International Women's Day - Share your story here!

Branistale, on Mar 01 2021 - 13:23, said: Here my Story... 2015 and I was persuaded to try the game. It was awful. Barely in the game and already dead. Absolutely frustrating, but still fun !!!
So I played and paused and played again until I was banned for a few days. I destroyed a tank from my own team. And that at Christmas-Time. For private reasons I even took a break for a few months and then in 2016, from then on I got addicted. For me a very emotional game, as you can sometimes see in my stream.  
Clan members and friends kept trying to convince me to stream while I was playing, they found my emotional outbursts in three different languages very funny, they managed to do that at some point.
My statistics are improving at a snail's pace, but I've always been a happy strawberry, not a tomato. 
My dream !!!to visit the Tankfest in Bovington and one day to drive a real tank !!!
I LOVE THE GAME!


Katee, on Mar 01 2021 - 18:56, said: I started tanks back in 2013. A friend I used to play with on another game introduced me to tanks. It started with memeing around in pz 1c's in a platoon together and then being addicted to tier 6 strongholds (like over 9k battles in them addicted) and has further progressed into my love for playing tanks. It's a game became addicted to and became pretty good at (except driving. I still drive off of cliffs and flip myself a lot).   I have been in many different clans because I do love meeting new people and I have continued to grow drastically as a WoT player. I believe I have competed in almost all the campaigns throughout the years (maybe missed a few) and have collected almost all the reward tanks including the chieftain (tier 8 and 10), carro, 907, 121b, m60, kv4k, and others. I have not yet gotten the tier VK 72 because I am not much of a slow, heavy player, so that one can wait.   I do love playing tier 10's, especially my 50b and on my twitch stream, marking the 50b has become a challenge and something to laugh about. I still believe I can get it... eventually...   From being a full time student, working two jobs, and streaming when I had time, I finally graduated back in 2020, now work one job, and have been able to play more and start growing my stream drastically. 


FierceBombshell, on Mar 01 2021 - 23:05, said: I built my own rig and got my own account in 2013 after the guy I WAS dating claimed I was using his computer too much. Should have seen that as a red flag. (Poking fun.) I have made many friends on this game and I am happy to have met them. I've learned a lot from the people I have spoken to and am grateful for it. As to why I keep playing it? For the sake of memories and to catch up with old friends. It's about the people you play with.    


Seramine, on Mar 02 2021 - 01:15, said: Well, my husband and I met while playing an online game and all of our friends and social events come from boardgames groups, so we are a gaming family from day 1.   But I didn't really do video games (they make me kinda motion sick). When we were first married he played Battlefield a lot and used to tell me one of his dreams was that I would fly a helicopter and he could run the gun. I wished I could stand to play a game like he liked so we could do that together. He started playing tanks and I would watch him sometimes. I learned how to tell the score and what was going on so I could see if he was interruptible at any given moment. It didn't bother me to watch as much as other 3D games. We had a second gaming rig, so I tried playing in secret to surprise him, but actually I couldn't get past boot camp I was so bad! I set the game aside.    Then COVID came, and I quickly bored of Netflix and I decided to try again. He encouraged me to try actual rounds instead of being stuck on boot camp. His clan were all welcoming and played low tiers and gave me helpful  pointers ("Don't drive in front of the opponent's gun!" ). I practiced a lot, even when he wasn't playing to try to become an asset rather than a liability when we played together. I would use the kill cam to learn good positions for next time.   Well, from there it's the usual hook. I'm now just as likely as he is to be the last one to turn in for the night because I was working on one last mission. I'm always talking to him about my plans for my russian heavy crews and what order I'd worked out so that my extra radio man would end up in the KV-2 or which tank to pick from the steel hunter rewards.   We have side-by-side battle stations now. Its not quite the same as the helicopter dream, but I like light tanks and forward mediums and he likes TDs, so it's pretty close!