[NuclearDwarf]

wohoo

battle #5000

and we lost

[scout1]

Victory!
Battle: Mines Monday, May 07, 2012 8:15:49 AM
Vehicle: SU-100
Experience received: 7,355 (x5 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 34,837
Battle Achievements: Mastery Badge: Ace Tanker

Still have the 85mm, lol

[Zero-Point]

LittleDogX posted:

For some reason people in WoT are COMPLETELY AFRAID of their tank dying, or even taking any damage whatsoever. I've seen Tier 7 heavies at full health let me die because they were afraid to go around a corner due to a single tier 4 TD was sitting there, even though it would die if the heavy sneezed at him. The way people play, you'd think that if they were to die in the game, they'd die for real. People don't realize that aggressive (this is different from idiotic) play in almost every game ever is a much better strategy. Obviously there will be situations that this may be a bad idea. If you were to go against a team of tank destroyers that were all sitting in their base with tons of bushes, and there's no arty on the map, it will be hard for your team to move forwards. However, your team will never win if they try to slowly inch their way to the cap like 99% of the players do. People just slowly get picked of one by one. Then people see others get shot and they think "oh shit better hide" but hiding won't do shit to help. It's not like the TD's are going to suddenly deiced to move because they got one kill (exceptions being fear of arty, but that's a different problem). People just need to stop being so afraid of getting hit by one or two shots. If you pay attention to a majority of the matches, it's almost always the more aggressive team that wins because they didn't get slowly picked off as they moved up. They pushed through the front, wrecked shit from the sides and rear, and capped the base (unless they destroyed everyone in the process of moving up).

It's a thing of beauty when it works, though. Once in my T-34 I was holed up with a few higher-tier tanks than mine (at least one IS, I forget the rest), and there was an IS or IS-3 or something around the corner, apparantley scared the shit out of my team somehow. I got tired of waiting for him to come around and rape us all, and didn't expect to do much that game anyway (I was filler hurr), so I told my team "I'll distract him", and ran out firing off 57mms as fast as I could zipping around that guy, think I tracked him and did a total of 200 damage before I made it out of his LoS. That I survived wasn't the most surprising part (though I was like "HOW?!" at the time ), what surprised me most is that I was able to circle back and witness my team actually engaging the tank that I distracted, now more heavily damaged than when I left it. And, since the enemy tank was so pre-occupied with the now FOUR tanks in his face, I was able to run up behind him un-hindered and finish him off with 2-3 57s to the rear.

But yeah, most of the time I say "I'll distract him" and run out there only to have my team sit back like "lol poor T-34".

[Raidyr]

And now I'm just having shitty games after that. Goddamn World of Tanks Illuminati.

[The mouse]

Why does this always happen, When I unlock the Panther they put the 3002DB on sale so I couldn't sell it, Now I unlock the Konigstiger and they put the fucking tiger on sale.

[cccino]

Type 59 now available in NA gift shop ($34.99, inc.1000 gold). I can't check EU.

[fishyfish777]

As much as everyone hates the Type 59 I really loved the 7 Type 59 vs 7 Type 59 matches


Medium tank clusterfucks are better than the entire game jamming up because you have high-tier arty composing half the teams

[Raidyr]

cccino posted:

Type 59 now available in NA gift shop ($34.99, inc.1000 gold). I can't check EU.

Fucking shitty company.

[Bowser_nl]

Not available in the EU gift shop just yet. Won't be long though, WarGaming needs more money to buy Vodka.

[scout1]

Welp all I have is gold from in-game CW and I don't wanna give WG a cent of my money

[Raidyr]

RIP everyone wanting to grind mid tier tanks this week.

But hey atleast Wargaming will have a buttload of cash to spend on making more Provinces.

[acidcj]

I can't wait to destroy all the 59s while grinding my IS-8

[Raidyr]

It shouldn't be too bad in my Pershing/AMX but I was kinda sorta hoping to grind the AMX 12t after I unlocked the Lorraine.

[acidcj]

7.3 is coming tomorrow for NA/EU

Tankers!

The World of Tanks development team is excited to announce that update 7.3 is to be released for the NA server on May 8, 2012.

