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They need to add another Czech line so i can use the stupid blueprints I got and don't need

1 hour ago, PlanetaryGenocide said:

They need to add another Czech line so i can use the stupid blueprints I got and don't need

This.

WG logic - let's give everyone 30 nation blue prints for a nation that has 1 line that has been out 4 years+.

I used the first set to finish the 50/51... and then the other 28 or so that I have are just going to sit there.

Didn't even have the courtesy to convert them to universals, fucking trash

It's like a super-conq but faster with better pen, 440 alpha and slightly worse gunhandling (but still excellent for a heavy). Not saying it's indestructible, but it is clearly better than the super-conq, which is one of the better tier 10 heavies. If you don't think it's OP we'll just have to agree to disagree I suppose.

The 279 isn't indestructible either, but the fact that so many pubbies can't handle it gives it an automatic advantage. If it can quickly chew through a tank or two while taking no damage, either because the guys driving those tanks haven't got good HEAT ammo or because they don't switch until it's too late, the team with the 279 has a much better chance of winning.

Both tanks are OP for sure, and seem even more so because generally they are driven by the best players. Whoever thought giving the best players OP tanks should be fired on the spot. As should everyone involved who didn't do anything to stop it.

I think that's a good description and I wasn't saying it wasn't OP (it is), but if we're talking an OP scale the Chief is much closer to the Super Conq and a few other regular tier 10s (277, WZ, etc.) - in that it has obvious strengths but also exploitable weaknesses if not hidden - than it is to the 279, which is just RRR, press 2 and win.

I kind of agree putting OP tanks in good players hands is stupid, but there needs to be high tier rewards too. The 260 is a good example of a tank that has a lot of weaknesses to balance its strengths, and even its strengths are hard to use for a shit pubbie (speed, good turret but shit gun dep). More reward tanks like that make more sense, or the T-55A which again is really nice but not twice as good as a tech tree equivalent.

What makes FV421 over powered, is an accumulation of many different things. It has the things that Super Conq sorely lacks, such as reverse gear top speed and HP/T. This is incredibly important, and game breaking, because it allows the tank to deploy across the map and obtain key hulldown points, Super Conq or TE5 have no chances in getting to, needing a few minutes of driving instead. When getting to hulldown, super conq can still get shot in the face, as the areas surrounding the gun are vulnerable to prem  (285 effective-) but FV is nearly indestructible. Like, we are talking 35O HEAT from VK721 won't break it. Next, FV won't feel as out-traded, as it deals higher alpha damage and matches many tanks like IS4, 113, 43OU

The loss in HP, gun handling - can certainly be felt in flat maps that force close encounters, to which super conq DPM and gun handling feel alot better, but FV can still take med tank flanks, with great mobility. Lastly, it is important to note, super conq spaced armour glacis resists HEAT very well, but still gets hit by APCR from tanks like IS7, Maus, PzK Vll, Etc. Again, like its turret it is vulnerable to prem ammo, auto aimed. FV on the other hand, takes an approach like 113 or obj 268 V4, where the hull is extremely angled, promoting alot of ricochets. Not necessarily relying on thickness, but mechanics. This is whats really annoying. And its way too thick, to use HEAT to try to by pass ricochet angle. 

9O7A, 26O, FV421, 279E are not good at all for the game. All of them need to go.

lucky with the lottery? probably paid like 15k bonds for it.

He could have paid for it.

I know clans offered spots on their rosters, so long as you had the fitting tanks, and someone could play your acc for CW battles, you could pay for a spot within a clan and win the tank. Lot of running jokes, people paying three-four hundred US, for a spot for a campaign, then removed after. I am sure many of those were true, not just jokes

The tier 9 has a terrible alpha (like most of the tier 9 lights), which really makes anything other than ambush shots very risky for little reward. The 400 alpha on the tier 10 is a vast improvement.

The cars suck harder than other lights on city maps because they are far harder to control. If you try something clever you might end up ramming a corner and coming to a dead stop because you over/under steered a little. Or because there was a tiny bump that got you airborne and turned 90 degrees. I'd always prefer to be in my T100 than the EBR105 on a city map. But on an open map I'd take the EBR any day of the week.

Russian light tanks can double as meds, especially if +tiered.  For instance, T54LT is basically an armoured medium tank when facing shit like T43 or comet. As I said, those don't really count.

But compared with ridiculous shit like MTV, Bat Chat 12T, or HK12, or ELC Even.....being trapped in a city is horrible. At least an armoured car can sensibly zoom away, picking and choosing corridors and zooming down them 85km/hr, to which light tanks are incapable of. And when they come across skorp G, or SU-PM, they slap it for HE damage. 

