[MMO] World of Tanks

[gammaray]

i got my 11th tier X, the Amx 50B for 4 millions and some peanuts. Played a few games with it, not impressed so far.

 

[Possessed Freak]

i got my 11th tier X, the Amx 50B for 4 millions and some peanuts. Played a few games with it, not impressed so far.

The 50b is one of the few 10's that I kept. I am about to sell 2 more as I dislike them... the 50m and the waffle.

 

[stag3]

keep the 50m as it's being replaced or something

the waffle i hate but i burned a TON of free xp to get it

50b is a great tank, will be used a lot more post T57 nerf as it has apcr and is much faster
it's a 50 120 with more HP, faster and almost 10 sec shorter reload.

 

[PowerYoga]

The 50b is one of the few 10's that I kept. I am about to sell 2 more as I dislike them... the 50m and the waffle.

The 50m is being replaced it with something else when alternate hulls come out.

Also isn't the 50b getting a buff? Or is it just the t57 getting a nerf?

 

[stag3]

50b got the buff in 9.2 , aimtime reduced, it made a HUGE diff

 

[Possessed Freak]

I have finally found a high tier medium I like and it is the WZ120. Did the grind from 100% stock. It was completely useless until it got the best gun. Then it went to completely amazing.

I have been playing it recently as it is the only 9 I am grinding and a friend was playing 9s a lot. Then I tried for the medium mission for a bit. That is NOT going to happen. The frag count is killing me!

 

[stag3]

yea i kept my wz-120 after i got the 121
it's just so fun when people are suprised being hit for 440.
i've hit a few people for 500+ lmao

 

[datalink7]

Just had one of those games which remind me why I still play and enjoy this game.

Playing on Cliff in my JT. I'm top tier, but it is about 50 percent tier IX's so I'm not in a position where I need to carry (I don't think). I get into an aggressive position in my JT somehow. It's the western portion of the cliff where mediums usually rush to and duke it out. Usually something slow like the JT can't make it, but the opportunity presented itself and I did.

Anyway, I was duking it out at the corner when my other mediums died, and I was facing off against a T54, Patton, T54E1, and AT15. Luckily, in the previous fight, everyone had taken damage outside of me so they were all a one shot except the T54, and I was on about 1500hp. So none of them wanted to start the rush and die. I notice the T54 leave to circle around the mountain and hit me in the rear, and think I'm dead. I'm considering just rushing at this point to maybe take down 1 or 2.

I also notice my team is losing 2 to 7 at this point, with the western pass below the cliff completely fallen and enemies closing in our base.

Then all of a sudden a T61 on my team appears from behind me and rushes around the corner and kills the Patton. He immediatly gets ganged upon and killed by the E1 and AT15, but this gave me my opportunity. I charged out, Killed the E1 with a shot and rammed the AT15 to death. Turned back (not sure what happened to the T54 but he apparently ran into someone else), killed a Centurion 7/1 threatening the middle, Killed the T30 and AT15 Capping, then go hunt and kill the Arty for top gun.

Go from losing 2 to 7 with enemy capping to doing 5k damage, 6 kills, and stealing the victory back. Fun game

 

[BoT]

well done sir
I love my war turtle too

 

[Possessed Freak]

Had a great game last night platooned up in 9's. I was in my now beloved wz120. It was on Live Oaks. We just secured the bridges when we realized the team defending the city died a horrible and pubbie death. It became us 3 + a useless cowardly POS vs the world. We each already racked up a couple of kills, but in the end we had 13 out of the 15 kills. One of the team mates died so no BIA but we did get a crucial. We each did ~4k damage.

I was called a gold slinging noob when I fired ONE round of gold at the front of an AT15 when I was forced to go through his front at significant range (he was permatracking me). Sorry champ... if I was closer I would just aim for your weakspots.

 

[gammaray]

i play the at15 and the front is (at least 50%) weak spots. its front armor needs some love...


anyways, good job.

 

[stag3]

haha i <3 pubbies crying about gold, i just usually say "i'm sorry you're poor but i have all this gold and nothing else i can spend the gold on"

 

[datalink7]

Had a great game last night platooned up in 9's. I was in my now beloved wz120. It was on Live Oaks. We just secured the bridges when we realized the team defending the city died a horrible and pubbie death. It became us 3 + a useless cowardly POS vs the world. We each already racked up a couple of kills, but in the end we had 13 out of the 15 kills. One of the team mates died so no BIA but we did get a crucial. We each did ~4k damage.

I was called a gold slinging noob when I fired ONE round of gold at the front of an AT15 when I was forced to go through his front at significant range (he was permatracking me). Sorry champ... if I was closer I would just aim for your weakspots.

Ha, nice. I've never gotten a Crucial or a BIA. Then again, I rarely platoon as both of my friends who used to play WoT no longer do (out of near 8k games, I probably have 200 or less in platoons). I have one solo Radly Walters though.

