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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/07 17:50:47
Subject: World of Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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I've been playing World of Tanks (WoT) on Xbox 360 since the open beta last November and am completely hooked on this terrific tactical game. World of Tanks is a 15 tank per team single elimination (i.e., no respawning) tactical shooter that covers the period of tank development from roughly 1925 to 1952. Many aspects of the tank object modeling in the game are realistic, for example, front armor is better than side or rear armor, sloped armor is better than flat, and tanks have weak points like turret rings and ports, while other aspects of the game are simply video game mechanics to make the game both playable and enjoyable as a video game. Unrealistic game mechanics include things like repairs to immobilized tracks after a few seconds during battle and the the spotting and detection game protocols.
The game is free to play so as is normal for most free-to-play games the creators hope to make money on it through modest transactions for game upgrades and other items like premium tanks, additional garage space for more tanks, etc. Many of you are already playing this game and since it's free to play I encourage anyone who hasn't tried it yet to give it a go and see if you like it. If you do try it I think you'll find plenty of people on your Xbox friends list with whom to play it. Platoons of up to three friends may enter battle together on a team and work together in game, which is a highly enjoyable aspect of the game. World of Tanks is also a PC game for those who prefer to try it out there. The PC version has been running longer and has far more content than the Xbox 360 version.
If you'd like to learn more about World of Tanks specifically on Xbox 360 visit http://worldoftanksxbox360edition.com. At that website you can also look at your own game statistics and those of anyone else playing the game if you know their gamer tag.
I've been playing WoT both alone and with friends and have developed what I think is a pretty good meta-game at this point, analyzing what tanks are in each game at the start and adjusting my own tactics accordingly based on that information. Having platoon mates to rely on to execute tactical manoeuvres successfully in small groups definitely makes the game more fun and increases chances of winning.
So far I've managed to get my kill-to-death (k/d) ratio up to about 2.45 as of this writing. When I realized recently that it was already nearly 2.0 I quickly began actively working on raising it even higher. Working to achieve certain statistics and medals in WoT can become just as addictive as the game itself. There are dozens of medals to be earned, some of them much more difficult than others. It's certainly a fun aspect of the game trying to earn specific medals, many of which require a bit (or a lot) of luck as well as skill in order to achieve. There are even a few that can only be earned by being in a platoon, like Crucial Contribution and Brothers In Arms.
I recently had one of my best games ever of WoT. I was so excited about it I've been sharing the tale of it with fellow gamer friends. It definitely was not something that happens too often. A few nights ago I was in a game with my T14 tier V heavy tank on the map called, Cliff. There are usually two main fights on this map, one on a hill and one in a low area along a long narrow dirt road connecting the two team bases. The fight on the road usually starts with long range sniping and progresses from there as one team loses more tanks. Since tier V was the high tier in the game and I had a tier V heavy I decided to go to what is usually a close up brawl on the hill knowing my tank should be up to the challenge in this particular game.
When I rounded the hill I noticed two things. First, there were no enemy tanks there protecting that flank. Second, I looked up at the score and noticed my team was being destroyed as they were already down by a significant number of kills and losing more fast. I quickly decided on a risky gambit. Since I had no one to immediately stop me I'd race down the hill to the enemy base and see if I could ambush their artillery, tank destroyers and other vehicles in the rear of their lines.
As I began my race to the enemy base I noticed that a small light tank higher on the hill behind me showing on the game's mini-map began following me. Being light and fast he caught up to me easily and quickly began shooting my tank's relatively thin rear armor. To my surprise, my hit points did not diminish. Luck was with me as he did not have a powerful enough gun to penetrate even my rear armor or do any significant damage when he occasionally did. So I ignored him and continued racing to their base with him shooting me in the rear constantly as I did so.
When I got to the enemy base I proceeded to destroy the foes with the biggest guns and weakest armor first to take those guns out of the battle as quickly as possible. Even inferior foes can often destroy a much mightier tank easily if they are all shooting it at once from different directions hitting vulnerable side and rear armor so it's best to cut down on the enemy's numbers with alacrity. Some of the weakest armored vehicles in the game have some of deadliest cannons, like Wolverine tank destroyers and artillery. I destroyed the artillery first, then immediately turned on the tank destroyers. I began taking some damage, but thanks to my heavy armor, rapid manoeuvring and well placed shots I was able to take out every single enemy vehicle quickly enough to avoid lethal damage even though there were several of them firing at me at once. When I'd destroyed every other enemy vehicle in the immediate area I turned my turret to face the poor little light tank that had been desperately trying to stop me since I began this expedition near the start of the game and destroyed him too.
