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 motyak wrote:
My AT 15 is well acquainted with that thrice-cursed auto-loading French arty piece. I wish I was able to play arty well enough to get it ha. I'll have to settle for working my way up to the bat chat medium.

Either that or you can work your way up the American autoloader line, although I think the grind through the T21 might actaully kill me.

The French line leading up to the Batchat is actually pretty fun. In the right circumstances the AMX 12T can be a nasty little tank and it only gets better from there.

i always wondered what evil i could do with the french line past the AMX12t but i have just too much fun with the ELC.

the countless times i have driven straight at the enemy, shot them and driven off only to re-appear in a different location to do it all over again.
powersliding down and around a hill to get a side shot on an enemy while sideways is one of the best "WTF" generators in the game.

Yeah I enjoyed the ELC too, but I'm loving the 12t just way too much to go back. Even in tier 10 games, if you can get a good opening you can do great.

I thought this game looked interesting. Would you guys recommend it?

I definitely would. Do it completely free to start with, and if you are really enjoying it you can spend money on the premium stuff (or just to unlock XP to speed it up a bit) later on. No point throwing cash out if you end up not enjoying it.

I do think it is more fun in a platoon with a mate or two though. While solo games can be great fun, it's more entertaining if you can laugh about the ridiculous things that happen in a game with others on skype/whatever. Like that time I mounted a hellcat from behind to win the game...not even joking. http://wotreplays.com/site/762894#westfield-motyak-m18_hellcat (I derped out terribly at the start, so just fast forward right to the end for the laughs).

 Boblogik wrote:
I noticed there was a 360 thread and I figured it wouldn't hurt to start a new one for PC players to share their thoughts.

I just started WoT tanks this past week. I'm heading towards the Panther and HATING the stupid DW2... Such a lame tank. At this point I'm about ready to just load purely HE rounds because I can't penetrate anything anyways. Anyone got any advice besides "tough it out" haha?

I think every nation has 'that tank' that you just have to suffer through to get the 'good' tank.

I haven't played in two months due to life but was grinding a few tier 6 tanks trying to get to 7. Honestly I think tier 5 and 6 are the most fun.

I love my Russian heavies. The KV 2 is just pure fun.

Like the Lee. I still can't stand to try to grind my way up to a Sherman...

 Melissia wrote:
Like the Lee. I still can't stand to try to grind my way up to a Sherman...

I'm not going to lie, I spent money to skip that steaming pile.

At least I have my T-34... kind of got bored of the grind by the time I earned itthough :/

I used to play it a alot, got upto Tier 8 british TD's.

Always had the most fun in my AT7 though.

After a while I couldn't stand the grind anymore.

Now just waiting for ground warfare in WarThunder, now that looks good.

I did spend money to get garage slots. But that's it. There are too many tanks I must have.

I am almost done with the dw2 thankfully! About 1000xp left and about 130000silver to get my vk3001h. If I get a decent day of playing tomorrow, I should be good to go! Though I had my first good matchup with the dw2 today and I had an amazing game. 6 kills, a mastery badge, several other ribbons and medals and it was my first win so after the 2x, I got 1600xp... Unfortunately now my killstreak is set by the dw2 lol... Just gonna have to change that with the panther when I get it!

 Boblogik wrote:
Unfortunately now my killstreak is set by the dw2 lol... Just gonna have to change that with the panther when I get it!

I wouldn't be too worried by your stats, matchmaking being the way it is its entirely possible to be a good player and still have poor stats, especially if you are grinding up tanks. If you only played in premium tanks and fired nothing but gold ammo you could have amazing stats yet be a mediocre player at best. I consider myself a good player and I have been playing since the closed beta yet my win rate hovers around 51.8%.

The Panther is a pretty good sniper but its not much good for anything else. Excellent tanks in the real world aren't necessarily as good in WoT

This is an example I just played that gives an indication as to why win rate doesn't mean much; I caused more damage than the rest of the team put together, got 5 kills (including the T29 that got the top gun medal)and held a flank pretty much solo yet we still lost.

Nice game. One can only carry so much...

Sounds like an epic game. Oh and I know that the panther isn't going to be a super awesome tank in-game but its my favorite tank (pretty much ever across time) and so I just want to play with it I play the minis game bolt action and I field a panther in my German force even though its not cost effective by any means, though I killed my buddy's king tiger with it so that was fun :p

Maybe one day I'll go for the tiger as well but I don't want to burn myself out on the game because of too much grinding.

Oh and to the person asking about getting into the game, definitely try it out for free. Its a lot of fun, especially if you have friends to play with. I've been platooning with some friends and it makes even the instagib deaths more enjoyable. I haven't spent a dime on it yet and don't plan to, though I did get rid of some of the starters I didn't plan on playing to free up garage space for some of the tanks I wanted to keep.

I had something similar once, with a tank destroyer. Sometimes your team just sucks.

 Boblogik wrote:
Sounds like an epic game

Annoying more than anything else, there was a lot of stupid on display from my team.

