World of Tanks

Also, just don't camp base in a heavy tank. Yes, it may occasionally work out, but 90% of the time you're doing your team a disservice, hanging back and waiting to farm some damage at the end of an already lost game. Those other 10%, the team wins despite you not because of you.

Even in a T10 match, the E75 has more than enough armor and armament to be effective pushing on the front lines, which as a heavily armored heavy tank is where it belongs.

Essentially, you legitimately goofed. Trying to play it off as "lol trolling -G-" doesn't make it any better.

Trolling unicums is its own reward. Good job Rabid!

Except it isn't. Because the unicorns are right, they are gods off Olympus come to wallow in the sub-human filth and they're infallible. That's the lesson I learned from that game where the platooned Matildas blocked my Churchill at spawn and sat out most of the game, waited until we were hopelessly losing, then went and two-manned eight or nine players.

And that's why I haven't played in months, better players forbid me to enjoy myself and everyone's matches are better since I no longer play. Glad I never spent a dime here.

Since I get bored, I still wander onto For the Record regularly. If nothing else the Chieftain's videos are still entertaining.

CHAI does this regularly... because after a specific point they stop trying to win, and instead focus on farming damage. This means that they LITERALLY camp for most of the game while their teams collapse around them. In public matches, this got them zero favors. Whiskey Jack often does "rolls eyes" whenever we get a game with CHAI in the same team.

Honestly gloating about doing anything to unicums is a waste of time and energy as they won't likely remember you and you won't likely remember them after a while.

There was one time back when I was clanless where I killed AutismSpeaks and I thought that was impressive.^***  although it might have been that I managed to do ~2k damage, 5 kills, and barely survived in a KV-1 Nowadays I see enough blues and purples on the enemy team that beyond the o7-ing in the beginning I don't pay much attention to them any more than any other tanker.

edited 18th Dec '14 12:57:24 PM by EldritchBlueRose

Honestly, the forums crack me up sometimes

Tries to talk about arty, thread derails into a "how to kill T29" thread

I have an Guide Dang It! moment with my E 75 I have birthed nearly 10 pages of parroting that the E 75 is for brawling only, the remainder consists of status updates and thread necros. TL;DR: they want the thread to die, but it keeps coming back.

Fortunately for me, I don't care about my forum reputation points there◊

edited 19th Dec '14 5:50:28 AM by RabidTanker

Just as a heads up: if any of you are interested in adding the German E-25 Tank Destroyer to your collection, you had best do it now. Because on December 22nd they are going to remove it from the in-game tech tree, and sometime in January remove it from the Premium shop altogether. You'll still be able to keep once purchased though. Last time I checked, the price was around $30 USD, so you might want to jump on the offer if you have the Christmas cash to spare.

The reason given was because it was proving to be too popular and it's extremely preferential matchmaking were starting to cause issues for the server queues.

edited 19th Dec '14 3:27:22 PM by SgtRicko

Yeah, I keep seeing three to five of those little buggers every time I drive my T29 and don't end up in a tier 9 battle. I can see why WG are doing that.

They get the same MM weight as a Tier 7 heavy, which is pretty annoying when they are on your team and the enemy team has the heavies especially in the current meta.

Oddly enough looking through Tank Inspector the Chi-Ri has the same MM weight as a Tier 7 heavy too.

Not shown: An almost 15-game tilt that actually dropped my Object 140's WR to about 25%. Only about recovered somewhat thanks to today's session.

Anyway, replays!

Swamp in the IS6.

Super Pershing at Mountain Pass. Also, man, the rest of the team that WASN'T my platoon...

E75 at Burning Ruinberg.

Mines, where platooning with Servios' sheriff account just puts a huge target on you by proxy.

Object 140 Solopub at Fisherman's bay.

Erlenberg madness in my IS7.

Piling insult upon injury via Obj 140 in Sacred Valley. Yes, it was a cap, but I wanted the win damnit

Hidden Village

And finally, gundep abuse at Redshire

It' official: my new clan is hilarious. After an evening of Stronkholds with them, they claimed that I was drugged and they kept insulting our opponents there was rape, lube, an gay jokes galore A.K.A. the funniest evening I've ever had with them.

