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WHAT!!! Where is my T-34-85 100mm!! I loved that gun

Victory!
Battle: Widepark Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:37:45 AM
Vehicle: PzKpfw IV
Experience received: 2,072 (x2 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 21,424
Battle Achievements: Top Gun, Mastery Badge: "Ace Tanker"





Could've been more room for profit I think but that's still pretty good performance-wise, it's really gonna suck when they get rid of the L70 on this tank.  Also finally traded up to a Tiger II, here was my last round with the Tiger I:



As for the Tiger II, I had a bad start with it in nothing but Tier X games but now I'm kind of getting the hang of those games.  The tank also makes some money in Tier VIII-topped games so I think I might like it even with just the 88, although the lack of penetration and damage is increasingly becoming a pain in the ass against similar and higher-tiered tanks, I can't wait to get the long 105 for it but I'm quite a ways away from that, I don't even have the suspension yet.  I LOVE the armor, it's about damn time I'm able to bounce anything at all off the front with a heavy, I even made an IS run away when he bounced, SO AWESOME, lol.  Supposedly when accounting for slope and all, the front armor is actually worth about 230mm so it's pretty solid as long as nobody aims below the glacis

To hell with this game anyway, stopped playing it the previous patch.

I'm downloading all the stuff for it now, I hope it's not clogged with retarded 13 year old Russians but I won't hold my breath

Maybe the new PZIV won't be that bad;
"Also be sure to try out the Panzer IV. The new turret looks awesome and they really buffed the 75mm. Not to mention it literally drives like a T-54 now.
Tons of fun if you're like playing low tiers every now and then."

coke wrote:

Maybe the new PZIV won't be that bad;
"Also be sure to try out the Panzer IV. The new turret looks awesome and they really buffed the 75mm. Not to mention it literally drives like a T-54 now.
Tons of fun if you're like playing low tiers every now and then."

I played a round in it on the test server with the new stuff, I didn't get a chance to really test the improved L48 that much but the tank was much zippier without the immensely heavy Schmalturm, if I remember it was like 4,000 lbs heavier than the first turret, that's a huge weight increase for such a small medium tank.

I also didn't really get a chance to try out the new turret extensively either with it's new spaced armor skirts similar to the Super-Pershing's turret skirts but I've heard it barely makes a difference, and they're leaving the side gates on the skirts open for some dumbass reason.

People are saying middle or end of the month.  I'm leaning towards the end just because this particular patch is so big and has so much stuff to troubleshoot and change based on people's opinions of certain new features and tanks and whatnot.

I went down the jumbo sherman line. Shit is so cash, got hit 72 times before dying. Got 3 kills.

You wont encounter too many Jumbos with a tier 8 tank, but when you do they don't survive at all.

_j5689_ wrote:

6s are in the two tier-spread for 8s so I've seen plenty of them, I just wish I had more alpha to snatch the kill away from other 8s or at least.

I'm considering just saying fuck it and getting the short 105 instead of the turret for my Tiger II but I don't know yet.  People say the upgraded turret makes a big difference but I've never been able to penetrate a Tiger II on the front turret armor even on the stock turret and people don't even seem to try to on me either.  I'll probably do it anyway for the HP and the faster reloading

Trust me get the turret.

Looks like it is pretty easy to penetrate after all, all three of these shots were either from a T32 or a Tiger I which don't have particularly great guns in terms of penetration against typical Tier 8 frontal armor but that's apparently still plenty to penetrate 100mm of what I think might possibly be considered sloped armor maybe in addition to the 80mm+angle on the side which I think is more well-exposed on the front of the stock turret.  The turret shots were head on and the hull hit was probably from about the angle it is in the pic where the turret would be facing towards the tanks

Either way, bad turret is bad.  Going for the 2nd one first definitely

They've temporarily re-opened transfers to the SEA from the NA server:

http://worldoftanks.com/news/1600-accou … round-two/

Pretty beneficial for Aussies & Kiwis who haven't really laid down any roots on the NA server.  They're about to start opening up Clan Wars on it soon and supposedly the server is rapidly growing, especially once everybody switches over.  I've also heard on the forums that the NA server will soon no longer officially assist Australian/New Zealand players because that is switching over to the SEA server's priority.

Not sure if we have any Australian or New Zealand players on here but thought it might be helpful anyway

8.0 Update is now live!

http://worldoftanks.com/news/1625-downtime-80-update/


updating, can't wait to try this out.