History FanNickname / WorldOfTanks

** The O-I Tier-6 Japanese Heavy is known as "Big Momma" (as coined by BigNameFan [=QuickyBaby=]) thanks to it's huge size and symmetrical forward mini-turrets which makes the KV-5 jealous. Also coined as the Japanese KV-2 (or "Emperor of Derp", "Derpzilla", etc), due to being able to equip a 152mm Derp gun.

* When Wargaming announced their plans to remove preferential matchmaking (ie only being able to face at most 1 tier higher rather than the usual plus/minus 2 tiers for other tanks' matchmaking) from those premium tanks that currently have it (along with buffing the tanks to compensate), they said that owners of those tanks who are unsatisfied with the new version can trade them in for a discount toward another same-tier premium. Meaning that to take advantage, a player would have to pay additional gold to get the replacement. Players were immediately outraged at the idea of having to pay ''more'' money on top of what they already spent if they want to replace preferential matchmaking premiums (instead of simply being refunded the money or trading in for another premium for free), and coined the term '''Russian Refund''' for this practice.

** The Loltraktor later had a big brother: the Tier 10 German tank destroyer f, 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 Tier X French tank destroyer AMX 50 Foch B, aka Waffentrager auf Foch B or Fochentrager auf B-100 (along withvarious other Waffentrager auf E-100 derivative names) for having having similar ability to the old WT auf E-100 to deal massive damage with its autoloader magazine. (Though being a casemate TD and having less HP than the WT auf E-100 makes it not as ridiculous overall.)

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

* Climbing up to high points on the map that in some cases weren't even actually intended for tanks to reach, using light tanks (or small, fast medium tanks like the Bat-Chat) with good power-to-weight ratio and traction, is known as '''Mountain Goating'''. The advantages of course are that this can give an excellent view of large swaths of the map and allow you to look over what would otherwise be concealment. The downside is it can pin down your light tank in a relatively small part of the map and prevents your light tank from engaging in the traditional scouting role if the action goes far from your chosen mountain, along with the fact that you won't always have the gun depression to actually shoot at the targets you spot from so high up. Conversely being at the top of a steep mountain means enemies won't always have enough gun elevation to shoot back at you. And then there's "Extreme Mountain Goating" which involves climbing mountains that ''absolutely'' were meant to be non-climbable by having a friendly tank ram you form behind for an extra boost to get up a very steep portion that would be impossible for any tank to climb solo.

* Some tanks can use howitzers; short barreled guns that primarily fire low velocity high-caliber HE shells. These are known as "derpguns". Such guns have poor accuracy and thus in most cases have to used at short range, which is very dangerous if multiple enemies are nearby because have slow reload. A short-range kill with a derpgun is known as "derping right in their face". On tanks with multiple howitzers available, there may be the distinction of "miniderp" for the smaller variety.
** The original Derpgun is an [[{{BFG}} enormous 152mm howitzer]] that's an option on the Russian KV-2[[labelnote:*]]Formerly, the tier 5 KV with an upgraded turret; they were split in a patch that introduced tighter matchmaking[[/labelnote]] tank. It's slow-loading, not very accurate - and able to instantly kill many tanks below the KV-2's tier and deal significant damage to even ''Tier 10 tanks''. Because of this, the KV-2 quickly gained the infamous nickname "King of Derp", so underestimating it is a ''very'' bad idea.

* Within hours of being announced as going into supertest, the proposed Object 726 Tier X Soviet heavy tank was widely dubbed the "Blyatmobile", because its unique appearance (with odd hull sides that angle slightly outward and upward at the top edge to give the impression of fins, and '''four tracks''') makes it like something Franchise/{{Batman}} would drive and because "blyat"[[note]]Apparently it can mean [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck"]] or "whore" depending on context.[[/note]] is a profane Russian word that became famous on the Internet via ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' memes.

* Within hours of being announced as going into supertest, the proposed Object 278 Tier X Soviet heavy tank was widely dubbed the "Blyatmobile", because its unique appearance (with odd hull sides that angle slightly outward and upward at the top edge to give the impression of fins, and '''four tracks''') makes it like something Franchise/{{Batman}} would drive and because "blyat"[[note]]Apparently it can mean [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck"]] or "whore" depending on context.[[/note]] is a profane Russian word that became famous on the Internet via ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' memes.

* Even team make-ups can have their own nicknames. The most popular of which is a '''Lasagna''' team, for a team consisting of mostly [[SoBadItsHorrible yellow and reds]] with [[ButtMonkey one or two unlucky greens]] on top.

* Climbing up to high points on the map that in some cases weren't even actually intended for tanks to reach, using light tanks (or small, fast medium tanks like the Bat-Chat) with good power-to-weight ratio and traction, is known as '''Mountain Goating'''. The advantages of course are that this can give an excellent view of large swaths of the map and allow you to look over what would otherwise be concealment. The downside is it can pin down your light tank in a relatively small part of the map and prevents your light tank from engaging in the traditional scouting role if the action goes far from your chosen mountain, along with the fact that you won't always have the gun depression to actually shoot at the targets you spot from so high up. Conversely being at the top of a steep mountain means enemies won't always have enough gun elevation to shoot back at you. And then there's "Extreme Mountain Goating" which involves climbing mountains that ''absolutely'' were meant to be non-climbable by having a friendly tank ram you form behind for an extra boost to get up a very steep portion that would be impossible for any tank to climb solo.