Now that there were no longer any enemy vehicles firing at me or immediately visible I was finally able to look at the game statistics and take stock of how it was going overall. I had killed 8 tanks and the enemy had destroyed 9. There was only one enemy tank left and he was far down the dirt road near which I was now sitting. I couldn't believe he was still there because he was near my team's base and my remaining five team mates down that way now only had to deal with the one tank. Nevertheless, he was still running around down there causing problems when I used the game's aiming view to get a close up look at him, so I quickly dispatched him too with a carefully aimed long range shot.
I got 4 medals for the game. Though I've had many 6 or 7 kill games at tier V and higher it was my first ever Radley-Walters's medal for destroying 8 or 9 tanks in a game with a tier V or higher tank. My highest kill count ever in a game was 11, but that was with a tier II tank destroyer. I received the Top Gun medal for having the highest score with 6 or more kills. I have 43 Top Gun medals as of this writing. I also received the Pascucci Medal for destroying three SPGs (self-propelled guns, artillery) in a game and the Steel Wall medal for receiving a potential 1,000 points of damage via at least 11 hits and surviving the game.
The enemy killed 9 members of my team before I wiped them out. I had wreaked lone tank for a tank vengeance!
I've been all the way to tier X during the beta testing, but didn't enjoy the game that much past tier VI. I still think tiers II through VI are the best, most exciting battles.
To those of you reading this who have already played this game and maybe even played it with me I say, thanks! If you haven't tried it yet I say, what are you waiting for?
See you on the battlefield!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/07 23:43:40
Subject: Re:World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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I too am thoroughly enjoying it. I have noticed that it doesn't have as much stuff as the computer version though. Only five maps and three countries and England doesn't have artillery or light tanks. Perhaps they'll release more at a later date.
I am a little annoyed at how much people hang back and snipe. I keep ending up destroyed immediately trying to spot the enemy.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/07 23:47:41
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Not as Good as a Minion
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Out of curiosity, which maps does it have? Or are they new maps compared to the PC version
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/07 23:59:30
Subject: Re:World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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Mr Nobody wrote:I too am thoroughly enjoying it. I have noticed that it doesn't have as much stuff as the computer version though. Only five maps and three countries and England doesn't have artillery or light tanks. Perhaps they'll release more at a later date. I am a little annoyed at how much people hang back and snipe. I keep ending up destroyed immediately trying to spot the enemy.
People hanging back at crucial moments you need them to move up is always a problem. I've played some games where my platoon mass assaulted right at the beginning in situations we knew it could work and with decent team mates jumping in we won the game in just 2 to 3 minutes. At other times team mates do nothing to take advantage of the mass spotting and confusion of the enemy and it's sadly a wasted effort. Yes, the PC version has a lot more content than Xbox 360. Out of curiosity, which maps does it have? Or are they new maps compared to the PC version
The maps are the same or in some cases are modified versions of the same ones from PC. Map names for Xbox 360: - Cliff - Mines - Malinovka - Sand River - Westfield - Province - Mountain Pass - Wide Park (I've been told it's called Town on PC)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/07 23:59:59
Subject: Re:World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Stormin' Stompa
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Malinovka, Sand River, Westfield, Cliff, Wide Park, mines and province. Which I guess isn't so bad, but compared to the computer version, it's a bit short.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/08 00:09:40
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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Certain maps also are only for certain battle scenarios or tiers. Province is only low tiers 1 to 3. Assault scenarios only appear on Malinovka and Sand River and are for middle to high tier tanks. Wide Park is for tiers 4 to 10.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/08 00:25:41
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Stormin' Stompa
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BrassScorpion wrote:Certain maps also are only for certain battle scenarios or tiers. Province is only low tiers 1 to 3. Assault scenarios only appear on Malinovka and Sand River and are for middle to high tier tanks. Wide Park is for tiers 4 to 10.
Province is a shame because i liked that map, but all my tanks are tier V.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/08 00:30:41
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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Province is a shame because i liked that map, but all my tanks are tier V.
