[MMO] World of Tanks

[datalink7]

Not too bad for me so far. 62% win rate on 64 games. Maybe play higher tiers ought to help. I've been playin RU 251, "Awful Panther", T-34 and JgTig 8.8cm, E100 and IS7. Trying to get better at the latter two.

Nice! That's a really good win rate over a lot of games.

I had 64 percent win rate today, but only 14 games. I'm still chasing my mastery badge in my RU-251. I have a done of 1st classes in it now, but still no Ace . My average WN8 in the machine over 141 games is 3k, so I'm doing well in it, just not quite good enough in a lot of games.

 

[stag3]

weekend out in full force for me, currently 3/22 today lol
keep getting tossed into 30-40% win chance games with unicum/blunicum platoons on the other side

 

[microAmp]

Yeah, I'm not having much luck tonight either when it came to playing my artillery. 2 of 8.

Rest of my other tanks with the above, 46.7% on 30 games so far. :/ Though the switch to East server has helped.

 

[datalink7]

weekend out in full force for me, currently 3/22 today lol
keep getting tossed into 30-40% win chance games with unicum/blunicum platoons on the other side

Wow that sucks. I keep getting the other side of the equation for some reason. Usually I'm on your side. But I followed up my 64% with a 76% win day.

3/22 is terribad.

 

[stag3]

yea man even switching between west/east servers to try to break it up, no dice.
i clawed my way back up to 40% w/r for the day but shit, it's rough

 

[Skott]

This week for me hasn't been too bad. Last night was best yet. I been platooning with friends, about 6 of us altogether, for a little while now. My friends have tanks Tier 8 and above now so we have a good selection to work with. I still play alone but my play time has severely shrank since coming onto day shift where I work. Before I would play on the PC about 8 hours a day. Now its two or three and its in the evenings with the exception of my two days off each week. I have to fit family time in there though.

Recently I started on the line to the Walker Bulldog. Grinded the M5 Stuart and I got the Chaffee researched but I'm thinking of just free xp past the Chaffee and start on the T37. Then just grind normally from there. I'm hearing two stories about the current Chaffee. Its still good to the point of being just okay average to being out right horrible and people are saying bypass it if you can. I don't see Chaffees much now. I'm thinking there is a lot of bad feelings of how badly WG nerfed it. /chuckle

 

[datalink7]

I haven't done the Chaffee line yet. I have heard that skipping the new Chaffee is a good idea. That t he T37 is the new Chaffee (i.e. good) and that starting there is a good idea.

 

[microAmp]

Once the new line of light tanks opened up on the American side, I started on it. I'm not too impressed with the T37; perhaps I'm use to the Aufk. Panther and Ru 251 penetrations on their guns. Though the T37 is just barely lower than the Aufk's.

Perhaps it's the big old turret on that thing that bothers me.

Side note, x5 on a good game, nice to see 8.1k XP earned (1091 base) , too bad it's on my Ru 251.

 

[Binky]

38% win rate over 37 battles in the last 2 days, then a tier 10 battle in a tiger II for 9,960xp with ace tanker.

I out-damaged every tier 10 tank in the game by 25% or more.

 

[microAmp]

LOL, T95 tank. With 15% off, had to get it.

1st game in it, anyone who sees you, backs off. It's already has top equipment in it, thanks to T28 and T30 grinds earlier. I did have to free XP the tracks to load up the gun, engine, and equipment.

Onto the 2nd game... Arctic Region and only 1 enemy went there.

Plenty of time to post while playing... 13 km/h... and process pictures from my Washington DC trip.

4th game, finally got Steel Wall with 2.3k blocked with 3.2k damage. Shutdown a VK 45.02B head on with some APCR, pincered a Jg.Pz. E100 and IS7 (75m apart they were), killed Jg.Pz and flanked the IS7, lol. Too funny of a tank.

 

[datalink7]

LOL, T95 tank. With 15% off, had to get it.

1st game in it, anyone who sees you, backs off. It's already has top equipment in it, thanks to T28 and T30 grinds earlier. I did have to free XP the tracks to load up the gun, engine, and equipment.

Onto the 2nd game... Arctic Region and only 1 enemy went there.

Plenty of time to post while playing... 13 km/h... and process pictures from my Washington DC trip.

Yeah T95 is overall a bad tank IMO. I didn't used to think so, but I've come to that opinion. It is too slow so it has to get lucky to have a good effect on the game. Plus, everyone knows its weakspots these days.

That being said, it can also be a ton of fun if everything goes its way. I'd almost say that it is the best tank in the game when put in a perfect situation.

Also, the E3 is an awesome tank, so it's worth going through the T95 to get it.

 

[stag3]

This week for me hasn't been too bad. Last night was best yet. I been platooning with friends, about 6 of us altogether, for a little while now. My friends have tanks Tier 8 and above now so we have a good selection to work with. I still play alone but my play time has severely shrank since coming onto day shift where I work. Before I would play on the PC about 8 hours a day. Now its two or three and its in the evenings with the exception of my two days off each week. I have to fit family time in there though.

Recently I started on the line to the Walker Bulldog. Grinded the M5 Stuart and I got the Chaffee researched but I'm thinking of just free xp past the Chaffee and start on the T37. Then just grind normally from there. I'm hearing two stories about the current Chaffee. Its still good to the point of being just okay average to being out right horrible and people are saying bypass it if you can. I don't see Chaffees much now. I'm thinking there is a lot of bad feelings of how badly WG nerfed it. /chuckle

i free xp'd to the t37, and at tier 6, it's a fucking beast.
great tank, will keep it once i get to the bulldog and t49. just need to start
a new crew

 

[microAmp]

Yeah T95 is overall a bad tank IMO. I didn't used to think so, but I've come to that opinion. It is too slow so it has to get lucky to have a good effect on the game. Plus, everyone knows its weakspots these days.

