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Jaguarz:  Replace the term detonate with "deform"

Jaguarz:  but would also send it rolling for a mile down the road...... I can see what the OP is saying though, you would need Hercules himself just manning the gearbox slotting it from drive to reverse back and forward

Jaguarz: Frontal armour layout is significantly different second picture is the M.   

Draschel:  It is very odd, in that EBRs are amongst the most complained over things ever introduced, and they still haven't been directly addressed and/or nerfed. And this point is as broken as --ck.  Indirectly through mechanics changes and equipment 2.0 maybe, but others are nerfed and buffed in that way as well. How long did people complain about the Maus meta? Object 268 V 4? What about Grille 15? How about the 1,400 damage Type 5 bowling ball launching tank? Or the yearly SPG nerfs? How long did 3/5/7 last? EBRs are constantly dodging the true nerfs they need in the game. The illegal auto-aim, as defined by what allowed auto aim includes, needs to go. The ridiculous right click left click gun stats need to go. The problems have existed for far too long.   

Jaguarz: zzz

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Jaguarz:    I mean thats cool and all but its an outlier and not indicative of the tanks relevance overall, I mean history is filled with such examples, Agincourt, the battle of Raseiniai and plenty more. A 10 to 1 kill ratio is awesome, unfortunately it doesnt count for much when the other side has a 30 to 1 numerical advantage....  Simple fact is the Tiger 1 & 2 were "bad" tanks in overall terms, they were over-engineered, mechanically fragile, too few in number and almost impossible to repair in the field so when they broke down, which was frequent, they had to set them on fire and abandon them which was a monstrous strategic loss for an idiotic reason whereas a Sherman or T-34 could be fixed with chewing gum and duct tape or abandoned with no loss of overall strength because they didnt carry the same value. A high school student could tell you (now) why interleaving wheels would be a bad design choice, though smooth, fast, would support huge weight AND helped stabilized the gun, they are massively labour intensive and froze together on the eastern front as snow would pack between them. Preventative maintenance was virtually impossible too, torsion bar breakage would be a cascading failure due to the time it would take to take off the interleaving wheels so most of the time they ignored it, which stressed the other bars then more would pop which further stressed. In terms of history its fascinating but the german design and engineering premise at the time has been proven to be a fatal flaw against the mass produced garbage of the US and the USSR in basic terms of supply lines, repairs and volume. Still hindsight is 20/20 and this was all cutting edge and unknown territory at the time so you can forgive design errors unlike forgiving the French for ignoring their own reconnaissance at the Ardennes where almost the entire Germany armour could have been bombed to oblivion. So it seems Tigers should either be camping base as per the video or burning at the side of the road......

churchill50: Quite an interesting post. Very well thought out.

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys! Minimap (before/after)Main changes and their goals:1. The border of the map has been shifted and passages to the housing blocks next to the square are now open.Goal: To provide a convenient area for heavily armored vehicles and close-range combat.2. The river has been drained, the embankment has been slightly reworked, and ford crossings (from bank to bank) have been added. Tree foliage has been removed (the map setting has been changed from summer to autumn).Goal: To allow vehicles to move between lanes quicker and safer while simplifying map navigation.3. Hills next to the avenue have been added and the fence has been removed.Goal: To make this area more playable/interesting for maneuverable vehicles while simplifying aiming/shooting across the avenue.4. This area has been significantly reworked: a subway construction site has been added, the terrain has been changed, the circus building has been shifted, and the far-end passage next to the map border has been closed.Goal: To move the clash area for medium tanks closer to the map center (move the clash area away from the courtyards in the left urban area) while providing a connection between this lane and the rest of the map (the avenue and TD positions in the park).Additional (minor) changesIn some places on the map, some bushes/trees have been moved (mainly to clear the view between the main points of interest). Small points of cover near the bases have been added (goal: to slightly simplify base capture). The shifted map border provides an additional passage behind the buildings in the lower part of the map. The passage was left open because, in general, its influence is insignificant, although in some cases, it can be used for different purposes.More screenshots  

