[MMO] World of Tanks

[Merad]

I really don't look forward to the new tanks, lol. Running into a pack of T-54's or a T-92 is already a nightmare in the average pub game. I have a feel the new tier 10s are going to dominate.

 

[PowerYoga]

17 cm gun....

I'm eager to see what sort of "balance" these tier 10 mediums are going to put on the heavies. As it stands the current tier 9s already rip apart heavies in a pack, so tier 10 wolfpack = dominate...

 

[Skott]

Hadn't played in my E-50 in a long time. Fired it up and played for for about 3 hours tonight. Pretty good night. Team won more than lost which is nice. I survived most of the wins which is very nice. I declare it a good night for me.


Edit: Fun afternoon in my T28 Proto. It is slow but has a mean kick to it. The new T10 American TD interests me but I'm not real keen on the getting the T30. Wasn't planning on going past the T28 Proto but guess now I may have to.

 

[LurkerPrime]

17 cm gun....

I'm eager to see what sort of "balance" these tier 10 mediums are going to put on the heavies. As it stands the current tier 9s already rip apart heavies in a pack, so tier 10 wolfpack = dominate...

I definately see balance being an issue with the new mediums. Clan wars is going to see the biggest mix up, now that TDs and mediums will be a viable alternative. It wont just be heavies, arty and scouts (and the occasionaly batchat) anymore.

The tier 10 news at least makes me want to continue my german TD and medium lines, and maybe finish up the russian medium line (damn T44). Now that my interest in D3 in waining, I'll probably re-up my WoT premium account and start grinding out some tanks again. Maybe I'll find a clan that doesnt suck and does clan wars in a prime time I can actually take part in.

 

[Genx87]

17 cm gun....

I'm eager to see what sort of "balance" these tier 10 mediums are going to put on the heavies. As it stands the current tier 9s already rip apart heavies in a pack, so tier 10 wolfpack = dominate...

Wolfpacks of mediums should only work when heavies go off on their own. A wolfpack of heavies should rip apart a wolfpack of mediums if they are on equal footing. T10s will make it more interesting.

And I wonder if they are going to start moving towards the MBT? They kind of already have and with the T-62A coming in the next patch and the intro of the french and new american tanks. The next logical step for me is to bring on the M60, Leopard I, and T-62.

 

[Binky]

Bought the T28 (US TD)
7 wins in 10 games
3500+ efficiency
Love this thing!

 

[PowerYoga]

Wolfpacks of mediums should only work when heavies go off on their own. A wolfpack of heavies should rip apart a wolfpack of mediums if they are on equal footing. T10s will make it more interesting.

And I wonder if they are going to start moving towards the MBT? They kind of already have and with the T-62A coming in the next patch and the intro of the french and new american tanks. The next logical step for me is to bring on the M60, Leopard I, and T-62.

The thing is wolfpacks are mobile enough to pick off heavies and to relocate if its trouble. a pack of 4 mediums will win against 2 heavies. If a pack of 4 mediums sees a pack of 4 heavies... they should run the other way.

What you're describing is more lemming activity than a wolfpack.

edit: Have a 100% win in my t-32 so far, think I have 5 or 7 games in it... it's kinda nice. oops, guess I just jinxed it...

 

[Genx87]

The thing is wolfpacks are mobile enough to pick off heavies and to relocate if its trouble. a pack of 4 mediums will win against 2 heavies. If a pack of 4 mediums sees a pack of 4 heavies... they should run the other way.

What you're describing is more lemming activity than a wolfpack.

edit: Have a 100% win in my t-32 so far, think I have 5 or 7 games in it... it's kinda nice. oops, guess I just jinxed it...

A wolfpack in a public unless they are platooned is lemmings for either sized tank. Given equal footing a wolfpack of heavies will beat a wolfpack of mediums. I have witnessed this enough times on ensk the power of wolfpacking mediums down the tracks. Or vice versa a wolfpack of heavies waiting for them to ruin their fun.

