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demonxshinigami, on Mar 03 2021 - 12:11, said: Why I play World of Tank? When I was a baby I was abandoned in China. It was fate for an elderly lady to save me and I was adopted into a loving family in the US. Fast forward to 2013, I discovered World of Tanks. It became my favorite game. I would play until my eyes couldn't stay open. I continued playing because of the connections I made as well as my fascination for the machinery of tanks. World of Tanks is a special game to me and I continue to play it because of how it creates many new friendships and experiences. I do Taekwondo and World of Tanks uses the same coordination and teamwork that I use in my everyday training.       What it means to me? With my life experiences and interest in tanks, World of Tanks is special to me. I am able to drive tanks, many being relics from WWII that I have never witnessed in person yet. World of Tanks is my getaway and where I have fun times with my clanmates and get to know them as a person. I wouldn't be able to meet a large variety of people without World of Tanks as well as have so much fun with the game with all the tanks and game modes provided. World of Tanks also helped me get out of my comfort zone. I started streaming with Tanks and still stream Tanks because in the end of the day it is my main game that I enjoy and play.


DrucilaB, on Mar 03 2021 - 12:26, said: In late November I found myself with pandemic fatigue, frustrated over isolation and constantly annoyed. The final straw came when plans to spend time with a close friend in the military were canceled. I needed a change. That change came in the form of World of Tanks. I had watched my friend play for years, but was overwhelmed with the minutia. However, I decided if I wanted to spend more time with him, I needed to learn the game he loves.    When I told him I wanted to learn he patiently took me under his tutelage. The first lesson was to think of the game like a MOBA, I was a competitive MOBA player, suddenly it clicked! He spent the next few weeks answering my every question while I ground out my referral contract. Never losing his patience or blaming me for mistakes. It helped our communication and I was getting the one thing I needed, to spend more time with someone I care about. Little did I know, that decision to play World of Tanks would be such a positive force.   By Christmas, I was introduced to the twitch tanking community. I was immediately embraced and found myself platooning in front of hundreds of viewers shortly there after. Chat enjoyed trolling my terrible play but also started taking time to teach me how to do things right and become a better player. I couldn’t believe how welcoming and patient everyone was! I was then asked to join Cheers Bro [CBRO] and started to make some amazing friends.    Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I was comfortable just being myself on stream again. I had found people with the same morbid sense of humor, ball busting attitude and general outlook on life as I have. I was laughing again, and I wanted to stream again. All of that could have never happened without World of Tanks.   Now I stream it 3 times a week on Twitch and have recruited a handful of friends to the game as well. Plus between my clan and the twitch community I am always surrounded by some pretty kick ars people. Now if I could only get good at the game...    ...oh and the tank does in fact go pew pew!   http://prntscr.com/10caymp   


KavKouhai, on Mar 03 2021 - 14:32, said: OK MissD and Branis!   So here's my story so far....It's all my kids' fault! Scroll back to 2014.  At that time my only use for pcs was work.  The idea of using them for play was like "you gotta be kidding me."  My kids were gamers and their game of choice at the time was World of Tanks, they were both in clans, doing clan wars and all that stuff, on teamspeak with online buddies.  Me - homeschooling mum - invoking the typical parental "you should be outside and not parked in front of a pc all day playing."  You gotta add the whiny voice to get the full effect, ok?  So...my kids called me on it.  As in how can you criticize if you know nothing about it.  Pause.  I'd been teaching them to be independent thinkers and was now getting caught in my own trap.  So I did what any other self-respecting homeschooling mum would do - over Christmas I secretly downloaded the game with brief pauses when I heard screams from the peanut gallery saying they were lagging out and was I downloading a movie or something.  Thank you wargaming for making it possible for a total noob to at least figure out what "wasd" meant. Lol. WoT was my first game.  Didn't have A CLUE!  After a couple of weeks I had to come out of the closet and ask the kids for help. They did.  They introduced me to my first clan (run by another female tanker, Femm) and got me going.  Since then I've been in several clans, had all sorts of positions, learnt a lot along the way and met  some amazing people.  My stats are crap - still struggling from the "run through the tank list, die and pick another" strategy that I started off with.  Trust me - it doesn't work!  We've gone from "dinner's ready, get down here" to "sorry, you'll have to scavenge your own dinner, I'm doing clan wars." The kids have had YEARS of mileage out of this. WoT is still my go-to.  Yeah, I'm hooked.  But I've added forays into other games like Borderlands, Minecraft, Genshin Impact.  I help run a discord server and minecraft server.  I stream average gameplay on facebook and am constantly amazed that people watch!  You'll find me at fb.gg/kavkouhai  I'd love to be a light tank player - those little buzz bombs are the bane of my tanking life - but I'm smart enough to realize that my hand-eye coordination isn't fast enough any more unless I figure out how to reset a few decades in rl.  You'll find me lurking in the backfield with my trusty td or brawling with you face to face in my heavy.   So what does World of Tanks mean to me - it's expanded my horizons, introduced me to amazing people that I communicate with on ts or discord, given me a common language with gamers (I still get a quiet chuckle when I talk to someone's teenagers and see their jaws drop with an "omg, she's a gamer, she understands!&quot, and I'm still learning.          


