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Lert: Because the way it is now, it's fair. Now and ELC and a Maus can go through the same water, rather than it being tank dependant.

Lert: If you like a tank, keep it. If you don't, don't.   Depending on your skill and whether or not you have premium, you can start losing credits for bettles at tier 6 ~ 8. Only the absolute best players make money reliably at tier 9, and even they don't make enough to make that their sole source of income to fund a tier 10.   Besides, if you ever want to platoon with other players or take part in WG's many tournaments and events you're going to need a spread of tanks anyways.

Lert: They have been scout tanks since beta. In fact, MM has only narrowed down since beta.   As for the MM for a specific tank, look it up in the wiki.

Lert:   Mow a lawn.   This is not a game for people without patience, wanting instant-gratification now. This is a game for people willing to invest time and effort. That T29 will be there, don't worry, it's not going away.   Well, unless you drive it without understanding how the game works and it gets shot out from underneath your rear end again and again and again and you become desillusioned with how the game sucks etc.

Lert:   Listen to this man. He has more battles in that tank than you have total.

Lert:   Well, duh.     Nobody ever claimed or insinuated it would be a replacement for anything.   Tell you what, if you're on the floor with a heart attack I'll just tell 911 that there's no need to send a drone and that you'll just wait for the ambulance to get through traffic, ok?   This drone is just a way to get a defib with professional instruction over ASAP. Nothing more, nothing less.

The_Chieftain:   A damned good question. Which is why I brought it up given your statement:  

The_Chieftain:   I had presumed from the context that the 'single tank' in question was arty. Is this presumption incorrect? 

The_Chieftain:   Not quite the same, as only the only player who can score in American Football is the one and only person who is carrying the ball. Now, let's say instead that the snipers are given a restriction that they may only shoot the player who is carrying the ball at the time? Players whose sole skill is running with the ball, easily dodging around and over defenders, will probably take great exception to this wrinkle in the game. But who says you have to run with the ball? Suddenly the best football players become those who understand the passing game (as, for example, played in rugby). It does't make football impossible. It makes it different.   As for hiding because they don't want to get whacked, fortune favours the bold. Why should a -team- be blocked by a single vehicle? In a team game. (I expect I have, compared to the average, a very low survival rate)

dance210:   Is your team registered for the Bravo (weekend only) registration?

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KMaus: If you are experiencing and issue or bug, please check out the 9.4 Bug Report Thread here, and report your issue so that we can look into it further, with all applicable info we need. Thank you for your help!
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/399160-94-issues-and-reports/

KMaus: If you are experiencing and issue or bug, please check out the 9.4 Bug Report Thread here, and report your issue so that we can look into it further, with all applicable info we need. Thank you for your help!
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/399160-94-issues-and-reports/

The_Chieftain: You know, I haven't even thought to ask about Maus.

Content_WG: ¡Durante esta semana, residentes de Chile tendrán acceso a varios paquetes exclusivos en la Tienda Premium!
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Yoott: Good Luck to All Teams

Yoott: Good Luck to All Teams

Content_WG: ¡Durante esta semana, residentes de Uruguay tendrán acceso a varios paquetes exclusivos en la Tienda Premium!
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Yoott: Registration for Qualifier Number 2 for the WGLNA Gold League Season 5 is now open   This will be the last chance for teams to qualify directly into the Gold League   Get your team together and get signed up today and take a chance....   http://worldoftanks.com/uc/tournaments/985-WGLNA_Gold_League_Season_5_Qualifier_2/      

Yoott: Registration for Qualifier Number 2 for the WGLNA Gold League Season 5 is now open   This will be the last chance for teams to qualify directly into the Gold League   Get your team together and get signed up today and take a chance....   http://worldoftanks.com/uc/tournaments/985-WGLNA_Gold_League_Season_5_Qualifier_2/      

HBFT: Wargaming will be hosting a Player Gathering onboard the USS Lexington!   The Chieftain and The Warhawk will be traveling to the USS Lexington museum at Corpus Christi, Texas on November 22, 2014.  The USS Lexington has a long history with the US Navy, seeing action at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and ultimately continuing her service until 1991 as a training Aircraft Carrier. The event begins at 13:00 PST and the meeting point is in front of the museum.   Come see one of the great floating pieces of Naval and Aviation history! Additionally, the USS Lexington has a large number of historical aircraft from WW2 through the Cold War embarked!   Museum admission is as follows:
$13.95 USD for adults
$11.95 USD for seniors and military
$8.95 USD for children
Please RSVP on the forums.

Lert:   This. Crap + 10% is still crap, so maximize your strengths instead.

dance210: Tournament Page Registration for entire tournament Registration for bravo playoff (weekend) only Forum discussion .
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If you are  a player looking for a team, or a team looking for player(s), feel free to post here.
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It is encouraged to say what tank(s) you have or are looking for, to make it easier to find players and teams.   There are two separate registrations. State if you are interested in registering for the entire tournament (Group Stage + playoff) or only for the weekend (Bravo Playoff only).

The_Chieftain: Very useful for turretless TDs. Particularly T95.

The_Chieftain:   Arty are not practically invisible (Unless scout tanks have some equivalent such as the lack of ASDIC), and contrary to popular opinion, counter-battery is possible. (though, granted, less common at today's higher tiers because there aren't enough artillery pieces and the ones that are left have been nerfed so they shoot less frequently to spot). The closer WoWS analogy to artillery is the aircraft carrier.

