Snoregasm2

Caveat: I'm not great at hte 907, just looking at numbers. Assuming your tank is fully kitted out with good crew skills, it depends on the ranges you engage in. A quick look at the numbers shows with purple vents, food, improved sight, and additional observational devices, you're sitting at 0.31 acc and 0.12/0.12/0.09 bloom. BIAU drops the accuracy to 0.28, whereas iVS drops the bloom to 0.08/0.09/0.06. 0.31 is marginal long range accuracy, 0.28 is much better. OTOH if you're brawling off quick snaps, the iVS is solid.

Yeah I currently use bond vents, rammer and v stab. Great crew skills, including all vision and camo you can get.

I guess it's whether to ditch the vents or the vstab. I'm leaning to ditching vstab, but it might make brawling trickier. @kolni, what are your thoughts on this? What setup do you run on 907?

improved stab/ram/vents and bounty optics/iau/rammer are my setups, should be fairly easy to figure out what setup goes where

did try hp but not useful on enough maps imo, same with turbo

did try the iau but i felt better with stab in quick peeks and stuff which is where a lot of my damage comes from

Depends on the sub tbh, r/league is  so bad that unless it’s fanart or montages you’re pretty much going to get your topic deleted with reasons that don’t apply to the post they’re deleting at all simply because the mods are apes 

r/punchablefaces was really funny until some mods also effectively killed that sub

but the ones that mostly rely on relaying information (and aren’t subject to much criticism) work great imo, but gaming subs suck universally and you can’t have a voting system deciding what gets visible in political system as it can’t do anything but circlejerk itself even if it wanted to as the consensus will just keep being the most agreeable and shut everything else out in the process

From what I remember of a few Skyrim and Skyrim modding subs, those seemed to go alright, although it's been literally years since I was spending much time in Skyrim.

r/EliteDangerous was godawful.  So many people permabanned from that place because of crying Carebears, they started r/Elite_Dangerous so people would have a sub that was tolerable.

Unironically prefer 4chan for warthunder.

The takes are actually not brain dead retarded and sometimes retards just get bombarded with  "Skill Issue" replies.

I think that's a decent start. I used to run iVS/iRammer/iMod Config for randoms, then got pressed into service for CW and was asked to put hardening, and then just left it as such.

I made do marking it without config, I just hade to save repkit for racks instead of repairing track to get the extra shot off

I did rammer, stab and hardening

i went with rammer / stab / hardening, however track repais seems suprising slow, so perhaps hardening would help with that also (so far my driver dies more as ammo so for ammorack its not that bad)

ps: HE rework should help this tank a lot, that seems to be main weakness (met an E3 and 60Tp head on, it didnt end well for me...)

Enjoy it. Got it only a few days before you and I while I knew its uber OP jesus. I never realized how easymode it is. Just know where enemies with sub 330 premium pen are. Go there. Laugh.

Mines is cancer. Only worth playing in lowtier. 

I have it banned for ages and I don't miss it. And you know why I don't miss it? This worthless programmers at WG will let me play this shit again when playing other game modes. 

I turned off everything just so I would never have to see erlenberg ever again

Yeah the problem is Mines isn't worth banning due to how shit some of the other maps are, plus you have to turn Encounter off.

I couldn't even ban it when I did have Encounter off and I was doing scouting missions for the 279, as I needed to ban Himmels and Ensk.

Minsk is pretty much a perma ban unless doing scouting, and right now I have Overlord banned because it's so inconsistent/team dependent. I did have Airfield for a long time, and I sometimes ban Abbey. All of those allow you to play Assault / Encounter still.

Mines would be after those 4.

Yeah, I have lots of thoughts about the EBR, none of them good. It's a tank that rewards GOFASTYOLO more than careful positioning and knowledge of terrain, maps, and lines of vision.

I literally just drove around the ridges all game, until I cleared out a flank (too late, although my team were super passive). Not once did I have to use a good spotting bush, or dogfight anything: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5891575#prokhorovka-snoregasm2-panhard_ebr_105

You know me - I'm not a good LT player by any stretch. When I got 13k spotting in the Manticore I was super proud, as I worked for it. In this I did less but got more - it's just ridiculous really.

