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Draschel: The comparisons for 122TM are highlighted in a definitive 274A matchup. While 274A does not match the pen, accuracy, aim-time, alpha, gun depression....to be honest 274A has enough pen. It has enough alpha. The accuracy on it is fine. The armor on it is also fine, in some respects even better. It has more mobility, more view range, and even a whopping 50% better total DPM. It is pathetic to compare, how much superior 274A is to 122TM.  If you were to play 122TM, like a support unit way in the back, like Lowe or T34 heavy - you are better off in 274A. Unless you needed gun depression. If you wanted to do things like Patton or STB1 or UDES, and be a mid-range ridge spotter and fighter, lol.....with that DPM and view range? If you weren't the focus point of the fight and being a supporter in the rear, chances are you can navigate as to not needing gun depression. And if you did need it, wouldn't you be better off in Lorraine or S1? Not to mention object 416 and STA1 also capable of doing this supporting sniper fire stuff from long ranges and better too, with again - way more DPM  Sniping in WoT inherently doesn't work well anyway. Ever hear the age old complaints, IS7 and IS4 hitting their shots 100-300m easily, but Leopard and Strv missing their shots at 450-550m? No matter the accuracy you got, at those ranges, your shots land anywhere. And typically not where you aim them. 

Draschel: Make them able also to turn over, to overturn and time-out with crew deathAlso either remove their illegal auto aim, or allow tanks to apply an illegal auto aim to wheeled vehicles Make it that 1st tire shot causes wobble, 2nd tire shot causes the severe mobility penalties and 2-tire wobble, and 3rd shot causes immobilization Give them DPM more similar to british light tanks. Reduce EBR105 gun depression to -6 like EBR90, reduce 105mm HE damage to 480 like Centurion, Patton, AMX30.  

Draschel: AT15A, M4 10 Panther, E25 are the pref MM tier 7s. Alternately, you can plat with tier 6s, as they only go to tier 8 too E25 can actually collide quite hard against certain things. It has the bulk (armor/weight/speed) alot like Cromwell. If you run full bore into something like AMX1357 or T-50-2 ...hey will feel it.  

Draschel:  By sacrificing a slot for turbo, because you need to remedy mediocre speed and acceleration - mean sacrifices towards its mediocre soft stats with the gun. Shell velocity, aim time, accuracy maybe nice on the tank, but it has quite bad dispersion values blooming it with any kind of movement. On top of these, you have bad DPM, bad view range. 122TM pays huge dividends in the areas that are not included in its armor, alpha damage, penetration, and accuracy. A very bipolar tank that needs extremely situational spots, pivots to control and pick its battles. Lowe, T34 heavy, Mutant 6 have bad DPM too, yet they still have 250 DPM on top of 122TM. It really is a tank that is hard to use, and no where near as powerful as you think. 

churchill50: I believe they don't, but I can't remember for sure. I wasn't really paying attention to them.

churchill50:  Thank you for the information! That's a relief...I've confirmed with a friend that EU is in fact grinding 94 chevrons. No idea why NA only has 70, but I'm really happy we do. 

churchill50:  In one season? I don't think that's possible. You get 6,150 bonds per season + whatever you earn by playing tier 10's. After you reach Leagues, there are missions that let you get Bonds, but that's only 75 per day.But, there will be another season, so you can get 6,150 bonds then as well. Sadly one season is already past.And there will be more Ranked after this season. As far as time needed. The best thing is to do all 20 Bonus battles today. Just plow through them, but try to get the best performance you can as it gives you bonus battles.After that, I suggest only playing 5-10 battles a night. You can only use one bonus battle per tank per day, so play your strong tanks for bonus battles, then get off for the night.Last season it took me 65 battles total to grind through the whole thing. I'd expect it to take you longer though, due to skill (not trying to be rude), lack of experience with Ranked battles, and lack of tanks (as far as I can see, you only have the Obj 268v4. It's an alright tank for Ranked, but not great). Still doable though, but you'll have to work harder for it.

Jaguarz:  Its clearly a Imperial Russian Faberge Egg, you couldnt find a more archtypical Russian Relic if you tried, no one can explain the logic for the suggestion that it links the Qulin outside of "it looks fancy" I agree with your suggestions though I find it somewhat pointless to offer the Turtle, its not a hugely popular tank and its for sale often.

Draschel:  Hmmm,  irritating. Along the same lines of:: calling a solid A or B tier, tier 10 tank useless as is?By result of the former, not seeing to daily double 5A, 113 without exp penalty?And by virtue, accepting to pay 38,000,000 credits for it to begin with?........bid of 36,500,000 for the tank was low. My brother 1 upped me, 37 and change. Too low. 