Ever play himmels or Ensk, drive off cratered rubble or rubble incline heaps, an over turn your RU251, or panzer wagen or T-5O-2? Well armoured cars maybe take 5 dmg from the small jump, then if overturned they right themselves up and everything is A-okay.  LT time out or are stuck on their side. Added plus of course, is no tracking.

Even at their worst, ACs are better than LTs, because LTs are even worse than that worse. Except RU LTs, which basically are meds. 

I'm just giving you my experience man. As someone who's played a lot of lights and now a bunch of armored vehicles. And my experience is that it's better to be in a light tank in a city than a wheeled vehicle. Your opinion may differ, but it might be skewed since you, as far as I can see, don't have any games in the wheeled vehicles.

The main problem is maneuvering, hitting random walls and corners coming to a dead halt if you miss your turn doing those 80+km/h drives you mention. And then having to back up, turn, go forward again. 

I'm not the only one having problems steering the EBRs. I was watching Daki last night on Twitch. He drove his EBR through the trench in running through the middle of the new Kharkov (or whatever it's called) map. He's played wheeled vehicles a bunch and is a far, far better player than I can ever hope to be, and even he was hitting the wall and almost flipping driving down the trench. They are annoying to control and it becomes far more of an issue in a city.

Another problem I have is overshooting. Which is probably something I'd get used to and compensate for, but it's still a problem I don't have in lights that becomes apparent in the wheelies. If I drive past an opening (a street) and plan to shoot a tank I know is there, I often don't manage to break in time, go too far and either miss my shot or have to back up. Again, this is something that will be less of a problem with time, I guess, but it's still annoying.

Not whinging about wheelies on city maps, just mentioning a few reasons why I'd always prefer to be in a light tank than a wheeled vehicle on a city map.

The EBR 90 is pretty shit to be honest, compare it to the EBR 75, there is not a tier difference of stuff there. 

Really the only WVs that are decent are the premium and the tier 10, all the rest suck, they lack too much gun power to actually compete and are not fast enough to avoid fire consistently, despite the whines from the bot masses.

The EBR 75 has a gun that basically competes with the best other tier 8 lights have (if not better because it essentially pumps out 350 alpha), that together with its speed makes it competitive. The tier 10 is the fastest, with the best camo and is the only one with the usable view range, so that allows it compete despite its shit gun.

The 90 has a gun barely any upgrade on the tier 8, with low alpha for tier 9 and you get like 5kph more speed than the ER 75, meaning its not fast to avoid fire as well because as you go up the tiers gun handling improves and shell velocities improve, so for 5kph more top speed you are facing more APCR standard rounds and tanks like the IS7 that can snap full turret with virtually no bloom, and you are still pumping out 240 alpha with crap DPM and have crappy 330 view range. 

You just have to get through it, the tier 10 is a massive step up because you get 390 alpha, the 520 alpha HE, the bigger jump in speed, camo and view range so you can have more of an impact in unfavourable maps. 

Yeah, I figured as much. I think an EBR75 with 200 more HP would be superior to the EBR90 in most ways. Slightly worse pen but better alpha (well, -ish, with the clip), better shell velocity, better aim speed and better gun depression. 5 more KPH isn't really noticeable. It does have 20 meters less view range, which would be the only downside.

I'm almost done with the EBR90. With the bonus xp for the premium account, some 5x wins and blueprints the grind on a tier 9 doesn't have to be what it used to. I have a terrible WR on this one, but with such few battles that's just the way things go when you get Ensk, Ruinberg, Tundra and Mountainpass in a loop one evening and only two games total on Prok (both Ace Wankers) and one on Campinovka.

I rarely play tier 10 tanks, but I'll sell the 90 in a heartbeat and pick up the tier 10.

I am actually thankful for the cars. As much as I ranted about the Japanese heavies, the P2W prems, and the V4 - I kept playing - it was the cars that finally flipped the WASD Tank switch off for me.

I have not and still don't get the fuss people make about them, they are really not hard to deal with and IMO they help break those OP camping spots, and seem to mainly camping TD players and arty players, they have improved gameplay IMO, too many maps infested with OP TD camping nests where they get all the advantages but WVs actually can yolo spot them and they get arty spotted and killed more often, so whats not to like. 

That's like using AIDS to fight cancer, IMO. The TD nests are a problem, sure. But cars are not the solution. Removing the idiot-prove nesting grounds is.

The trouble with the cars is that on some maps they are OP as hell. On others you can barely drive without bumping into a building or flying off a rubble and ending sideways in front of the baddies or are stuck in a corridor fest with no way of being useful.

And then remember you don't have LT15 selected.

Exactly. I have the 260, but had some other mission I didn't have the secondaries for selected. And I don't have the LT15 for the 260 with secondaries -_-