Province is a very small map with narrow winding paths, so it seems it was designed just for lower tier battles. It is a fun map.
I keep a tier II and a tier III tank around because they are really fun to play with. The M2 Medium and the T18 Tank Destroyer both are really powerful at their tier when fully upgraded with howitzers. The T18 has better armor than most tier II vehicles including the tanks and it's tier IV howitzer tears everything apart. I love playing with it in rotation with my higher tier vehicles. Virtually no shots bounce at that level, it's all about skill and cunning and I can rack up huge kill counts.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/08 04:25:19
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Not as Good as a Minion
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You reckon the T18 is about skill and cunning? Is that meant to be rhyming slang for seal clubbing?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/08 04:43:15
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Death-Dealing Devastator
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I'm still learning the ropes. Get lucky sometimes, get blasted other times. My gt is AWellArmedCtzn if you wanna hit me up.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/09 16:59:20
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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WoT Xbox 360 has announced that they will be adding more tanks this coming week on Monday and Wednesday. Check it out at https://www.facebook.com/WoTXbox Tier II is less about luck than higher tiers because (mostly) everything can kill everything. There's less bad luck about running into something one simply cannot kill than at higher tiers because nearly all the vehicles at that level can damage each other.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/09 17:28:40
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Oberstleutnant
Back in the English morass
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Mr Nobody wrote:
Province is a shame because i liked that map, but all my tanks are tier V.
Duplicate theard but anyway...
The reason why Province was reduced to tier III and below is because it is a tiny sniper map. High teir tanks have view ranges larger than the map itself and its good fields of fire made it into a camping nightmare. I played it when it was on the standard map rotation and it was horrible (but still more fun than Dragon ridge....). Its not beyond the bounds of possibility that it will be reworked though, Wargaming have a tendency of dropping maps, redesigning them and then putting them back in the game. Automatically Appended Next Post: motyak wrote:You reckon the T18 is about skill and cunning? Is that meant to be rhyming slang for seal clubbing? 
I like the T18  It is a little bit on the strong side though, it is basically a tier 3 with less HPs, its also one of the few tanks that I don't use a derp gun with given how nasty the 2 pounder is.
Thats not to say that most people who drive one have a clue and its the player and not the tank that makes the difference (usually).
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/15 00:38:05
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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I really enjoyed it when I played, but I let my Xbox Live run out a couple of months ago and I'm not in a real hurry to get back in.
What have they added since the game came out of beta? I know I have several premium tanks unlocked from what I did in the beta so the grind shouldn't be *too* bad.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/15 02:23:45
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Not as Good as a Minion
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MrMoustaffa wrote:I really enjoyed it when I played, but I let my Xbox Live run out a couple of months ago and I'm not in a real hurry to get back in.
What have they added since the game came out of beta? I know I have several premium tanks unlocked from what I did in the beta so the grind shouldn't be *too* bad.
Premium tanks don't help your grind unless you are willing to spend gold to unlock the XP right?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/15 07:45:18
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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motyak wrote: MrMoustaffa wrote:I really enjoyed it when I played, but I let my Xbox Live run out a couple of months ago and I'm not in a real hurry to get back in.
What have they added since the game came out of beta? I know I have several premium tanks unlocked from what I did in the beta so the grind shouldn't be *too* bad.
Premium tanks don't help your grind unless you are willing to spend gold to unlock the XP right?
They get you silver and 5% of the XP goes to free XP automatically right?
It aint much but since I don't care for any tanks higher than the Tiger I and the Panther I'm not too worried about grinding past that, and the Premium tanks worked well for grinding anything up to Tier 6 at least as far as I was concerned. I'm not too worried about getting past that. playing tier 8 and higher was a snore fest.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/15 09:32:21
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Oberstleutnant
Back in the English morass
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motyak wrote:
Premium tanks don't help your grind unless you are willing to spend gold to unlock the XP right?
Premium tanks make more credits than standard tanks (and their repairs are supposedly cheaper as well), so in that regard they can ease your grind, they are also a good way to train crew due to their enhanced experiece gains. I have a few premium tanks (all of which I received through events or as rewards) and I rarely drive any of them.
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 04:13:40
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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The New Miss Macross!
