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Why not split teams based on skill instead?

4:03 pm, October 17, 2014 First off I'd like to say that I'm not saying this would work, I'm asking if it could, and if not why? I'm also not saying that the current system is broken or bad, I just had this opinion on how it m [..] View

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

A story about the results of pi-polar tanking.

4:03 pm, October 8, 2014 A short story about my struggle with tanking, family and work, and how the three battled for my sole.   Some of you already know me from long ago as "The Unicum Hunter" in the forum [..] View

How on earth do you play the VK3601H?

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 [..] View

How do I find some in-game buddies?

5:03 am, September 21, 2014 Where I live, not a lot of people play WoT, which kind of disappoints me. Quite a really nice game if you get past all the toxicity in chat and the difficulty curve. I do have a couple of other PC gam [..] View

Please Help, My Teams Are Always Bad

5:03 am, September 17, 2014 Bad teams 60% of the time!!!! whywywywyywyyy whyw hwy why I pley reelly goud too!!!! LIOKE REEALLY GOODOOOD And these stupid idiots. I swear. Is there anyway to stop this kind of thing from happening? [..] View

I see alot of posts asking "What equipment should I use?" - well this might help

4:03 pm, September 13, 2014 Use the search function on this page to find the tank you're interested in and click on the Equipment tab. All of the available equipment choices are listed and you can see what percentage of players [..] View

Question for Blues and Unicums

5:03 am, September 11, 2014 So I'm at 2k games with a frustrating 48% win rate (much lower in recent weeks) and my question is to blues and unicums. What skill or set of skills do you have that the majority of the player base do [..] View

MM Idea: Sometimes Perception > Reality

4:03 pm, September 4, 2014 First off, this isn't related to unbalanced tier matchups, that is, two tier Xs on one team and six on another, as to me that's fairly easy to fix in my mind.     No, this i [..] 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

[Mod Post] Clan Tag Flair, Live Stream links, & Subreddiquette

2:01 pm, August 29, 2014 Ladies, Gents, and Genderfluid Demi pansexuals, We'd like to brush up on a few items of importance that keep coming up either in public or through moderator mail. Feel free to post questions o [..] View

How to: Aufkl. (Awful) Panther

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 [..] View

Breaking your own "glass ceiling"?

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 [..] View

What makes a good player in WOT. A commentary on why I think stats matter.

2:01 am, August 20, 2014 Let me preface this by saying this is my personal opinion developed largely around my experience in this game over the last few months. It is not intended to criticize or insult anyone who disagrees o [..] View

r/worldoftanks Welcomes leaders of top NA & EU clans. Ask them anything!

2:01 pm, July 19, 2014 Note: Thread is up for posting questions. Replies may be delayed until Saturday morning. Get your questions in and upvote! Officers from the top North American clans (SIMP, PBKAC, OTTER, RELIC, VILIN, [..] View

What ever happen to SSGS?

2:01 am, July 17, 2014 Wasn't SSGS really big back in the day? Being full of unicums and stuff? What happened? (Don't upvote it's just a question) submitted by Jesus_Butter [link] [6 comments] View

please help me with the is-6

2:01 pm, July 13, 2014 so i bought this tank a while back and i have just been doing ABSOLUTE **** in this thing. its gun is awful, can't pen anything unless i'm hugging their face, and even then its 50/50 [..] View

A tank considered OP, that secretly needs a buff.

2:01 am, July 13, 2014 Many of you have played the powerhouse tank destroyer FV215b 183, and have been both frustrated and highly enthused by the glorious 1-shot capability that it brings to the battlefield. Unicums and to [..] View

How to Use XVM Statistics to It's Full Potential

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

Are there any respectable EU clans?