That being said, it can also be a ton of fun if everything goes its way. I'd almost say that it is the best tank in the game when put in a perfect situation.

Also, the E3 is an awesome tank, so it's worth going through the T95 to get it.

I won't disagree at all with that. When I first started coming across them, I knew about the cupolas being a weak spot but eventually learned the lower glacis.

I did make one mistake on Pearl River, went out alone towards enemy East base from middle. I should have stayed at the middle part with the hills protecting my flanks. This tank truly needs support to be even 1/2 worthy.

I look forward to the T110E3, after seeing QuickyBaby play it, that will be a fun tank too. Finally, a tank with a cupola that isn't a weak spot.

Doh, just realized my crew is 100% camo and working on Brother in Arms... no Repair skills on them. :/

 

[stag3]

Yeah T95 is overall a bad tank IMO. I didn't used to think so, but I've come to that opinion. It is too slow so it has to get lucky to have a good effect on the game. Plus, everyone knows its weakspots these days.

That being said, it can also be a ton of fun if everything goes its way. I'd almost say that it is the best tank in the game when put in a perfect situation.

Also, the E3 is an awesome tank, so it's worth going through the T95 to get it.

dunno, people still fear the t95? all i do is pen the hatches, pretty easy to do
if it's to far i just HE the gun to break it

 

[datalink7]

I won't disagree at all with that. When I first started coming across them, I knew about the cupolas being a weak spot but eventually learned the lower glacis.

I did make one mistake on Pearl River, went out alone towards enemy East base from middle. I should have stayed at the middle part with the hills protecting my flanks. This tank truly needs support to be even 1/2 worthy.

I look forward to the T110E3, after seeing QuickyBaby play it, that will be a fun tank too. Finally, a tank with a cupola that isn't a weak spot.

Doh, just realized my crew is 100% camo and working on Brother in Arms... no Repair skills on them. :/

Yeah T95 really needs 100% repair crew.

If you can get in a good snipe spot the T95 is pretty good as its weakspots are really hard to hit from distance. I don't like playing a passive sniper though so I always play aggressive with it, even though being a sniper is probably better in a lot of situations.

E3 is so fun to troll people with the cupola. A lot of people don't seem to realize that it isn't a weakspot. But the armor on the tumor goes higher than 350mm in some places.

The weakspots on the front are the lower plate, but not even everywhere on the lower plate. It's the lower right and lower left. If they don't hit these spots you can still get bounces off the lower plate (though still try to hide it obviously if you can).

 

[microAmp]

I don't mind sniping but with this, I like to push through and break teams. Not always successful but it's a game changer I think.

I retrained the crew, 100% Brothers in Arms, 86% or so in Repairs. Just got my Mastery Ace Tanker on Abbey, went down the river road to battle 4 of them.

Luckily two dead teamates clogged a road and a T110E5, Leopard, T30, Rhm, couldn't flank me easy. Plus the T110E5 came at me alone, Leopard was alone for a small bit. Arty was helping them too, held them off, 4 kills, 4.6k damage, 2.8k blocked and 1319 base XP.

That T110E3 cupola trolled me before too, while I was in my IS-7. AP didn't penetrate. Okay, APCR. What? Nothing. Oh snap..... He was hull down too.

 

[stag3]

free xp'd 20k to unlock and buy the jgpze100(for the 15% off and 50% off crew retraining), and man this thing is a beast, first game almost 5k dmg, and survived.
the only thing i did not pen was an oddly angled OP is-7
299pen is sufficient for pretty much everything, i doubt i'll need to use heat except for E3's

 

[Genx87]

Oh man I came back this weekend after a long lull. I want to say it has been 18 months since I last played? Not even sure how I did win wise. But holy crap am I bad. More than a few games of getting sub 500 damage in T9-10 games lol. Two games in a Panther II(my fav) I was ammo racked insta killed.

I do like the changes to the maps. Feel they are quite a bit better now.

Edit: Ok I played 64 battles over the weekend with a 53.12% win rate. Not bad given the weekend.

 

[stag3]

just wait until the great view range nerf of everything but lights coming up.
with all the light players suiscouting and dying in ~10 seconds, it's gonna be brutal

 

[PowerYoga]

I had a pretty meh weekend. Good day saturday but complete shitfest yesterday (3/15 or something like that). At least I got enough exp to get out of the comet and AT8 I suppose.

 

[stag3]

yea saturday was rough, yesterday was ok, i won 65% or so, but my wn8 sucked ass because it kept putting me on the side with better players for once so damage was hard to come by.

it's weird they haven't fixed the bug that shows the 183 HESH round @ 275 pen still. even tho we all know it's 230 now.

 

[BoT]

had my highest scoring damage game so far on Friday. ironically in an IS7. not my favorite and not my best performing tank by a margin. =)
8k damage

 

[microAmp]

Wow, amazing BoT.

 

[Craig234]

Great damage, but it didn't even give you a master badge for it?

 

[drnickriviera]

How do you guys keep track of all the different tanks you face?

I met an AT 2 for the first time yesterday. He was slugging it out with a heavy. I was in my M2 Med with derp. I said OK, Tier V TD, strong frontal armor, but vulnerable from its flanks. I'll use my speed and get around it. Get to the side and aim for the rear hull, derp...no damage. Ok, strong side armor too, he's still distracted i'll get behind him and derp him good. Get right behind him and aim for the flat part of hull between the tracks. Derp!...no damage, uhh, lower part of the hull? Derp...no damage. turret area? please? Derp...14 damage. Ahh fudge, by that time someone one shot me. I didn't even knock out a freaking module.

I'm slowly learning who to go against and who to run away from, but geez there are a lot of tanks to remember.