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churchill50:  277 is still used constantly in CW, and is quite strong in pubs. Not nearly as strong as the Chief/279(e)/Kran/Vz/E100/S Conq, but definitely up there. 

churchill50:  The IS-8 was a tier 9 already before it was changed to the T-10. When it was changed to the T-10 it received buffs to the mobility, turret armor, and firepower. That's when it really came into its own.

Draschel:  Do you need examples of how to use armor? I will even give you the benefit of the doubt, I won't use 279E or Chieftain as tanks using their armor profile. but even something as simple as a Tier 8 can confound tier X tanks using premium ammunition, so long as their position is advantageous. Its a good practice, that people place themselves in proper position to increase their armor, decrease their exposure - rather than relying on armor itself.  I don't know where this lunacy comes from, where people say press 2 and armor don't matter. In advances and CW, I see it ALL THE TIME. Bounced and/or non penetrating hits. And EVERYONE is shooting either 325 APCR, or 330-350 HEAT. So where and on who is this bounced damage coming from? And its not just 279E and Chieftain doing it. 268 V4, 110E3, E100, 260, 907, 140 do more than their fair share too.  

Draschel:  For this to be considered, armor profiles need to be adjusted accordingly as well, in conjunction with ammo changes.  True accessible weakspots need to be on tanks. And they shouldn't be tiny pixels, or simply --10mm-- less than the surrounding armor.   And HE wasn't ruined. It was improved.

Draschel:  It does not matter. What you said was false. If what you say is false, how are people to respond?A simple search of AMX54 armor profile VS 330mm HEAT, still turns up AMX54 more than half of front profile solid red for non-pen.  I understand you are upset, but you need to adapt and always be mindful of your surroundings.If you have trouble making use of armor, and knowing about armor profiles even against premium rounds....consult a specialist and/or learn more of it. There are plenty of resources, plenty of content creators. You need to start placing yourself in strong positions, which boost your armor and presence. Think of armor, as the plate steel a knight wears. But a knight can also hold a shield out in front of them, which boosts his armor rating. Position is that shield. Stop depending on armor alone. Start using position to defeat your foes. 

Draschel: reminds me of lisa losing the spelling bee. ''Can you spell weather?''''May you please use it in a sentence?''''I don't know whether, the weather....''  

Draschel:  Isn't this bannable too? Why evensay that. Its in the Forum Policy, even this account youare using will get banned too

Draschel: As I said, why bring it up anyway, yourself? Do you want another account banned? 

Draschel:  He may seem like he is trying to sound silly - but the root is Kran actually isn't too good of a tank.  Great mobility, turret armor, gun depression, DPM can take you places - but you get massively let down by awful HEAT pen, crowded crew, poor dispersion stats, bad elevation, mediocre hull.Kran has been given the spot-light to do well in Ranked Battles, simply because of removing Chieftain and 279E. Chieftain, which does its job better, and 279E which is the main tank Kran has difficulty penetrating.  Without Ranked Battles, Kran would be a pub tank at best. Try using this thing in CW and it gets stomped

Draschel:  when I look at a post like this, I think to myself. ''Behave'' or get a strike.  But honestly, do tell me, when someone looks at what you typically do in battles......yes you know where I am going with this. Insert here _____________ (derogatory stuff)Why should you be allowed to do it, over things you don't even udnerstand? 

Draschel: on a side note, just not that negative, is the results of new field mods. People want to grind their new tier 8 and 10 field mods, more than they wish to do 6s. So what ends up as a result, is hugely disproportionate 10 teams in advances, but only 3-4 T6 skirmishes open. And the skirmishes open are terrible, like collective 3-4k PR teams with an extreme obnoxious incompetent narcists' trying to call the battle. A call, by that I mean, -find the largest forest near spawn- and sit in it, until the enemy runs into your team by proxy 