The_Chieftain:   Why were you "Hiding behind a small hill"? For starters, if you're still being spotted in order for arty to aim on you, you suck at hiding. Secondly, 'hiding behind a hill' does not require 'staying stationary', if you had been. The same rules for survival in the open apply against indirect fire when also susceptible to direct fire also apply for survival in the open against indirect fire when not susceptible to direct fire. I don't care where I am, if I am stationary, get whacked by arty, even if it comes as an utter surprise to me in the belief that they didn't know I was there, my immediate reaction is to berate myself for overconfidence and being an easy target. Not to curse the arty guy who was doing his job, evidently effectively.   Secondly, you have no way to know the targeting prioritization of the attacking artillery. Perhaps it was hitting the highest XVM number. Perhaps it was an assessment that the E-100 didn't seem likely to go anywhere, and that the faster medium was actually a greater threat to the team in the event that he use his speed to get to a position of advantage. Perhaps the arty was already aimed in your general direction, and decided to take a less-likely crack at you instead of resetting his aim time to go for the E-100. Perhaps the E-100, slow though it may have been, was not staying stationary and you were. Perhaps you were less healthy, and the assessment was to take a gun out of play, instead of damaging the E-100. I've used all of those (Except XVM, as I don't use it) as factors in my targetting criteria, and probably others.   But if you want to believe that the only possible reason that artillery hit you was because the guy is using XVM, then go on ahead, and keep getting yourself blown up.

The_Chieftain:     I could not agree more. What wins games is concentration of fire. a solid mass of your vehicles meeting a scattering of the others is not going to fail unless absent aggressive spirit. Same with the Malinovka 2-minute-rush. So many 'knowledgeable' players will immediately discount the suggestion and ignore it that the rest of us who are willing to actually make a co-ordinated team crack end up with less of a chance of success.... thus any ensuing failure reinforces to the 'knowledgeable' that it doesn't work.   If you see a large proportion of your team heading for the valley, here's a thought. Go with them. Even if you disagree. A poor plan executed violently and enthusiastically has a better chance of success than a good plan executed half-heartedly. (That's given the belief that's it's a poor plan to begin with) Swallow your pride, go with the mass of your team, and use the advantage of concentrated force. It works more often than people who 'know better' think. Now, this isn't mindless. sometimes the opposition has enough in the valley that your concentrated force still won't win (in which case they don't have a hell of a lot in town either). Consider reversing direction and changing your line of attack to another corridor. But two or three TDs are not going to stop a good valley push, so have your cut-off level appropriate.

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Lert:   False. It used to be like that but it got changed in 9.3 (Only works with AP and APCR):     Ninja'd.

Lert: We all know about drones. Those who watch John Oliver's videos know how scary the very idea of drones can be.   But what when some student at the Technical University Delft takes the idea of a drone and puts a positive spin to it?     There are ofcourse the concerns about amateurs making diagnostics about heart-attacks and applying the pads for the defib, but still - I think this could be the basis for some amazing lifesaving tech right there.

Lert: Only premium tanks, in the gift shop. But you can't buy those with gold, only with money.

Lert: I don't have any on any of my 67 tanks. I just think it's a waste of 500k credits and a valuable equipment slot. There's almost always something more useful for better aiming, faster reload, more mobility, more vision, etc.

Lert: Then I have no idea. Sorry.

Lert: Do you have a custom model or skin installed for your 50120?

Lert: How this thread makes me feel     Well OP, you're very, very welcome.   It's threads like these that make all the work and effort worth it. So, thank you in return for your kind words, and keep up the good work!   Hope to see you on the field of battle.    

Lert:   Exactly. The first time is a 1 hour ban.  

Lert:   Well, should've watched your reticle better, then.   As for helping you - what can we-the-players do? Nothing. Take it up with support.

The_Chieftain:   And arty free games also result in defensive positions being much more secure since stationary vehicles in some form of cover (eg two hull-down T32s) are suddenly all but invulnerable, making people far more reluctant to be agressive along those lines. And, frankly, an arty can only engage one person every 30 seconds or so. If the -team- is being aggressive (as opposed to just one player), I suspect the team will be successful even with the presence of arty. After all, arty hates moving targets.

The_Chieftain: Isn't that simply another dimension to the decision-making process, however? "Yes, going here will help my team win the game more easily... but it also increases the chance I will get hit by arty. If I go -here-, I am somewhat less effective in the short term, but I am less likely to get damaged by arty, so I can affect the game for longer". And  so on, you have to conduct a continuous risk assessment. And, of course, the enemy team is subject to the same risk/benefit analysis problem given you will have an arty of your own to call upon. I would submit that the best players are the ones who can best balance all the risks, be it artillery, dashing between cover in view of suspected TDs, or whatever.

The_Chieftain:   Why on Earth would we believe that? The simplest premise of the game should be "If you are a better than average player, you should win more." Any other outcome will lead to arguments of rigging, a loss of confidence, and as a result, a loss of customers, finishing up with a loss of money. On the other hand, if we have a basic premis of "reward skill" (i.e. good players are more likely to win more), we should have better reputation, longer-playing customers, who are likely to give more money as a result.   

The_Chieftain:   Basically.

The_Chieftain:   Fair point. Though I still don't see a need to use the metaphor. I think it immediately undermines my willingness to take the user seriously.  

The_Chieftain:   I presume you're referring to the howitzers in vehicles like the KV-2? Perhaps because the class in the game is designed to not be able to do it, and instead have, compared to arties, fast aiming time, fast reload, in a vehicle with a modicum of armor and more than a handful of hitpoints?   Now, you can make an argument for the creation of a new class of gun/howitzer vehicles, with overall stats balanced to reflect its abilities to conduct effective fires in either direct or indirect mode, but until that happens, I think your argument's a bit of a red herring.

The_Chieftain:   Actually, this dichotomy (Hold position with little armor) was noted in one of the papers of the Tank Destroyer Board I came across recently. I haven't gotten around to doing a Hatch on it, yet.