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MrMoustaffa wrote:I really enjoyed it when I played, but I let my Xbox Live run out a couple of months ago and I'm not in a real hurry to get back in.
What have they added since the game came out of beta? I know I have several premium tanks unlocked from what I did in the beta so the grind shouldn't be *too* bad.
Just an FYI....according to the intro screen messages, you don't need an xbl gold account to play but only to buy in game gold currency. This is a 180 from the info given out over the past 6 months of beta. They recently added a half dozen brit lights and the easy 8 sherman medium T6 that weren't in the beta. They also have some sort of promotion to add another 4 maps starting next week from an email they sent.
And to answer the OP question, I'm having a blast playing light tanks and frequently outscoring mediums and heavies in damage with my Luchs. I did the other tracks during the beta but I'm definitely enjoying the scrappy do tanks much more. It is absolutely incorrect that lights should just kamikazee cannon ball run at the beginning of the match.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 04:29:19
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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warboss wrote: MrMoustaffa wrote:I really enjoyed it when I played, but I let my Xbox Live run out a couple of months ago and I'm not in a real hurry to get back in.
What have they added since the game came out of beta? I know I have several premium tanks unlocked from what I did in the beta so the grind shouldn't be *too* bad.
Just an FYI....according to the intro screen messages, you don't need an xbl gold account to play but only to buy in game gold currency. This is a 180 from the info given out over the past 6 months of beta. They recently added a half dozen brit lights and the easy 8 sherman medium T6 that weren't in the beta. They also have some sort of promotion to add another 4 maps starting next week from an email they sent.
And to answer the OP question, I'm having a blast playing light tanks and frequently outscoring mediums and heavies in damage with my Luchs. I did the other tracks during the beta but I'm definitely enjoying the scrappy do tanks much more. It is absolutely incorrect that lights should just kamikazee cannon ball run at the beginning of the match.
Huh, I'll have to give it a try and see if my Silver account will let me play. I hope it works, the controls for the PC are atrocious so I can only really play this game on the 360.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 06:04:50
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Not as Good as a Minion
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warboss wrote: It is absolutely incorrect that lights should just kamikazee cannon ball run at the beginning of the match.
I agree. Anyone recommending that should be wacked on the head with a BL-10.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 15:14:34
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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The New Miss Macross!
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MrMoustaffa wrote:
Huh, I'll have to give it a try and see if my Silver account will let me play. I hope it works, the controls for the PC are atrocious so I can only really play this game on the 360.
I hope it works as well. My xbl is expiring in a week or two and if the 360 version of Titanfall isn't great then I don't plan on renewing my membership.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 16:11:56
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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motyak wrote: warboss wrote: It is absolutely incorrect that lights should just kamikazee cannon ball run at the beginning of the match.
I agree. Anyone recommending that should be wacked on the head with a BL-10.
You haven't lived till you've been in a tier 4 max game in a Luchs and gone full slow at the enemy.
Nothing is as hilarious as drifting around a corner, "one shotting" a helpless tier 3, and watching the rest of the tanks panic and try to escape.
Plus, the Luchs is so fast and its gun has decent penetration, you can hunt tanks up to Tier 7 in it if you learn weak points. I memorized where the gas tank was on enemy tanks, and would just unload on it, catch the tank on fire, then circle it like a madman till I reloaded. That tank can really ruin someone's day if you knew how to use it.
I realize I probably only did so well in it because most 360 players were scrubs that didn't know better, but the Luchs is probably my favorite tank, with the Tiger I being a close second in all of its hilariously awful/amazing glory.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 16:48:45
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Oberstleutnant
Back in the English morass
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I think my current favourite is the PzIc. Extremely fast, good frontal armour (ish) and a hilarious gun. Its low enough tier that it doesn't suffer the usual light tank problem of flailing ineffctually against much higher tier tanks (the highest it goes is 5 and there are usually some easy prey to be had even in these games).
Playing against on tier opponents is great fun as you can kill just about anything, at least anything that doesn't have decent armour, in about half a belt. Its also a suprisingly effective rammer.
I got 8 kills in mine yesterday.......and my team only managed a draw.
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 21:45:23
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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I love rolling around the corner into a 1c when I'm in my AT2. I love being able to just ignore someone completely and fire over their heads, knowing that even if they get into my rear they can't hurt me ha.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 22:39:21
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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I fething hate those things - far too overpowered.
