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Elcs

Diamond Member
Apr 27, 2002
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Nice vid, Yoga. I love how the T-50 turns and can get up to speed fast. I run mine with gun rammer, Vents, and spall-liner. Someone on the official forums suggested a spall-liner would probably not be good since the T-50 is too small and light to ram arty but I disagree. I can now successfully ram even the big ones without blowing up. Arty splash doesn't hurt as much either. I find it worth it. Others may or may not agree. Personal preference thing I guess.

Just before I head off for dinner, this caught my eye.

Doesn't the Spall Liner slow down the acceleration and speed keeping of the T-50?

If you've ever had a Spall Liner on your Lowe and then taken it off, you'll know what I mean.
 

Fallen Kell

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Well, I couldn't take it anymore with my KV and bought the 154mm instead of saving up for the 102mm (I think those are the right sizes, basically the 2 guns that are under the turret upgrade). It was just plain taking forever when I would be lucky to get a kill with the stock gun. I think I was averaging ~100 research per match with the stock gun (maybe 220 with a win and 20 with a lose, and a lot more losses than wins since when I was the top tier, I still couldn't kill anything even 2 tiers below me). Boy am I glad I bought it since with it I have been averaging 400-500 a match, and pretty much made back the investment in no time.

Yes, it is a 1 shot wondergun. You need to use it right and work with other tanks because if you fire and miss/bounce/don't kill, or there is more than 1 tank coming at you, you are dead with that 35 sec reload time...
 
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PowerYoga

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Nov 6, 2001
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well that's the problem with the stock gun. If you had the 107 you probably wouldn't have that issue. The stock gun is craptacular on the KV. I can't imagine trying to grind through it without the 107 or the 152.
 

PowerYoga

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Nov 6, 2001
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Just before I head off for dinner, this caught my eye.

Doesn't the Spall Liner slow down the acceleration and speed keeping of the T-50?

If you've ever had a Spall Liner on your Lowe and then taken it off, you'll know what I mean.

I never thought spall liners would reduce your speed. Maybe I should take it off my Lowe and see if I can actually enjoy the tank... >_>
 

PlasmaBomb

Lifer
Nov 19, 2004
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Just before I head off for dinner, this caught my eye.

Doesn't the Spall Liner slow down the acceleration and speed keeping of the T-50?

If you've ever had a Spall Liner on your Lowe and then taken it off, you'll know what I mean.

Yes they weigh something like 500kg and affect performance proportionately... do they help with ramming? I didn't think they did but since I haven't been playing maybe I just have forgotten...

Now time for videos
 

Elcs

Diamond Member
Apr 27, 2002
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I never thought spall liners would reduce your speed. Maybe I should take it off my Lowe and see if I can actually enjoy the tank... >_>

Combat tonnage affects acceleration and the ability to keep speed (ie. turning or climbing a hill).

A Spall Liner for the Lowe is 1,000kg or 1 ton. It most certainly slows down the acceleration of the tank.

Look out for Horsepower per Ton. It's a useful tool
 

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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Well, I couldn't take it anymore with my KV and bought the 154mm instead of saving up for the 102mm (I think those are the right sizes, basically the 2 guns that are under the turret upgrade). It was just plain taking forever when I would be lucky to get a kill with the stock gun. I think I was averaging ~100 research per match with the stock gun (maybe 220 with a win and 20 with a lose, and a lot more losses than wins since when I was the top tier, I still couldn't kill anything even 2 tiers below me). Boy am I glad I bought it since with it I have been averaging 400-500 a match, and pretty much made back the investment in no time.

Yes, it is a 1 shot wondergun. You need to use it right and work with other tanks because if you fire and miss/bounce/don't kill, or there is more than 1 tank coming at you, you are dead with that 35 sec reload time...

I ground out the 107 with the 122mm by lobbing HE around the map, worked well.
 

pinkfloyd48

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Personally, I'm really not big on spending money on games like this (FTP with microtransactions). Not that I won't spend any money, but I try to limit my overall spending to roughly the same amount I'd pay for a regular (non-MMO) game of the same type/quality. I also tend to buy things that will improve my enjoyment of the game, or let me see some other aspect of gameplay, rather than spending money to grind less.

I will almost certainly be buying some gold in the future, but the only things I will be spending it on are garage slots and possibly premium tanks. Both are one-offs, so I don't need to continue paying to keep up a premium account, or keep stocked on gold ammo. Going from 75 to 100% really doesn't take long - I don't think it is worth the gold to skip such a short period of time. Demounting equipment is another possibility I suppose, but I don't think the cost/equipment makes such a huge difference that I'd be willing to give up a garage slot to do so 15 times (half-off garage slots comes around now and again, or so I'm told).
THE LAST TIME I SPENT MONEY WAS NEED FOR SPEED WORLD AND RIGHT AFTER I BOUGHT IT. iT WENT FREE
 

Skott

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Oct 4, 2005
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Not sure if the spall-liner slows my T50 down or how much if it does. I ran without it for a while before installing it. Cant say I noticed speed reduction. I'm guessing if it does its not by huge amounts. Damn thing is still zippy. I do know one thing for certain. Before I installed a spall-liner I would run into a even a small arty I would go boom. Not now. Only time I go boom now upon ramming a arty is if I'm already pretty heavily damaged. Ran into that Bus-like su-14 the other night in one fight and survived the ramming. Gun wasn't doing much damage against it but I was really pissing the guy off I bet my tank was humping him so hard. LOL Slammed into a GW panther in a fight recently too. Survived the ramming. Another tank killed me before I could do too much damage with gun.

