World of Tanks

Nope, the codes don't work here in the US servers.

Hope you get good use of your premium time.

Good enough, as it happens. Latency issues meant play time was still not that long. So all the prem did was increase profitability a bit for a short time, rather than a long time. lol

Am I the only Southern Californian here whose game client is frozen? Because it was running just fine earlier today, but for the past few hours, it's a unresponsive white screen.

The M3 Lee is surprisingly nimble. I thought it would be a chore to work through it, no working turret and all, but it's actually a fun tank. Not often used though, it seems. I got an ace badge for what I thought wasn't that good of a game with a not fully upgraded tank and crew on 75%.

The M3's main problems are its bad armour and horrid gun.

The armor is laughable. I like them as enemies because it doesn't matter where you hit them. But the gun isn't that terrible in my experience.

The gun and armor are the best things about the tank, though. The DPM on the 75mm Gun, M3 is insane and the armor's better than its medium counterparts.

Until tier V, I found all mediums to be rather unthreatening. Except the bloody Matilda.

The gun is so so at best. The armor frankly sucks. It has ok mobility though. Its definitely not a toe to toe tank. I have found it is better to treat it like a TD then a Medium. Cover blind spots or follow in heavier better armored/armed tanks. It can be a beast if you are the top tank in the selection. One match like that it felt like seal clubbing when I one shotted a few of the other team and got the Reaper Badge.

The guns shots have a fair bit of arc to it I have noticed but it has ok accuracy.

edited 22nd Sep '14 7:18:58 PM by TuefelHundenIV

And I'm guessing the EU guys have changed their passwords for the free 300 gold already...

edited 22nd Sep '14 5:57:42 PM by entropy13

First rule of world of tanks is 'the lee is a TD dressed as a medium'

...well maybe second rule. First is ignore the noobs.

I have more trouble ignoring the raving douchebags who rant how bad others are rather than the noobs who just play badly. Being a douchebag is a deliberate action, being a noob is not.

Noobs and douchebags are a constant, so they're under the rules of general online gaming, rather than any World Of Tanks-specific rules.

The noobs are at least usually entertaining and will improve with handful of matches. The douchebags however will very likely be a douche bag a hundred matches later. I was messing around with the Japanese Renault in a Tier I match and a Clanner Douche would not stop haranguing everyone. After it was pointed out we would all enjoy it if he shut up he left. Thankfully it seems in most of my matches its the PUG's who are assholes more often then the clanners.

PUG s?

As for clanners, I can say it depends on the clan. When an OTTER speaks, it's about a 80% chance they're going to piss me off. I've had several just strut around acting superior just based on stats, and had one accuse our clan of using warpack in a stronghold when they ran a absolutely RIDICULOUS strategy on the map that completely relied on their meds winning a flank, wherein they ran smack into our heavy push, got slaughtered, and then their heavies were picked apart while capping thanks to our 2 reserve heavies resetting, and then our main force rotating to sniping positions.

They just rub me the wrong way. Some seem alright but their assholes are over-represented.

The other day I even had one idiot (not an otter. They're annoying but not tactically brain dead)push me, in a T34, out into the open because he was demanding me and a platoon mate push, when T Ds and Arty were firing whenever we peaked.

edited 22nd Sep '14 7:57:48 PM by Joesolo

Joe: That guy pushing you into the open is the point where I say fuck friendly fire and turn my gun on the asshole and do my best to track them. Even if it costs me I would have found it worth it.

PUG= Public User Group aka the average Joe not in a clan. I would be part of the PUG. Thankfully most of the clanners when they do comment have something honestly useful to say but some are a bit over reliant on stat displays. It amuses me when they talk shit like they are special and get splashed being stupid or a PUG surprises them and blows them away. The guy that was harassing everyone was one of the first two tanks to die in the match. He cruised out into the open in an empty field on that map that has the church on the hill in the north, the buildings in the south east, and retaining walls and village in the north west. He went out into that open killing field and got blasted.

The Churchill 1 is a bit of a rough tank to go into matches with. Its not very fast and is a big target. I have the improved 6pdr gun but it doesn't have high enough damage to really work against the tanks I am running into the most with that tank lately.

Yea I always hear the church is rough. The British medium line is awesome though. Cromwell is epic

I needed to kill a Renault Otsu (for Expert: Japan), so I still play in my T1 Cunningham. It's a rare sight though LOL. And usually when it is in the game, it's a teammate.

It's usually green clan players who are the assholes in my experience. Better than most in the game and think that gives them the right to put others down and verbally abuse them. They also get pissed when taken out. One accused me of being a noob camper and then was startled when my brother defended me in the chat. He didn't even realize I was in a platoon and my brother was scouting for me.

Another green player raged at us for following him to the hill in Himmelsdorf with our heavies. A sound advice normally, except we were the only ones following him. We let him proceed alone regardless. Of course he died quickly and the enemy team rushed over the hill and defeated us.

The most frustrating though are the kids who see a low win chance of the team and give up. Either killing themselves or letting themselves be killed. One time we only had a 16% win chance and two guys were throwing a tirade and got themselves killed. We then proceeded to win with only six losses.

Interestingly, it seems that 9-0 (or 6-15, if you prefer) is the most common outcome of a match.

I rather like people that see xvm say 40 something percent of victory and think we're screwed.

I mean even ignoring that thats not accurate, those aren't bad odds

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SHUT UP SPAMBOT! But seriously, they are really doing that.

edited 23rd Sep '14 3:58:59 PM by RabidTanker

I hate those moments where I am one of two or three tanks covering a flank, something I find works for me more often then not, and run smack bang into 3/4 of the enemy flanking en masse. I do what I can to slow them and see as many as I can before my inevitable death.

Any of you guys doing this? Only need a tier 5 tank and you can win gold just be being in the top 50%.