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Those mother fethers have finally released a Soviet tank: the KV-5 but it's a premium tank. They say it'll never be available by normal route. That's a pretty famous tank to not let people get. Is it a premium tank on PC too?


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Anyway, the M4 Sherman is the best tank I've ever used. It does everything well.

Yupp, the KV-5 is a premium tank in the PC version as well. It's a bit of a mixed bag though. It's insanely well armored but has an iffy gun and pretty glaring weak spots.

There's a "hunt for the KV-5" promotion right now as well as promotion on the British AT series of tank destroyers.

Details at https://www.facebook.com/WoTXbox

Anyone's view on Crew Training? Tips?

We have one poncey British captain named Marmaduke who's taking forever to train. Typical public school mediocrity I reckon, he shoulda surely learned more than he has, the number of times he's been blown to bits in a Covenanter (he's now in a Crusader but is just as dim).

My german commanders seem much brighter, as does my AT8 commander.

Tips in terms of what, what is good on the crusader? Or in terms of is it good to have in general?

motyak wrote:Tips in terms of what, what is good on the crusader? Or in terms of is it good to have in general?

What gear or what is good about the tank itself? If you mean gear, I use mine as a scout tank with some punch so I go for camo, optics, and binoculars. I rush up to the middle into cover and spot/fire while stationary (but not into the enemy on a suicide run). I train sixth sense and relocate if spotted myself. Fully upgraded, the ROF on the gun is ridiculous so you don't need a rammer. I could also see pure maneuverability to be of use as well.

Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:Anyone's view on Crew Training? Tips?

We have one poncey British captain named Marmaduke who's taking forever to train. Typical public school mediocrity I reckon, he shoulda surely learned more than he has, the number of times he's been blown to bits in a Covenanter (he's now in a Crusader but is just as dim).

My german commanders seem much brighter, as does my AT8 commander.

I think surviving is key and it does make sense considering if your tank blows up the crew is dead and it's hard to learn much from that. I have over 300,000 elite XP on my Luchs and it wasn't even at 100% when the crew features got added but other tanks at less than 50k could pick a skill. I run my lights aggressively (but not suicidally) so they tend to die more often than my TDs.

 motyak wrote:
Tips in terms of what, what is good on the crusader? Or in terms of is it good to have in general?

It was mainly what people go for in terms of training; especially on the Crusader. Tend to go for BiA here, sixth sense, will probably go for Camo on the jagdpanzer 4. But in the main, how are people finding training crews?

IN terms of the thread title; having great fund with Churchill VIII, AT8, VK36 grossturm with 88. Quite like the Jagdpanzer IV (missing the Hetzer, that ws a great tank). Suffering with a low iteration of the VK 30, and getting blown up a lot in the Crusader depending on the map . Last night racked up 3000 on the VK36 but struggled to reach 1000 with the Crusader. Some of the best, most productive games were the AT2; last man standing, and carried the game twice. \

Warboss, thanks for the heads up, seems you get half as much crew experience if the relevant member is killed.

Crews are underwhelming. That bar just doesn't move. I've been having a lot of good games lately including somehow getting 5 kills with a Stuart. It just doesn't move and of course it basically resets when you transfer them.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Crews are underwhelming. That bar just doesn't move. I've been having a lot of good games lately including somehow getting 5 kills with a Stuart. It just doesn't move and of course it basically resets when you transfer them.

It does ever so slightly and less with each level as the threshold increases. For instance, I needed 8% for my Churchill I's first skill unlock and got three percent on a loss and levelled up on my next game. If you go into the crew screen you'll see the progression. It won't go any faster but at least you'll see the minuscule progress.

I got some tanks unlocked just can't afford them silver-wise. Think I should get the AT8 or the Churchill VII?

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I got some tanks unlocked just can't afford them silver-wise. Think I should get the AT8 or the Churchill VII?