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MA77: Saudações, O mapa Minsk entra mais uma vez no Superteste para testarmos novas hipóteses de alterações em seu conceito e melhorar a jogabilidade de todos os veículos.  Principais mudanças e seus objetivos: 1. A borda do mapa foi deslocada e as passagens para os blocos de prédios ao lado agora estão abertas. Objetivo: fornecer uma área conveniente para veículos fortemente blindados e combate de curta distância. Antes | Depois 2. O rio foi drenado, a barragem foi ligeiramente refeita e foram adicionadas travessias (de margem a margem). A folhagem das árvores foi removida (a configuração do mapa foi alterada do verão para o outono). Objetivo: permitir que os veículos se movam entre as vias de forma mais rápida e segura, ao mesmo tempo que simplifica a navegação no mapa. Antes | Depois 3. Colinas próximas à avenida foram adicionadas e a cerca removida. Objetivo: tornar esta área mais interessante para veículos manobráveis e tornar os disparos na avenida mais simples. Antes | Depois 4. Esta área foi significativamente retrabalhada: um canteiro de obras do metrô foi adicionado, o terreno foi alterado, o prédio do circo foi alterado e a passagem da extremidade próxima à borda do mapa foi fechada. Objetivo: mover a área de confronto para tanques médios mais perto do centro do mapa, enquanto fornece uma conexão entre esta avenida e o resto do mapa. Antes | Depois Alterações Menores: Em alguns lugares no mapa, alguns arbustos e árvores foram movidos (principalmente para limpar a visão entre os principais pontos de interesse). Foram adicionados pequenos pontos de cobertura perto das bases (objetivo: simplificar um pouco a captura da base). A borda do mapa deslocada fornece uma passagem adicional atrás dos edifícios na parte inferior do mapa. A passagem permaneceu aberta porque, em geral, sua influência é insignificante, embora em alguns casos, possa ser usada para diferentes fins. Antes | Depois Não se esqueça de deixar o seu feedback sobre essas alterações aqui em nosso tópico. Grande abraço e boa sorte no campo de batalha! 

TeriyakiTanker:
Some of those were at least prototypes but I might need to do some research to figure out which tanks were what.

Draschel: i would say it is the worst tier IX premium tank. K91T is better than it. That Chinese server only WZ120FG looks real bad too Most of the tier IX premiums are relatively strong. So while one or the other, may be relatively weaker than the next - it is safe to say that they would still be stronger than quite bad tanks in tier like Mauschen, Type 4, WZ120, Bat Chat 25. Etc.  Again, it would be wise to consider that good players can still make flexible and mobile tanks work quite well, and make them ''seem'' good. Streamers show us this all the time. Who ever said something like AMX CDC or FCM50 can be driven very well? Some people do it and do it publicly too, doesn't make the tank or tanks nice choices. 

churchill50:  Some good tier 10s would be:Heavies: T110E5, S Conq, 60TP, E100, Obj 277, IS-4 is decent, IS-7 is decent, WZ-111 5AMediums: M48 is still decent, UDES 15/16 is decent, Leopard I is god-tier but difficult to play, E50M is decent, Obj 430U is still decent, Obj 140 is good but more difficult to play, STB-1 is god-tier but difficult to playTD's: Meh overall. T110E4 is the best of the lot in my opinion. The current CW meta would be:Heavies: Chieftain, Obj 277, Obj 279(e), E100 (50B and Obj 260 are situational)Mediums: Obj 907, CS-63 (Leopard I, STB-1, Bat Chat, TVP are situational)TD's: Strv and T110E3 are situational. The rest really aren't used.Lights: EBR 105Arty: Conq GC. Some others are situational. At tier 9, there are tons of good/viable options.At tier 8, most tech tree tanks aren't worth too much anymore, as they've been powercrept by prems. The exceptions would be: T32 is decent after the buffs, Caernarvon is still crazy, UDES 14 Alt 5, T-44, IS-3, 53TP, Tiger II.

churchill50: I've noticed this as well, several times lately. It is incredibly frustrating.I don't understand why it would happen either. I have thousands of consumables in the depot, and plenty of credits to resupply them if they're not in the depot.Your theory about them being tanks that have sat idle since Equipment 2.0 would explain the instances where it's happened to me.  I don't understand why that option should ever not be on. 