* Within hours of being announced as going into supertest, the Tier X Soviet heavy tank was widely dubbed the "Blyatmobile", because its unique appearance (with odd hull sides that angle slightly outward and upward at the top edge to give the impression of fins, and '''four tracks''') makes it like something Franchise/{{Batman}} would drive and because "blyat"[[note]]Apparently it can mean [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck"]] or "whore" depending on context.[[/note]] is a profane Russian word that became famous on the Internet via ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' memes.

* 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/Warhammer40000 Imperial Guard tank.

* The Jagdpanzer E-100 "[[Film/PacificRim Kaiju Jaegeru]]" and [=FV215b=](183) "[[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]]" tank destroyers have earned their nicknames by their ability to instantly wreck any tank that is foolish enough to face them head-on.

* Then there's the nickname most players attach to the [=FV304=] Tier-6 [=SPG=]: "Bert the Avenger", as coined by [=SirCircon=].[[labelnote:Note]]While a lot of people would attribute the nickname to Webvideo/TheMightyJingles, the latter clarified in one of his videos that he was not the guy who made it up.[[/labelnote]]

** Patch 9.20 in 2017 removed the beloved Trollcannon from the ISU-152 and replaced it with the D-4S, another 152mm gun with the same alpha but slightly lower penetration. Since it's pretty much just a nerfed Trollcannon, it's the "Baby Trollcannon".

** Continuing the Star Wars theme, the [=FV4005 Stage II=] tank destroyer gets coined as "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Death Star Two.]]" But its [[GlassCannon extreme fragility]] and tall turret (resulting in a massive target profile) have given the [=FV4005=] Stage II the much less flattering nickname of "Shitbarn".

* The Tier X French tank destroyer AMX 50 Foch B, aka Waffentrager auf Foch B or Fochentrager auf B-100 (along withvarious other Waffentrager auf E-100 derivative names) for having having similar ability to the old WT auf E-100 to deal massive damage with its autoloader magazine.

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

** '''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, but most just really are that bad.[[note]]If a player has black stats in XVM, they're almost certainly a griefer. Merely being individually awful and thus a free kill to the enemy won't sway enough battles to get into the black. For a single player to influence his team's chances ''that'' negatively requires things like [[TeamKiller team killing]] unicums or (more commonly since excessive team damage can result in an auto-ban) things like blocking friendly players' shots by driving in front of them or pushing them out of cover so they can be shot by the enemy. And in some cases, the griefer will platoon up with fellow uber-baddies to maximize the harm done to their own team.[[/note]]

* The Tier X French tank destroyer AMX 50 Foch B, aka Waffentrager auf Foch B (and various other Waffentrager auf E-100 derivative names) for having having similar ability to the old WT auf E-100 to deal massive damage with autoloader magazine.

** Related to the above, some World Of Warships players who also play World of Tanks will call a TOG platoon a Division, the term for a squad in World of Warships. There is also a general understanding that no TOG II* should ever have a respectable-sounding nickname, and that it's even better if the name is a play on the name of a Royal Navy vessel. Ergo, you won't encounter anyone claiming they 'sail' the HMS Redoubtable, HMS Formidable, or HMS Ark Royal, but you will come across TOG drivers who lay claim to the HMS Doubtful, HMS Farmable, and HMS Dank Royal, respectively.

* 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=]" (such as HMS Epic Maymay). 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 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 "Galanz", a popular microwave oven brand in Europe and China.

** Continuing the Star Wars theme, the [=FV4005 Stage II=] tank destroyer gets coined as "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Death Star Two.]]" But its [[GlassCannon extreme fragility]] and tall turret (resulting in a massive target profile) have given the FV4005 Stage II the much less flattering nickname of "Shitbarn".

** The O-I Tier-6 Japanese Heavy is known as "Big Momma" (as coined by BigNameFan [=QuickyBaby=]) thanks to it's huge size and symmetrical forward mini-turrets which makes the KV-5 jealous. Also coined as the Japanese KV-2, due to being able to equip a 152mm Derp gun.

* Another notorious 152mm gun is the BL-10 gun on the ISU-152, nicknamed the "Trollcannon" by Webvideo/TheMightyJingles on Youtube. It's an extremely powerful but extraordinarily erratic weapon, with huge alpha damage, very high penetration, poor accuracy, slow load time and a slow aim time. It may cause colossal damage when it hits the target, but it might miss or even bounce off a very lightly armored target (when on paper it should get through a Maus from the front). Depending on what the gun decides to do, the player is left either delighted or furious after firing it. (Or to quote Jingles, "In Soviet Russia, sometimes the Trollcannon trolls you.")

** Continuing the Star Wars theme, the [=FV4005 Stage II=] tank destroyer gets coined as "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Death Star Two.]]"

** On the US servers, the E-25 is sometimes call the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles "Ninja Turtle"]], due in part because of it's insanely small profile (making it a ninja), and because of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW9T1Ncy34 Tanktoon video showing one being a Ninja Turtle.]]

** The Loltraktor later had 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 Tier VIII American Chrysler K is known as the SirFoch special, after the massive shit storm it started.

* The Rheinmetall-Borsig Waffentrager is abbreviated ingame as "Rhm.-B. WT", but most fans will refer to as the Rhumb. Some, however, shorten it further to just [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles Rhum]]. The recent Steam release of Valkyria Chronicles has made the name more popular. A less popular nickname is the 'Rhombus' due to the similar name and angular shape. Russian players just call it "Borsch" after the "Borsig" part. Some NA players call it the "Rhoomba" due to its low profile.