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Right on cue, we get one of these EVERY SINGLE TIME.

CDC rental weekend is T49 heaven

I'm playing T49 so I don’t get it 

I want my... I want my.. I want my  EYE-ESS-THREE

This is just the countdown to: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_279
 
LOL

pew pew pew pew pew

This is just the countdown to: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_279
 
LOL

This is just the countdown to: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_279
 
LOL

Pretty sure this is just a retired tank from Florida, which will drive 10mi under the speed limit in the passing lanes and curse you out for asking how their day is going

\o/   

many thanks to @CraBeatOff and @rev01ution for your advice and encouragement several months ago. Implementing it into my gameplay took a little time, and it took waaaaay longer than I would have hoped for, mark hung at 93% for the last several hundred games... still, I'm pretty proud of this, 3-marking my favorite tank in the game. 
HELL YEAH!
 
edit: Mark was done entirely with 152 derp. Will post my last 5 + or so games for entertainment purposes. 

Watched Skill4ltu play it a bit. 
The tank is better top tier (3/5/7) than 50-100 or lorr 40t because of the amount of bullying possible to lower tier. But 40t is better low tier than Somua because armor is just meaningless once you find higher pens guns. 
 
Think T-54 mod 1 vs T-44-100

I'm surprised that a player as good as you is having issues in the tank, but 30 games is also not nearly enough to draw conclusions about WR yada yada yada conventional wisdom blah blah.
I'm not gonna give you any great replays (because I don't have them), but I think you are sufficiently large and immobile that you have to pick your spots carefully and plan the engagement.  Flexibility is not JPE's strong suit.  As a rule, I like to be a bit in back of the heavies (unless I'm facing tier 8s, and especially if my counterpart on the other side is some bush wookie).  You shouldn't lead pushes, it's much too easy to get tracked where you can't angle your armor - which you have to do, b/c this thing is not idiot-proof.  Sidescraping is very viable, and if you think you can't win the flank, play even further back, b/c that 20s reload makes it easy to get swarmed.  HE can work in a pinch, especially when fighting at long range.
City maps are your friend, especially if you have building angles to use (a la Ensk), but you cannot simply hull down behind rubble with impunity.  And your roof is large and very easy to pen, so be wary if the other team has high ground on you.
I don't know how much of that is helpful, but I've managed to be at least adequate playing it that way.

I think I can comment on this after 600 games on my JPE.
Honestly I feel like JPE is just a heavy tank disguised as a td. Always use the corridors for heavy engagement if you can play peek a boo.
Your armor will reliably bounce 1k-2k per game If you hide yourself partially or angle your tank after your shot.
Always trade if you can trade 1v1, never trade if you are in a 1v2 situation. 420 heat just destroys everything. Goes through upper plate of any tank like it is made out of butter, so if you are somewhat decent at aiming, you will make 1k damage for every 500 - 600 dmg you take during these engagements. Which will net you somewhere between 3k-4k average damage per game very reliably. I think mine is around 3.2k since it was my first tier 10
My equipment picks are very non traditional...
I run super heavy spall liner because you are the main focus of any arti especially if they have an xvm.
Camo net for the open maps that offer no close/mid range play. Aka Prokhorovka.
Gun rammer to shave off that massive reload time.
If you sit back and try to snipe away from the heavies like a traditional td, there are 4 scenarios. 
- You will have a great game with nice damage because the stars just aligned right.
- You will be out spotted and become the main target for everyone. Resulting in low/mediocre damage.
- Enemy team will die out quicker than you can move.  Resulting in low/mediocre damage.
- Enemy team will kill most in your flank very quickly, faster teammates will relocate and you will be rushed by the enemy team. Resulting in low/mediocre damage.
P.S. Just push non stop in a tier 8 game if you have couple tanks with you. Bounce everything, and laugh as tier 8s try to hide from your massive gun. Fun times.
P.S. 2: Never push anything alone. It is easy to be perma tracked, flanked or out dpm'd. 
 

No such thing as overkill for viewrange IMO. 

Their first problem was hiring fucking silentstalker as a community manager.
Their second problem was trying to make a game that was only a ripoff of WoT, then firing their fucking dev company for trying to actually make it different and unique. 

No bugs so far 

i agree with @Kolni on this, its not that OP IMO.
like the super conq and 5a its very good in the hands of a knowledgeable player, but in the hands of your typical pubbies its just another xp pinata.
TBH the 268 ver 4 is more of an issue regarding balance than the 430U right now.

Only gotten it once in two sessions.
Went in a training room yesterday and derped around for 25 min ish..
Here is a copy of the glacier minimap.

Below are my first impressions on what I plan on trying for in LTs for now, and what happened in my first game on it.  Far from a "meta analysis" but maybe its helpful
in the early weeks/months of the map being out.

The game I was in went down like the red arrows.. TDs and heavies stuck around the outside ring. A group of heavies went north east to fight in that corridor.
Several of their tanks(mix of heavies, MTs and TDs) went down the 9/0 line. I went along the road in K line around the SW corner, got caught out by proxy spotting a higher tier LT and then got killed.
There are a lot of trees on the SW coner and even 500+m VR did NOT spot them until I was too close to disengage. If I think the south needs spotting I think I'll try going to the marked spots.
The rest of the obvious vision control locations are right along the A1 to K0 diagonal line.  They pretty much drew a line of cover across there, There is some hard cover and hills you can duck in and out of but otherwise very exposed. 
I'm interested to see what other people experience in this map, and it will be interesting to see as the meta settles how the strategy evolves.
 

great map
no flaws
perfect design 
Frozen ship angled at 90 degrees 
WeeGee perfect company
(1.0 was a mistake)
 

I saw a guy camping with this abomination on Muro and not yoloing like Murazor intended. Poor man even if tries to make tanks for retards players will still be retarded and play it in the wrong way.

\o/   

many thanks to @CraBeatOff and @rev01ution for your advice and encouragement several months ago. Implementing it into my gameplay took a little time, and it took waaaaay longer than I would have hoped for, mark hung at 93% for the last several hundred games... still, I'm pretty proud of this, 3-marking my favorite tank in the game. 
HELL YEAH!
 
edit: Mark was done entirely with 152 derp. Will post my last 5 + or so games for entertainment purposes. 

\o/   

many thanks to @CraBeatOff and @rev01ution for your advice and encouragement several months ago. Implementing it into my gameplay took a little time, and it took waaaaay longer than I would have hoped for, mark hung at 93% for the last several hundred games... still, I'm pretty proud of this, 3-marking my favorite tank in the game. 
HELL YEAH!
 
edit: Mark was done entirely with 152 derp. Will post my last 5 + or so games for entertainment purposes. 

\o/   

many thanks to @CraBeatOff and @rev01ution for your advice and encouragement several months ago. Implementing it into my gameplay took a little time, and it took waaaaay longer than I would have hoped for, mark hung at 93% for the last several hundred games... still, I'm pretty proud of this, 3-marking my favorite tank in the game. 
HELL YEAH!
 
edit: Mark was done entirely with 152 derp. Will post my last 5 + or so games for entertainment purposes. 

Fuck yeah dude!