30s mobsters are known to be associated with made up cold war tanks>World of Tanks 2.0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTEkzHeiafg>Mafia BPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXh4_BnGMJQ>What is World of Tankshttps://youtu.be/AxXqRjI1AlA?si=kbfInj2xMrdAKbQh >Official sitehttps://worldoftanks.eu [EU]https://worldoftanks.com [NA]https://worldoftanks.asia [ASIA]>Guides1: Armor penetration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqVfdeGCov4 2: Concealment:Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEE7L7jXvI Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVWmHQVuVI3: Vehicle spotting:https://youtu.be/En0pkMs41X8?si=MTZmmUT4LZ5SjOZ-4: Damage blocking:https://youtu.be/MdGD7w1_xOc?si=bDuamk--ZGY4KCsO5: Introduction of Nations and Tank class:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLdX4uF0qNSfA6nXi3oH_QvkXyl2TJceN6: Crew guide for beginners:https://youtu.be/7Epw9DvEKLA?si=OT9f5aFH4LYmfF2b 7: Game settings guide:https://youtu.be/nbSS6WYfa94?si=6fVMe_Efg2JLWzoW8: Bond tanks reviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk6QFokQUjw>Resources1: Strategy planning tool, ideal for planning clan tactics:https://stratsketch.com2: Tank statistics and 3D armor models:https://tanks.gg3: Tanks and players' performance statistics:https://tomato.gg4: Tanks' rating and recommended pieces of equipment:https://skill4ltu.eu5: Unofficial game news sources, leaks:https://thedailybounce.net [EN]https://wotexpress.info [RU]6: Official game mods portal approved by WG:https://wgmods.net7: Monitoring service for game servers, used for checking whether servers are down:https://wgstatus.com>FAQs>How alive is the game?The game still has a considerable playerbase, peaking during Christmas with over 1 million players.>Is the game P2W?You can rest assured that if you are good, you can beat other shitters reliably. Shitters can spend millions and still get owned by good players.Previous: >>2225018
Posted literally minutes after this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf2r-jz_NvMLooks like we are getting T11 bong wheely, US turreted TD and classic French heavies Buffs 4 STK-2, contriver, 432U and imbattable
Which is best credit maker bond tank for f2p? I return to get from like 5 years hiatus and im getting rekt with my tier 10 and 9. I got 11k bonds, usually played light and medium sniper tanks but i got bored from it. Is tiger maus worth and actually made some credits?
>>2310330The tiger maus is a "get shot" tank If you wish to make credits you need a "shoot the enemy" tankLike the 122TM, 52 Lis, 130pm
>>2310519Well everything is get shot tank if you play bad enough. Also i already got leopard 1 and ru251, im sick of waiting in bushes. But if there is no other way then i have to play along and get 130pm
>>2310330>11k bonds, usually played light and medium sniperThe Soviet Skorpion thing, or Defender. Tiger Maus has a better turret than the actual Maus, maybe you'd take it for damage blocked missions and/or loving side scrape memes.>>2310616>Also i already got leopard 1 and ru251, im sick of waiting in bushes.Whatever that tiny french light tier VIII is for gold, if that's your thing.
>>2310155honestly, pretty excitingi really moved the AMX M4 54 so the fauteur might be interesting depending on its armor profile. Executor sounds really good too but i already chose the ashigaru as my high tier wheeled vehicle
>>2310330>>2310519The 122TM is kinda comfy, it's slow and has low dpm though.I'm running grousers and the cheap fuel consumables on it. Making pretty consistent profits.