Draschel: There are alot of problems.  First of all unlike tier 8 or tier 10, the artillery is extremely, utterly dangerous. Yes, in tier 8 or 10 the call down munitions can certainly harm enemies maybe even kill lighter heavies like FCM50 or Emil1951, but its literally the entire barrage, and right in the center tracked in it. Tanks like VK100 01 and KV4 kresl, or KV5 hardly ever even take 50% just sitting in it. In tier X, tanks like E100 and Maus, 268 V 4 and 110E3 don't mind it too much either. This is a big problem, because in tier 6 the barrage or airstrike are crippling. They can easily, with one munition 'bomblet' deal 500 to OI or AT8, simply the most armored tanks possible in tier. Tanks like object 244, T3485M, VK3001P fairly well armored, easily get caught tracked and killed in a second. The arty has to go in 6s, it has no business in the tier. Another problem is maps. Removing maps like Ensk has been bad, and adding maps like Arctic....cringe. Maps like Murovanka, Malinovka, Prokhorovka are bad for 6s. Lesser able clans just want to sit in forests and scrub.....and ''wait'' for what happens. I personally hate this, because a 6 skirmish shouldn't be a boss fight. People shouldn't have to pry open a triple locked, double doored battle up-stairs, because a lazy team reliquishes map control but wants to sit base in ridiculous positions like Arctic north spawn, or murovanka south west. And the reward for spending 8-9mins breaking these camps? Just 50k. Its atrocious.  A big problem is people playing their tanks like how people do in random battle. Don't get me wrong, I am all about squeezing fruit for as much juice possible. Assistance tracking, spotting, damage dealt, kills. The thing is these don't matter as much in skirmishes, which do not go into your service record DPG and PR. They aren't for WN8 numbers or efficiency. I am not saying nonsense like play to cap and win. No. I am saying play to beat the enemy, by the proper roles of tanks, not stupid stuff like meds not taking med flank, light tanks shooting 30 times for farming damage, but only pens 10.  Balance. While people complain about LT432/EBR75, progetto/Bourratt, Renegade/Skoda56 being tier 8.5 and ruining gameplay...or in tens 907,260,279E,Chieftain - make no mistake tier 6 isn't any different. T3485M, cromwell B, Type 64 are SUBSTANIALLY better than any of the tech tree available, except Cromwell which is Bromwell clonse and A43. Which is super expensive and no fun in my opinion. I show up in skirmish, and combat officer won't allow me to run T-50-2, Pudel, Skoda 40, Strv 57, Thunderslow. Tanks that aren't bad really but simply are far away from T3485M.   

Draschel: Suka Pershing obviously is the competition, and is alright where its at, but has had 3 iterations of buffs.....The main being mobility completely turning the tank around. However, its also a pref tank.... I always thought, applying the M48A Patton cupola size buff to tanks like T95E2, 59-Patton and in this case Rhz would make them very troublesome in tier 8, but alas not the case at all is it. T1LPC is a pretty balanced tank neither strong nor weak, and the cupola is just that. Really, only tanks like T71 lights, should have these shack-sized cupola, because it really doesn't matter for them now does it. It remains a huge issue for WG balance department, especially considering M60 and T95E6 aren't particularly strong mediums to begin with, and are further hindered by these turrets on top of turrets Engine size as either 704 or 720, respectively T29s or Patriots, isn't a big deal. The Tank still won't break 14.5 HP/T base, like Suka Pershing. It be fine. At least make the cupola frontal area 177mm like T95E6, that would be fine. The VR can even stay 380, Suka Pershing with 390+radioman has the versatility, while Rhz has the more dangerous gun.  

Draschel:  No one cares. If your last battle was half a year ago, why are you still here? Not even you care. 60,000 battles and no tens. Some collector you are.But hey, enjoy ''poisoning the well water'' in tier V on SA?

Draschel: The bulldozer blade is 30mm thick.  Any HE striking it, hits 30 x3 multiplier wall, with great coverage. A tonne of HE shells, will literally hit it and deal 0 damage. Literally Jag Pz E100 can shoot HE into it and not penetrate. The tank is protected against HE more than it ever was. Also, because HE needs to actually strike the vehicle hull and turret to deal damage currently, and not modules like gun barrels, tracks, spaced armor and splash the vehicle afterwards - HE spammers will be robbed of damage they would otherwise cause pre1.12 because shots would hit the bulldozer blade and go through it, but miss the vehicle behind.  M48 Rhz has potential to be decent. The same way Suka Pershing has been made decent with buffs. By simply giving it engine horsepower like Patriot, or the tech tree M26 Pershing (engines are named the same) Rhz becomes significantly quicker. Simply cropping its grotesque cupola smaller, as how M48A Patton and T1LPC have got, makes the cupola less of a problem.  

