History FanNickname / WorldOfTanks

* The Tier VIII premium Czechoslovakian tank destroyer [=ShPTK-TVP=] 100 became known as [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} ShREK]] because its DPM is as brutal as an ogre.

* 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 [[JustForPun Grilled]].

** The Japanese tier VII heavy tank has also been dubbed the [[{{Youkai}} Oni]] or [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogre]], as a pun of it's actual name, O-Ni. Also sometimes called Onii-chan/san JustForPun.

* The Japanese Tier-6 Chi-To: it's [[JustForPun dangerously cheesy]].

* Tanks that (regardless of whether they're classed as a Heavy or a Medium Tank in-game) straddle the line between the two in terms of gameplay are referred to as "Heavy Mediums".

** Another ramming technique is the '''Power Assisted Ram''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz4e-FObt10 pioneered on the Honest Gaming Youtube channel]] with the name [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1-VLg9cO8 coined by]] Webvideo/TheMightyJingles. It involves taking a tank that's already very well-suited for ramming (such as the KV-5, which is very heavy and well-armored while also having a decent top speed for a heavy tank) and removing its main weakness in ramming (poor acceleration, meaning actually getting to that top speed is difficult) through the hilarious expedient of...brining along two platoon mates driving faster heavy tanks (the FCM 50 t with its high speed, good acceleration but poor armor was chosen for the testing) equipped with the Supercharger equipment and having them get behind the ramming tank and push it up to speed.[[note]]Using the FCM 50 t for the power assist instead of a medium tank (many of which are even faster) was chosen because smaller tanks don't have enough horsepower to actually move the 105 ton KV-5. One variation that was also tested was bringing ''two'' KV-5s and having a single FCM 50 t push them up to speed.[[/note]]

** 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.

* Driving a tank off a steep slope is known as '''Cliff Diving'''. This is normally done not specifically to suicide (though dying is a common outcome) but to pull of the highest possible velocity for a [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]]. It's easy to mess of the timing for a cliff dive and thus end up with the EpicFail of suiciding right ''next'' to an enemy tank instead of landing on top of him, so typically this is done at the end of a battle in an attempt to grab the final kill.

* The map Malinovka earned the derisive nickname "Campinovka" for its large no-man's land and the usual tactics for the map. The similarly-campy Prokhorovka has been dubbed "Camporovka". Also sometimes applied to Redshire (becoming "Campshire") due to two hills that players loved to camp before the redesign.

* Bad players who show up on the opposing team for a Youtube or Twitch streamer to shoot at are called '''Paid Actors'', as many streamers have used the term to jokingly suggest they're paying people to play poorly and thus make the streamer look good by comparison.

** 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. Skilled players relish the opportunity pull off a hard carry, not just for the challenge but because that presents the best opportunity for the rarest achievement in the game, the Raseiniai Heroes Medal (killing at least 14 out of 15 enemies).

** The Loltraktor later had a big brother: the Tier X 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.

* Premium ammunition is sarcastically referred to as '''Skill''', and switching to it in battle as "Loading the Skill". It's also known as "gold ammo", because in the early years of the game it was purchasable only with Gold (which in turn is purchased with real-world money, rather than being earned each battle like credits). Due to premium ammo being changed to be purchasable for credits and then the option to buy it for gold outright removed, Wargaming has advocated that it instead be called "special ammunition". Players largely rejected this attempted naming, aside from occasionally using the new terminology mockingly, and still mostly call it gold ammo. It's also sometimes called "5% ammo", due to a much-derided claim by Wargaming that only 5% of the shots fired in the game are premium.[[note]]This is widely presumed to be ''technically'' true, but highly misleading since thanks to all the small-caliber autocannons, low-tier tanks fire a lot more total shots than higher-tier tanks. Premium ammo is much less common at lower tiers, since fewer players will even be able to afford large amounts of it, which skews the average. As does artillery, which no longer even ''has'' premium ammo, having long ago been switched to only HE shells.[[/note]]

* The Tier VIII premium Czechoslovakian tank destroyer ShPTK-TVP 100 became known as [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} ShREK]] because its DPM is as brutal as an ogre.

** The IS series of tanks in general have BIAS nicknames ("BIAS-3", "BIAS-6", etc), referencing the accusations of "[[CreatorProvincialism Russian Bias]]" against Wargaming.[[note]]These accusations are sometimes meant seriously and sometimes merely [[MemeticMutation memetic]].[[/note]] The IS-4 however is almost never called "BIAS-4" because it's [[TierInducedScrappy generally regarded as terrible]].

* The Tier VIII British premium heavy tank Caliban was immediately dubbed [[UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}} the Taliban]] as soon as it was announced. This is due to its explosive-focused playstyle but also a bevy of other frustrating factors that makes it hated by those using it (such as its truly horrible gun handling and lacking turning ability) and those playing against it (such as its devastating two-shot autoreloding high explosive cannon and its thick armor). Nobody really likes the Caliban, just as nobody really likes the Taliban.

* The Tier VIII British premium heavy tank Caliban was immediately dubbed [[UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}} the Taliban]] as soon as it was announced.

** While not as common, another nickname that can crop up from time to time is "Boom Box". Why Boom Box? Get in front of it and find out.

* The Tier VIII British premium heavy tank Caliban was immediately dubbed [[UsefulNotes/Afghanistan the Taliban]] as soon as it was announced.

* The S-51 shares the "Finger of God" nickname, since they both used to be the heaviest [=SPGs=] available. It is also called the "[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Basilisk]]", due to its striking resemblance. Also known as the Unicorn due its frontal gun mounting resembling one.

** On the US servers, the E-25 is sometimes call the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles "Ninja Turtle"]], due in part because of it's insanely small profile[[note]]The real-life design sketch for the E-25 already called for a low-profile tank...but Wargaming made an error in modeling the tank that left it a few meters smaller in all dimensions than it should've been. Since detectability is based on size that left it even stealthier than it should've been. And since Wargaming is extremely reluctant to nerf premiums, that excessive stealth remains intact.[[/note]] (making it a ninja), and because of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEW9T1Ncy34 Tanktoon video showing one being a Ninja Turtle.]]

** '''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 Website/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.]] Or worse, do so at the ''start'' of a match just because they're bottom tier. And the 'Sky Cancer' name reflects the views of a vocal segment of players that arty is cancerous because it can drop shells from the sky with little to no risk of retaliation from the tanks it's targeting.