TeriyakiTanker:
Makes me wonder what percentage of tanks in the game were produced in any physical manner, including prototypes.  Haven’t the last two years been almost nothing but blueprint tanks?

churchill50: There are a couple of different things here:First, tier 10 is kind of its own ball game. Even if you perform well up to tier 9, it can be difficult to perform consistently in tier 10.The AMX 30B and T110E4 are much weaker tier for tier than their tier 9 counterparts.The AMX 30B, M60, and AMX 50B are definitely not the easiest tanks to play. It's difficult to cover the playstyle of those tanks through text, so I would suggest watching some Youtubers or streamers who play them. I generally suggest Taugrim, iyouxin, skill4ltu, or Lemmingrush for learning. The T110E4 is an interesting one, so here go a few tips for playing it. T110E4 plays like a heavy, but a very very supportive heavy. It can't play by itself very well (unless it's top tier). Let your other heavies take the shots for you, then pull out to shoot. You have to play much more conservatively than in a true heavy, since the E4 doesn't have the armor or hitpoints to tank like true heavies can.Try to stay at mid-range. At close range your lack of a full turret, lowish DPM, and general vulnerability can be used against you. At long range your gun doesn't work very well.One thing I did when I ground out the E4 3-mark recently, was to raise my gun after shooting to hide my cupola. The cupola is only one of your weakspots (mantlet, turret cheeks, and lower plate are all weak). But, by raising your gun to hide your cupola, I found a lot of enemies would ignore the other weakspots and try to hit the cupola, which was now a difficult shot because your gun is in the way. I might just have been getting lucky with this, but it seemed to work pretty well for me. The IS-7 is decent still. The turret is really good, hull is trollish, mobility is decent. The gun kind of falls short, but still has good alpha.Generally, comparing the IS-7 and the Obj 277, the IS-7 is considered more forgiving and the Obj 277 is the stronger tank in experienced hands.Both the E100 and IS-7 do need some gold. 246/250 AP pen just doesn't cut it against a lot of armored targets at tier 10 these days.

churchill50: If you wanted to post some replays OP, I would be happy to look them over and give you some tips and advice.As Insanefriend said though, without that I can only give general advice which is of limited use. Generally 3-5 replays from the same session in a tank you feel pretty comfortable in are best. Don't cherry pick either good or bad games. And the higher the tier of the tank, generally the better.

Jaguarz:  Well the King Tiger was never a successful tank anyway, overly complex, virtually impossible to field service and broke down all the time so they are pretty much on the money.

Einzelganger7:
 

TragicLoss: This is Twitch's programming. We can't change this.

Jaguarz:  Smaller pool for the at least +1 requirement though as you only get to do against t10s while the E75 TS has mass and speed and can see 9s and 10s expanding its potential, imo of course.

TeriyakiTanker:
It’s funny that you bring it up as I was looking at it yesterday and thinking how stupid it was for them to have the % in the graphic.  It’s not a percent off at all just a straight 1000 or 1500 reduction in bond price.

Jaguarz: Its almost the same as the VK 45 03, its worth about 4k bonds max, instead they priced it more than the t10 fv215b

churchill50:  As I said in the other thread:The wiki uses Premium as a blanket term for all Premium/Reward/Special/Gift tanks.If you look in game (by clicking the Research button while the Char is selected to see the benefits it gives you), you'll see it does not make extra credits. However, due to the free repair kit and the high pen standard rounds (meaning you don't have to fire much gold), it's a pretty good tank for credits at tier 9.

