I spend more time in that than in the game. I come to /r/worldoftanks several times a day. I love FTR and wotlabs. I have played on th [..]
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5:03 am, September 20, 2014
Okay, so I've read various things and heard different things from different people, but looking for more to the point answer. What do the changes in 9.3 mean for TDs/Scouts? I believe I heard they are [..]
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5:03 am, September 20, 2014
Someone recently linked pictures (I think they were made by Sela) of most maps, it was outdated (which is fine), it had over 60-ish pictures in the album with a bunch of tactics, so does anyone have t [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
Welcome tankers to the 9.3 Reddit Community Night. The activities will be starting at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific. As I don't know the release date for 9.3 is yet, just expect that this community night w [..]
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4:03 pm, September 19, 2014
As the title says, there are two maps that WG never released from 2 years ago that FTR has a blog post on right now. The maps are called Savannah and Mexico. They look really inter [..]
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4:03 pm, September 18, 2014
Two part question concerning how the game's matchmaking system works: The first part of my question concerns how the game determines battle tiers: I have a basic understanding of how the game determin [..]
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5:03 am, September 18, 2014
An earlier post about Lakeville got me wondering about strategies that should never be recommended. So, I want to know: which strategies never (or almost never) work on which maps? Best answer wins im [..]
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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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4:03 pm, September 16, 2014
What if they started 4 public battles simultaneously on 4 different maps arranged in a 2x2 grid and allowed players to move to adjacent maps either at a set time or when they win their map? [..]
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4:03 pm, September 15, 2014
Most advocates of Skill Based MM are better players wishing to get rid of the 'tomatoes, potatoes and new kids' on 'their' MM. They envision a full-spectrum skill based MM where better playe [..]
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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 14, 2014
Hi. So I've always been a lurker in /r/Wot but decided to sign up to Reddit to ask this since I haven't got a satisfying answer yet. I'm playing EU, mainly the M18. Around 4k battles on the M18, 58% W [..]
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4:03 pm, September 12, 2014
another day of boring battles because the MM is unable to create evenly balanced teams. 80% of the time battles end 15 to 5 or less. a good mm would result in battles ending 15 to [..]
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5:03 am, September 12, 2014
I like having variety in my games, and the different game modes supply that, but it is frustrating to watch people not know how to play them, even at tier 10. The following is a heat map of Redshire E [..]
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4:03 pm, September 6, 2014
I think the spotting damage requirement is WAY too high. With the way WG has changed most maps, (less snipey) its very hard to spot. Period. There are very few maps currently with open, unobstructed a [..]
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5:03 am, September 5, 2014
While it isn't their #1 priority right now, I feel like the options for in-game camo could use some work. I know some guys don't really care about how it actually looks, but I originally came to the g [..]
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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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5:03 am, September 3, 2014
When the f%^&*d-^p match making that WG pushes on us gives you the stream of 20%-->30% win chance games, what's your favorite way of suiciding? When you look over at the platoons of sta [..]
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8:02 am, September 1, 2014
RDDT4 is recruiting tankers for the upcoming campaign as well as trying to fill out our ranks as best we can. Being the third clan wars clan in the family of RDDT clans, we aim to give players experie [..]
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2:01 pm, August 31, 2014
For those who play the game and want to know what to put on your chariot, there is an app for the Android devices in The Google App store. It covers Tankopedia, Skills, Maps, and Achievement. The Tank [..]
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2:01 pm, August 31, 2014
why don't you just abolish arty & TD from the game? refund us all the money we have invested in them?
OH, that 'refund' bit is probably why.
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2:01 pm, August 30, 2014
is pc ever going to get weather effects like 360 has. like rain,snow. i know we have maps covered in snow and things. but on some maps on 360 when it snows it hurts visiblity. id like to see things li [..]
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2:01 pm, August 29, 2014
I like sniping so I tend to use tanks like the MS-1 with the 45 or TD's. I've added a cammo net and I'm saving up for binos.
I am very confused how to use cover. Most maps have bits of pieces of bush [..]
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2:01 pm, August 28, 2014
The quality of players is getting REALLY, REALLY bad. Matches consist of teams crawling along the sides of maps, leaving most of the middle areas wide open.
I think this is the fastest game I've ever [..]
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2:01 pm, August 27, 2014
I watched as your developers totally ruined the medium tank vk3601. You take tanks away, ruin others ruin maps and take maps away that were actually good ones. There are no choices about maps, tiers f [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
I am about to go to college and am deciding on a laptop. I will have a spare monitor to use in my dorm, which I will use to game on. This at the moment is the only game I play (I have played SC2, Mine [..]
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2:01 am, August 27, 2014
I have no problems on maps where you can get into good sidescraping positions but feel very helpless on specific maps like Prokhorovka, Malinovka, Redshire, Murovanka, Sand River, Steppes and Westfiel [..]
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2:01 pm, August 26, 2014
Recently I have been trying to improve my play by watching streamers more. I have run into the issue that most streamers will often platoon with other skilled players. This seems to allow them to take [..]
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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 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 am, August 23, 2014
Below are my thoughts/ramblings on the long-term success of WoT eSports. 1) The largest problem right now is that the game played by "the pros" does not resemble the game played by t [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
Lets face it, most of us will lose half of our battles, thats a lot!
Its easy to let a bunch of losses ruin your night, I know I've had therapy for it.
Use this Philosophy:
As long as I am ha [..]
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2:01 am, August 23, 2014
So there we were, me and the Woof (my dog), minding our own bidness watching old reruns of Melrose Place when, all of a sudden, it hit me against all the odds, I had an idea. And that's not a common [..]