2:01 am, July 4, 2014 I am interested to see if anyone regards a clan as having respectable players regardless of skill. My friend mentioned people were talking negatively about my clan on a stream, views I can share about [..] View

Best medium (mods feel free to rename)

2:01 pm, July 3, 2014 The KV-1S is much closer to true medium than any other heavy tank in the game. The KV-1S can also circle and flank tanks, if it has to. The KV-1S also thrives in a peek a boom situation. Any situatio [..] View

WoT changes

2:01 am, June 30, 2014 Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. Prior to 9.1 (or some other update) my winrate, and win8 ratings were climbing pretty quickly. I'm a recovering tomato, first many [..] View

A few observations about skill based MM

2:01 pm, June 23, 2014 Skill based MM in random battles is what some people think the game is missing and there are is a very vocal minority that basically postulates the following: Random matches should have some sort of s [..] View

Elite Unicums, I have a question.

2:01 pm, June 18, 2014 This is for the 3K+ guys. Do you guys grind new lines? Or do you play what you already know you like? If you do grind new lines, do you grind stock tanks, or save up free XP to elite each tank fir [..] View

Unicums and Soccer...

2:01 pm, June 16, 2014 What say you about this game mode? And for those of you planning to platoon, do you have any strats/tactics in mind? View

An attempt of a legitimate comparison between WarThunder and WoT

2:01 am, June 5, 2014 I want to love WoT like I used to, but after playing WarThunder for a couple of weeks I find it impossible to do so. I'll start this by giving some back ground on myself: I began as every othe [..] View

Outplaying unicums / Carrying high-tier matches

2:01 am, May 26, 2014 Hey guys, so here are my stats http://www.noobmeter.com/player/na/Mattyb4/1004901254/ So as you can see I'm playing with competence recently, however, my stats are misleading. When I play mid [..] View

Request for model replays! More info down below!

2:01 pm, May 24, 2014 Hi, I don't know if this is allowed, asking for other people's replays, but I'll go ahead and assume it is. Like Wotlab forums has a place for unicums to post their replays and [..] View

The M56 Scorpion will be a unicum favorite, here's why

2:01 am, May 21, 2014 The M56 Scorpionis almost certainly going to be the US premium td. I am predicting that it will be a unicum favorite, and here's why. Unicums (as far as i understand) tend to prefer camo, speed, and [..] View

What unicums except of others

2:01 pm, May 16, 2014 This is kind of a question to unicums. When you go into battle and see the team you got and the enemies what do you except when you see a green player what do you except them to be able to do or a blu [..] View

Unicums and Coated Optics

2:01 pm, May 11, 2014 I've both read and heard that a majority of unicum players run coated optics on most of their tanks. Is there truth to this? Is it worth running optics on heavy tanks instead of vents? Also, f [..] View

The Pet-peeve game.

2:01 pm, May 10, 2014 As every weekend comes, so does new(old) rant threads. We all do it, and it will never stop. It gave me an idea. So here are the rules. Member will post their top pet-peeve of the week/day/hour etc.a [..] View

Buttheads

10:05 am, May 4, 2014 Why is EVERYONE so angry when they play this game? Baddies, Unicums EVERYONE seems so Pissed off! I do see a few players that seem ok , but NOT IF THEY LOSE...If they lose look out you are a noob hack [..] View

HIgher Skilled Players Like Artillery Less - Confirmed, But Why?

10:05 pm, May 3, 2014 A note to moderation: Again, I see nothing wrong with this post. I'm not calling out any individual (the chart shows ambiguous data points). I'm not jumping to hyperbole, nor attempting to incite un [..] View

One of the things XVM has shown me.

10:05 pm, May 1, 2014 In the last 3 days I have seen two purples and a blue drown themselves at the end of their losing match. I thought that was something purples and blues frowned on. The three were a Heavy, Arty, and a [..] View

How do you find platoon mates?

2:01 pm, April 28, 2014 Hi guys. I wonder how do you find platoon mates? I tried to create private channels in game to the guys whose play-style I liked. No one ever replied. Eu forum is rubbish. Reddit seems to be more cla [..] View

morale and how to keep yours up

2:01 am, April 27, 2014 i have realized that two things have helped me keep up my morale when things go sour. 1. i no longer use XVM. at least that part that tells you who has what WR or what color they are. even when no on [..] View

How do you do it, purples?