If you play long enough you get free garage slots as you get free premium tanks (who come with a garage slot) every now and again. I have had 4 or 5 so far and they have all been worthless so I just sell them, the garage slot is more important than something as annoying and pathetic as a Mk VI.

Pretty much, I've gotten I think 3 so far (LTP, the little british one and another one that I forget...). But they come out very infrequently.

Oh, and if you are going to spend gold, never buy things full price. Be patient and wait for St Pats day/Rememberance Day/Some other weekend, and you'll get things half price.

 motyak wrote:
Nice game. One can only carry so much...

Unless your in a American Tier 7 heavy tank or higher then played right you can carry most anything.

I played a bit last night and I decided to unlock the American Tier 5 & 6 heavy tanks. Looking back I'm really glad I went the Sherman to Sherman Jumbo to T29 route...

What type of tanks do people like to play?, I've played medium tanks, heavy tanks, TD and arty.

One of the best tanks I enjoyed was the Russian Medium T-44 when it was fully upgraded, stock it's sucks badly, use to love scout hunting in that beast, The auto loading US T69 is also fun.

Heavy tank, Black prince is fun if players don't know it's weak spots, fast firing gun but slow. The E75 loved that tank, slow firing rate but accurate.

TD, Love the French line from T7 up the monster that is the Foch 155, fast maneuverable cover your team's flanks but long and weak sides make arty a proper pain, also with the Waffen E100 TD had made the Foch 155 abit redundant.
The Brit TD line is good up to T8 not played Tortoise or the Tv 215 183 but have been on the receiving end of 183mm cannon yep not nice!

So any ways what are people's favorite tanks?

I don't really have a favourite as such, various tanks fall out of favour all the time. I used to play my Hellcat all the time for instance but I haven't touched it in about a year.

Currently I am playing my VK36. Pz Ic and grinding up my Tiger. The KV-2 has my highest number of games played though.

 Palindrome wrote:
I don't really have a favourite as such, various tanks fall out of favour all the time. I used to play my Hellcat all the time for instance but I haven't touched it in about a year.

Currently I am playing my VK36. Pz Ic and grinding up my Tiger. The KV-2 has my highest number of games played though.

Yep, I enjoyed the VK36 when it was a medium, not played it since it was made into a heavy, the Tiger as first i was disappointed with it but once it gets upgraded it's fairly good, still found the Russian IS T7 tank a pain as close quarters.

So far my favorite is my pz iii a. Quick and a decent gun, I usually get 2 kills a game and just hit another 5 streak (second time in that tank) today.

Almost to my SU-122-54, can't wait! To all the auto loader hate, I remember the good old days when it was only America, Germany, and Russia, no auto loaders and no t10 arty, tds or meds. I now have the M48 Patton, E 50M, FV 4202, T110E3, E4, and E5. All great tanks and worth the grind.

Alittle insght, the only tricky one being the FV 4202... I loved all the tanks except the Comet, the gun is too weak. What I noticed about the line is that if you do not like the t8 Centurion, then stop playing the line there, the 7/1 and the FV play the same.

I just really like my Chaffee. Killed two t9 artillery the other day, I love the impotent rage as they try to rotate around to kill me.

Tier 9 arty players are used to being impotent, you simply added to their misery.

I love my Pz38t. It's a dinky little tier 3, but it's just *fun* to play. It's also a good break to go to low tier battles and reap some, shall we say, less than skilled tankers.

I'm currently grinding down the Japanese line; I've always liked their tanks, despite their being horribly outmatched most of the time historically. I've found them quite fun so far; reasonably mobile, accurate, decent pen guns, but generally low damage and weak armour. Very similar to playing Germans, which still represent my most-played nation. I do enjoy my Tiger and Tiger II, though I've largely given up trying to grind past the DW2; that thing is ungodly painful. I might try to horde free xp to skip it, as I would like a Panther at some point, despite itsmediocre showing in-game.

That does remain my one big gripe about WoT; the historic tanks tend to be somewhat mediocre compared to all the prototype tanks which seemingly dominate the game. Germans in particular; their iconic tanks are tiered alongside tanks designed to destroy them. The historical battle mode might help my Tiger feel less "bleh," but I've yet to be able to get a game, no one seems to be queuing for them.

I'm driving my pimped out KV-1, laughing at no longer being the easily penetrated butt monkey the T-28 was.

 Kain wrote:
I'm driving my pimped out KV-1, laughing at no longer being the easily penetrated butt monkey the T-28 was.

Just keep yourself angled, your front plate (the bit under your turret on the top of your hull, I don't know the actual term) is really easy to penetrate if you are front on.

 motyak wrote:

 Kain wrote:
I'm driving my pimped out KV-1, laughing at no longer being the easily penetrated butt monkey the T-28 was.

Just keep yourself angled, your front plate (the bit under your turret on the top of your hull, I don't know the actual term) is really easy to penetrate if you are front on.

My main fear these days are British tanks, specifically the Churchill and their near impenetrable TD, so I memorized the weak points in their armor.

But the T-28 was a terrible, terrible grind.