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  1. Expendable_Lad
    Thing just smashes. On the armor-mobility-firepower scale it shows up across the board. Punishes mistakes relentlessly. Gun can still hit weak spots at med range (.44 accuracy compared to Caliban's .58!) Like I had a croissant themed camo for the M4 Revalorisé so picked it up. Yeah it's a D+ tank at the best of times, but it's 200mm pen gun cant reliably pen the lower plate of an Arnie. It pays massive prices for 390 alpha and shell velocity. Bourr is OP, but still takes a modicum of work to play. And yes, I play tanks based on the custom camos I have for them. Wannafightaboutit?
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    Just had a 110 game. 4.1k damage in BT X and ZERO critical damage done. Weird. 

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    Agree with Sr about the ShPTK but I think Charioteer is a great, balanced TD that rewards smart play, mobility use and ammo selection. Solid, fun, and balanced tier 8 TD in a class and tier with a ton of lazy, repetitive gameplay models. Just finished grind with 65% WR and 2300 DPG. I'll take that in anything I am solo grinding at tier 8.
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    Do you and Crab have thoughts on when your LT is just outclassed for the vision role? Was on Glacier running T49 with full ninja setup. Went to the mid-eastern spot - completely outdone by enemy Manticore. Didn't even spot him, but was perma lit behind that big rock and got taken apart by his team. When you have a situation like that (you in T4 9 and see 60% Manticore player on enemy team) do you just load gun setup and play that way? What's the move there?
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    Yeah, that's about my take too. Maybe I'll try the French heavies now, but this just seems like it will make the Kran more frustrating to play while still being frustrating to play against.
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    Just picked up my first SWE siege mode-tonk. Do I just paly like a normal TD? Is siege mode a PITA? Appreciate any tips and "wish I woulda knowns" from team Wotlabs. 

    1. echo9835

      echo9835

      Be sneaky. Camo nets are your friends. The turbo increases siege mode speed. Getting spotted is almost always instant death.

    2. kolni

      kolni

      Really long firing lines is key and knowing your effective camo gets more important as it decides when you have to move

       

      These are tanks you don’t move in unless you have to, it’s better to remain in place on losing flanks and run late than the other way around 100% of the time which is wrong for just about everything else, so it takes some getting used to

      UDES and 103b can actually keep up with most of what you play against in mobility so it’s better to squeeze damage and take a risk than not

  10. Expendable_Lad
    100% this ^^. The mobility lets you really choose what trade you want to get into with your HP. Not great anything, but situationally solid against almost anything in some way (quick double track, depression, heavy-level of hp, etc.) and the ability to relocate means there aren't like "bad" maps for it. Just don't go head to head with tier IX/X heavies with the lack of gold pen. Wish it took me less than your minute to get used to. But really hitting my stride: 9 games today with over 2.9k dpg. One part of the X-factor is people don't seem to think the tank is much of a threat. And judgi
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    Figured I'd ride the on-track running heavies for the nation whose greatest military accomplishment of the last hundred years was conquering 500 potato farmers with pitchforks in Albania in ww2. I actually did the stock grind. First 20 games took some getting used to, but last 15 games have been 2.5k dpg-ish. My notes on the Tier VIII Decent 220 pen standard on top gun works in tier, but poor gold pen of 242 really gimps you. You can't just gold your way into successful half-aimed shooting. Optics puts it around 460 VR with a full crew and food. Running rotation and going b
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    Still think you're a madlad for making the Patton work. Hey, would you and @CraBeatOffcheck this replay out? Like 3.8k combined on Sand River. BT IX. Full vision kit HWK. Like things went OK - but feel like this replay will tell me why I'm stuck at 90-93 on my 3rd mark. http://wotreplays.eu/site/6242303#sand_river-expendablelad-hwk_30
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    Nice dude - what's the 1v7 strat? Won 85% of 7v1, but man, a bunch of games where 3/4 teammates go down early and just scramble to do much. Strategist friendly map seems to be Mannerheim. Siegfried Line field really seems to get shut down by watchtowers too. Massive defenses tucked into a small space and pubbies who can't resist poking meds and soft tanks into the face of heavy TDs. Had two teammates with zero damage last game - against bots and installed defenses...
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    Solid comments. 7v1 available now. Going pretty much as expected. Lost to strategist once because pubbies are shit, but whatchagonnado? You can play your OWN tier Xs when going against the strategist. Can make a lot of creds 20-140k+ per battle (plus a 20k mission) and xp for your Xs - but you have to pay for your gold ammo, kit, etc. So if you want to credit grind, think hitting your shots and/or high normal AP pen tanks XP is pretty low - like 500ish per game - kind of like PvE experience in World of Warships Great for getting a feel for new
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    Hey Gang - Figured we'd start a sesh on the new Art of Strategy. Played a bunch of Strat v Strat when it opened this AM. It's all strategist vs strategist for a few days while everyone gets used to the mode. Here are a few takeaways: AI is dogshit. Tanks are so easy to get caught out and just get smashed, especially mediums and soft tanks. Selecting tanks like a Leopard that requires really tight play is a tough one for the AI to handle. It's so easy to forget orders. I default to the defensive mode at the start of battle. You controlling a tank turns it into a psych
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    grinding out a few arty missions this AM. I have now played 18 games of tier X arty in my entire WoT career. But one thing about arty at tier X - you can still make decent credits (!?) netting 30k+ a game in the 261 at like 2k damage and whatever that arty stun assistance thing is. Crazy. 

    1. Ham_

      Ham_

      If your games aren't a solid 3 minutes long that is

    2. Expendable_Lad

      Expendable_Lad

      @Ham_can't deny that. But just had a game on lakeville - 2k damage, 3k stun assist (nothing too crazy) - 60k gross silver - 40k net, plus the bonds. With a credit booster that would be 70k net. 40-70k net is a decent game in a gold-spamming T8 premium. 
      Just had no idea the arty economics at Tier X were so good. 

  25. Expendable_Lad
    Also- I have to call out that brawl skill on the k-91 for the kids: You drew the K-91 between you and their char, put your ass to the hill so you couldn't get shot from behind by the prog, then chased into the wreck to cover your side from the char again. Textbook play from a tank designed for that kind of wetwork and you barely got scraped from it all. Yeah you got stunned to 50 IQ by arty the whole time, but super clean play.
  26. Expendable_Lad
    Would you have played a solo LT (say a Ru251) this way on Fjords too? A common solo pattern on maps like Fjords, Mines, abbey is a pathological aversion to competing early key zones (dip/ctr in Fjords, hill on mines, etc) that risk an early 0 damage derp out. Then I just fight for chip spotting and damage on the periphery for the rest of the game. Pubby LT opponents = zero problem yolo-ing those zones. Me, nossomuch.
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