10:05 pm, April 24, 2014 About a month ago, my 60 day WN8 was around 3000. More recently, I have been averaging around 2400-2600 every day. Consistently. Granted I have been playing a lot more X's lately, but my avera [..] View

A simple guide for the uninformed

10:05 pm, April 22, 2014 I've been seeing a lot of people lately needing a little advice here and there on the forums, so I figured I'd make a simple but effective casual's guide for the uninformed. I'll outline some of th [..] View

When enveloped, how do you equip your letter opener? (hardy har har)

10:05 pm, April 15, 2014 I've been trying to find advice or video tuts. about what to do when you find yourself outnumbered,being attacked from 2+ directions, and buildings/rocks can't save you from direct fire in either dire [..] View

The Reddit clans are recruiting!

1:32 am, April 11, 2014 Feeling lonely because you solopub? Tired of trying to carry teams only to realize it's really hard for one person to do it when surrounded by 14 noobs? Want to get into clan wars, tank compan [..] View

Good guy Anfield [-G-]

9:05 am, March 4, 2014 I'm a fairly casual player and I stream occasionally. I'm only about 2k battles in with an 800 WN8...definitely nothing special. I was streaming this past Saturday when some guy named [..] View

Centurion MK- 7/1 frustration (Love-hate relationship)

9:05 am, February 28, 2014 Hello guys, I truly need your help. I finally got the type B barrel on my centurion. 45k exp for 0,4 decrease in aimtime and ,53 increase in ROF. What a beast upgrade!!! Lets say how it is, I **** in [..] View

Wotlabs forum community mentoring program

9:05 pm, February 27, 2014 For those of you wondering how to get "gud @ tonks", wotlabs has a community mentoring program. Basically unicums are willing to take time out of their day to watch you play and teac [..] View

Matchmaking scale

9:05 pm, February 24, 2014 Hello everyone Im here to talk about matchmaking, some people like it others not, sometimes you got 4 unicums in your team and the other time 10 tomatos, what would you say if there was a MM scale tha [..] View

where do unicums come from?

9:05 pm, February 23, 2014 submitted by nataku_s81 [link] [28 comments] View

Question for Unicums -- How much does playing with other highly skilled players affect your win rate?

9:05 am, February 20, 2014 When I come across two or three purple players platooned together it is usually either a very good sign or very bad sign, depending on which team they're on. A guy from [-G-] did an AMA yester [..] View

Usefulness of WN8 compared to other benchmarks in XVM config?

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

The addition of new medals, w/ Re-evaluation of all battles please

9:05 am, February 11, 2014 "Added two new 'Battle Hero' achievements: 'Main Caliber' (credited for dealing the biggest amount of damage during the battle) and 'Sniper Tanker (credited for dealing the biggest amount of dama [..] View

The World of Tanks Community

9:05 am, January 14, 2014 DISCLAIMER: This is not a rant. It is more of an objective analysis of the current state of the World of Tanks community. Please assist me in cleaning up the trash and making it better. I've been p [..] View

"Unicums" these days...

9:05 am, January 6, 2014 So at the beginning of the match I pointed out we got the usual player with those beautiful padded purple stats. He calls me a "noob" and then proceeds to **** me as I count out the [..] View

Impossible to Achieve (Without Friends)

9:05 am, January 2, 2014 If you're playing alone, I guess it must be impossible to raise your winrate. Silly me for thinking I could actually get it over 50.5%. Every time I think my luck is turning, WoT'll just throw me a go [..] View

Encounter on Steppes

9:05 am, December 24, 2013 It will never cease to amaze me how people will almost always go for kills on this map/game mode rather than play the objective, I understand there are some strategic reasons to send some people towar [..] View

The Empire strikes back...

9:05 pm, December 16, 2013 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....It is a period of civil war. The Grand Admirals of the Elite, having returned from their long and hard campaign against WGNA, have captured a new Weapon [..] View

Gentleman Gaming Wishes You All Happy Holidays

9:05 am, December 15, 2013 "On the first day of tankmas, my wot matchmaker sent to me Some gold rounds for my waffentragger TD. On the second day of tankmas, my wot matchmaker sent to me Two turtled teams, And some gol [..] View

Dear Unicums: How do you keep up your absurdly high ratings?