While there's a difference between a good player in an EBR vs a bad player in an EBR, I've seen far too many games dominated by players who just run around randomly changing direction. The other issue is the insane escalation in power from the tier 8 Lynx to the tier 10 EBR 105 -- I struggle to think of another line where there is such a sharp rise in power from T8 to T10, and of another tank which so defines/dominates the meta of the tier. I suppose on NA the next closest thing is the M44 at tier 6, but that's more about dictating how you have to play while three M44 mains pound your team every 7 seconds, but even then it's not the same thing. It also dictates how every other tier 10 light, and indeed medium, is played -- either you're an EBR or you set up specifically to counter EBRs. There is no 3rd way.

This will teach you to look at your own stats!!!  

wait what

Sorry, lost my updates, not the full post. 

I spent like an hour tonight sorting it, so all good now.

Yeah had tokens from previous seasons. I just finish the qualification and ended with 10 - couldn't force myself to play further in the leagues.

@Snoregasm2 I punished myself for the Bonds. 

4200 average 10 games in, standard purple equips

Doesn’t feel as OP as it felt playing against one tbh

mmmmm food...

that should last you quite a while though, and theoretically (unless wg does another gold ammo sale, jeez that was a trainwreck) it's the best possible use for excess credits anyway

it's the smart play in the end

I mean, you really didn't spend anything, seeing as you can instantly convert is straight back to credits anyway.

@GehakteMolen 

Update. Got Coalition-15 and Alliance-15 from the Chimera done in the ELC Even 90 (Prok, ez clap) and the Chieftain respectively, so now I have 8 orders. Do you get more than 8 from the Object 260 missions? Still stuck on TD-15 and HT-15 on those (not stuck, per se, just not grinded for them).

In terms of 279, I've done 4 each of Bloc, Alliance and Union. Mainly the damage + arty missions so far. Stayed away from scouting and blocking for now, so I can just play normal tanks.

I think i'll play those 3 missions as much as I can "normally", before working out which 1 to skip fully and which one needs individual skips. As I've done 0 of the Coalition missions it seems the obvious choice for the other full skip, but then again Progetto 46 will easily farm some of the missions, e.g. kills, plus any of the spotting missions are probably easy mode for an EBR, as @GehakteMolen said.

No, there is no crossover from the 260 and 279 missions. You have the Max you can get from the Chimera and Excalibur— any more orders will need 279e -15 missions done with honors. 
Let me know if I can help more! Missions are frustrating and I like helping people out with them. 

Me too brotha - EMIL 1951 was only thing that I wish I had picked up. 

Thanks man - it's here: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5766490#westfield-snoregasm2-cs-52

I know you prefer tier 10 games when reviewing tier 8 gameplay, so there's these two as well if you want:

http://wotreplays.eu/site/5756150#erlenberg-snoregasm2-cs-52

http://wotreplays.eu/site/5764010#teams - could I have carried this?

Bonus Kzp 50 t:

http://wotreplays.eu/site/5772460#glacier-snoregasm2-kampfpanzer_50_t - how did I fuck up the end game?

I'm going to post these in the replay review thread I just made if you don't mind?

Of course mate

the t7 so far is playable, i use the stock gun though, 6 sec rld is quite good (T20 has 8 for example)

Its just turns like a whale, with barely any armour...

Just gonna vent about the carro its standard round has a velocity of 960 m/s which is horrible for a tier 10. 

@Spartan96 literally no one who has the tank will be firing standard ammo, so that's not an issue.

Or at least no one I know (myself included) does.

I wouldn't normally, but he was an arse and completely unapologetic. I've found that physics abuse (i.e. blocking) does usually lead to bans, so i've sent a couple in the past - I feel like it helps the pond scum realise that yes, they are in fact in the wrong and need to learn.

More fool me.

I miss back in the day when you could just TK them and use their wreck as cover while you carry.

@PityFool i still have fond memories of travelling all the way from the enemy spawn to TK your arta at base

'sry. it be lag.' I said.

at least its fun for the first dozen battles

@lavawing yeah, I only solopub.

@Rexxie I must be doing it wrong, got to 8 games with it and didn't really enjoy it.

I felt like I was just chasing damage in all my games so far, or too slow to do anything. I think I need to just be more aggressive, but the one time I did that on Himmels an S Conq just farmed 1600 HP from me whilst I was hull down. I reckon I'll play it looking for that "perfect" game and probably never find it.

On the bright side, 420 HEAT is just . . . just the tops. I was shooting UFP for fun/testing purposes. I want them to know that I could have shot weakspots, but chose not to as a fuck you.