1LT_Dwayne: I don't understand how aimbot would benefits from lower rng. You have dispersion value and you still need to hit accurately if you want to do some damage. What I don't understand is why when you stop your tank it takes 1-2 sec for the aiming circle to start to shrink.

Jaguarz: The RNG is actually one of the few redeeming features of this game but people dont realize it, without it aimbots would actually be a REAL problem and the amount of people threading the needle would be suspiciously high. As it stands now an aimbot doesnt really do anything but point in the general direction that you would be if you had any knowledge of armour profiles and weakpoints.

Draschel:  ooooooophffNow that's rude.  Quickybaby is alright. 

Draschel: Mithrandir would say, "two eyes, as often as I can''Boromir would say, ''the great Eye, is ever watchful''

Draschel:  Don't hope for your team to help over anything. Do not place yourself in situations where you are alone.Even if your team chooses the absolute dumbest, complete useless flanks like beach on overlord or valley push Lakeville, mountain trail on Glacier - never go alone in some self-delusion heroic attempt to hold an uncovered flank. Heroes doing this early on when they see their team lemming train in whatever direction at the start....usually die quickly and get angry quicker. Do not spend time over trying to convince your team in chat. No one reads chat, and chances are if they follow a lemming train to an idiotic flank....they are imbeciles without a clue and won't listen anyway. Such chat would likely lead to arguments instead which isn't needed at all. If your team lemming train, chances are they still acquire some map control even if its towards a dumb flank, and with that map control, the rear part of it is still usually YOUR BASE. Stay back, as part of this rear guard, and defend your base. Even idiotic lemming trains can be put to good use. If you need hard, concise examples of this, I can show you by PM. The name of the game for just about any tank, but speaking about this whale specifically is position. Place yourself in proper, defensible position to which you are exposed only slightly when backing out to fire or baiting their shot. And upon which you fire you drive forwards into cover and your reload is guaranteed. Make sure your hitlogs provide you enough detail, like seeing which opponents are firing premium. This is controlled slow play, with hard cover, and without much distance between opponents, what this tank does well at and really only what it does at all. Because these situations don't really need mobility or DPM, don't think you need to counterbalance the tanks weaknesses (mobility, DPM) with rammer or turbocharger. Being able to fire quicker in peaking or having more HP for trades, in these very controlled side-scrape battles is typically wiser. Use equipment like hardening, spall, rotation mech, vertical stab, vents, aiming device. 

Draschel:  Generally the player that gathers the most results possible, what we know as stats, tends to win more than those that don't care too much.A win can be spoon fed to you, by team dragging you along for the win. But driving around in tier 9 or 10, you have to earn those stats. No one's going to drag you.   Wins are not a product of chance. Its not a 50/50 coin toss. People actually either contribute more to their teams, and win more. Or the other way around. 

Draschel:  Uhhhh.....professor, you are the one not reading. As in WG patch notes and changes. And are the one incorrect. HE can still damage modules, and the damage number to modules delivered didn't change with the HE changes. They stayed the same. Which are tied to shell bore size, not shell type.When HE strikes a target and apparently a module like tracks, gun barrel, spaced armor panel - while it may not penetrate these outer decals and reach the hull or turret to deal physical damage, it may still penetrate the ACTUAL DECAL and deal damage to that module, but not the hull. HE shell can hit a tanks roller wheel, penetrate the roller wheel, but not penetrate the track belt or spaced armor BEHIND the suspension, and get caught up in ''screen not penetrated''  Like  E100, or 112 and 113, for example. HE shell again, can strike a gun barrel, penetrate the guns listed armor but then hit the turret gun mantlet, and get caught up in layers of spaced armor, again ''screen not penetrated'' But in these examples, the HE shell can still very EASILY penetrate the roller wheel, or gun barrel, and deal the module damage. Thats why you see non penetrating, non damaging HE shells still breaking tracks and immobilizing, or disabling a gun.  What are you talking about. HE reductions to module damage were very necessary in the form of unfair 'blasting/searching outer explosions' of non penetrations..... dealing ridiculous damage to modules but not the vehicle. Like HE from Maus 128mm hitting jag panzer E100 in the face and dealing 35 damage to the superstructure, but setting the tank on fire through engine damage below the superstructure. This ridiculous nonsense has been removed. Rightfully so.   If you want to track something, shoot the roller wheels with AP prof. 200IQ. 