9:05 am, December 3, 2013 Bit of background - I've been playing since about 2 years ago, on and off, though in the last 6 months I spend so much damn time in this game. I consider myself a bit above average, but I have [..] View

Reverse stat padding?

9:05 am, December 1, 2013 You get a lot of players whining about "Hurr durr you only have g00d stats because you play "op" tanks like the is6 and SU-122 n00b." Without exception I have seen only ONE player [..] View

Medium tank driver looking for advice on a couple of points...

9:05 am, November 28, 2013 Hiya guys! I was hoping to get some more advice from you as you've all been pretty helpful in the past. I'm relatively new, 2.4k games. I play mostly mediums. I've just come o [..] View

Possible critique of my gameplay.

9:05 am, November 21, 2013 Basically I would like for a few of the unicums that surf this reddit to take a look at this replay and see if I could do anything better. This is my average game in this tank, and Just want to get so [..] View

Rage Post in Regards to CW and A Clan's Arsenal of Tanks Used in Fighting

9:05 am, November 19, 2013 After seeing that the new campaign started up as of recently with this individual prize being the VK 7201 'FailLowe', I decided it was time to look for a somewhat serious clan that wou [..] View

radiomans

9:05 pm, November 18, 2013 So have you ever noticed that unicums get bad RNG while worse win-rates get good RNG? Look up pope_shizzle's stuff for this. But what's really the cause? Radio mans,yo. Like unocums statistically r [..] View

I miss you motherfuckers.

9:05 am, November 15, 2013 My PC died. I have no money. It will be some time before I am able to build another one. I am addicted to WoT. I miss the unicums, lemmings, windowlickers, troll platoons, and pubbies. I would give a [..] View

Why the Waffentrager E 100 is OP (and therefore needs a buff?)

9:05 pm, November 8, 2013 So we all know about the WTE100. We also know all about various wehraboos who haven't played the tank, yet continue making ridiculous claims about how underpowered it is. This is how I see it. It is [..] View

Daily Discussion: What is the difference between a Unicum player, versus a Stat-padder Unicum

9:05 pm, November 3, 2013 So, I've been wondering this for a while now, but what makes the difference between Unicums that stat pad and those who don't? Are the stat-padders as good as other Unicums? You can di [..] View

One Mystery of the Unicums.

8:57 pm, October 28, 2013 HI Folks:    As I type this, I'm hard at work on a big C++ program.    QuickyBaby is streaming in the background and every once in a while I take &n [..] View

The real reason for the new skill-based battle mode..

10:05 am, October 23, 2013 I'm surprised nobody has posted about WHY they are adding in a skill based battle mode. It's pretty obvious.. Their normal MM is rigged, and they cannot really roll back their rigging without ruining [..] View

100% Proof MM is Rigged

10:05 pm, October 18, 2013 If this does not quit, I swear I am quitting this game.  I have won maybe... I don't know... Checking for my papers to PROVE that MM is rigged... Geez, I must have won at least 35 ou [..] View

Unicum AMA

10:05 am, October 12, 2013 They inspire fear when they are on the enemy team and hope when they are on your team. Who are they? They are the top 1% of all players in tanks, Unicums. Today, The Unicums have assembled here, so yo [..] View

Just another guide on how to improve

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

If your overall win rate is above 50% does MM attempt to bring it back down to 50%?

10:05 pm, September 29, 2013 There are many stints of games where I am constantly going below 50%. I am unsure as to why there are so many games in a row that end up in "according to XVM" for sure losses. If the game i [..] View

Hate to say it but some of us are sounding like Nazis

10:05 pm, September 29, 2013 It's weird to even compare ourselves this way but some of us treat bad tankers like second class citizens, like how the Nazis treated the Jews during World War II. I may be over exaggerating a lot by [..] View

Why are unicums so cruel...always..