Nothing is more annoying than casually farming a JPE through his superstructure with gold, and then they have the AUDACITY to post a round through the thickest part of my perfectly positioned tank with 420 HEAT.

@CandyVanMan that was my initial opinion as well

but the bloom/armor profile/speed encourage you to rush points and leverage hulldown which is not exactly optimal in this meta IMO. I say it's not optimal, largely because of maps 1.0 meta - where before something like a T-10/430 II could win you games with next to no effort/skill 

also the armor is easy to leverage but shit against high pen, i.e. >250 pen rounds and only strong around a very small angle of fire. the armour works well against non TD stuff at mid range - but then the gun doesn't like to perform past 200m or so

much better just to load APCR and lase tanks from across the map in a Renegade/CS-52, and less stressful too

plus it has a lot of trouble against 9s because of the armour/exposure issues, whereas, again, a Renegade can spam APCR and do its usual thing from like 500m.

@lavawing E75 TS can do that just as effectively as the Renegade though, it's only behind it in terms of track dispersion, which is not really that impactful unless you drive like a mong.

E75 TS is also more mobile than Renegade, yes, seriously.

I can much more easily leverage the armor in TS compared to Renegade, as fascist box tanks are less rng on armor, but more reliant on perfect angling. 
It just feels more comfortable for my playstyle, which is kinda weird as I play mostly burger tanks.

Oh, and the ammo on TS is far superior to the Renegade's ammo.

E75 feels a lot more janky because of how fast it accelerates which makes the already middling bloom on movement worse

agree with the mobility and armour and gold pen

Renegade's armour is shit but you it's not fatal since you mostly do weird pokes at the edge of viewrange. It's kinda like the M46 in this regard - your armour is not great but your exposure time is tiny

OTOH the 75TS's armour profile is really nice, but it mostly bleeds when relocating and from ultra high pen TDs which good positioning/angling can't mitigate. the Renegade has a weird/patchy armour scheme which mostly just buys time for you to swing your gun on target

The E75 TS is comfy in the sense that there's always something you're meant to do in any given match, i.e. rush B and hold B. In the Renegade a lot of the time you're just waiting and sniping and ducking behind your heavies. 

I understand it's a good tank, but even factoring that in 1,500 seems insanely high to not get an Ace. The highest i'd seen before this was like 1,400.

I remember getting a 1.5k on the bourrasque and only getting 1st class, i still dont have an ace tanker on that thing XD

@ZXrage to be fair i checked my old replays and 1,495 in the Bourrasque was the same for me: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5487573#erlenberg-snoregasm2-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque. Crazy that 9 kills/4.5k dmg at tier 8 wasn't enough. I even got 9 kills again for a 1st: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5492652#mountain_pass-snoregasm2-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque.

I managed to Ace it since then though, thankfully: http://wotreplays.eu/site/5490759#fisherman_s_bay-snoregasm2-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque, http://wotreplays.eu/site/5490760#arctic_region-snoregasm2-bat_-ch_tillon_bourrasque, 

thank god they removed most of the beeping in the micropatch 

@Sylvansight but the beeping is the same category of sounds as 6th sense - not a great idea turning that off.

There's a big lightbulb or something appearing on screen at the same time?  

nice job bro, nothing shit about 3 marking a tier 10 with what i imagine are quite high reqs

3 marking is so funny. You spend so long trying to 3 mark something and when you finally get it they just keep on showing up and it's like "well, how did I get here?"

Thanks for the support guys. I picked the Prog 65 as: 1) I really enjoy it's playstyle; 2) I've 3 marked the tier 9; 3) It's getting nerfed soon; and 4) As some of you alluded to, it's actually got high requirements (one of the highest mediums I think). I wanted my first tier 10 3 mark to be "earned", not going and playing T-62A or something that has lowish requirements.

I feel like I can average 4k in decent sessions now (today being a case in point, despite the shitty W/R), so I'm hoping that this is the first of many.

What @TheChang said. Ideally iVents/iOptics/iRammer.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback. Played one game before the status with v stabs, but will switch up to vents. I do have iVents, but doubt i'll play it enough to make it worth applying them.

Vents will help as I have a less than 5 skill crew, so currently view range is 443.

Basically VR is key, you want to squeeze every meter (metre?) of VR out that you can. An ideal EBR setup is full purple equipment, with a crew with full vision setup, food, and vision directive.