I personally cant wait until the E-50 Ausf.M. Should be a great tank. My poor E-50 is still seeing highs and lows. Had a game on Monday night. I killed 4(IS-7,IS-4,IS-3, and Ferdinand). Then I went to rush a VK4502A and got stuck on the terrain. We lost that match and I went up in flames ugh! Win rat eof only 53% right now. But think I have finally found the right combo of modules(Vert Stab, Rammer, Optics). Picked off the IS-3 and IS-4 from long range in that game. They couldnt see me as I plowed round afer round into their sides at 450 a pop.

 

[PowerYoga]

A wolfpack in a public unless they are platooned is lemmings for either sized tank. Given equal footing a wolfpack of heavies will beat a wolfpack of mediums. I have witnessed this enough times on ensk the power of wolfpacking mediums down the tracks. Or vice versa a wolfpack of heavies waiting for them to ruin their fun.

Don't really disagree with you there, I've stopped my fair share of packs. But having tier 10 mediums will tilt the favor in the mediums further. As of right now it's hard enough to stop a pack if they have decent players, but see them with more armor and firepower and hp.... yeah. Tell me how many times you've stopped a marauding pack of 3 pattons and 2 T-54s... now make that one tier higher.

 

[vmarkx3]

no one will touch the T10 meds when you have a T110 thats able to move around at 43Km/hr, good armor, and good gun... unless they nerf that heck out of it...

 

[Genx87]

Finally got to play yesterday. 3 games, two in my E-50. I can now add the T30 to my list of ramming victims

 

[PowerYoga]

Victory!
Battle: Prokhorovka Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:32:56 PM
Vehicle: M18 Hellcat
Experience received: 3,939 (x3 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 33,909
Battle Achievements: Boelter's Medal, Top Gun

 

[PowerYoga]

games with the hellcat is such a hit or miss. It's capable of incredible damage and accuracy at it's tier but it can't take hits, and relies on teammates to soak up shells. I find myself just hulling down in various places and hoping arty doesn't try to hit me. I can even play PAB to a certain extent with M6 and t-29s. With a bit of teamwork this tank is so dangerous to tier 7s it's not even funny.

Someone told me I bought my way to a tier 8 today... Ended up defending the hill on redshire by myself against lorraine, lowe, an e8 and is3. Killed 3 of them (lorraine lowe and e8) before rest of my team came and rescued me.

:whiste:

Victory!
Battle: Redshire Monday, June 18, 2012 9:04:40 PM
Vehicle: Löwe
Experience received: 3,861 (x3 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 75,331
Battle Achievements: Mastery Badge: Ace Tanker, Confederate, Steel Wall

 

[Skott]

Finally ground out the Pershing and got my Patton today. That stock 90mm is a pos. It doesn't penetrate anything it seems. The second 90mm is so much better. Luckily I had 14k free xp. Hate to think grinding the whole 23k for the tracks so I could get the good stuff loaded on. Now grinding to the second turret and then get the good 105mm after that. Then last engine. Not a bad tank once you get the second 90mm gun. Basically playing it like I did my Pershing. It does damage but the T9 & T10 heavies can chew it up and I face many of them in the Patton.

 

[archaznable]

ugh my VK3601H repair cost is killing me when I loose a game but thankfully I still had my T-34 to have an fund even thou I loose I still gain some credits not unlike the VK3601 lol but when it wins it is a cash cow giving around 11k max on a Tier VI ... not bad ... lesson that I learn is you need to have at least two tanks in your garage you never know when a tank will have a horrendous repair cost. that's what happened to me when I got the other VK it's the only tank that I owned and got limited credit when I loose a battle I can't repair it lol I've got no choice but to sell and buy a low tier tank lol ...

 

[Genx87]

The MM is just insane. Started off the night 4-11. Then ended it with 9 straight wins. And in those losses they were usually blowouts. The other team would have 1-2 more T9s than us and usually heavies vs mediums. And then we just get melted. I am starting to think they treat the E50 differently when it comes to MM. Just seems like I end up on teams where we have less T9s and more mediums vs heavies for our T9s.