reeeses, on Mar 03 2021 - 15:25, said: In early 2014 I watched my dad play the game frequently, and as someone who had never played video games before it really intrigued me. He helped me make an account and tried to teach me how to play but I still failed miserably at the game (I was only 12, but even for a 12 year old I was hilariously bad). That didn't stop me from having fun though, although I'm sure that my teams at the time probably wanted to TK me for crashing into them and everything else in my path and dealing maybe one shot of damage per battle. World of Tanks introduced me to the gaming world, and since starting I have played so many different games that I can easily say that gaming is one of my biggest hobbies and passions in life. Over the years I've been steadily improving at the game, and while my thousands of battles of being a trigger-happy 12 year old who stuck to artillery because I couldn't really drive still drag down my stats to this day, I think I really grew as a player. I now prefer TDs, can actually drive the tank without crashing into anything, and actually make a positive impact on the game with my damage dealt. I still can't play light tanks for the life of me though, ha ha.  While my wallet isn't thankful to World of Tanks, I definitely am. It introduced me to gaming, and most importantly to me, it brought me closer with my dad. We've been playing it together for 7 years now (I still find that number hard to believe) and I cherish every single battle that I get to spend with him.


Felnora, on Mar 03 2021 - 17:59, said: I started playing about 6 years ago now, and admittedly it was because I'd seen Girls und Panzer, and wanted to roll around in a tank and blow some stuff up.  My cousin and I started together and got through the tier 7 Japanese tanks, because 'Duck Team' Type 89 ;p  Eventually my brother started playing too, he's a WW2 buff, and was all about some German tanks, so I started over with the American lineup to roll with him.

And now, it's mostly about staying connected with my family members who also game with some war game or another.  You can only play so many MMO's, ya know.  We try to aim for what I like to call the "Soft Meat" of the enemy tanks, while chit chatting about family stuff, movies, etc.  Lately we have a Tiger II, O-Ho, and my T32 in a Platoon.  Not the most effective platoon, but it's ours.   I look forward to the nights where we have that super awesome match where we are not the '8's in a 10', and can rack up some real XP and medals... but still have a good laugh when my brother yells out "How did that bounce, it was all green?!?", and I say back something along the lines of, "Well what's your dispersion at? What equipment are you using? How's that crew training coming along?"

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.  It's all good fun.


Ravyen, on Mar 03 2021 - 19:32, said: Back in 2012, my husband and a co-worker, worked the grave shift. When they got off work in the morning, they'd spend a few hours online playing World of Tanks, platooning up together for some battles before my husband would crash to sleep. About halfway into the year, his co-worker moved to Florida.
Then my husband began asking me to come try out this game with him. "Hey hon, give it a try, you might like it." My reply was always, "Really? Blowing up tanks, I don't think so." It just wasn't my cup of tea.
Finally, I gave into his request and said I'd 'give it a try', just a few battles. Little did I know all the detail one had to do to play a few battles. Creating an account, setting up your crew and tanks, was a bit of an investment in one's time. The first few battles left me unimpressed. I was the fool rushing into the battle, 'pew, pew', only to get blown up in the first 30 seconds. My husband shrugged, headed to bed, and I continued on battling. I didn't get this game. But then around 10 battles in, I spotted a player with this name that really stood out. DefendYourBase. With a name like that and because he'd just carried the entire team and won us a battle, I PM'd him after the battle and asked if I could platoon up with him and learn some things. Sure enough, I listened to his advice, and won more battles. I ceased with the YOLOing as well.
Needless to say, 9 years later, I'm still here playing World of Tanks. Am I addicted?? Eyes her 54,382 battles. Naaaah. I've made some good friends, learned from a few élite players, yep joined some clans and have had a lot of fun with this game. Best of all, my win rate is better than my husbands. *wink* My own personal interest in the game is running light tanks and playing artillery.
So yeah, I'm still here 'giving it a try'! It's a good stress relief when I need it, it challenges me and quite simply put; and probably the most surprising of all, I'm 61, and I like the game.


Celtic_Lady, on Mar 04 2021 - 07:37, said: I have always been a big gamer of MORPG games and one day my husband was playing WOT and he wanted me to watch. He kept asking me to play with him and since I liked the graphics of the game. I figured why not give it a try. I did not realize how much fun I would have smashing, crashing and blowing tanks up. I also like the fact that you can customize your tanks to what you want them to look like. It gives it your on personal style. Anyways now my husband and I are spending more time together as we play every day. He teases me because I have only been playing for about 4 months and he has played for 3 years and I am beating his scores. Love it and can't get enough of it.


Lixue, on Mar 02 2021 - 18:43, said: Conocí el juego hace poco más de 4 años por medio de un amigo que me insistió en unirme. Al comienzo fue difícil saber con cuál tanque me sentía mas cómoda, tampoco sabía las mecánicas del juego y su estrategia, y ni mucho menos de la variedad de tanques y su blindaje distintivo. Básicamente fue un caos, termine con la tan odiada artillería. Mi amigo dejó de jugar, y yo fui perdiendo el entusiasmo, ya que prefiero jugar en pelotón, así que poco tiempo después abandone el juego por unos meses. Y así seguí, regresando y abandonando otra vez. Ahora me encuentro más activa y sigo jugando porque me uní a un clan. Al menos, después de tanto, logré cumplir mi deseo y conseguí la Jagdpanzer E100. Me gustaría que el juego tuviera más estilos con colores como el rosa, salmón, lila, etc. Sí, me van a decir que esos colores no se usan en tanques en la vida real, pero tenemos estilos con pandas, arboles, renos, flores, moñas, etc.