World of Tanks

[Skywalkre]

Just had a game that highlighted the moronic platoon play that is common (groups like this are why WG doesn't weight platoons heavier anymore in the MM).

 

Group is IS-7, T-62A, and AMX50F155 (bad composition, off the bat). Map is Mines (northern team). Guess where this platoon goes? IS-7 goes village. T-62A eventually goes hill. (Does he go right away? No. He waits till the lights/meds that knew how to play the map went up there first and were destroyed by the enemy light/med force.) AMX goes island.

 

Seriously... what were they hoping to accomplish?

[Skywalkre]

Yep.

 

I really get on my team now when I see players out ahead all alone. There's not a single tank in this game anymore that can go off by itself and dominate. You're just looking to give your opposing team an easy kill if you're alone.

 

On the opposite end simply sticking with a teammate and focusing fire (well, you'll have to fire at what he is since it seems no one works with you) does wonders. The trouble I find is too many players on the NA server just find a spot and stop. Eventually I have to lead the way out and hope they follow.

 

On a different note, just had a team full of

on Murovanka. We're southern team. No one goes east (I'm liking this). A scout lights up most of their team going NW. Several of us push up far north to catch them before they get to the corner. They keep coming, we start getting pushed back.

 

I look at my minimap and notice over half my team is just sitting on that middle hill right by our base. I look closer and they're all trying to hit a lone enemy scout zooming around in the middle. The northern group gets wiped out. These morons are still watching mid.

 

I had some choice words for them.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Skywalkre

[Fritz]

Going to try a couple triples, wish me luck...

 

(weekend 3x, expecting the worst...)

 

This is a live blog.

 

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1st game, M103, easy money.

 

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2nd game, Panther II, our top tank is IS-6, apparently just bought it and has no clue. Let's see.

... I sucked. Was all over the place, didn't focus. We lost.

 

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3rd game, Panther II, assaulting on ... the map with the broken bridge in the middle...

 

Had no clue what to do, still did a lot of damage (over 3K), but our team was worse.

 

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4th game, P II again, once again our top tank is a moron. I don't get it. But we had a RELIC T7 platoon and I pushed on the same side as them and we capped though it was still kinda close.

 

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5th game, P II, our team is way better but I died early due to stupidity. But we're winning.

 

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6th game, E-50M, our team is better, I decided to be a med and flank, there was nothing to flank, meanwhile our better team got rolled.

 

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7th game E-50M, did bad but we rolled them

 

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8th game E-100, bad loss

 

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9th game E-100, they have a G platoon. And I thought arty was nerfed? It seems as effective as always. Have 4 arties per side and it's the plain old hide from arty, get spotted, die instantly.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Fritz

[sunday]

There I was on south side of Dragon Ridge with my trusty albeit slow Matilda Black Prince. Went down into the valley after sniping unsuccessfully from the bowl near base. There comes a lone, pretty healthy, enemy KV-1. I machinegunned it. First kill. By then enemy has spotted me, so a BDR, a Lee, and a Stug came for me. Two hits to the BDR, and back seeking terrain protection. Lee (half health) comes after me, and it's machinegunned too. Then comes Stug, one hit and he is dead.

 

By then the rest of enemies went to my left, behind a rock spur, so I go forward, and behold a Crusader IV, a KV-1 and the BDR of before. Crusader dies quickly. Couple of dings on BDR, then aim, two hits, and no more BDR. KV-1 had begun the long trek out of the valley, presenting a pretty, big, and soft backwards. More machinegunning, and KV-1 dies.

 

Top Gun achieved.

 

By then we were 4 against 3, and this was going to be my best game with Matty BP. We go for their remaining tanks, two lights and one arty. One of my teammates kills the arty, I begin to climb out of valley and...

 

Server hangs.

 

Damn you, Wargaming!!!

 

Edited January 19, 2013 by sunday

[Skywalkre]

It just crashed on me too.

 

Got back in time to see 4 friendlies dead to 2 enemy. Eight out of the remaining 11 friendly were camping at base. I ended up taking on 5 by myself in the village (Fisherman's Bay). Killed 3, took another down to 20%, but a KV that came in at the end was too much.

 

I'd love to see Garbad and the likes try and salvage a game like that. When players forget they can move there's not much you can do.

[Marek Tucan]

Got to server just after it was restarted. Managed to have a nice battle in Hellcat (Redshire) and in T30 (Himmelsdorf) - played the T30 more like a tank, rather aggressively, enemy 50 100 was sufficiently intimidated to run into cover after going through half of his magasine and then he dinged remaining teo shots off my mantlet...

[Skywalkre]

Game's crashed 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

[Fritz]

I had no issues except with my own gameplay.

[Max H]

Serene coats & dragons ridge are getting cut in 8.4.

 

researched T29 and KV-3 today, and I'm gonna be sad to see the M6 and T-150 go. especially the T-150, that thing rocks. Had a good M6 game to finish it off, earnt 1200 exp before premium & daily double. Was a T8 game too, so I didn't expect to do anything but I ended up killing an IS-3, panther and a tiger

[Skywalkre]

The level of stupidity... it just never stops to amaze you.

 

We had 5 guys contest the bridge on Mountain pass (I was one). Two of them were top tier heavies and there was no arty. Three enemy held them up. These guys just wouldn't advance.

 

So I leave. Eventually move into the ravine and help our northern group. By this time our southern group is gone and the enemy is moving towards base. It's CLEARLY VISIBLE ON THE MINIMAP. The bridge group has finally wiped out the resistance that held them up this entire time. What do they do?! What would anyone, with half a brain about this game, do?

 

THEY FUCKING PUSH ACROSS TOWARDS THE ENEMY BASE.

 

I'm starting to wonder why I bother anymore. There's goals I have but there's little fun along the way. These players are just that stupid.

