Did you guys know you can get sold premium tanks restored? One time only.
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/238051-premium-tank-restoration/#top
If you are on the north side on Steppes 8,9 line is the place to go. Especially if you are in a decently fast tank, you can make it to that little ridge and spot the enemy team out in the open in the south before they can make it down into the gully or behind the rock. The best part is if you shoot at them, most pubbies will stop in the open to shoot back, and you can hull down behind the ridge and pick them to pieces. This ends up denying them the rock and gully, and leaves the rest of the south open for you to advance near thier base and spot some of thier arty, and the rest of thier team taking cover a thier base.
In contrast, the 1,2,3 area is always a huge clusterfuck that bogs down (our nickname for going there is :"Playing dick grab in the thunderdome"). Even with the terrain, there are very few true arty safe places in that area. Also in most cases it requires you to expose yourself to enemy fire in order to take a shot, and there aren't that many spot over there where you can take full advantage of a hull down tank.
any of you guys keep the E50 once you got the E50m ?
i'm definitely keeping the T54 once i get the T62a as i like to brawl
but the e50m is the e50 better in every way
it will see a lot more huge artillery because its a tier 10. While it's a better tank in every way (except for ramming) you will also get gibbed more often due to tier 10 arty party. Suggestion is to just keep the E-50. I didn't get the 50m precisely because of all the arty.
Sniper, Master gunner, Sharp shooter. I missed one out of 29 shots. The one I "missed" was a bounce right off his front grill. I did NOT miss, you stupid game.
I love this tank.
which "little ridge" are you talking about? I don't really go down that side much so I don't know the layout much. I know the gulf where the encounter flag is has a set of rock croppings near the southeast side that tanks usually play PAB under but I don't really know of any ridges that you can hull down behind unless you're in an american tank.
The 1-2-3 area only bogs down if you play "dick grab" behind those rocks. I tend to flank over the top to get shots in the side. With the new map there's some cover and you can make it to cover without getting your ass getting shot off. (including some arty cover depending on where arty is of course)
The american bundle for $80~ is pretty tempting. I play a lot of american tanks...