History FanNickname / WorldOfTanks

** '''Unicum''': Really, ''really'' good players, most of the time not only having a huge number of matches under their belt (10k and up), but ungodly total win rates to boot, usually ranging from 61% and up. Multiple players of this type on a team can often tip the battle in its favor, but they're not invincible, and a ''really'' bad team (multiple reds) will drag down even the best unicum. Personality-wise can range from helpful to being arrogant and stuck-up jerkasses. The jerkass variant have been given the spicy moniker of '''Unicunt''' or the more measured '''uniscum'''. When using the XVM stat program, these players will have stats displayed in purple.

* Players that do not move at all or move only so much before idling for the rest of the match, not reacting to battlefield situations is said to have gone AFK (FunWithAcronyms: Away From Keyboard). Going AFK without reason (and sometimes even with) is a reportable offense, since it places your team at a disadvantage (especially when you are top-tier) in terms of numbers, and can in fact cause losses; there are instances where a team could have won if the tank that went AFK (especially when it's the last one left alive on the team) wasn't AFK. Though often the cause of "AFK" is that the player's internet connection dropped or the game client crashed, in which case they're frantically trying to load back in before the battle ends. Which occasionally leads to an AFK tank returning to life just in time to save the day, but more frequently in the player loading back in just in time to die.

* Players that do not move at all or move only so much before idling for the rest of the match, not reacting to battlefield situations is said to have gone AFK (FunWithAcronyms: Away From Keyboard). Going AFK without reason (and sometimes even with) is a reportable offense, since it places your team at a disadvantage (especially when you are top-tier) in terms of numbers, and can in fact cause losses; there are instances where a team could have won if the tank that went AFK (especially when it's the last one left alive on the team) wasn't AFK.

* The TOG II* is given the name "Landship", "Banana", "Whale", and other such terms due to it's size (It's the longest tank in the game). Despite being a difficult tank to play, their owners are often [[http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/189547-royal-navy-hms-tog-ii-group-chat/ very enthusiastic about them]] and will give them affectionate nicknames that always start with "[=HMS=]". Many jokes involve suggesting the TOG be removed from World of Tanks and migrated to VideoGame/WorldOfWarships. This [[AscendedMeme was acknowledged by Wargaming]] in the 2016 April Fools Day event, when the console version of World of Tanks had [=TOGs=] mounted on tuboat hulls fighting in the ocean. Another one is "train", because that is exactly what "tog" means in Danish.

* The lumbering, ninety-tonne Löwe superheavy tank is known as the 'Slowe', for [[MightyGlacier obvious reasons]].

* Premium ammunition is sarcastically referred to as "Skill", and switching to it in battle as "Loading the Skill".

** For the greens to pull out a win even in this situation is often described as a "Carry", as in "Carrying the team". A variant is a "hard carry" - when a team ''particularly'' sucks.

** Ironically, while some players consider it an insult to have a Tier I tank in a Tier X game, some of them can still hold up. The T-1 Cunningham for example is actually quite fast, and even though the gun selection is borderline worthless against anything Tier X, the tank can just sit in a bush, spot the enemy tanks that come in range[[note]]Especially if the tank has camoflauge applied and has a camo net with with a crew trained to 100% in camo[[/note]], and just rake in the credits and experience as the rest of the team rips the enemy apart. On top of this, even if the tank IS shot at, it's small size makes it a hard target to hit, and if a shot does connect, the shooter has literally wasted credits killing the tank[[note]] 1,100cr shell that does about 450 average damage hitting a tank with barely 150hp[[/note]], bonus points if the shot fired was a premium round[[note]]Which costs either Gold or anywhere between four and ten times as much credit as the standard ammo[[/note]]. Not to mention the hilarity that ensues if the Cunningham manages to reach arty or catch a Waffentrager E100 reloading. There's a reason why it's the most commonly picked tank for 7/42 Team Battles to fill out the two tier 1 slots.

* The BDR G1 B (and to a lesser extent the ARL V39) is sometimes known as the "Steel Potato" due to the shape of the hull when viewed from the side. For the high profile, low armor and quite unique gameplay, on Russian sever it's called "BDSM-1". A less well-known nickname for the BDR is "Leman Russ Battle Tank" for the tank's general resemblance to the ubiquitous TabletopGame/Warhammer4000 Imperial Guard tank.

* The BDR G1 B (and to a lesser extent the ARL V39) is sometimes known as the "Steel Potato" due to the shape of the hull when viewed from the side. For the high profile, low armor and quite unique gameplay, on Russian sever it's called "BDSM-1". A less well-known nickname for the BDR is "Leman Russ Battle Tank" for the tank's general resemblance to the ubiquitous Warhammer40000 Imperial Guard tank.

* Some players refer to the Durchbruchswagen 2 as the ''Douche-bag wagon'' or the shorter name "Douchewagon", mainly because [[NoPronounciationGuide they are unable to pronounce Durchbruchswagen correctly]] and [[JokeCharacter even fully upgraded it has pathetic performance]].

* Some players refer to the Durchbruchswagen 2 as the ''Douche-bag wagon'' or the shorter name "Douchewagon", mainly because [[UnpronouncableNames they are unable to pronounce Durchbruchswagen correctly]] and [[JokeCharacter even fully upgraded it has pathetic performance]].

* Erlenberg is known as Derpenberg since the top left corner of the map has an uncanny quality of bringing out hilarious tendencies of humiliating stupidity in players. Case in Point: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFaPhSEUNRY This replay compilation]].

