Lowe vs Type59, who's the better farmer

So the question is who's the better farmer between Löwe and Type59? Short answer is Type59.
The more detailed one, read below.


Cost in gold:
Löwe - 12500
Type59 - 7500




Statistics taken from by battles

Löwe

• battles: 409
• total damage done: 672148
• avg dmg/battle: 1,643.39

Type59

• battles: 489
• total damage done: 710313
• avg dmg/battle: 1452.58

The difference is about one more penetrating shell, shell that costs 1030 Cr for Lowe vs 252 Cr for Type59.

Let's calculate the total shell costs:

Löwe

• shells fired: 3594
• total cost: 3701820 Cr

Type59

• shells fired: 5799
• total cost: 1461348 Cr

Difference .. that's 2.2mil Cr wasted in ammo for Lowe, although I have less battles fought with it.

Also taken from my battle statistics, showing something interesting: although I have more battles with T59, I have more total time played with Lowe. Wasted time spent in Battle .. no doubt!

Bottom line is that Löwe cost a lot more gold than Type59, has a greater shell cost, is a lot slower (comparing it with the other heavy tanks in it's tier).


Note: There is one negative aspect of the Type59 I forgot to mention .. since there is no chinese tech tree, training the crew of this tanks is absolutely useless. I do hope in the future will have such a tech tree.
At least, you can re-train the Lowe crew to any other german tank you want.

RU server will get 0.7.1 tomorrow

WG has announced on the RU portal that WoT RU will be updated to patch 0.7.1 tomorrow. As you might well know, 0.7.1 introduces the preliminary french tech tree, 18 tanks in total.


Heavy tree line:

• Renault FT - light tank tier 1
• Renault D1 - light tank tier 2
• Renault D2 - medium tank tier 3
• Renault B1 - heavy tank tier 4
• BDR G1 B - heavy tank tier 5
• ARL 44 - heavy tank tier 6
• AMX M4 (1945) - heavy tank tier 7
• AMX 50 100 - heavy tank tier 8
• AMX-50 120 - heavy tank tier 9
• AMX 50 (B) - heavy tank tier 10

Medium tree line:

• Hotchkiss H35 - light tank tier 2
• AMX 38 - light tank tier 3
• AMX 40 - light tank tier 4
• AMX 12t - ight tank tier 5
• AMX 13 75 - light tank tier 6
• AMX 13 90 - light tank tier 7
• Lorraine 40t - medium tank tier 8
• Bat-Chatillon 25t - medium tank tier 9

Epic match on "Mountain Pass"

So ... we started on base II and I got spawned right in front of the glacier path. I took my T-54 down the road. At D-7 spotting nothing, I took a hard right turn, went under the bridge and uphill to spot the middle, again nothing .. at that point I was wtf!? where are they. Took another hard left turn seeing a spotted Object704 on the bridge, the moment I saw a MAUS on top of the hill in their base, I was like what the fuck is he doing!? Killed the TD and went for their base to spot for arty, moments later I killed the two enemy arty units, one T29 and a Tiger 2 both heavily damaged by our arty.
My team had rejoined me, point when I circled back under the bridge where there were a couple of enemy units holding that flank. When I arrived, they've already killed a T34 and a Tiger 2 and M6 were still holding our flank, so I killed them and went uphill in their base. A T34 went for me, I shot once, covered behind a wreck, he went uphill, I shot him dead. Now only 2 MAUSes remained in the enemy team and ours had an E-100, one arty, and me. At the point I thought .. hmm their tactic might've actually working.
But we prevailed! I ended up with 8 kills, 35 AP shells fired, and got myself Top Gun, Boelter's Medal and Sniper battle achievements.

Epic fight that comes once in maybe 200 battles.

WoT vs T-44 part 2

Read the part 1 here

Following part 1, we'll now discuss the tier 8 medium tanks fully upgraded with their best available equipment:

Keep, in mind that T-44 only recently received the LB-1 gun, and we were forced to use the highly inaccurate 100mm D10T gun.
Some used the 122mm D-25-44 gun but I do not recommend this gun. Why? very high reload, and this gun can  fire once per two shots fired by D10T, also the damage is not double and the shell cost is 4 times greater.

As a fully upgraded tank, the T-44 gets roughly the same gun as T59, but with a slight better rate of fire; also they have the same HP.

The top fully upgraded tier 8 medium tank, at least on paper, is the Panther 2 with highest HP, highest penetration and fastest rate of fire.

*Note: Pershing can use it's top tier gun without the need to upgrade and mount the top turret.