I have both, and love them both; obviously the Churchill is more versatile, but it's the AT8 that's a real beast. I'd personally recommend the AT8, unless people know your weak spots it can be invincible.

Maybe you should go for a contrast with whatever else you run, if you have lots of tanks, go for the AT8, if you already have a good number of assault guns, choose the Churchill.

I went for the Churchill. Still trying to finish off the Heavy Captain acheivement. I'm at the point now where it's a lack of silver holding me back not exp.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
I went for the Churchill. Still trying to finish off the Heavy Captain acheivement. I'm at the point now where it's a lack of silver holding me back not exp.

Get used to it, this problem will dog you until the end of your (WoT) days.

Should I go for the M4AE8 or the M4AE2? The E2 seems better.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Should I go for the M4AE8 or the M4AE2? The E2 seems better.

I've enjoyed my E2 on the PC version of the game much more then the E8.

The answer is depends on what your intended playstyle is. The E2 is the uparmored variant and the E8 is the upengined one. Both are the same offense. The "jumbo" e2 without the fully upgraded gun is second only to the brit ATs in armor but is slower than a normal m4. The "easy 8" e8 is faster and more maneuverable especially in terrain.

I'll go with the E2. Rather go slow and more armouredly.

So what does everyone think of how this game is running on Xbox 360 since the last update?

Personally, I like some of the changes, but I miss the old scoreboard at the end of each match that told you exactly which tanks you damaged and spotted, how much you did to each one and which gamer tag owned the tank.

My friends and I are also getting a lot more frozen screen glitches during matches since the last update.

I think everything is better. One thing is I'm shooting a lot more tanks I can't see because that popup comes up everytime you hit something. So sometimes if you have the approxiamte location of a tank you can't see you can lob some shells in there and you'll know you have a hit even if you can't see it.

Only bad thing is in the new after action report it doesn't tell you what the bnadges you've earned are but you can look that up afterwards.

My only complaint is that they got rid of the return of the countdown clock at the beginning of the match. I keep loading a few seconds into the match and miss out half the time on that all important initial rush out of the base with my fast tanks. Other than that, I really like the changes.

 warboss wrote:
My only complaint is that they got rid of the return of the countdown clock at the beginning of the match. I keep loading a few seconds into the match and miss out half the time on that all important initial rush out of the base with my fast tanks. Other than that, I really like the changes.

You don't like that they have it or they don't have it? They have it now and it's a good thing because it lets everyone get a few more seconds to check in.

Apparently I load in too late because I never see it. I did PRIOR to the last update though for a couple weeks but it disappeared for me that day. I liked the countdown. I may have to try deleting everything and redownloading to see if that helps again.

 warboss wrote:
Apparently I load in too late because I never see it. I did PRIOR to the last update though for a couple weeks but it disappeared for me that day. I liked the countdown. I may have to try deleting everything and redownloading to see if that helps again.

Probably something to do with your connection speed. I usually check in with 3-4 seconds to go.

Since you don't download the level on the fly, I think it may have more to do with the hard drive loading speed. I've got an older model xbox (an original "elite" and not one of the newer slims).

I've got an old Arcade model so not sure that's it either.

After finding out in this thread (thanks!) that the countdown does still exist but I'm just unfortunately missing it every game, I deleted the game and redownloaded it and it seemed to work.

Been playing WOT on the PC for a long time. Last time I looked I was past the 10,000 battles mark


Still love the game but hell to paying for it

 warboss wrote:
After finding out in this thread (thanks!) that the countdown does still exist but I'm just unfortunately missing it every game, I deleted the game and redownloaded it and it seemed to work.

Now, that 2 extra seconds of lead time with your light tank will get you killed 2 seconds faster!

The Soviets are coming! The Soviets are coming! ....on Tuesday.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
The Soviets are coming! The Soviets are coming! ....on Tuesday.

Oh my! I have not played this game in some time since my gold membership ran out, have there come any other factions beside US, Brits and ze Germans and now the Russians?