** '''Bads/Baddies''': Aforementioned shockingly-bad players found in random public matches. Generally have no grasp of tactics, and most of the time rush out and get themselves eliminated early on in a match. Usually reacts poorly to advice given by other players. A good lot are suspected to be bot-run accounts as well. Seeing these types of players at higher levels usually leaves many decent players wondering ''how'' they'd manage to get to the end-tier content in the first place. When using the XVM stat program, their bad stats (displayed as red, with the slightly better baddies shown in orange and the really bad baddies in black), per tank or total on the account, are ''usually'' below the 47% mark, with low numbers of matches to boot. Common nicknames include '''tomato''' (owing to being displayed in red in XVM), '''window-licker''', and '''potato'''; the last one becoming popular enough to become a verb that essentially means "going full retard". On the Russian servers, these are called '''Rak''' ("crayfish") or '''Oleni''' ("deers") because of a complex bilingual pun: as they have essentially no skill whatsoever, they are prone to the ridiculously stupid actions like {{Zerg Rush}}ing through the central field in [[ThatOneLevel Malinovka]], which are dubbed [[LeeroyJenkins ololo]]-[[ZergRush rushes]] -- thus the "oleni" nickname. Many Baddies are {{Griefer}}s who deliberately hinder their own team, most just really are that bad.

* The ''Grille'' Tier V German SPG has no nickname of it's own, but getting killed by it has a nickname: it's called getting [[Pun Grilled]].

* Some players refer to the Durchbruchswagen 2 as the ''Douche-bag wagon'' or the shorter name "Douchewagon" mainly due to being unable to pronounce "Durchbruchswagen", and for the fact that even with full module upgrades it still performs dismally.

* The Japanese heavy tanks, released in patch 9.10, have been nicknamed "[[Film/{{Gojira}} Gojiras]]" (as coined by BigNameFan [=RitaGamer=]), poking fun at their massive size.

** '''Clickers/Scumbags/Sky Cancer''': A derisive term for artillery players, given the impression that it takes no skill to play artillery units except pointing on a target and clicking a mouse button. Most players who've actually tried playing artillery would argue otherwise. 'Scumbag' became a popular nickname for artillery players coined by Webvideo/TheMightyJingles of YouTube, though the name mostly refers to artillery players who [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled drown themselves]] at the end of a match in which they're [[CurbStompBattle on the receiving end of a 1v6.]]

** '''Bads/Baddies''': Aforementioned shockingly-bad players found in random public matches. Generally have no grasp of tactics, and most of the time rush out and get themselves eliminated early on in a match. Usually reacts poorly to advice given by other players. A good lot are suspected to be bot-run accounts as well. Seeing these types of players at higher levels usually leaves many decent players wondering ''how'' they'd manage to get to the end-tier content in the first place. When using the XVM stat program, their bad stats (displayed as red, with the slightly better baddies shown in orange and the really bad baddies in black), per tank or total on the account, are ''usually'' below the 47% mark, with low numbers of matches to boot. Common nicknames include '''tomato''' (owing to being displayed in red in XVM), '''window-licker''', and '''potato'''; the last one becoming popular enough to become a verb that essentially means "going full retard". On the Russian servers, these are called '''Rak''' ("crayfish") or '''Oleni''' ("deers") because of a complex bilingual pun: as they have essentially no skill whatsoever, they are prone to the ridiculously stupid actions like {{Zerg Rush}}ing through the central field in [[ThatOneLevel Malinovka]], which are dubbed [[LeeroyJenkins ololo]]-[[ZergRush rushes]] -- thus the "oleni" nickname.

* The TOG II* is given the name "Landship", "Banana", "Whale", and other such terms due to it's size (It's the longest tank in the game). Despite being a difficult tank to play, their owners are often [[http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/189547-royal-navy-hms-tog-ii-group-chat/ very enthusiastic about them]] and will give them affectionate nicknames that always start with "[=HMS=]". Another one is "train", because that is exactly what "tog" means in Danish.
** A common term for a platoon of three [=TOGs=] is the "Royal Navy", which the platoon itself will declare at times. Also, in maps with small-sized pathways, a common tactic known as "TOG-blocking" is used by parking the said tank sideways, thus denying enemies access.

* The Aufklärungspanzer Panther light tank added in Patch 8.5 is called the "Awful Panther". It has a tiny turret on a large and easy to hit Panther chassis with a horrible stock gun (fit for Tier ''2/3'') that can see Tier 10 tanks. Another one is "AFK Panther", because they're so dreadful you'd rather have an AFK player!

* Some tanks can use howitzers; short barreled guns that primarily fire low velocity high-caliber HE shells. These are known as "derpguns". On tanks with multiple howitzers available, there may be the distinction of "miniderp" for the smaller variety.

* The M3 Lee gets quite a bit of flak from the playerbase, due to its [[UnexpectedGameplayChange lack of turret]], thin armour and rather inaccurate guns, to the point where - thanks to its high-profile design - people have begun calling it the "Garbage Truck". For the same reason it's called "The BrokebackMountain" on the Russian server. While it was still named Grant, some players referred to it as the "Galantz", a popular microwave oven brand in Europe and China.

* Also introduced was the term '''Lemming Train''', describing a team whose majority of members choose to take one path instead of splitting up to cover their side of the map. In reference to the Video Game{{Lemmings}}.

** The Loltraktor now has a big brother: the Tier 10 German tank destroyer Waffentrager auf E-100, a surprisingly agile 2,000-hp behemoth with a laser-accurate autoloading 12.8cm naval gun, rapidly became known as the "Waffletraktor"/"WTF E-100"/"Waifutrager/traktor"/"Wafflehouse", mostly poking at it's general size and devastating gun.

* The premium tank IS-3A, a variant of the popular IS-3 tank, is jokingly called the "Canadian IS-3". Think about it for a second.