Draschel:  Probably like AMX30 Proto. Worse than PTA, tit-for-tat with AMX. But the siege mode flaws are outrageous. Speed cap, dispersion hit, AND  DPM? Too much.Either give this thing non siege mode dispersion stats, that remain the siege mode dispersion too  -  or provide slightly higher speed cap. Or keep the DPM in non siege, and reduce speed more Skill4ltu actually says 777 is powerful in it's own place, but prefers the char and Phase over it. Again, skill also says the K91PT is alright too. I'd say a good buff to start kunze out with, is side armor increase to 40mm. A good step in the right direction, would be to start ricocheting >70' angled 100-120mm bore shells.   I do not know about you guys....but what has me most curious here is,  who are these seven unicum unicorns, that he is going off about. So where exactly does he get and reinforce all these misdirection he seems to have no problem spreading. And I am not here to attack one's character, no it is about a healthier population. I don't want people, losing wisdom listening to nonsense when they should otherwise be gaining sense by listening to someone with sense.   

Draschel:  You aren't required to watch popular streamers, no one forces you to. But you shouldn't be so insulting to those that do, which seem to be here in no short supply. Ignorance is bliss? You care to explain? Since you think you have all the answers. https://ibb.co/86hLYNz Don't worry, it isn't me. I'm not that, nor do I pretend to be, that good. In fact, you can see for yourself, he has led NA server in GW Panther last two months. Go checkCan you please explain to me, why his tanks, massively sport more contribution per game? Why is it, on average his artillery unit, is taking longer to 3 mark than tanks?Are you going to insult him too? In that he doesn't know how to play? Arguing over the internet is easy. Anyone can say anything. But fact is quite different from fiction You do not have a clue. And you can huff and puff and blow your ears out, it won't help your case. Artillery is very easy to play, hence the server population doing reasonably well in them, raising the average bar higher than expected for 3-mark requirements server-wide. But these SPGs, likewise are very difficult, extremely, to do exceptionally well in. To set yourself apart from the rest, and be above that top 95%, so you need more games. The decrease in reliability, requires more games. But if everyone is doing well, but  very very very very very few are doing excellent, the damage required still is lower than that of tanks. Whereas in tanks, many people do badly unlike arta, but likewise many others do great in, unlike arta, so it balances and actually exceeds what is seen in SPGs. I bet you never took a stats class, despite your name, ironic.  His play, is just steadily acquiring that high damage in tanks, very regularly, not really subject to reliability issues, because tanks are inherently more reliable.  This is where you struggle. And it isn't an insult, you just lack the fundamentals required to see it.      

Jaguarz:  t9s and t10s meds, lights and even some heavies (swedes) are vulnerable to a E75ts ram

Draschel:  To the outside of the tank. Not the inside. So make SPGs do 500, 1000, 1800 you name it. But the HE forumla, the basis of non penetration, reduce it from 0.50 currently, to  0.05. Make penetration 10mm, maximum.SPGs should be entirely, 1 hit kills. Because they have no armor, and aren't made to sustain damage. With base 2.00 max camo value.    

Einzelganger7: If you want to know about tanks' weakspots, I recommend you Raging Raptor. He makes videos that show where to shoot at some troublesome tanks with powerful/troll armor, here is a playlist. https://www.youtube....WShgz3awSubLejZ

Also even if you didn't asked for this kind of tip, I recommend this video. It shows an overview of the recently added features to the game so you would have your game configured in the most optimal way and also to understand said features.

TragicLoss: No worries, understandable.

It did attract viewers, but not in a significant amount. I discussed this more in-depth with people on the discord.

Einzelganger7: Boom store? Is that a local joke or something? Because is the first time I've seen bonds named as boom. lol

churchill50:  

churchill50:  The wiki uses Premium as a blanket term for all Premium/Reward/Special/Gift tanks.If you look in game (by clicking the Research button while the Char is selected), you'll see it does not make extra credits. However, due to the free repair kit and the high pen standard rounds (meaning you don't have to fire much gold), it's a pretty good tank for credits at tier 9.

Jaguarz: Im hoping crew 2.0 was it

Jaguarz: yes

churchill50: Yes, you can put any French medium tank crew into the Char Futur without penalty. One thing though, the Char Futur is not a Premium. It is a Reward/Special tank. This means it gets the crew training benefits, but does not make extra credits.

Jaguarz: E-75 TS, big, heavy and most importantly FAST

churchill50:  Wait, this game prides itself on realism?Today I learned...