Draschel:  Right. But lets be real, VK7501 doesn't need gun handling if its used in single purposes it actually works well at. It doesn't need DPM either.on the terrible roll of the dice you get something like redshire or westfield, no amount of gun handling + DPM boosts would help it be useful anyway 

Draschel:  It really does not depend on *'which tank'* And by that, apparently only 1 tank you have chosen. But from what I see, he is clearly doing better in all parameters, you simply dodge it in with a specified tank. He has 18 tanks with population variance, of over 70 battles. I wouldn't say 70 battles is enough, but lets settle on that number being enough because that number works for you too. You have 5 tanks at that level, too. Now, of these 18 tanks -> 50.6% W/R is his lowest, 65.2 is his highest.                                       -> 2,240 DPG is his lowest, 3,010 DPG is his highest.                                      -> He has 2 with 2-marks, safe to say his combined totals are probably higherNow of these 5 tanks   -> 50% W/R is the lowest, 61.7 is the highest                                    -> 2,050 DPG the lowest, 2,800 DPG the highest.                                    -> None yet beyond 1-markYour T57 is an singular outlier. And in this situation, only clearly works to your advantage directly contrasting his. Not only is it your BEST tier X, it alone only proves what you are trying to say. He has more tanks in the 56,57,58,59,60 range, while you only have 1. While damage isn't everything, the differentiation here is significant. His LOWEST DPG T-X used here, is higher than all but your BEST DPG.....meaning his lowest T-X is better than your 2nd best. Any WoT self respecting analytic can come by and draw up the same conclusions. You two are different tiered players, different strata. No offense needed, its a break down.   You need to drop the train of thought, that wins mean everything. They do not. Just slam on the brakes. Wins are great, sure. But acquiring the results which tend to be benefactor to wins, are more important than wins themselves. 

Draschel: Your crew is strong, in the experience it has. I mean, not very strong as in 8 skills, but strong so that enemies you see won't have what you have 75% the timeHowever, you have some real weird a-- selected crew skills and trained order, and you aren't running a functional 6th sense.... I'd drop optics for gun layer. This thing can't really get higher than 410m with rations, optics, vents, BIA, situational awareness. Dropping optics leaves you with 373, which is enough so long you position yourself where view range isn't dooming you and your tank. Chances are if an enemy is confounding you while you run only 373m VR - these situations very likely even if you had 410m it wouldn't solve the problem and spot the enemy.  Gun layer, effectively is the rammer on this tank for DPM. Because the gun fires and cycles so quickly, the only way to accurately aim-in is with gun layer.

TeriyakiTanker: Because fair is fair?

Draschel: Their used to be that clan, what they call themselves.CIA  I believe. This is before SA server was a thing. I guess Thugz is CIA 2.0CIA  would run tanks like DW2, B1, B2, Valentine II, T127 in 3-man platoons to man-clubNow, add to this SA server that jsut about everyone will hop into to bot farm Reqs on tiers 3,4,5 tanks are pretty difficult. Not difficult to 3-mark, just difficult to get the ace 

Draschel:  Is it fair to say,that I don't love you, worked up non-fanboy?The only one played here is you. Apparently 56% of the time.  

Draschel:  I am not going to judge  ''who or whom bought which or what account'' because I'm not interestedThe act of the matter though, the person played well before and still plays well now. Who cares?  But.....Still thinking the same way I see. He has 59% W/R. No easy feat. Why would you say regardless, that he has trouble transitioning those into wins? He's winning. Life lesson, reading and looking, are more important than hearing, typing, talking. The ability to communicate doesn't make someone intelligent, the ability to see, digest, understand do.This person can simply have a bad day and is down on his luck. It don't mean all his days are that way, and seeing 59% they certainly are not.  

Draschel:  well, Brady is a force multiplier. He's as good as his receivers are, and with middle school receivers - dicy.But lets not use a force multiplier, thinker MVO - but a do'er. A physical do'er. Place jerome bettis, Marshal Faulk, Emmitt smith on a high school team and their team will DEMOLISH middle school opposition.  Don't forget you are 60%. You aren't 48, or 50. For all the times you slump and have losing streaks, you remember. But you don't really remember the smooth sailing, the times you went 70+ 

TeriyakiTanker: Yeah arty sucks if you don't like it but really helps get missions done!