There's a reason I call them 'winwagens', and it's usually that the presence of one on the enemy team spells disaster for your own team, unless the driver is mentally handicapped. Two of them on a team, working in conjunction with one another, will win a match on their own in under 5 mins. They annihilate anything T2 or T3 regardless of armour, and can blow away T4-5 TDs, Arty, and light tanks, as well as the rears of some bigger ones.
They can reliably bounce shots, are stupid-fast... they completely suck the fun out of playing early tier. If you see a I C coming at you then you might as well just accept your death there and then.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/16 23:52:45
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Oberstleutnant
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I don't think that they are really. Yes they shred T2s (and British T3s) but their armour isn't all that good, its reasonable from the front and paper everywhere else. They also only work from very close ranges against all but the weakest armour and when you get into close range you have to expose your weak side armour. Speed tanking doesn't work as well as it could either due to the turret traverse being slower than the tank's turning circle.
T4s are very difficult to kill unless its arty or TDs and it usually takes at least 2 belts (with their long reload times) to kill meds. If i was going to spend 40k credits or so and get gold ammo then I could probably shred T4s but then its gold ammo. In an average game I probably hit with 80% of my shots and bounce 40-50% of those that do hit. A belt of 40 rounds with 33mm average penetration and 8 damage isn't all that scary.
Its certainly a good tank, by far my favourite machine gun tank, but thats mostly due to its speed as well as having enough armour to bounce nearly all autocannon shots from the front. There are some T3s that it simply can't deal with, the French mediums and Stuarts IIIs cause me quite a lot of problems to the extent that I simply avoid them.. T4 mediums, never mind heavies are nearly impossible from the front and even the side can be difficult due to their comparatively large HP pool.
They don't bother me much when I face them in my other T2/3s, although as my other tanks at this level are all premiums they have enough problems
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/17 01:56:57
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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They shred pretty much all T3 tanks, not just Brits. I've taken several tanks from every nation except France through T3, and the I C can tear each and every one of them a new-one without breaking a sweat. They're ridiculous.
At 4-5, they can only take on TD, Arty, and Light Tanks like I said, but their speed allows them to run rings around everything that could possibly be waiting in the rear; neither TDs nor Arty have anywhere near the turn or traverse speed to counter a determined I C, and most them lack high enough armour to be able to ignore it.
Then again, I might have just been hellishly unlucky in every game I've faced them, or stupidly fortunate in every game where they've carried our team just by doing their job.
I despise the feths, and will actively hunt them down whenever I get the chance. It's rare to find a game around their tier with enough players who recognise their potential, either, so you find them tearing through tanks who simply refuse to prioritise it as a target until it's racked up 6 kills in a row. It's the only tank I refuse to even think about using, purely because it takes the fun of a match-up, sodomises it, sets it alight, and beats a puppy to death with it.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/17 06:54:03
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Oberstleutnant
Back in the English morass
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Avatar 720 wrote:They shred pretty much all T3 tanks, not just Brits. I've taken several tanks from every nation except France through T3, and the I C can tear each and every one of them a new-one without breaking a sweat. They're ridiculous.
I suggest you try one, they are no where near as powerful as you think they are.
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/17 20:17:49
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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I'm kind of addicted to this game right now. Best free game ever.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/17 20:23:36
Subject: World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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The New Miss Macross!
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It can get frustrating at times though like when you repeated get stuck in a 5-7 tier game with your stock tier 5 tank but it is fun overall especially once you fully unlock and trick out tanks you like. Automatically Appended Next Post: Palindrome wrote: Avatar 720 wrote:They shred pretty much all T3 tanks, not just Brits. I've taken several tanks from every nation except France through T3, and the I C can tear each and every one of them a new-one without breaking a sweat. They're ridiculous.
I suggest you try one, they are no where near as powerful as you think they are.
Agreed... I actually found it to be substandard (bad pen and mediocre maneuverability) and went with a different Tier 3 tank as my goto choice for that tier.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/03/17 22:25:51
Subject: Re:World ot Tanks, Xbox 360 edition. Who's playing? What's your favorite tier? Favorite tanks?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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Just did some googling and now realize PC has Soviet, French, Chinese and Japanese tanks  Hope Xbox gets an update for those soon.
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