Anyways I finally got enough to research the IS-7. Sold that POS IS-8 and the meh IS-4 to buy it. The IS-7 is such a nicer tank than the IS-4. Now time to start saving up exp for the E-50 Ausf. M

 

[PowerYoga]

I'm stuck in a rut with the t-20 myself. It's mobile and has a decent gun, but I don't think I really enjoy using it that much. The gun's not that accurate on the run, and there's no armor to speak of obviously. I end up going hull down a lot in this tank to PAB with idiots, but it's not nimble enough to relocate if you get pinned down. The 90mm is not effective vs a lot of tier 8's frontal armor either, and forget tier 9s.

Random rant: The IS-8 is such a dog that I'm thinking of selling it. Don't like it at all, armor can be penned frontally by tier 6s and while it's fast, it's just not nimble enough nor does it have enough horses to get it to top speed on the flat grounds. Only reason I'm keeping it still is because it has the camo patterns I had from my IS4.

I'm about 50-50 with this tank, I use it as a sniper but the gun depression is pretty bad. I used to think it was decent, but I guess I was over-estimating it a bit.

 

[Lonbjerg]

Only 8K XP to the 128 mm gun on the VK4502P(B) now...the maus is getting closer.
After that I have GW panther and Ferdi to grind up...before I look at the part of the german tech tree I havn't touched yet...VK3601 and the VK3001(h) and up

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Haven't really been playing much since the end of beta... still love my little maurader...

Vehicle: Marder II
Experience received: 1,804 (x2 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 12,405
Battle Achievements: Mastery Badge: Ace Tanker, Master Gunner:15, Sharpshooter:30, Sniper

Only had 2 AP rounds left at the end of the battle... were it not for 0 point damage pens on a couple of KV-1's at long range it would have been better

Got lots of congrats off the team too which was cool :thumbsup:

Shot of the match had to be when the team spotted a T-46 heading to base, then it vanished and I correctly lead it across ~1/2 map as it turned to my left as it came up the incline. It was then spotted again a fraction before the round landed for 146 damage

 

[LurkerPrime]

The patch comes out today. I wonder if I should roll my way up the french arty line or not. I didn't play any on the test server, so I'm not even sure of thier stats.

I'm currently grinding on my panther 2 and the tier 6 french light tank. However I still prefer to just play my IS-7 or my object 261, so the grind is slow going. At least I probably have till christmas to get me a batchat before it goes tier 10.

 

[Lonbjerg]

Finally...the 128 mm is mine!
Slower RoF...but people seem to dislike it's dmg when fired upon *L*

 

[PowerYoga]

so what's the consensus about the french TD? haven't read up much about them but one of them has a 4 round autoloader or something...!?

Are they heavily armored?

 

[Llwellyn]

so what's the consensus about the french TD? haven't read up much about them but one of them has a 4 round autoloader or something...!?

Are they heavily armored?

They are a lot like the French style tanks. Powerful (either from super-high ROF or autoloader) and speedy, but lacking armor where it counts. I didn't get into the high tiers on test to actually drive them, but feedback was generally positive and I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.

Only the top tier TD (the Foch) has an autoloader, and it's an autoloader on a scary big gun to boot. Imagine an old KV-1 with the 155 that could derp twice or three times in a row. Some of the lower tier TDs have big or powerful guns rather than high ROF guns too, but generally high ROF is favored over high alpha. The Foch is going to be moved into tier 10 when those changes take place, and it's supposed to keep the autoloader.

I disliked the tier 2 and 3 TD's, but the tier 4 and 5 felt OK. Watching the kinds of kills that other players were getting with the tier 6+ makes me think I'd like them a lot.

The French artillery seems to follow the same type of pattern as well, they were silly fast and had lower damage but very high ROF for a field piece. The tier IV artillery felt like a TD that could also fire indirectly. Paper thin armor all the way around though.

 

[Genx87]

Oh the foch has an autoloader? I thought it was a traditional gun. How many rounds in the chamber? That sounds crazy OP given its camo advantages.

 

[PowerYoga]

what's the armor thickness on the TDs? People say "paper thin" for french armor (and US armor) but the amx50B (and M103) can bounce a fair amount of shots if you don't aim carefully. And distance engagements can bounce as well.