for some reason i am vibing with the ashigaruthe lower top speed makes me play more carefully and getting 10k-20k profit off standard account (not running foods or firing gold) means i can go credit neutral.using the stay sharp skill to get 5% boost on demand with first aid kit helps me play without food too
>>2310953I have so few of the T10s that actually get T11s but the AMX M4 is finally going to be one of them so if it's not dogshit I might grind for itBeen tempted to get the E3 but if the Gorilla is actually good maybe I'll grind the E4 line instead
>>2311168for the tier 11 fauteur it really depends on the armor profile. the reason why i liked the M4 54 was being able to play aggressively around corners with the armored front and have a good chance of bouncing goldthe fauteur doesn't seem to have the lower plate that armored, which would turn it into yet another generic HT which i despise
>>2311185It would be nice if it had strong armor but if I'm honest with you I'm much more interested in the strength of the gun as that tends to determine the value of a vehicle far more. If the mechanic is undertuned no amount of armor is going to redeem it, and if the mechanic is overtuned then it can have paper armor and it won't matter.Also I'm cherry picking here but I never put THAT much faith in armor, the mle 54 has pretty great armor but there's always some degree of power creep that'll threaten it. Firepower > Mobility > Armor, or the survivability onion. It's better not to be shot at in the first place, good if you can avoid being hit, and alright if you can deflect the shell.
>>2311224>It's better not to be shot at in the first place, good if you can avoid being hit, and alright if you can deflect the shell.all true if you're pushing for good games and consistency.i don't really like playing like this though. having that mantra often translates to hulldown gameplay or bush wanking with near zero risk of retaliation which i don't find fun anymore, especially after 35k battlesi like dueling and actually interacting with other players. M4 54 lets me break that mold with how it is designed, which is why i'm cautiously optimistic for the tier 11.
Picked my three maps to blacklist>Sand River>Province>WestfieldFeels good man.
>>2311325For me its>Berlin>Studizianki>Fjords
>stage 30EughI hate low tier so muchThinking 5 stages "tomorrow", 5 stages Friday, and then get my Predatore I don't even know why I'm grinding this fucking thing though I already have the Progetto 46, Prototipo 6, and the Lion so why the FUCK do I need ANOTHER premium autoreloading Italian medium
>>2310155Holy shit, T11 E4. And the mechanic actually seems insane, segmented reload? That's really valuable.
How the fuck i play these German light tanks? Its not agile as EBR, can't burst insane damage in few seconds like auto loaders. Its big, cant hide, easy to shoot. My only options are peek a boo?
>>2311620I really liked the Luchs and the Leopard, and the 28.01 105 can be fun, but I am also grinding American/German/Russian tech tree lights, and they really seem to turn to shit at tier 6. Not great at spotting, not great at camo, no fun auto loaders or burst damage, just a meh popgun. I don’t think I’m gonna keep going down these lines, nothing looks appealing aside from the 152mm on the T9/10 American.
>>2311703The Russian one gets really good at tier 9 again. Or maybe it just suited me. The HWK is not special, but it's fine. It's more of a medium tank than it is a scout, though.
>>2311620German lights are not light tanks, they are medium tanks with crappier armor and guns
>>2311813Yeah, every light tank guide I look ends up with 0 damage and 0 spotting. Meanwhile sniper medium tank guides were more helpful.
>>2311583It's probably not going to be THAT insane, it'll be a ramping damage thing.If you fire 1/3rd into your reload you'll do something like 250 damage probably, 390 for 2/3rd your reload, etc. I'm sure it'll gimp your DPM heavily if you're doing it often. But it will be useful to have that flexibility to punish someone who's only going to be exposed for a few seconds while you're still on reload, or discouraging really low HP oneshots from trying to push you because you fired and are on reload since you only need to reload for like 8 seconds to kill them instead of the full 18~
>A new exclusive Tier IX vehicle, the Leox, has been added for both the Core and Pro tiers with a historical 2D style.neat, they're adding a bit more value for WoT Plus subscribers since like I said the TS-54 is a lot less valuable now that the E65 Zwilling exists
2.2.1 in a nutshell>buffs to the entire lines for the 432U/AMX67/STK-2/Contriver (except the already more than strong enough Canopener)>pretty significant buffs across the board>Panther 8,8 got a gigabuff to make it playable, Strv K also got buffed decently >bunch of map changes, Pearl River/Serene Coast and Klondike is random battles now>new indicator telling retards where to brawl because some players don't understand maps apparently>vehicle bans in Onslaught, so you can ban the Dravec/Ares 90 now allowed in Onslaught>the three new XI vehicles, no real info yet>Leox for WoT Plus subs>and finally, Frontlines again
>>2312314>panther 8.8 buffsUnexpected and welcomed change. I can run this as my third when my Gonsalo and ashigaru are in battle
Oh I glossed over it but WG had some real foresight for once with the tank bans, the rental tanks for this season of Onslaught come with 4 skill crews and pre-installed equipment as well as infinite consumables (like the infinite large repair kit)This means they'll actually be viable to run if you don't have the tank alreadyI already have the 140 set up but I might play the T57 Heavy a bitAlso means that brand new players can't be banned out of playing the match/you don't have people throwing because they only set up one T10 for Onslaught and it got banned and now they're playing a rental tank with no crew + no equipment The three vehicles means that even if your team bans your 140 and the other team bans your T57 Heavy you still have the Foch B to fall back on rather than being literally unable to play the match
If I get a battlepass reward premium that I don't want, like the tier nine Predatore, am I able to trade it in at the next trade in event, or would it not be allowed?
