Infected posted:

Infected posted:

rossmum posted:

Anime is for uncultured mainstream scrubs IMO

WitchFetish posted:

Eh, it looks good, at least

Missing Name posted:

I'm stuck on that loving "heavy go cap and also shoot things lots of times" mission.

HT-7. It sounds like some sort of chemical warfare designation. Nope, it's WG's latest psychological terror campaign.

xthetenth posted:

Important question: Can I name a soviet ladycommander Oktyoberskaya (sp?).

Illegal Carrot posted:

Anyone want to make a team for the next tournament? Registration ends on February 8th, and the tournament runs from the 9th to the 13th, with a 10k gold grand prize. Teams are 4v4 (with 2 reserves per team), tier 5 max.

http://worldoftanks.com/uc/tournaments/1101-Weekday_Warfare_5/

Subyng posted:

Anime is actually good* though

*not universally but there exist many good examples within the genre

Illegal Carrot posted:

The absurd part is that artillery has changed so little since then, despite all the money, feedback, and resources WG has acquired over the years.

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I know nobody gives a poo poo about my opinion on this, but here we go: Start by increasing arty's splash area of effect, lowering it's HP damage, increasing its module damage, and further decreasing its accuracy. Suddenly arty is less reliant on waiting 10+ seconds to perfectly aim its shots, is less likely to one-shot enemy vehicles, is less likely to score direct hits, is still rewarded for near-hits, and is better able to help the team by causing module/crew damage (ie shearing off equipment and stunning the crew). In any given match, arty should play a similar role as a KV-2 does in a tier 8 match: to damage enemy modules and chip off HP, while the brawlers and front line fighter do most of the actual heavy lifting. On the other side of things, non-SPGs would be less likely to get directly hit by arty, less likely to get one-shot by arty, less afraid to expose themselves to indirect fire, and overall less upset when actually hit/damaged by artillery. Increase arty's rate of fire, and include Battle Assistant by default, to make arty slightly less god awful and boring to play. Include a whistling noise to incoming indirect fire (some sound mods do this already) by default, so players know when they should take cover, and when it's safe to move up. Then hard cap arty to a max of 2 per team. This all might not perfectly solve the problem, but it's drat sure way better than what we have now.

Dalael posted:

*braces for the incoming hate*

Saint Celestine posted:

Hasso von Manteuffel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division, was interviewed by Basil Liddell Hart after the war for his book The Other Side of the Hill (1948).

"Tanks must be fast. That, I would say, is the most important lesson of the war in regard to tank design. The Panther was on the right lines, as a prototype." "...Fire-power, armour protection, speed and cross-country performance are the essentials, and the best type of tank is that which combines these conflicting requirements with most success. In my opinion the German Panzer V, the 'Panther', was the most satisfactory of all, and would have been dose to the ideal had it been possible to design with a lower silhouette."

Ensign Expendable posted:

Yes, also the engine. The later ones, after the kinks were ironed out and power dialed back, were still only as reliable as MS-1 engines from the 1920s.

Animal posted:

So whats the best artillery tech tree to complete the missions? I haven't played artillery since beta because clickers are subhuman scum.

Poil posted:

Seriously, is there anyone more butthurt than goons who are forced to have their delicate senses violated by anything anime?

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but considering the thread we're in goons do not really have any moral high ground beyond "tanks are less creepy than cartoon highschool girls"

Poil posted:

Maybe it's just me but it seems like anytime anything anime shows up here so many people get upset about it and start hurling insults and whatnot. Like the picture someone (on the WoT forums?) posted with their computer and anime posters and goons jumped at the chance to speculate about that person's hygiene and masturbation habits. It also seems a bit hypocritical since some here have proudly showed off the plastic tanks they've bought and put on display at their desks. As if there is much, or even any, difference between those behaviors.

Sorry that I wasn't clear, and probably still isn't.

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But the average anime watcher

Uranium 235 posted:

A Churchill III in North Africa disabled Tiger 131, which was the first intact Tiger captured in the war, and is the only functioning Tiger left in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_131#Capture

edit: Tiger 131 was used in the movie Fury

Prav posted:

I just remembered how big the cupola is on the AMX 30.



Yeah that 80 mm @ 73° roof won't do one bit of good. Just look at that loving thing. You'd think it was american.



And the mantlet will probably bounce most (but not all) shells, but the cheeks sure won't.

Vengarr posted:

I'm saying it's so generic and inoffensive by Japanese standards that moms play it.

And yeah, of course there's worse out there. You have no idea.

James Garfield posted:

Have you ever wondered what boats forum posters think about women females?