1LT_Dwayne: True that it wont reduce blowouts but the battle experience would be better. If you need a luck factor to have your 1 out of 10 good game I don't think this is the game for you. 

Draschel: P43 Bis is an extremely under rated tier VI.It has excellent 240 alpha, but unlike VK3001P or Skoda T40 has 100 more DPM with it. Comparing the DPM with it and something like 40TP, is like night and day. And with equipment 2.0 and field mods, things like medium tank horsepower boost and turbocharger make P43 Bis less clunky than how it came out years back. P43 Bis also has a tough armor profile similar to Pudel and T3485M, making it very versatile. I just wish it had 370m VR, and it would be superb. Watch out for the slow shell velocity, even firing premium APCR the shells are slow @ 750m/s.  But you can't go wrong with Skoda T25. Skoda T25 and A43 are the best tech tree tier VI mediums.  

Draschel:  Making it play more like simply Chrysler and IS-M are good enough. This thing is outrageous

Draschel: Like an E75TS. They are most comparable.M  IV  Y does have the track roller gimmick, I guess.M IV Y has the ridiculous large cupola, but speed and maneuverabilityE75TS is a little smaller, and more accurate with its gun 

Draschel:  Very interesting you are here to say that, I mean extrapolate? So you think, that you winning 60% of the time, has little if anything to do with you trying and contributing more than others, to hopefully win? You mean to say, the 60% is just chance and anyone can have the same if they are simply lucky? When you say co-relation, at what magnitude are we talking about? If you do well, say 2.5% more wins are an order over time? If you do very well, 5%? If you do goodness graciously, 10% more? .......and when it comes down to that, how is 10% additional wins compared to the middle 50%, not a strong indicator concerning co-relation?  Most peculiar indeed.

Draschel:  Everyone is allowed their own opinions. And you as well, may have oneBut don't pretend and say others follow your 'opinion' and play that way 

Draschel:  Its not what we were discussing?You are talking about bad accuracy - and the tanks accuracy is actually on the good side, considering 490 alpha damage.But what I am talking about, is absolutely dreadful gun handling, such as dispersion stats. I am pretty sure this is what you mean as well. If you take the time to aim, which because of the dispersion takes longer than it should, the final shot is actually somewhat accurate.Compared to Defender, 50TP, 703ii, Skoda 56, VK100 01, Mutant 6? The VK7501 will land more reliable shots than the bunch once aimed-inThe big issue, and I hear you with your Defender reply, the dreadful T-34 heavy-esque dispersion values that bloom the tank horrifically, that makes aiming harder VK7501 is probably the tank to take the double-stabilizer approach, and ditch the rammer. Typically in VK7501 preferred combat scenario of trading on corners - it doesn't need a rammer. Besides the DPM is so low, that even with a rammer it cannot hope to out-DPM alot of tanks. Its focus should be fighting only where its supposed to fight and has advantage there. Like KV2, a rammer isn't a necessary piece. Focus instead of things like bounty aiming device, bounty rotation mech. If I ever do setup mine up properly and field mod it::City maps like ensk, himmels, Paris, Piltzen, ruinberg   hardening 1st+% spot, rotation mech 2nd+% spot, preferably bounty aiming device or bonds gun layer 3rdGrass maps like Westfield, Sand River, Redshire  (assuming I've turned off malino+prokho) ventilation, rotation mech, rammer    

TeriyakiTanker: You have done something completely terribly and incompetently 21,617 times, you are one of the worst players this game has ever seen.  What exactly did you come here looking for?  Did you think anyone would find your comments intelligent or useful?  So really what are you trying to do?

Jaguarz: All I know for sure is if anyone kills or shoots me they must be cheating, theres just no other alternative.... and as others have said, for that level of win rate its all sub tier 4 padding, the very best of players can probably pull out 70% solo in just about any tier though

Jaguarz:  and for a long time it was an absolute beast, things change.

Jaguarz:  It seems that people, or at least some people, have been compensated twice. I received my compensation prior and again today from one purchase.

Jaguarz: Also have been compensated twice.