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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 am, August 19, 2014
What happend to this mod now? It looks very different to what I was used to... how can I get the old one back? I am using Solo's installer thanks! submitted by nightkin84 [link] [2 comment [..]
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2:01 pm, August 16, 2014
Hello everyone!
This is my first time posting something and it's just an idea of something that bothers me when I play.
The idea is "random plane bombing" around the map and specially [..]
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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 [..]
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2:01 pm, August 16, 2014
Got my barrel ring on my Comet one battle after eliting it. Was not a fan of the tank. Glad to see it go. When it worked boy did it work well, but sadly a lot of the maps don't let you use the Comet t [..]
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2:01 pm, August 14, 2014
SHORT AN SWEET..
Some of us do use real money in this game so therefore what right have WOT got to change the stats on a tank we already own,, I.E. the load time aim time, speed and accuracy of the [..]
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2:01 pm, August 13, 2014
What is the green arc what shows up to the right of the gun-sight? (bounces up and down, thick or thin, depending on aimpoint). How do I use it as intended? If it has to do with shell arc (path to tar [..]
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2:01 pm, August 13, 2014
First off, before I get more into why light tanks are semi useless...WG has taken a total turn against light tanks just with the maps. This has been discussed so much. The most obvious example is Seve [..]
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2:01 am, August 13, 2014
Hello everyone, I am the new Social Commander of the RDDT Community over on the EU Server. I am their token American and have successfully infiltrated their ranks and now have taken control of the soc [..]
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2:01 pm, August 12, 2014
I've been off pixel tanks for nearly two months now (about when 9.1 came out), since my laptop died. I sometimes skimmed over FTR and talked with some clanmates, but I'm very much out [..]
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2:01 pm, August 12, 2014
Dear Wargaming, WoT:
I don't care if I ever see and hear another plane overhead. I don't go to WoT to watch birds. I can do that in my back yard. Himmelsdorf is still Himmelsdorf snowy or fair weat [..]
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2:01 am, August 12, 2014
These maps might not be totally unbalanced but one side can have a very dominate position. Prokhorovka- Side 2 (Hill side) This map has an amazing spot in middle for a tank that has a great long rang [..]
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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
Hey, I literally have maybe 100 games down and I realized that I actually enjoy the game. I want to improve but this post isn't about that. I love playing light tanks so... What country woul [..]
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2:01 am, August 10, 2014
>> APP PAGE <<
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Don't know how many of you have Android phones, but here's a very useful app that you should check out. This app has excelle [..]
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2:01 pm, August 8, 2014
It seems as though it has been a recent trend of new maps and map reworks to feature much less opportunity for long distance sniping and a much broader focus on close range contained brawls. This has [..]
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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
I've been reading and watching about all the changes in 9.2 as I've been unable to play since they released the new el halluf, and was wondering how much gameplay has changed in maps l [..]
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2:01 am, August 8, 2014
Another suggestion
Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Germany 14 PzKpfw II with 2.0 cm KwK 30 and 1 PzKpfw IVA with 7.5 cm KwK37 L/24 vs Czechoslovakia 13 PzKpfw 35(t) 3.7 cm KwK 34(t), 1 PzKpfw 38(t) with [..]
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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
There are days where it seems half of the games I play are on Ruinberg. With 33 maps in rotation this shouldn't happen. Not all maps are played by all tiers but still - Ruinberg is too often the map t [..]
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2:01 am, August 7, 2014
I'm talking about case, when majority of tanks (including top tiers) conduct lemming train out of cap on bigger maps: e.g. valley on Lakeville, alley on Prokhorovka, west on Steppes (not hill [..]
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2:01 am, August 6, 2014
Hello! My name is Noahofgermany! I am from the clan Arctic! Here are some facts about us!
1. 44active members all with tier 10s
2. Completed all 5 objectives for new clans in the "Month of Cl [..]
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2:01 pm, August 4, 2014
Team, after team, after team. I don't understand. How is the 'average' player this... bad? I really don't get it.... I don't. Surely they don't like los [..]
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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 3, 2014
The current map border lines are currently nearly invisible to colorblind players on maps with green grass. A simple fix would be to render map borders in a high visibility pattern such as alternating [..]
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2:01 pm, August 2, 2014
I made some screen shots of the map, without players, and from a birds eye view. I also made a fly by video for the guys that want to see the changes or plan strategy for clan battles.
Screen Shots [..]
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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
OK, so I have tried 9.2 on the Ru server. In general, performance slightly improved. Where I was getting 30 FPS now I am getting reliable 40. Unfortunately, on some maps, for example, Ruinberg, I sti [..]
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2:01 pm, July 31, 2014
Is it an aggressive brawler? A sniper? A flanker? It doesn't have armor (can't bounce ****, and turret armor is more of the troll kind, not the abuse the heck out of it kind), side arm [..]
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2:01 pm, July 30, 2014
According to Evilly, via FTR, the owners of the FV 4202 will get it as a tier 8 premium tank...
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recently (27.7.2014), there has been an interview with Anton Evilly Pankov, main op [..]
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2:01 am, July 30, 2014
Ding ding. Round 2 motherfuckers. I'm back with another wall of text to prove that I really don't have a life. WORLD OF TANKS: CLAN WARS "Man this **** just sounds scary&q [..]
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2:01 am, July 30, 2014
Hey guys, need some help here. A little while back, Wargaming RU (I think it was RU, it might have been EU) released a bunch of youtube videos on the portal of russian server top clan clanwars videos. [..]
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