World of Tanks

[DGuller]

There are some tanks which just can't penetrate other tanks' armor, right? My Panzer III appears to be hitting some units, but I'm doing no damage to them?

Oh, yes, definitely. 

[Berkut]

I dunno, hard to imagine much that a Panther III could not pen.

[Faeelin]

It's a Pzkpfw III.  I thought that was a Panzer III?

[Berkut]

Oops, I misread that as "Panther III" and was trying to make a bad jo....oh never mind.

I am getting old...

[DGuller]

Oops, I misread that as "Panther III" and was trying to make a bad jo....oh never mind.

I am getting old...

Yeah, we know that from the birthday thread.

[Iormlund]

I loved the Pzkfw III, but it was badly hit by the HE nerf.

[C.C.R.]

Pretty nice deals this weekend for the 1 year anniversary.

http://worldoftanks.com/

Thank you for saying something -- I didn't realize there was a sale going on.  Sold off my VK 3001H & dipped into my "Ferd Fund" to buy a Panther for 1/2 off & retrain my crew.  I was a little bummed to give up the 3001H since it was my favorite (non-TD) tank, but I'd wager that I'll like the Panther once I get it tricked out...

[Berkut]

Just finished my first clan wars fight.

Since I don't have a T10 heavy, I was one of two mediums on Karelia. It was pretty cool - we had a pre-battle strat meeting using Advanced Tactical Center to plan our strat.

My job was to use the 50G octane to pretty much blitz to the donut, and try to ram something and create a traffic jam for a killing zone for the artillery.

It was glorious, and very exciting.

[Berkut]

Pro-tip: Place your small repair kit on position 5. When traversing something at high speed (say in a scout) spam the 5 key which maps now to "Small Repair Kit" and then "Tracks". If you are tracked while moving, you will insta-repair your track without stopping...supposedly.

[katmai]

So Berkie what is the breakdown of tiers in Clan wars?

[Berkut]

T10. T10. More T10.

Most CW battles we run are something like:

2 Maus
4 E-100
2 AMX 50B
3 T110
3 Arty
1 or 2 mediums (T54 or E50), only if the map can use a high speed scout

[katmai]

Sheesh, no way I'll be playing in any of those anytime soon

[Berkut]

ALl of the T10s are viable though, it just depends on what map you are fighting on - we use IS-7s a lot on Karelia, for example, but never on the city maps, or rarely.

It also depends on how many matches there are going - I got in last night mostly because we had three battles to staff over 2 hours.

[Berkut]

Second Clan Wars fight tonight.

Same map, same strat, bad guys tried the same things as well.

This time, after I re-deployed from the donut back to cap defense, the commander sent me down the middle to go after their arty since they were all pushing north. Dodged the M103 they had defendning the middle in my E-50 (an M-103? really?) and killed both their artillery.

Clan Wars is fun.

[C.C.R.]

OK, starting to get the hang of the Panther.  1st several games were absolutely brutal with the stock 75, but once I could upgrade the turret & get an OKish 88 on there to tide me over to the long 75 & put a Rammer in there to speed up reloading its a lot more fun...