 

(Btw, yes, we lost. I got back to base but couldn't stop hit all the cappers. One of these mouthbreathers on the bridge went all the way across, apparently finally realized what was going on, and moved back to base... via the ravine. Again... the stupidity... it hurts just thinking about it.)

[Fritz]

Lost 2 assault games because morons and turned off assault. Won next two normal games. No fewer morons but I made it work. Now look at this T6 game and tell me what's wrong.

 

[sunday]

I like the only Japanese tank in game, the Tier III Chinese one. For once, has a superb gun depression, so it's very good at fighting from high ground.

[FlyingCanOpener]

Lost 2 assault games because morons and turned off assault. Won next two normal games. No fewer morons but I made it work. Now look at this T6 game and tell me what's wrong.

 

 

You only won because you were throwing HEAT?

 

BTW, got the M48A1. That's 11 end tier tanks for me.

 

Now to grind the Leopard 1

 

BTW, the Bat Chat 155mm wasn't nerfed--it was neutered. 66 second reload with BIA, and no way to decrease it because vents got removed. Zooming is slower than the 261, turret traverse was hammered, and all that nerfing for a tier 8 arty that hits like a Hummel. I might actually sell it. Hope the scrubs are happy.

Edited January 20, 2013 by FlyingCanOpener

[Fritz]

It's a T6 game and they needed a cheating T5 to win. And one of my HDDs is failing.

 

No it was just explorer crashing. So here's a moderately epic T110 game.

 

 

1 kill but a ton of damage.

Edited January 20, 2013 by Fritz

[Harold Jones]

Man th 3x stupidity is in full force tonight. I got in a match on Fisherman's bay and as soon as we loaded in this guy in an M5A1 starts bitching cause my TOG was the top vehicle on our side. He bitched about how a tog was just a bucket of fail and that all the "noobtards" on our team would end up following me to a fail of epic proportions. So the match starts and I headed towards town, nobody followed but I figured that would be the case and only went town because I didn't want arty to have an easy time pounding on me. So this guy (caius_martius) never shuts up, I was too busy fighting to pay attention to what he was typing but I noticed that there was lot of messages flying by. At some point he must have been killed by an "exploit" because while I was waiting for my tracks to recover and didn't have anything to shoot at I saw him type "enjoy your ban bitch". Naturally we lost and when I looked at the post battle stats I noticed that young master Caius had fired 9 shots for 1 hit and no damage. I suspect that if he spent less time raging in chat and a little more time piloting his machine he might have a slightly better time with the game.

[FlyingCanOpener]

Man th 3x stupidity is in full force tonight. I got in a match on Fisherman's bay and as soon as we loaded in this guy in an M5A1 starts bitching cause my TOG was the top vehicle on our side. He bitched about how a tog was just a bucket of fail and that all the "noobtards" on our team would end up following me to a fail of epic proportions. So the match starts and I headed towards town, nobody followed but I figured that would be the case and only went town because I didn't want arty to have an easy time pounding on me. So this guy (caius_martius) never shuts up, I was too busy fighting to pay attention to what he was typing but I noticed that there was lot of messages flying by. At some point he must have been killed by an "exploit" because while I was waiting for my tracks to recover and didn't have anything to shoot at I saw him type "enjoy your ban bitch". Naturally we lost and when I looked at the post battle stats I noticed that young master Caius had fired 9 shots for 1 hit and no damage. I suspect that if he spent less time raging in chat and a little more time piloting his machine he might have a slightly better time with the game.

 

48% scrub. Ignore at your leisure.

[Harold Jones]

Yeah, but he's such an embodiment of the stereotype I had to mention him. The Chinese T-34 does not suck once you get the 57mm unlocked and mounted. It's like night and day from the 76.

[Colin]

Had about 10 good games out of 13, 2 complete losses, one loss where my M46 did very well anyways. The 10 games were all wins on the first try earning 3x. did the Chinese tank for the first time. Will play each tier for a bit before moving up.

[Rubberanvil]

researched T29 and KV-3 today, and I'm gonna be sad to see the M6 and T-150 go. especially the T-150, that thing rocks.

Gone as in you are selling yours off or as in gone from game, gone?

[Fritz]

I don't understand the love for the M6. It's OK but I actually skipped it when going for the T29. Grinding it once in beta was enough for me.

[Max H]

Stefan's got it - I'm terrible at motivating myself to play tanks that I'm not moving up the tree with, so there's no point in them taking up space in my garage. They aren't gone yet, still need funds to buy the next tanks, but I'll probably play them less.

 

but not T-150.

 

I love it, it's very much the same as the KV-1. Better armour, gun and engine make up for the higher battle tier very well - like the tiger 2/E-75 jump.

 

I don't understand the love for the M6. It's OK but I actually skipped it when going for the T29. Grinding it once in beta was enough for me.

 

I just like heavy mediums, fast enough to flank and armoured enough for when I get lazy

 

ETA: anyone think safe stowage is worth it for US or UK heavies?

Edited January 20, 2013 by Max H

[Fritz]

E-75 has to shoot gold to be on par, that's sad.

[Skywalkre]

E-75 has to shoot gold to be on par, that's sad.

Most German gold rounds suck. Something that needs to be looked at when they do the rebalancing.

[Max H]

Victory!

Battle: Highway 20 January 2013 14:00:29

Vehicle: Churchill VII

Experience received: 5,133 (x3 for the first victory each day)

Credits received: 39,157

Battle Achievements: Sniper, Mastery Badge: "1st Class"

 

This thing is starting to really work. The armour doesn't help in high tiers, but it can be AT-15A-ish when the stars align

[Fritz]

9am EST, shouldn't play anymore. Reds are coming out in force.