Context: forum poster is accused of being a feminist for suggesting that a boat movie might include a sailor's worried mother at home

In the same thread, they praise a Japanese film about the Yamato that includes women.

poster discussing a potential Bismarck movie posted:

I, frankly, miss the great war movies of the 1950s-70s that did their utmost to limit women to a supporting role and focus on the action. The drama involving Bismarck's story isn't necessarily a male-female one; it's a human tragedy on an immense scale. You don't need to inject a token babe into that narrative to make it sad and terrible and brilliant. Well... actually, it suddenly comes to mind that Saving Private Ryan didn't go that route, and it was both recent and superb. So there you go: I want Saving Captain Lindemann.

Vengarr posted:

I just don't know who is being serious anymore

Illegal Carrot posted:

But none of these changes have actually impacted arty in any meaningful way. In a tank, it's still terrible getting gibbed by arty out of nowhere, and as an SPG it still sucks when your shot whiffs and you're stuck waiting another 80 seconds for the privilege of clicking once on an enemy tank. No one is having any fun there, and the only thing those arty nerfs accomplished was slightly shifting the balance of who feels frustrated when, and how often. With the increased transparency and better understanding of game mechanics and hidden stats, as well as the development of Battle Assistant, Sword of Damocles, red ball/pole, and other arty mods, I'd bet that any competent arty player is in just as good of a position as as they've ever been. And with the inclusion of a wider variety of SPGs (ones that can reposition quickly, ones with a quick rate of fire, ones with near-vertical impact trajectories, ones with autoloaders, etc.) the entire class' mechanics have been stretched to the breaking point, with no real solution in sight. Again, I just want to know if there's any official word on the matter, if there's any end to the problem in sight, or if there's any potential solution to this that I might just be missing.

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Including you, we have three players, which means we'd need another three to have a full team. Deadline for signups is the 8th.

James Garfield posted:

What about the ships forum?



I know it's nothing that unusual but

Rorac posted:

Hey, check it. They've brought back the RNG videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4OGbtCljik

SARSfest posted:

Truly life is suffering.

WayAbvPar posted:

Well I have just been educated by this shitlord esteemed WoT player. He posits that win rate and stats are meaningless. Further more, win rate is only data, and that I obviously don't know the difference between data and information. And something about TOGs having to fight tiers 7 and 8 (although he was in a Matilda BP at the time, so I have no idea what that was about).

You learn something every day, I guess. At least people who can fog a mirror and point their tank gun at red tanks and click the LMB occasionally can. I am not sure most of the 'players' are even sentient any more.

rossmum posted:

The last thing the game needs is more loving TDs.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Tournament team get online.

srb posted:

I regularly see KV-5's with tons of ricochet marks on the angled turret front and on the front hull. You'd think the radioman would be obvious, but nope.

Prav posted:

Those normalization values are old. I think it's 5/2/0/0 for AP/APCR/HEAT/HE these days.

But yeah at >70 degrees you start to see huge increases in effective armor so you'll probably bounce. For instance, a thin 40 mm plate at 80° has an effective thickness of 230 mm, and at 85° it's a massive 459. Still, in the 70-75° range HEAT does offer an advantage - for instance 80 mm plate (MT side) at 75° is 309 mm, +~30 unmodified for the tracks, which gives us a ~50% chance to pen with a M62-T2 shell. You should probably try for a better shot, but sometimes a coinflip is the best you'll get.

Also remember that HEAT hates you and is always looking for an excuse to bounce.

Animal posted:

They are about to get slapped with a much needed view range. At high tiers, artillery pretty much dictates the battles, even though its not fun to play as and not fun to be on the receiving end (so why is it there?)

MoraleHazard posted:

I'm a few hundred thousand credits away from my first Tier 7 tank, the T29.

Animal posted:

Eh. I'll just keep the optics and train the loader on safe stowage. Thanks.

Prav posted:

I think I read that that's not actually happening and the 305 will be... well, god knows what. Maybe a mission reward tank? Or just mothballed.

Mesadoram posted:

So just grit your teeth and go balls deep in that grind.

Salean posted:

It prevents camping

buzzsaw.gif posted:

Am I reading correctly that we have playoffs tonight?

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/422555-skirmish-7-standings/

The lengths you have to go to if you want to find this information are just silly.

Valle posted:

The secondary requirement for mission 15 for each line is generally something that there's a very high probability will happen as you do the primary. Except the medium one perhaps, since that one's to stay alive. But I mean, do 4k damage in a TD as primary, secondary...kill a tank? That's probably gonna happen when you do 4k damage. Light tank 4k spotting, good chance some of that damage is gonna end in a tank dead, which is the secondary. For the heavy it's "win".