By the way, for the AT15, here's a tip: shoot the gun mantlet. Normally, you wouldn't do this as that is usually a strong point for tanks. For the AT15, it is the weak point, and you can ALWAYS see it because he has to show it to shoot at you. Note that it's only the Center of the gun mantlet. Outsides are strong.

Center of Gun Mantlet is about 120mm of thickness. Auto pen from pretty much anything it meets.

haha i <3 pubbies crying about gold, i just usually say "i'm sorry you're poor but i have all this gold and nothing else i can spend the gold on"

Yeah, crying about gold is stupid. When someone (even those on my team) cry about gold I usually type something like "Oh no guys, he's shooting ammo at me!!!".

 

[stag3]

i've only gotten crucial 3x so far in 3+ years

 

[PowerYoga]

Kind of like the old tiger 2 gun mantlet then. I'd say that's more of a bug/oversight than an actual weakness tbh, but its nice to know the mantlet is an auto-pen. I normally just shoot the gigantic tumors or the flat armor, even at a distance its not terribly difficult to hit and 50% of the front is filled with weaknesses.

I'm still on the AT7, the thing is painful to drive and absolutely horrendous in cities. I don't really know where to put this thing, the typical TD spots are not very good because you have a low damage high DPM peashooter so you can't PAB.

 

[datalink7]

Kind of like the old tiger 2 gun mantlet then. I'd say that's more of a bug/oversight than an actual weakness tbh, but its nice to know the mantlet is an auto-pen. I normally just shoot the gigantic tumors or the flat armor, even at a distance its not terribly difficult to hit and 50% of the front is filled with weaknesses.

I'm still on the AT7, the thing is painful to drive and absolutely horrendous in cities. I don't really know where to put this thing, the typical TD spots are not very good because you have a low damage high DPM peashooter so you can't PAB.

Yeah you can see the spot here. This is a shot with the gun mantlet hidden. The gun mantlet is 127mm of spaced armor in the middle, and 101 at the side. That green spot? 0 armor. So you're only having to shoot through the gun mantlet, which is flat.

Also, the AT7 is a beast! I actually kept that tank. One of the highest DPM's, and it is amazing in the city in the right spots. You have to take advantage of the gun mounted on the extreme right.

Use it to get on the edge of a building and poke it around. This hides your tumor, so the only spots they have to shoot at range from about 225mm-300mm of effective armor, all the while you are pumping round after round into them. It basically has the Tiger I's gun, except it fires faster, and people already complain the Tiger I fires too fast.

In certain situations it sucks though. If it doesn't have a building or rock to hide behind, it's armor sucks, and it has no gun depression.

 

[Possessed Freak]

By the way, for the AT15, here's a tip: shoot the gun mantlet. Normally, you wouldn't do this as that is usually a strong point for tanks. For the AT15, it is the weak point, and you can ALWAYS see it because he has to show it to shoot at you. Note that it's only the Center of the gun mantlet. Outsides are strong.

Center of Gun Mantlet is about 120mm of thickness. Auto pen from pretty much anything it meets.

All I could really do was aim center mass at the distance I was engaging. After bouncing 2 I decided screw it...

 

[datalink7]

All I could really do was aim center mass at the distance I was engaging. After bouncing 2 I decided screw it...

You were either exceedingly unlucky or were hitting outside the green box (where it jumps to a lot of armor). Easiest place to aim (for me) is just above the gun.

 

[Skott]

I never apologize for using premium shells. WG let the cat out of the bag on that so people can go complain to them about it. Its legit so stop whining to me. LOL

 

[Possessed Freak]

I never apologize for using premium shells. WG let the cat out of the bag on that so people can go complain to them about it. Its legit so stop whining to me. LOL

I would prefer if it was a choice... more pen for less damage kind of thing. Had a batchat spam heat at my 183. He bounced every shot at he hit my tracks or mantlet. If he stuck with the default APCR I would have died much sooner.

 

[stag3]

yea for tier X's if the default is apcr i never bother with heat

 

[gammaray]

the solution to gold round is fairly easy, limit them to 10% (max) of total ammo count.

This way, all the players would have to use them carefully.

But this would probably be bad financially to WG, they could sell us t-shirts and shorts to compensate...

 

[PowerYoga]

seeing as how gold rounds are not a problem I don't see why you need a solution for it.

 

[stag3]

i don't see it as a problem either as everyone can get them for credits. it was an issue when it was bought for gold only as that was p2w.

it sucks that armor means absolutely nothing now but whatevers heh, just don't get hit

 

[PowerYoga]

not even that, heat rounds and apcr rounds face higher normalization factors than other tanks, so heat rounds have to pen more armor than an AP shell normally would, and gets eaten by tracks (sidescrapers), angled armor and spaced armor much more easily. This is made up by the fact that they have much higher pen values comparatively. The tactical uses are slightly different and they're not auto-pen.

but everyone can buy premium rounds with credit so I don't see the issue. If you don't use them on some strange moral issue then you effectively put yourself at a disadvantage for.... what exactly? .