Thursday, 8 September 2016

BT tank footage




(Some scenes appear to be shown at accelerated speed, though.)

Friday, 2 September 2016

Highest points in random match (not event) that I ever saw: 6,247


...I was glad about my points, then I saw I was 2nd with someone over 5,000 points
... and then I looked at the other side! :o

Thursday, 1 September 2016

The KV-220 is a beast


... well worth the grind:


It's a heavy tank as it sould be: 
Can penetrate with good effect, is most difficult to penetrate at BR if positioned correctly and albeit slower than mediums it is maneuvering well.

It's a brute force tool; you can fight your path to the objective at your BR.

If used smartly (patiently), it can do much even well above its BR:

 Crucial context: The BR of the match was +1.0 !

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Explain this




Where did the speed drop by upgrade come from until I had the wings and injection updated???

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

The tank that benefits the most of add-on armour


... is the Panzer IVH.
My stats with it are atrocious because I used it for warbond and SUMMER tasks and capturing instead of for tank killing first, but it's actually BY FAR the best of the Panzer IV series.

It's also quite good-looking (for a tank) with all that add-on armour.

Those 18 mm track segments aren't anywhere as good as 18 mm RHA,
but the armour thickness is at least nominally close to 100 mm in most places
of the front. Angle this tank by 20° a bit and it's about as tough as a Tiger H1
facing its opponent at a 0° angle.

Historically, this tank was the last quality Panzer IV series. The J series was a low quality design with less rubber, lesser steel quality, no powered turret traverse (hand crank only!). The H series was a real tank, J series was mere cannon fodder, mostly tasked to secure the flanks of Panthers - to die instead of them, since a flanked Panther is as unable to survive as a Panzer(kampfwagen) IV.

Similarly, Panzer IIIN (the III series with 75 mm L/24) were often used to protect the Tigers in the heavy tank detachments and to relieve them of the dreaded scouting duties.