DirtyACE7

I remember some reasonably reliable streamer interviewed one of the big guys at wg claiming a huge rebalance of t10 tanks in January.

Just announced its coming in 2019

It's planned for 2019. Arrival date TBD. 

I think he's talking about the new bond reward tanks like the CheifT95 thing. Given how generous WG has been with bonds lately, I expect something like 15000 bonds to get one at least

idk about that lavawing

@dirty the best is Vstab IMO, I put ivents on my batchat, and it only took half a second off the total clip time of it, for example. 

Ivents also took my STB reload from 6.33 to 6.28.

I suggest trying out the various directives before you buy and find what gives the best bonus, as most if not all the directives add the same bonus as improved equipment would add over the standard. 

I dropped optics for improved vents, just personal taste

If it isn't fun, don't play.

Yeah it's getting to a point where I don't just not want to play but to just abandon the game completely. Didn't think it would come to this point but here it is.

40%? That's very good considering that on my bad days I'm pulling 20% with all battles being 0-15 in 2 minutes. Basically you can't do anything but to wait to get gangbanged by 6 tanks.

I'm dying for a tattoo but... WoT logo is ugly af

It’s his leather hat that I take umbrage with.

Not many will understand the reference, but this comes to my mind:

I have no doubt about the guy's talent but running 3 pieces of improved equipment and rammer directive on a t-44-100 is more commitment than I am willing to make. 

Really? That's your argument? It's like people ranting that someone is shooting premium ammo "too much". Common man. I know you are better than that.

You misunderstood my comment. 

It's not Wot forums 2.0 until moderators start giving out bans for minor/non-existent rule violations. 

No, we don't have that yet but the sheer levels of stupidity are starting to surpass the official forums.

I never understood the hype for reddit. For the most part it's an inferior version of specialist forums that are dying because of facebook and reddit. Yeah on some there are a few specialists but most of the content on reddits I follow is sub par and regular clueless people get the most upvotes. I see the same for Speciality Coffee, Downhill Bikes, Asian Cousine, Movies. 

reddit went down quick, sadly wotlabs isnt doing much better... the great players are leaving, being replaced by the pubbies.

INB4 he has 11% MOE on his Type 5. 

Gotta pump up those numbers bois! Ya'll are slackin'! 

link pls

Thanks @hazzgar

I have been stepping away from ranked to take a break. I may go back this weekend and try it again. What really surprises me though is watching some other player's stream and they are running xvm and you can see players with like yellow WN8 at rank 15. WTF is up with that? I thought players like this are supposed to get filtered out as you go up the ranks but there seem to be plenty of them there.

if you throw enough shit at the wall, eventually some of it will stick. bet those yellows have 3x the number of games to get to that rank than the blues/purples

@DirtyACE7 they are either farming damage and use their allies as meatshields so they dont lose chevs on lost games or get the close combat bonus. I see that too. I even commented about the fact I see blue players play like total shitters because that is what works in randoms. 

T-44 using the 100mm is technically a T-44-100, they're essentially the same tank and a T-44 is very competitive atm. Its a good price if you need a Russian med trainer that isn't a T-34-85M but it suffers from the fact its a tier 8 med (unlike heavies like the Lowe that can be very effective in tier 10 games).

4 hours ago, Fulcrous said:

It was more of he doesn't want to bother dropping the money to get a better computer to play tanks.

And who could blame him?

He quit after 1.0

That's too bad but I don't blame him.

Just aim for rank 7 - 8 and you should get ~2k bonds. That what I did last time. Took me 24 battles. Was the most efficient bond:pain ratio for me.

I can't even go up in ranks. Well, I did get to rank 3 and then back to rank 1 I played 8 o r 9 battles. Lost all but one. My teams are just full of human vegetables.

So typically it's better to unlock the tracks first and then the engine. Is this true for this tank as well or would the engine give more benefit?

Not sure if you need the tracks first to mount the engine, if not needed i would suggest the engine first, it really needs the horsepower.

No it doesn't. It actually weighs less than the original engine.

If I remember right it's not just female crews. Isn't there a few males that also have Zero skill crews where BIA doesn't count?

^^^ Both of the above. The game is checking for total EXP on a crew member, not progression into perks. Is the benefit/detriment of the 0-skill BiA crew members... they train "faster" than regular crew.

Thanks for clearing this up all. I didn't realize that the zero skill is not taken into consideration.

Make sure to use lots of reserves to make the grind as quick as possible. I couldn’t wait to finish mine. It’s fucking dire.

Its a pretty annoying tank. I played it with full apcr and went brawling instead, the gun doesn't miss that much with food and at close range. It has pretty decent alpha for a t7 med, but not good dpm. Its not that bad but I would rather play the t20 or comet or this. I think without full apcr it would be unplayable because it usually doesn't hit where you aim reeee

Yes, the T20 is much nicer. I three-marked mine and the Italian feels like a knock off version of it and not a good knock off.

e50 is bae

Great tank, its fun to play while being good. It can be hard to implement though as it is squishy af, so be careful when playing it

Very soft, very mobile (I mean, the mobility is really nice, feels comfy, almost like a faster Pershing), but definitely soft..  Almost like a scout in that IMHO it really wants/needs a good crew to shine.  Autoloader mechanic takes some adjusting.

Absolutely the best tank for Frontline. Not so much for pubs as some maps do it no favours, decent medium but squishy.

Anything less than 7k PR is lobotomized... well, tbh anything playing WOT more than 10 games a week is lobotomized at this point

its alright. My 121b went from 3.9k to 3k for the same reasons

Thanks @Fulcrous. Although on days like that I keep thinking to myself that why does it keep happening to me but it gives me a piece of mind knowing that it happens to everyone. Managed to finish playing the Charioteer with 66% WR (was at 74%) and unlock the Conway, but that last day was just pure hell. 90% of teams were just brain dead or bots.

Actually I was able to remove it completely from one of the other tanks but can't for some of the others, so it's not consistent which makes it even more annoying.

And a ticket to WG is the definition of futility.

I might try that but almost don't want to bother.

Hey @FavreFan4ever! Great to see you too! I took a break for 3 months and I think it did me some good

I have over 4017 DPM in the E6 right now, more once I ever grind out more bonds for improved vents. Its hilarious

@DirtyACE7 We should try to get together to platoon one of these days. I'm fairly rusty (and incredibly busy IRL), but I've usually got a couple nights a week open for tanks.