Less potato by capita, which means I'm almost back to where I was at the start of the week, sheesh.

Because no one pays attention to the Type 61 with the 41% WR.

My E-75... escorted by two T49s.

A rare good game in my King Tiger.

Not exactly holding a flank, but man was that IS-4 and E-100 distracted.

Did well, get knocked out by artillery. GG.

So how's the new U.K. line of tank destroyeres?

Gah, didn't take me long to download the updates, but it's taking forever to apply them...

Sorry, guys, this just came up on a thread I've started on Wo T Labs!

Great thing to listen to during an download...

edited 22nd Dec '14 6:15:46 AM by RabidTanker

I've been on a break lately, the third campaign just burned me out, especially since I barely missed the reward tank. I had the position but missed a few days for school stuff and ended up just a hundred positions or so above 3000

And by the way: the new FV 4005? It's crap when you compare it to the existing F V215b (183).

But on a more positive scale, I actually had an purple-worthy fight in my KV-1! Although, it's your typical "Top Gun" rampage anyways. Additionally it was also one of the few times where I used HE shells as well. I would post the replay, but wotreplays.eu is down at the moment.

edited 22nd Dec '14 9:06:01 PM by RabidTanker

Honestly I think the only new Brit worth getting is the Firefly. 171mm pen on AP, for a Tier 6 medium? Yes. PLEASE.

The Archer might be worth getting too in order to complete my eternal quest of finding a Tier 5 TD that doesn't suck. ^note Which I've kind of put on hold, because my playstyle has become quite aggressive.

edited 22nd Dec '14 10:56:06 PM by EldritchBlueRose

So here's my grape KV-1 replay. So it's about time that they've added the Grant and the other Land-Lease tanks to the game, eh?

edited 23rd Dec '14 5:07:26 AM by RabidTanker

The T67 is said to be excellent. I haven't played it since it was the 49 though

The Archer is pretty good once you get the top 17pdr (it's the AT 8's top gun, BTW, so if you've played Brit TDs before you might already have it) and get used to the reversed controls.

edited 23rd Dec '14 7:04:26 AM by desdendelle

The T67 is ok. Remember it has thin armor but that turret and being speeding is a nice bonus. The top gun has decent accuracy and pen. Don't charge the line but you can really piss off tanks with slow turrets by locking on and circle strafing them.

It's either WGNY 2015 or 2015WGNY for us Americans, anyways Feliz Navidad to all who celebrates it.

And enjoy the crappy Panzer 2 Variant D they gave us.

edited 24th Dec '14 5:12:55 AM by RabidTanker

That new Tier 2 German light gift tank Wargaming is giving out today is proving to be a real stinker so far. Average speed, average armor, only 2 shots per burst from it's machinegun, mediocre damage, and the penetration is poor. It's like they were trying to get the overall feel that the Pz II G and it's nasty auto-cannon had, but removed all of the great aspects that gun had in exchange for being a tier lower.

Really, it's really feeling like they phoned this one in, guys.

EDIT: Do you know what the code gives to players who use it?

edited 24th Dec '14 7:11:11 AM by SgtRicko

1 Day of premium time

Yeah, I meant to say that.

So are the high-end American SP Gs any good? Because I'm about to sell my "Christmas gift" and put that garage slot to good use. EDIT: I've already traded in for an M37.

By the way World of Tanks needs to be updated for obvious reasons.

Fuck it, the E 75 is unsuited for tier X brawling: teams are idiotic as usual, which is why I'm trolling them back by sniping with it.

edited 24th Dec '14 3:18:49 PM by RabidTanker

In light of the current heavy and brawl-focused meta, it's hilariously apt.

re E-75: The tank can still reliably brawl unless you go against the Soviet heavies (as they're often too low to depress your gun to hit especially when they sidehug you). However, in a mostly X-match its best to move back to second line.