World of Tanks

[Hawkwings]

Well, it's worth retraining your crew if they're above 85% primary skill, as you lose 10% when you train. If they're below 85%, you're better off buying the new 75% crew.

[Simon_Jester]

Not quite.

You lose 10% of their skill level by retraining, so the 85% crew would get (85-8.5)=76.5% skill.

Also, there's a floor: if you spend 20000 credits for the 10% loss retraining, they will not go below 75% skill. Even if they were below 75% to start with, no graduate of the "regimental school" training program is below 75%. So you never actually lose anything by retraining an existing crew instead of training a new one from scratch. Which is why I still have that segregated tank crew; they've gone all the way from a T2 Medium to a Pershing because I'm sentimental about them.

[OmegaChief]

The BT-7 was one of my most successful tanks, it's damn fast!

If you end up in a match where the enemy has some arty, you just hang back at your base a bit, wait for the mass of players to engage, then haul your speedy arse over to the enemy base, running rings around everything there while poking (Or in some cases ramming! You build up a lot of speed and you can even take out higher tier arty with ramming!).

Thier slow refire rate coupled with your great acceleration means that after they've inevitably fired a miss at you, you can stop for a few seconds to hammer off a couple of accurate shots before darting off again (Though note this can be risky, and not advisible if there are more defenders).

Of course after this you're in a prime position to cap the enemy base.

If you're in a game with no Arty though, you're best off just being a skirmishing nuicence, drawing fire away from your allies.

[xthetenth]

Oh, something fun to note, warplanes is going to be hitting closed beta on the 31st if they keep schedule. I don't care about tanks other than clan wars once that drops...

until the new game modes which should be next patch. Why do they put the good stuff out at the same time? Why?

[Zinegata]

The M103 seems to hate me a lot (40% win rate, ouch) but I'm finally getting the hang of it. It really played like an oversized medium with a big gun.

Also decided to get serious with the French taks and found the AMX-12 to be a smooth backstab tank.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Before I head off to bed, I have a real quick question here. I almost made an account earlier (now that I have a working computer that belongs to me again), and it said at the bottom of the page that you could download the game from the website. My question is, does that work as good as actually buying the thing in a store (assuming they ever sold it in stores...I don't know for sure). And how much space does it take on a hardrive? If both of those answers are good, I may end up making an account soon. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Simon_Jester]

About two gigabytes, and you need a fairly modern- oh wait you just got a laptop. It'll run this, although if it's an el cheapo laptop it'll run it badly. I should know, that's how I play it.

Downloaded game works as well as storebought, there's no licensing issues or anything.

[Scottish Ninja]

I'm actually at over 6 gigs - though that's with half a gig of replays at this point. Storebought just gives you some bonus codes which entitle you to some stuff (I think something like a week of premium, the premium T2 light tank, and some spare gold) - it's a decent value for what's in it, but if you're not sure you want to spend money you can just download it off the website without paying a dime.

[Agent Sorchus]

Actually buying it in store is just getting the auto-updater on CD and downloading the game from the web with a couple of bonuses to the account.

[Mr Bean]

So not been following world of tanks for awhile but I have a question. With the British tanks trailer dropping a few hours ago has there been any mention of the British tech tree yet? Specifically are they putting the derp gun of all derp guns the Churchill AVRE armed with the 290mm Petard Mortar in? That just might bring me back because the 152mm KV was hilarious and having something with six times the raw boom with half the range may bring me back in.

[Simon_Jester]

From what rumors I've heard, I wouldn't be surprised if the AVRE made an appearance- either as a gun option on the main tree Churchill, or as a premium tank.

But I can hardly say I know...

The one real problem with it is that its HE rounds would be so blatantly overpowered that you could really only match the AVRE up against top-tier armor and have it be remotely fair.

[Mr Bean]

The one real problem with it is that its HE rounds would be so blatantly overpowered that you could really only match the AVRE up against top-tier armor and have it be remotely fair.

Did I mention the 55 second reload time with a max capacity of seven shells, one in the tube six inside the tank?

[Vanas]

As I recall, on ye olde pre-pre-pre alpha tree, the AVRE was down as a premium SPG.

That said, I'd be suprised if you couldn't get the 150-ish mm mortar version on the Churchill VII.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Thanks for clearing that up. I'm on a bit of a nostaglia kick right now, playing the original Op. Flashpoint (what can I say...I went so long without a computer its the only game I have left for it). But I might get WoT soon, so if anyone is kicking around in Tier 1 they may see me. Not sure when exactly though.

[Simon_Jester]

Experiment a bit- see what kind of fighting style you like. Slow, tough and ponderous? Long range and snipey? Fast, agile, and battering holes in people's flanks?

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

Thanks for clearing that up. I'm on a bit of a nostaglia kick right now, playing the original Op. Flashpoint (what can I say...I went so long without a computer its the only game I have left for it). But I might get WoT soon, so if anyone is kicking around in Tier 1 they may see me. Not sure when exactly though.

I recently got a couple of my friends into this game, and I have more fun in the low tiers, so I keep a few around, my screen name in WoT is the same as it is here, so feel free to add me to your contacts if you start playing.

I have no idea if this is historically accurate, or even physically possible, but what I want out of the British line is this: Valentine with a six pounder. I love that gun on the Churchill, 30 RPM worth of accurate, 139mm penetration death, most of what you end up shooting with might as well be armored with butter.

[Vanas]

The Valentine's a T4 light. Can't really see the 6-pounder on it. Admittedly, it'd be hilarious, but still.

Also, the SDN chat room does exist, it just needs people.

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

^ Oh, I know it would be unsanely overpowered at tier 4, that's kind of the point. I like my Val, I really do, it murders everything it finds, right up to the point when I come up against an AMX 40, that's when the swearing starts.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Well, I went ahead and made an account/downloaded the game. Same username there, except it is Skywalker_T65 since I can't put 'T-65' in there. Should be on in a little while, though I'll get murdered being a noob and all.

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

Well, I went ahead and made an account/downloaded the game. Same username there, except it is Skywalker_T65 since I can't put 'T-65' in there. Should be on in a little while, though I'll get murdered being a noob and all.

Everybody gets murdered, I've been playing since last August and my overall survival rating is something like 22%. Granted, I do a lot of dumb shit, on the "fuck it" principal.

[Vejut]

Valentine VIII was the 6lb. version, at least according to Flames of War, and Wikipedia. One of the more military history oriented people will probably correct me if that's wrong. And yes, I agree--at tier 4, a valentine with the current armor load, plus a solid gun like the 6lb. would be VERY overpowered.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Finally started playing...and it is addicting! Fun, and hard sometimes...but DARN I didn't expect it to be so addicting...

[Zinegata]

right up to the point when I come up against an AMX 40, that's when the swearing starts.

The AMX-40 sucks horribly otherwise though. I had to drive one on the way to the AMX-12, and I basically just chanted "Vive le France" as the tank slowly crawled its way to the frontlines to die gloriously against anything with a gun bigger than 50mm.

[Simon_Jester]

I had a fair amount of fun in the AMX-40, because of how utterly indestructible it is against small-caliber guns.

I even got Top Gun in it once...

[Zinegata]

My AMX-40 tends to not see enough low-level foes :/

Hence: "Vive le France!" *marches to doom like obedient Napoleonic infantry*