10:05 am, September 29, 2013 So i join a game in my Obj 261, and spot a platoon of 2 with an obj 261 and a obj 140. Spoiler I proceeded to ask if i may join their platoon if they had rooms for another pl [..] View

Dear fellow tankers... We are at war!

6:39 am, September 18, 2013 ArkioLite324, on Sep 10 2013 - 07:36, said: Agreed. I don't understand why people negative rep Daigensui's later comments. Such as when she thanked someone for reminding and explaining something to h [..] View

Ways to help your Win Rate/For new players

6:38 am, September 18, 2013 Wanted to share some thoughts with the newer players in hopes it will help make the WOT more fun and also allow you to win more games as you play. First,..a bit about the author. I was once a " [..] View

Why Most of the Stuff That Needs to be Fixed Won't Get Fixed

10:05 pm, September 5, 2013 Good day! I think we can all agree on one thing: no game is perfect, and every game can be improved. (Well, most) World of Tanks is no exception. Earlier, I posted a thread about noobs, and apparent [..] View

A competitive mentorship program / league.

10:05 am, August 28, 2013 A quick suggestion (actually a long suggestion). Would any unicum players be interested in doing a mentorship program that has a bit of fun competition at the end of it? Here's what it would [..] View

New resource links!

10:05 pm, August 16, 2013 I've added three new links for your browsing pleasure. For you stat whores and wn7 junkies, these links should give you the fix you need. vBaddict Performance Analyzer - Upload your dossier f [..] View

I need a new personal challenge to keep my attention

10:05 pm, August 7, 2013 So I need some help keeping my interest in this game. I have been hunting Unicums, but they are too hard to find and when I do they are either smoked by the pubbies before I can get to them or way too [..] View

Can tanks really be taught

10:05 pm, July 28, 2013 Some of you might know me from my guides or my many posts around the forums. I recently posted "Small guide on raising your win rate over 50%" and I had some comments that I thought I should [..] View

Fixing MM

10:05 pm, July 27, 2013 So, I'm sure you already have your opinions about this subject, but just hear me out. There are so many threads and posts about MM being "corrupt" and/or "unfair". Let me tell you, [..] View

An Average Player's Lemming Rush Guide

10:05 pm, July 23, 2013 Some may click this and expect a short, sarcastic rant about the "summer blitz" of baddies. Nope. That's not useful. I would have posted that in off topic. This guide is in response to being [..] View

WN7 scoring

10:05 pm, July 11, 2013 Afternoon all. I was just looking at my stats (yes, I know, they ****, no need to tell me that) and noticed something about WN7 scoring. Not going to bother posting screen shots because there is no ne [..] View

Rate my battle! Come in Unicums!

10:05 am, July 7, 2013 I would love feedback based off this battle. In Example. Was i close to playing it correctly? What could i have done differently? What did i do good ? What did i do bad? /Etc http://wotreplays.c [..] View

I own the Su-122-44 - and it's OP.

10:05 pm, June 30, 2013 Always pay close attention to what the Unicums stat pad in.. It's a pro-tip for the most OP stuff.  For example most Unicums stat pad in US Autoloaders, everyone knows they are OP. [..] View

What do you consider a ghetto crew?

10:05 am, June 17, 2013 75%? 100%? 1 skill? 2 skill? What do unicums consider a ghetto crew? I think its a crew that has max 40-50% in first skill. View

Wot Labs Forum: The Arena Junkies Of WoT

10:05 am, June 15, 2013 http://forum.wotlabs.net/ You know arenajunkies, elitestjerks and other super elitist (only top players can post in 1337 theory crafting discussions?), well this is sorta like that. There's a [..] View

PURPL Recruiting

10:05 am, June 8, 2013 Hello all :) My name in game is pjr1990. Purpl is recruiting top tier players, with excellent wn 6/7, efficiency. Looking for more unicums Pros:toonin w/ top ranked players on serverabsolute tc's whe [..] View

I realy don't think you so called "pros" should be making fun of anybody.

10:05 pm, June 2, 2013   Lately I have seen in almost a third of my games some high stat "pro" making fun or ridiculing some other player for a low win percent or just a low efficiency in general [..] View

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