Jaguarz: The Imperial Faberge Egg couldnt be a more definitive Russian relic, I dont get where people see the Qulin in it and they cant explain it either.

Jambijon: Greetings Tankers!
Season 8 of the Referral Program is almost done!  With that, Season 9 will be launching on January 26, 2022 with new vehicles and some changes to missions and interfaces! To get the full list of Season 9 goodies head over to our article linked below: Changes to the Referral Program in Season 9   

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Jaguarz: the arty missions are the easiest of any line

Jaguarz: Nothing is more definitively Russian than a Imperial Faberge egg, I cant fathom any situation where the Qulin or any other nation could be represented by it.

The_Chieftain: Yeah, I wonder if we've talked about everything that can be talked about?Except existential philosophy and imaginary numbers. They make my brain hurt.

churchill50:  I second this. Also OP, there's very little reason to run Manual Fire Extinguishers. While they're more expensive, Auto Fire Extinguishers pay for themselves since they reduce your chances of being set on fire and always extinguish after the first tick of damage. Plus, with Auto Fire Extinguishers being given as rewards from tons of missions, you rarely have to buy more. I bought 200 on a sale a few years ago, haven't bought them since, and am now sitting on a cache of almost 500 in my Depot.I'd highly suggest buying a couple hundred on the next sale and fully making the switch to Auto Fire Extinguishers.

Jaguarz: No aftermatch report? Also your snapping away from aim after every shot taken kills me.....

churchill50: Same OP, same. Kind of frustrating, especially since he's such a good crew member (zero-skill, and starts with 4 skills).

churchill50: This Under the Hammer event is not the Black Market. The Black Market will come later.This event is most likely only tanks, although opinions differ about what they'll be.

Draschel:  Are you trying to be funny. 

Draschel: Nicely said.  Saying that the WZ1111111111111111115A is useless, really tells us the quality of player you are.

Draschel:  Wrong. The 1.13 HE changes introduced alot of '....soft countermeasures....' that indirectly nerf arta. In addition, it lowered the HE damage of the HE stun shell type. The secondary Alternate HE shell can't be used for stun missions In addition the HE burst radius changes from a year ago? 18 months ago? Reductions to area of effect and HE effect drop off, reduced stun times, reduced stack-able stun times. Not to mention better spall liner equipment. Field mod HE protection too. 

Draschel:  Drop the DPM of the single shot, to the current magazine gun DPM. And drop the magazine gun DPM, to IS7 DPMLower the horsepower of the engine by 50 points. Then the tank very nearly compares to the 8 and 9 in the line.  

Draschel: First 9 seconds of the Terminator Theme before the tune kicks off, would have been appropriate. 

Draschel: it is not too bad. I see them often in strongholds.I think it is certainly better than VK3002M, Pudel, Bretagne, and Panzer IV SchmulturmBut is less effective than A43, Cromwell, Cromwell B. Really bad soft dispersion stats. Rotation mech mandatory.

Jaguarz:  lmbo, thats some extensive mental gymnastics on display there.

Draschel: For those that do like arta, World of Warships is just about entirely arta. For your hearts content 

Jaguarz:  Well I didnt realise I was conversing with gods own representative on tanks, the one guy who can see things against all logic, other players and stats, Im sure you are completely right and its on the same level as a preferential 8 heavy. All this without you having a single game in it as well, very impressive.....

Jaguarz:  There are others in client post supertest like the Chieftain MK6 which is on the Chinese server, even though I dont see it being one of the tanks other Chinese server exclusive tanks like the 121B and the Type 59G did make it.

Jaguarz: Because you need to finish the first mission before that one? Unlike the non premium daily missions the premium ones are sequential and rely on the completion of the previous one before eligibility.

Draschel: i would also like to point out, hull down tanks are liable to being bombed by arta. And since Arta aren't governed by new 1.13 HE rules, they are most certainly still a threat especially over time. While side scraping, wait-all-day heavy tanks on street corners generally aren't vulnerable to it. Popular hull down tanks like Strv 103, STB1, M48 Patton aren't even invulnerable to enemy fire like either. And tanks like WZ1111111111111111 5A, 277, IS7, T62A, 140  -CAN- use windows or wrecks for hulldown, as well. Hull down isn't limited to gun depression ridges, its an -KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN- positioning part of gameplay. Put yourself in advantage, put your enemy at disadvantage. And that is why HE was horridly reduced, because it takes away from this respect. It removes the advantage people work for and drive too, to lazily benefit someone unwilling to use it themselves.  I shouldn't even have to say a single word here. OP game fully illustrates this.  