Tier 8 medium tanks upgraded turrets (armor thickness in mm front/sides/rear):

• T-44: 120/100/100
• Panther 2: 120/60/60
• Pershing: 114/76/76

How horrible the T-44 was prior to 0.7.0?
Here are my stats after playing to unlock the tier 9 medium tanks (T-54 and Patton; I do not own a Panther 2 and probably won't ever):

T-44 (played ~99% of the battles with D10T gun):

• battles required to unlock T-54: 272 (I did not waste Xp to unlock the V-54-6 engine introduced in 0.7.0 nor the 122mm D-25-44 gun)
• victories: 48%
• hit ratio: 76%
• average Xp/battle: 633

Pershing:

• battles required to unlock Patton: 260
• victories: 60%
• hit ratio: 80%
• average Xp/battle: 798

Type59:

• battles played to date: 413
• victories: 62%
• hit ratio: 79%
• average Xp/battle: 760

You can personally check my stats here.

WarGaming and WoT version numbers

For some time now, I noticed a trend with WarGaming naming their WoT patches, cutting the "0" from 0.7.0, for example, and suddenly we have update 7.0 instead of 0.7.0.
Why?! Hell knows ... I guess it's marketing (a.k.a. lying in our faces).
This is both true for US and EU portals, but if look at the RU portal, well it's 0.7.x .. hmm, makes you wonder

Here's what I'm talking about:

• test patch 0.7.1 RU
• test patch 7.1 EU
• test patch 7.1 US

WoT EU and UTC

Fuck WarGaming and their weird use of timezone for EU portal.

For RU portal they use Moscow time, for US portal they use PST time, wich make sense for the resective regions. But wait! for EU portal they use UTC time format ... what the fuck!
We grew up with knowing our local time in relation to GMT and apply summer time in, well, summer.

I really don't understand why UTC?! What's so special about it, and why in Europe?
UTC as a time standard is used in internet time servers, by various military forces, and especially by the air traffic.

It makes no sense.

World of Tanks versus T-44

This entire blog will debate the T-44 as a medium tank and inferiority against it's direct counterparts, Panther 2, Pershing and Type 59.


Comparison between stock tanks:

So, T-44 starts with the least amount of HP in it's tier, with lowest damaging gun and 2nd in penetration from the bottom but with highest rate of fire.

*The Panther 2 has the option to mount the 7,5 cm KwK 45 L/100 that will give 198 avg penetration, 135 dmg at 14.29 rounds per minute, making T-44 a bottom feeder.


Top speed of tier 8 medium tanks:
T-44: 51 Km/h
Panther2: 55 Km/h
Pershing: 48Km/h
Type 59: 56Km/h


T-44 is the 2nd slowest


Traverse speed of tier 8 medium tanks (degrees/sec):
T-44: 45
Panther2: 26
Pershing: 36
Type 59: 45


At least at this section, the T-44 is on par most agile of them with T59 at his side.



Hull armor of tier 8 medium tanks (front/side/rear):
T-44: 90/75/45
Panther2: 100/60/40
Pershing: 102/76/51
Type 59: 100/80/45


In this section, T-44 is the absolute worst armored tier 8 medium (hull).






*note: part 2 here

What didn't made it into 2011

Here's a list of content WarGaming promised for 2011 and did not deliver:

• Assault game mode - one team attacks, the other one defends the base
• Encounter battle - two teams are to capture the base in the center of the map
• tank destroyers: SU-100M-1, SU-101 (Uralmash-1), SU-122-54
• tank destroyers: Marder III, Dickermax, Nashorn, Sturer Emil, Jagdpanzer E-100
• new crew skills and perks
• maps featuring North American Landscapes
• fog of war in clan battles (not sure)
• cooldown period for destroyed vehicles (not sure)
• french tanks - medium and heavy tree (it still can come in 2011 according to some unconfirmed sources)
• display of clan logos on tanks (source)

Source: Overlord's blog

World of Tanks Europe will get patch 0.7.0 on december the 19th

With a news post on the WoT main site, WG informs us that on december 19th, between 5:00 UTC until approx. 17:00 UTC, game will not be available due to the release of the long awaited patch 0.7.0.
Also, the Clan Wars service will be taken down but for a longer period, Clan Wars will return on 27th of december.


What major changes we'll see in 0.7.0:

• two new maps: Swamp and Fjords
• added the camouflage feature, camo purchase and its mounting are available in the game section ‘Exterior’
• added levels of tank companies varied by tier: up to tier 4, up to tier 6, up to tier 8 and up to tier 10 (including tier 10)
• added the complaint system, you can choose the complaint type while in battle by right-clicking on the player's nickname
• added a test system for recording and replaying battles, a ‘Record battle to replay’ setting saves battle videos in ‘Replays’ folder
• reworked the minimap operation, you can increase or decrease it's size with '-' or '+' keys on the keyboard
• a new engine that includes a few new visual effects and better frame-rate stability

For better detail on upcoming changes, visit this link to the official forums.


Update1: downtime extended until 21:00 UTC
Update2: WG provided us with download links for incremental 0.6.7->0.7.0 update or full client, follow this link.
Update3: game server is up.