Must be nice to play with lowbie tier vehicles. While in my tier 2 arty I was getting tossed into games with up to half the players in IS/Tiger/panther/jagpanzer tier vehicles. Would get a solid arty lock and start dropping shells as fast as I could load to only see 10% or so of armor lost with each shot.
Spent some time in the bison last night to make money. Had a dozen or so games in a row that my team rocked and pulled in over 5.5k each with around 4.2k going into the bank each round after repair/rearm.
Ok, another round of questions about crew training. My SPG crew is currently about 70% trained. My next SPG will probably be a wespe. If I spend the 20k per crew when I get the vehicle and it's green crew I can have them at 75%.
If I were to shift the SPG crew from the bison to the wespe, aren't I going to need to spend the same 20k to get to 75%? And if so, could someone remind me of the supposed advantage of keeping a crew.
PlasmaBomb, The Boston Wrangler (Peter_Gunn) and myself had an awesome time taking our Tier 2 vehicles around in about 15 or so games. Never faced anything above a Tier 3 and out coordinated force of 2 T-26's and 1 PzII wreaked havoc around the map.
Regards to Crew... It doesn't really matter too much about transferring until Tier 5 in my opinion but with Artillery, I'd earn the cash before stepping up and transfer. There is potentially an increase in leveling up crew proficiency speed if this is done. Once your crew hit 100%, a 20k re-train to a similar type tank would give you (Light->Light, Medium-> Medium etc) would give you a 90% crew member for your new tank.
Secondary skills which Crew start to learn after 100% proficiency are extremely good and will work straight away even if your new crewman is operating at 90%. It won't continue to level up until your crew hits 100% again, however. Once your crew starts learning secondary skills, you WILL want to keep them desperately
My T-46 is fully decked out and an AT-1 killed me in one shot. OUCH, I didn't think that could happen.
Got 5 kills in a game yesterday, slaughtering MS1's and T-26 tanks in my T-46. Fun game to play. I cycle between 3, now 4, different tanks.
Tank Destroyers, when played well with a semi-coordinated team, are effing lethal. The mere sight of a Ferdinand or a JagdTiger makes my bottom clench and I'm already looking for that hit of cover that saves me from an insta-kill, an insta-tracking or a good rollicking.
I didn't think an AT-1 could 1 shot a T-46 with all upgrades without blowing out your ammo rack (which will blow up any tank instantly)
Sometimes whilst playing World of Tanks it reminds me of Company of Heroes when you'd take a lighter British or American tank and run it around the German Tank Destroyer of evil.