Thing is... before the spall-liner I would never have survived these ramming big arties. I know because I tried it. I mean I do take damage when ramming but not like before where I would go from 100% to zero. When I slam into them I don't stop them or kill them but I sure do distract, slow them down and, confuse the hell out of them until team mates can shoot or bombard them. And that's all I'm really trying to do when I ram a big arty with the T-50. Much of the time I treat the T-50 just like I did when I ran the Leopard back in it's hey day.
 

Merad

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May 31, 2010
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Wish I hadn't extended my premium account time a week ago. I can see now that it'll be totally wasted, lol.
 

Nintendesert

Diamond Member
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I need 300k for my IS-3. Gonna save up more though I need to buy the BL-9. I'm going to use my free XP to get it!

Then onto the IS-4!

But yeah, Skyrim and B3 are taking some time away from it. It's still fun, I like to alt-tab and do paperwork between games hah. WOT is great for multitasking.
 

Visaoni

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But yeah, Skyrim and B3 are taking some time away from it. It's still fun, I like to alt-tab and do paperwork between games hah. WOT is great for multitasking.

I recently fired up Skyrim as well, despite my intentions to wait until I had more free time. My WoT time is going to suffer for a while because of it.

And you know what, I always tell myself I'm going to use WoT as a means of taking a quick video game break. Then one game turns into more.
 

Skott

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Oct 4, 2005
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I been thinking about getting Skyrim as well. I said I'd wait for patch and price reduction but I have a 4 day weekend coming up and I'm getting that 'itch' to try it. I won't give up WoT though. My play time might get cut back but I don't see giving it up. I love the WoT tank battles too much.
 

eLiu

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Jun 4, 2001
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ahahaha just got the first russian arty for fun. omg so hard to do anything w/this pos! ><

Anyway, was on campinovka and it came down to any arty duel. Me vs 2 bisons. Catch: i only have 1 round of ammo left!

So i scoot back to main base and hide. They send 1 guy to cap, 1 guy stays back at base. So I poke out and own the capping guy who's not even looking at me w/the last of the ammo.

Woot, draw! Camp camp camp your boat...

edit: I don't understand what is good about the M2 medium. Yeah sure if it's tiers 2-3, great you can one-shot people. But in 3-5 and even 3-4, the shitty armor (same as the previous tier!) means if you don't 1 shot, you're dead.

edit2: getting the hang of it now & enjoying the M2 more (tragically this didnt happen till elite haha). Different playstyle than what i've been learning w/german lights. Also the tank's depression angle is impressive! I can peek over hill crests and fire w/o hardly exposing anything.
 
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Skott

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Oct 4, 2005
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This on their web page...



Tankers! For a limited time, all World of Tanks players have access to a special bonus gold promotion for all credit card purchases.

Here's how it works:

Starting from 5:00PM PST, November 14th, until 5:00PM PST, November 21st, Gold purchases made with credit cards will receive 10&#37; bonus gold!

To take advantage of this offer, simply select the Credit Card payment option when purchasing in-game gold, and your game account will receive 10% additional gold as a bonus! You can learn more about the World of Tanks payment services here.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to receive extra gold and accelerate the upgrade of your tanks!







Edit: Had some fun in my Easy 8 and T-50 tonight. Mostly a good night. More wins then losses.
 
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Craig234

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May 1, 2006
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Starting from 5:00PM PST, November 14th, until 5:00PM PST, November 21st, Gold purchases made with credit cards will receive 10% bonus gold!

Translation: you people who didn't like the 30% for charity promotion, fine, here's 10% bonus for you.
 

Possessed Freak

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 1999
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Sometimes I think going back on my KV and equipping the 152mm gun could be fun.

It is great when you platoon with somebody in a tier 7 tank. I *love* derping big tanks. In my clan I now have a reputation of being the best derping kv driver (earned it when I derped the crap out of a type 59, t-29, and a panther 2 in one game). Yes I sometimes die after shooting once or twice, but most times I beat the snot out of upper tier tanks. It is all about surprising the hell out of the enemy tanks when they cross into the open!

I have a massive problem brewing... I have 4 million credits and I am 20k from the E50, 30k from the e75, and 30k from the GW Tiger. I am closing in on the object 261 (sort of), I have 130k free experience and 100k experience in the 212... but I *really* don't want to blow all of that free on the 261 (which is what my clan leaders want me to do).
 

PowerYoga

Diamond Member
Nov 6, 2001
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With all the credit card info getting stolen lately, not keen on giving them my cc info just now. I have enough gold to sit for another few weekends anyways... but these next few weekends will be for other games anyway.
 

Binky

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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With all the credit card info getting stolen lately, not keen on giving them my cc info just now. I have enough gold to sit for another few weekends anyways... but these next few weekends will be for other games anyway.
Use paypal?
 
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