Draschel: for all the people who constantly gripe, that hull down meta is terrible, and takes a bot to play well.....well consider this. The OP is doing it right, constantly moving forward and back, and raining shots. And just a sprinkle of aiming.The OP has the insight, to quickly focus the 53TP leaving hull down, despite it not shooting him while the Patriot still was. While the 53TP and Patriot, Hull down tanks themselves, are standing still and aiming too much, while still missing. The OP is LANDING SHOTS, and BOUNCING SHOTS - while the enemies aren't. There is obvious difference here. The OP is simply doing more service to the team too. Spotting a huge margin. If hull down meta was so easy, why aren't the Patriot and 53TP having a great time? Hull down meta may seem bland, I get it. But compared to Arta sitting red line pointing and clicking all game? Compared to Maus or Type 5, sitting on corners trading HP? Please do not make me laugh. I would rather take Kran, Super Conquer, 60TP, 110E3, Chieftain hulldown meta ten times over, than have to deal with 1,400 HE shell Type 5s and 3,200 HP Maus tanks, sitting on corners waiting for unsuspecting prey, or an invulnerable bob-ject driving through the open absorbing enemy fire or 8-9 of these on a CW team. (which is what 279E does now,  lol) If hull down meta was the easy as cake press 2 drive to ridgeline and win people think it is - why don't I see everyone's super conquer, Kran, 60TP, 110E3 having tonnes of damage? I still see many guys struggle to pull even 2K. Yet when bobject or 430U came out, or when Type 5 had 1,400 HE damage, even 47% tater tots were easy pulling in 2K+

Draschel:  The tier VII Carro is not bad. Why the reputation is awful, maybe because it just advocates premium spam. The stock gun all APCR turns the tank into a far more effective machine, but Scrooges don't like the concept. And with turbocharger, your HP/T is over 15.0, which is above some medium tanks even. The same concept follows the Vz 44. The second gun, like IS tank series 100mm, provides considerable benefits in DPM, gun handling - but requires more premium spam than the top gun. And again, with turbocharger the tank becomes quite mobile.  I'd do the same heck - with T29, Tiger (P)  IS tank. Run the 2nd 90mm on the T20, the 100mm, or short 88.  And all APCR. Your tank is faster, you have the pen you need anyway, more DPM, more gun handling.  

Jaguarz:  Why? Im just wondering if there's reasoning Im missing given its clearly an Imperial Faberge Egg which screams Russia to me.

Jaguarz:  Its an incredibly strong breakthrough tank and trades better than any other t8 so unless nerfed it will always be a top dog.

Jaguarz: https://2021.battlejourney.com/en/fc53cbe4fb2a680ee34864437f8a6fe7c2c55a94e3c83b48166abe1bd38e2814 My quick takes Lot of people seem to have Bourasques as nemesis including myself but its also the tank I kill the most. Burdas medal seems rarer than Pools Surprised an arty made it into my top 3 played tanks, I guess because I cycle through a variety of the other classes but only play one arty when I am doing missions or griefing the playerbase because in a bad mood. Himmelsdorf is my lucky map which is weird given its on my blacklist.....

Jaguarz:  Playing garbage ranked is a significant time and effort cost

Draschel: WZ111 has at least some gun handling compared to the awfully bad handling IS6 and 112 have. But 112 and IS6 are certainly more  'tanky' IS5 is very average. While it certainly can pen better than pref tanks, it can't hit anything. It is quite fast for heavy, the armor is fine, buffed gun depression is alright - the gun handling is just bad.

churchill50:  Correct, only the higher of the two discounts applies.

Draschel:  what exactly do you mean by this? Arta can do a great job, it is known by everyone, in not using their keyboard and not driving 150m from cap and pointing and clicking all game.Arta can do a great job, it is known by everyone, not caring about armor models or heavy defilade of enemies, splashing enemies for nice damage. Arta can do a great job, it is known by everyone, obtaining outrageous free damage ratios firing with impunity with little danger in return It is not even an attempt at a troll. Arta actually does all of these, very well and other classes do not. 

Jaguarz: I dont care about skill discrepancy so long as they not bots, I do care about complete side mismatching, when one side gets 3 t10 heavies and other gets 1, when one side gets a chieftain and the other gets a Pz7 as this makes a massive disparity in team strength ignoring skill levels.