>>2312801>team is gonna end up banning my fv4005 that i use to have fun in shit ranksi hate it
>>2312929I'm sorry brother but I can't let the dreg shitters on my teams have access to the throw-enabler4005
>>2312959yeah i'll live, by switching over to the deathstar!vehicle bans feels pretty poorly thought out. there's a severe imbalance of teams with dravec vs without.the teams without dravec can't ban it out on their side because it requires someone to pick(?) it while the team using dravec will have zero incentive to ban it out themselves.what will happen is that people will ban out perceived throw picks like 50b, grille on their team, leo 1 on their team and the banned player will switch to fv4005 or a bigger troll vehicle as a spite pick.dravec meta goes brrrrr, but if this leads to it being nerfed eventually i'm down for it.
>>2312996Yeah I'm predicting1) a bunch of spiteful trolling when a shitter gets his tank banned2) teams with the Dravec to absolutely shitstomp teams without the DravecI need my last 3 banners so I have to hit silver, and I don't have a Dravec. This is going to be fucking miserable, I think.
>>2312928Just don't buy the 3500 gold improved pass, like do you really want the improved pass rewards that badly?Anyways - next trade in is unlikely, but they might eventually add it to the trade-in list Bit of a waste though the Predatore seems perfectly decent for a battlepass tank
>>2312996>while the team using dravec will have zero incentive to ban it out themselvesYou can't actually see who has what though, can you? I remember it being fog of war when I did Onslaught.So sure - you might not ban your Dravec, but that's just you blindly assuming you'll have Dravec advantage when the enemy team could also have a Dravec. It'll be an interesting prisoner's dilemma - do you ban Dravec to remove it from the match on both teams, or do you leave it and hope you have Dravec advantage?Also, two people can play the same vehicle right?So what if you have 1 Dravec, don't ban, and the enemy team has 3 Dravecs?
>>2313001to be honest type 5 heavy in city maps should club dravec players. premium AP and shooting down on them will fuck them up decently welldravec on wider, hilly maps like sand river though? makes a hard map even harder to make plays on, in my opinion.i'll probably roll with T5H, M4 54 and T110E5 to silver>>2313008actually i dunno. is the one for all skill any good?i keep forgetting about the fury skill assault medium like 430u and e50m that pumps up their DPM that can probably outduel a dravec in a straight fight.ARES might be good too. i don't have one but the onslaught modifiers seem to benefit it a lot. paper tanks like batchat 25t might be a throw pick when compared to ARES 90
>>2313019>to be honest type 5 heavy in city maps should club dravec players. premium AP and shooting down on them will fuck them up decently wellThat was my thought too. But I'm already planning my ritual suicide for when I roll sand river.
>personal gem Panther 8,8incredible timingwonder if it's worth it with the upcoming buffs but it's not like I really need yet another T8 prem
Uninstalled. I think for much longer this time because it wasn't a rage quit. Had 4 games in a row be 15-3 stomps while doing 2k damage. This shit is worthless. Games are decided in 60 seconds by who is going to peek first and get blasted for 800 hp, flank collapses and it's gg. This happens every other game, so boring.
