World of Tanks

[frunk]

Ugh, the T-34 is some slowboating bullshit.
Even though I'm in the Wolverine, I'm having fun shootin' and scootin' with the M8A1.  It's like a TD Stuart.

Still haven't done anything with the German tree;  haven't decided to go tanks or arty, because the tier 3 French arty is killing me, and tier 4 is sooooo far away. 

Back away from the Frenchies...just do it while you still have your sanity. I made your same mistake, I figured, "hey, french Arty cannot be that bad, I'll give them a go!". Well, it's rough grind from 3 to 4, and not worth it. You spend a ton of time in Tier 3....missing, and once in awhile you get a hit only for 75% of them to BOUNCE off the target. I quickly switched to the German Arty line. My suggestion is take the light tank route (PZII) to the Wespe. You will rock and roll thru the PZII and the Wespe is superior to the Bison or STPzII (both of which will require you to get waaaaay to close to the enemy to use).

I've done all the Arty lines up through at least tier 4, and there's no contest that the SU-26 is the best tier 3 and in many situations better than most of the tier 4s.  Even with the recent Arty nerf it still can wipe out the enemy single handed if it gets favorable matchmaking, and without it play merry hell with everything except for the tier 5+ heavies.  It used to be ridiculously OP, now it's just slightly OP.  I'm a solidly ok player (probably 51% W/R without the SU-26) but I have a 60% W/R in the SU-26.

The tier 3 French Arty isn't too bad.  It aims fairly quickly and is nice and small.  I don't have enough time on the tier 4 to have a strong opinion.

When you get to tier 5 and 6 I prefer the German line (Hummel and GW Panther are great), but in tier 4 I think the SU-5 is surprisingly underrated.  Yes it runs out of ammo way too quickly and has no range, but it's quick firing, accurate, has a nice arc and hits fairly hard.  For making an impact early in a match it's great.  If it ends up being a long drawn out affair you'll probably end up suiciding or making a (slow) run to cap.

I've only dabbled in tier 7 for Arty, but the GW Tiger was a terrible downer after the Panther.  I haven't bothered with trying to get to any others.

[Tamas]

Ugh, the T-34 is some slowboating bullshit.
Even though I'm in the Wolverine, I'm having fun shootin' and scootin' with the M8A1.  It's like a TD Stuart.

Still haven't done anything with the German tree;  haven't decided to go tanks or arty, because the tier 3 French arty is killing me, and tier 4 is sooooo far away. 

For the T-34, get the low caliber fast-firing gun, not sure which one it is exactly. Yeah, you are not going to hurt upper tiers but that wouldn't happen anyways. In exchange, you get quite good accuracy for a Russian gun, and a very fast ROF to annoy people with. And it is awesome against low-armored targets.

[DGuller]

Yeah, the 57 mm ZiS gun is the least worst one for T-34.

[CountDeMoney]

For the T-34, get the low caliber fast-firing gun, not sure which one it is exactly. Yeah, you are not going to hurt upper tiers but that wouldn't happen anyways. In exchange, you get quite good accuracy for a Russian gun, and a very fast ROF to annoy people with. And it is awesome against low-armored targets.

Yeah, similar to the little A-20 plink gun;  good against light shit by annoying the shit out of them so they can't target fast.

Frunk:  I haven't been too disappointed with the Lorraine, it's a tough little arty piece for Tier 3 despite its load time, with just enough HP to haul ass from the spawn and avoid the scout rammers, and I've dropped some premium ammo rounds on some targets with it I had no business killing otherwise;  it's just that the grind from III to IV is sooooo long.

Sounds like the path to the Wespe is a plan, fellas.

[frunk]

For the T-34, get the low caliber fast-firing gun, not sure which one it is exactly. Yeah, you are not going to hurt upper tiers but that wouldn't happen anyways. In exchange, you get quite good accuracy for a Russian gun, and a very fast ROF to annoy people with. And it is awesome against low-armored targets.

Yeah, similar to the little A-20 plink gun;  good against light shit by annoying the shit out of them so they can't target fast.

Frunk:  I haven't been too disappointed with the Lorraine, it's a tough little arty piece for Tier 3 despite its load time, with just enough HP to haul ass from the spawn and avoid the scout rammers, and I've dropped some premium ammo rounds on some targets with it I had no business killing otherwise;  it's just that the grind from III to IV is sooooo long.

Sounds like the path to the Wespe is a plan, fellas.

Arty grind is a good bit longer than any of the other tanks, primarily because although it says that it's a tier 4 it's actually tier 5.5 or 6.  So you need the XP for a whole extra tank that you don't get to play.

[CountDeMoney]

Whelp, I've had more success with the Wespe in a few hours than I've had with the French arty for a few days;  even a slight load rate improvement helps, as does the horsepower to did mau most riki tik away from the spawn.

[HVC]

Before CdM says anything, yes, i ran into a rock in the desert

[CountDeMoney]

The only rock.

[Malicious Intent]

Yeah, low tier arties should be avoided, if possible.  They don't hit their stride until they get 1000 damage shells.  If you can shortcut the arty tree via some tank, I'd recommend going for it.

You can grind the M7 Priest via the M3 Lee for a mere additional 33k XP.   

[C.C.R.]

Yeah, low tier arties should be avoided, if possible.  They don't hit their stride until they get 1000 damage shells.  If you can shortcut the arty tree via some tank, I'd recommend going for it.

You can grind the M7 Priest via the M3 Lee for a mere additional 33k XP.   

So, sooooo cruel...

[Lndhand]

Daddy got a Wolverine.  Daddy like.

Good deal.  It was making me nuts platooning with you the other day slumming around with super-low tiered rigs...

Ass. 
I should be in both the Lee and the T-34 sometime this evening.

I got my 11 year old to grind the Lee for me.  After playing it the first time he called me and left a voicemail that started with "Dad, this Lee smells like dog buns."   

[katmai]

So yeah the Panther with  long 75 is kinda fun.

[DGuller]

   Find tanks at your own tier to fight.

[katmai]

  Find tanks at your own tier to fight.

I can't help what matchmaker put me in, I can only take advantage of what it gave me

[HVC]

All the matters is I got my KV1 and I never have to use the t-28 ever again. Ever.