Due to the update, the NA server will be unavailable for six hours starting on May 8, 2012 at 01:00 PDT (08:00 UTC) until 07:00 PDT (14:00 UTC).

The Global Map for Clan wars will be unavailable for twenty-four hours starting on May 8, 2012 at 00:15 PDT (07:15 UTC) until 00:15 PDT (07:15 UTC) on May 9th.

Please refrain from making payments during the specified server down time.

All users with premium accounts active at the start of maintenance will receive a one-day compensation added to their premium account starting May 7, 2012 at 21:00 PDT (May 8th 04:00 UTC).

http://worldoftanks.com/news/1246-73-update/
http://worldoftanks.eu/news/2277-upc...te-73-version/

[Tampong]

acidcj posted:

7.3 is coming tomorrow for US/EU



http://worldoftanks.com/news/1246-73-update/

Time to grind.

[Raidyr]

Trying to channel my inner Leopard and recreate some beta shenanigans in the AMX 13/90 by scouting enemy arty.
Only two different reactions seem to occur; either their guns are immediately silenced as Thor's Mjolnir descends from the heavens as soon as they are spotted, or I keep them lit up for several seconds and not a single shot comes down.

Edited:

Getting 1000xp firing a single shot that tracks an enemy arty is fucking wonderful though.

[scout1]

Okay does somebody wanna put up a checklist for shit that needs to get done before 7.3?

[Drag#!]

Type 59 also in EU
http://worldoftanks.eu/news/2286-spe...t-shop-offers/

[Bowser_nl]

scout1 posted:

Okay does somebody wanna put up a checklist for shit that needs to get done before 7.3?

Get a KV2, KV3 and IS4 in your garage.

[Inplabth]

Well, my body is ready for 7.3. I look forward to having my first tier X tank.

[Bowser_nl]

Drag#! posted:

Type 59 also in EU
http://worldoftanks.eu/news/2286-spe...t-shop-offers/

What a surprise.

Edited:

Inplabth posted:

Well, my body is ready for 7.3. I look forward to having my first tier X tank.

I'm looking forward to insta selling the IS4 and collecting 3m credits from it.

[Raidyr]

Think I'll sell everything but the KV-2. Might do some 152 shenanigans and grind out the S-51.

[PyromanDan]

I don't see anything about removing province...

[Uzkanda]

The EU type 59 topic is like a barrel of gunpowerder, so much hate.
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.p...t-shop-offers/

[Ogopogo]

-snip-

[Valdor]

I bought the type59

I regret nothing

[Kilgore 2nd]

Anyone got a link to the latest XVM that shows percentage or what have you? :)

[Valdor]

Uzkanda posted:

The EU type 59 topic is like a barrel of gunpowerder, so much hate.
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.p...t-shop-offers/

I love how many of them take the time to say how bad the community is while bitching about how wargaming is evil for pulling the highly abusable items from the shop.

Never change wot community

[Trunk Monkay]

PyromanDan posted:

I don't see anything about removing province...

It's not being removed. They're just restricting it to tiers 1 and 2. Thats the only time that map is any fun.

[lintz]

I'm just getting progressively shittier teams.

[PvtTwinkletoes]

lintz posted:

I'm just getting progressively shittier teams.

It gets worse every patch.

[gunnars1]

Cool, my first tier 10.

[the_killer24]

fuck I'm still 10k xp from the kv

can i make it in like 2 1/2 hours without premium

probably not

[scout1]

shouldn't be that hard

[the_killer24]

need i remind you

shit teams erryday

[OreoExtremist]

the_killer24 posted:

fuck I'm still 10k xp from the kv

can i make it in like 2 1/2 hours without premium

probably not

Yea you can do that.

[Trunk Monkay]

the_killer24 posted:

fuck I'm still 10k xp from the kv

can i make it in like 2 1/2 hours without premium

probably not

Easilyy.

[ze beaver]

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Only during these days will you be able to activate this one time use code:

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Looks like we'll have some actual chocolate to demount this time around.

[The mouse]

This game can fuck you over so often, I got rammed by a team-mate, I lost 200hp and I got fined for causing him damage.

[lintz]

If tomorrow get 7.3, I can also get my T29 on sale. Fantastic.