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[Rilder]

There are clans and clan wars are coming next patch I think? I dunno.

Also Got up to KV, enjoying it, slow and armoured, works good for my style.

[inteuniso]

Yeah, there are clans. Apparently you don't have to be Gold to make one. Is there one up yet or should I make it?

[Rilder]

I have a clan based of another forum (Total War Center) So I'm kinda out for that. Heh.

[Nadaka]

Guess I'll use this thread instead of mine. Just started playing somehow managed to get a kill in my first battle using a crappy peashooter.

[Neyvn]

Right started up this afternoon, already up to a Marder II... So who wants to roll around together today???

[Rex_Nex]

So far I am rolling in both a SU-85 (With the SU-100 unlocked) and a T-34-85 (Russian T6 Med)

[Jopax]

I'm still slowly grinding away mostly on t4 tanks, my highest being the PZ4, halfway to the Stug, so that will be fun once i get there

[Neyvn]

Grinding through the German tanks, 3t TD, 2T Light...

[Rilder]

Have you guys seen the tech tree revisions? Holy hell it looks different.

[Rex_Nex]

I have. Lots of changes, but a TL;DR description is that the lines are pretty much being doubled. There will be two russian heavy lines, two this, two that.

Up to KV-3, SU-100, T-43, no gold at all.

[Dohon]

I'm currently (sloooooooowly) grinding my way to a Tiger. I just wanna have that tank in my garage because of its reputation. And the fact that it appears to be a heavily armoured sniper helps too. I do want a KV too at some point and a Hetzer / Stug too.

That said, I do seem to have some troubles with knowing when to actually use High-Explosive rounds instead of Armour-Piercing rounds. The rule of thumb is to use HE when you can't pierce the armour (such as with higher-tier tanks), but I'm having some mixed results. For instance, I have (besides a PKW III Aus. A) a T-46 with the 76mm gun. It has very high damage values, yet slightly lower (proportionally) penetration values. So, I get that using HE is a no-brainer in this case. But in other cases, HE seems to do minimal damage when using it against same-tier tanks.

And while I'm at it: what's a good "money-maker" tank? I hear KV a lot, but the World of Tanks wiki says that the VK 3601 (German Medium Tier VI) is also a good candidate.

[Nadaka]

Good money makers are artillery, because they get put into higher tier matches and any hit you get against a higher teir tank is worth proportionally more, plus you are less likely to die and have to repair if your team mounts a reasonable defense.

As a general rule, I always use HE in my 105mm cannons, the bonus damage far outweighs the slight penetration penalty.

For the other guns, I usually go with AP unless facing a heavy tank.

I've recently unlocked my tiger and have found its armor/hp to be overrated, its armor doesn't have a good slope and its guns don't do as much damage as a lot of the other heavies.

[Asehujiko]

Have you guys seen the tech tree revisions? Holy hell it looks different.

Got a link to those? Haven't played since they invited a bunch of retards with the super xp days and can't seem to find them in the newsletters.

[Rex_Nex]

I'm currently (sloooooooowly) grinding my way to a Tiger. I just wanna have that tank in my garage because of its reputation. And the fact that it appears to be a heavily armoured sniper helps too. I do want a KV too at some point and a Hetzer / Stug too.

That said, I do seem to have some troubles with knowing when to actually use High-Explosive rounds instead of Armour-Piercing rounds. The rule of thumb is to use HE when you can't pierce the armour (such as with higher-tier tanks), but I'm having some mixed results. For instance, I have (besides a PKW III Aus. A) a T-46 with the 76mm gun. It has very high damage values, yet slightly lower (proportionally) penetration values. So, I get that using HE is a no-brainer in this case. But in other cases, HE seems to do minimal damage when using it against same-tier tanks.

And while I'm at it: what's a good "money-maker" tank? I hear KV a lot, but the World of Tanks wiki says that the VK 3601 (German Medium Tier VI) is also a good candidate.

HE Rounds are a bit complicated. They do the shown damage if it penetrates, but otherwise it will deal 50% damage. You might already know this, but the penetration parameters for HE rounds are a huge range of numbers. Sometimes it will penetrate against armor it should be penetrating, but usually not.

Some special cases are when the round size is a lot larger then the mm of armor on the enemy tank. If your gun is giant and using HE rounds, and they have relatively pathetic (But still enough to deflect a HE round) armor, your round has a 50% chance of burrowing into the armor and dealing full damage either way. On the other hand, if your using HE rounds against armor that is much, much larger then the round size, even HE rounds will bounce off.

In general, HE rounds should be kept to a minimum unless either your gun is made for HE rounds (Such as the 105mm on the hetz or 152mm on the KV. These are easily spotted by being huge cannons in relation to the tank's tier and having low AP penetration parameters) or there is absolutely no way your going to penetrate.

As for good non-arty cash-making tanks, here are some candidates:

Panzer IV
KV w/107
SU-85 w/107
StuG III
T-34
Easy'8 Sherman
IS-4

[Rilder]

Have you guys seen the tech tree revisions? Holy hell it looks different.

Got a link to those? Haven't played since they invited a bunch of retards with the super xp days and can't seem to find them in the newsletters.

Here