>>2314333Once I hit silver at the end of this onslaught I’m probably going to take a break until next holiday ops. I usually fall off around this time of the year anywaysSpring is when other games starts releasing and being able to touch grass
What are the small orange/yellow circles that people are dropping onto the minimap? What do they mean and how do you do it? I don't have any mods that would be adding that, must be some new (to me) vanilla feature
>>2314841You mean these? They just show where enemy clickers are firing
>>2315822That’s it, thank you. So those are incoming SPG strikes? I had thought teammates were dropping them.As an aside, after coming back to this game from about ten years ago, I’ve always disliked arty and thought it was boring to play (except the Su-26 which was always fun). I’ve reluctantly started grinding towards the M44 to do arty missions and holy fuck is it awful and unfun. I don’t get how anyone enjoys it or “arty mains”. I guess arty got nerfed a while back along with the HE nerfs and they just suck balls now. Super inaccurate, just feels totally worthless to play and impossible to contribute to a match. I try to pay attention, read the map, keep situational awareness, etc, but you’re so reliant on your team that half the time I can’t even get one hit in before we fold. Higher tier arty seems fairly accurate, I get pounded pretty regularly in my upper tier heavies etc, so maybe it’s just this t5 m41 that’s garbo. But either way it’s incredibly unfun and boring.
>>2316017Not incoming but ones that already hit
I need help for picking my first bond premium tank (first premium actually). I need a good credit maker, I'm in between 122TM and Guard. I liked 122tm armor and damage but didnt quite liked slowness (and looks ugly). About Guard, i really liked camo, it has more camo than my German light tanks, good armor for medium, still slow tho and worse damage than 122. Idk if camo means anything at all these days.Also im open to pic related tanks.
>>2316017>I don’t get how anyone enjoys it or “arty mains”.Severe mental disabilities. Sometimes unironically.
>>2316482The Lis is probably the most all-round, conventionally attractive choice. Does everything a medium should, has good but not great turret armor with great mobility, good gun handling and alpha, good DPM, etc. I'd ignore the Strv which is just a premium Centurion I and I'd ignore the Chieftain which is not a very appealing offering either.The Mutz is a decent high DPM sniper with comfortable mobility and depression but lackluster armor and alpha.I don't have much of an opinion on the T-34-3 but it's probably alright>idk if camo means anythingIt's nice on something like the Guard, provided you get a map that accommodates it. Not every map is going to have good bush positions you can play.I wouldn't say either are that slow though - the Lis gets better HP/T and handles better but it still caps at 50, I guess the Mutz runs 55 but most of these are 50kph tanks. The 122TM is so sluggish because it has atrocious ground handling, you'd actually want to run Grousers on it over Turbo (gets you more speed) and it'd probably want off-road driving too. The 122TM isn't a bad tank since you're not always firing on reload but it does suffer a bit in turbo matches.If I had to recommend one it's probably the CS-52 LIS, or a toss up between the Mutz and the Guard if you like a more backline sniping playstyle from your mediums.
>>2316482For credit making your only good options are Su-130 PM and 122 tm. Tier 8 mediums are dogshit in general outside of the few meta autoloadersEvery other tank either have too little penetration to deal with meta armored tanks or fires too fast and eats into credit making potential. There is a reason why every F2P gravitated to SU-130 PM when it got released to bond storeSomua SM is pretty good too, it’s my go to for credit making but needs 4+ skills crew and enough gameplay knowledge to dump 2 full clips in a life before dying
>>2317150In terms of pure credits, the Tiger Maus has pretty respectable profit numbers on Tomato.ggI don't know if people are just spamming a lot of gold but the SU-130PM only rates 7869 Profit/Min (maybe bad players since it's so overplayed?)Somua SM rates 9510, 122 TM is 8815, the Lis is sitting at 8235, the Guard clocks in at 7973 (although the battle sample size is a bit small)The Tiger Maus is clocking in at a very respectable 24k battles recorded and a profit/min of 10251 as well as a pretty simple and effective playstyle + earning bonds as a T9 premiumHonestly I think the T9 premiums are pretty underrated in terms of earning potential, even the Char Mle is sitting at 9068 profit/min as a relatively difficult to play LT, the only bad picks from the bond shop for credit grinding are the T10 reward tanks that don't have improved economy.
