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over 12 years ago

I'm generally around 170 but I need more graffix power as my fps can bomb horribly in wooded areas.  This is a problem when 90% of your battle are fought in TDs.

UG did say his dropped by 70 rather than to 70.

We all get one of these tomorrow:


Wonder how it compares to the T-127.  Hopefully they are worse so I can beat them up.

Big weekend specials.  Slots and re-training the keys for me.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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yeah I should have said I get around 150-220 ping to the US west server were 220 used to be the minimum on the east coast server.

And I have to wait until Saturday morning to try the free tank.

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over 12 years ago

Now, Im not saying the E25 is overpowered,

but the E25 is OP and a frickin blast -

this was my very 1st run


With Rammer and Vents and crew with Bia that was a shell every 3 secs  -and the aim time is really quick-a platoon of these would be deadly -did i mention top speed is 65

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over 12 years ago

You need to try the Matty Black Prince dude...

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over 12 years ago

Just read about Glorious Mission

Could be fun...


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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over 12 years ago

Junior.  Behave.

Me?  Seal-Club?  Never?


In my defence my win rate in this was awful.  I think the only wins I had were in Tier I of campaign Clan Wars.  I bought it back to grind a crew up for the next campaign and this was my first run.  


How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago

We got smacked in our first time out in our E-25s, thanks MM, but I did manage to get thier T71


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over 12 years ago

and some long range sniping fun and games at El Halluf


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over 12 years ago

I just failed to carry VickMeist on Sand River.  Was dreaming of a Kolob having killed three of the last five but got undone by a bastard Cruiser that fluked into finding me with just him and a STug left.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago
Hard News wrote:

I just failed to carry VickMeist on Sand River.  Was dreaming of a Kolob having killed three of the last five but got undone by a bastard Cruiser that fluked into finding me with just him and a STug left.

 

Yeah watched that one.

Actually managed to play for a bit last night, maybe an hour. Still getting random, (once every 5 games), Nvidia/WOT game crashes but not as bad and the cursor issue that was slowing the game looks to have been solved by a registry cleanup. My god I enjoyed playing the game for once.

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over 12 years ago

E-25 - 15 battles -46 destroyed -81% hit rate - get one before the nerf

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over 12 years ago

Do you guys have server reticle enabled?  I don't because it seems to make me wait too long to shoot because of the 140ms ping.  What is your advice?

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over 12 years ago

No.  I use no mods at all.

There are a couple of XVM things that I am tempted by but the temptation to then use the whole lot would do my head in.  The last thing I want to see is a SEA of red (see what I have done there).

I acquired 6 tanks at the weekend.

Somua Sau-40 (re-acquired to try and get a good score for TD manouvres)
T1 - It's for campaigns.  Honest.
A20 - Under 50% win rate.  I want to rectify that.
ARL v39 - Two battles.  Two losses.  The rate of fire drove me mental with the top gun.  The 2nd to top 90 has a better ROF but can't pen anything and this thing has no camo at all.  Might have to give up on it but will give it a few more battles and try the 105 from the s35-CA
E25 - Ah.  A love hate relationship.  0 for 7 in it.  I have had three kills a couple of times in it but the teams around me collapse horribly.  I love it but MM or something doesn't love me in it.
LTP - One battle.  A loss.  Not a patch on my T-127 and it has a loader.  None of my other three Russian lights have a loader so the only crew I can use it for training really is an MS-1 crew... or I could get a T-50 but they seem so slow (ha ha ha)

I did get both my T40 and Su-85b crews to 2nd skill though.  Good weekend with the 3x.  If you won/win your daily double and were/are top in experience you could get 18x crew experience from one battle.

I did try and grind my STuG crew yesterday to 6th sense but form was patchy and the E25 failure didn't help.

Thinking I might get an ELX on special this week.  Just have o get through the 40... maybe not.

Oh yeah.  Also I've dumped Project T-62A and moved on to Project Foch - hence the ARL.


How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago

T40 on South coast, 2 incoming T49s



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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Quick blatts today as my gut has finally talked me into less WOT and more exercise.


Unreal Lakeshire.

Me, a med tank and another TD head for town. Almost everyone lemmings the far valley. Our top tier 9 Heavy though thank god is a genius, what a tactical mastermind and decides to defend the middle road with two TD's. 

Enemy side piles into town, us 3  keep them busy from trying to cap for about 4 minutes. The lemmings get bogged down in the valley. Our Top-Gun heavy,(god not even afk, idle, etc), spends his time taking pot shots at the 5 or so tier 7-9 heavies,etc in town who are happily capping. He can't hit then as he's defending the middle road from nobody and he can't see the cap.

I thought clan players had a clue or is that a myth? Think his clan are called MVF or something.

Strangely enough they cap with I think zero losses.


It's good keeps me from playing and instead I'm preparing for Taupo.


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over 12 years ago

Its been a bad couple of days out there..

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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Worked my tail off to get the BP to the giddy heights of 55%...

Now known as the "Wrath of Heaven"...


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over 12 years ago

T34-85 - written off by many as a crap tank but I think it's great fun

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over 12 years ago

I take it you have the top gun on that? When fully upgraded its a lot of fun -currently on the T-43 -not as much fun

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over 12 years ago

Was nice to see Mr and Mrs Fortean in their Hellcats tonight - they were the victims of a crap team tho..

I shot you both! But Siggy got the kill

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over 12 years ago
Munk wrote:

Was nice to see Mr and Mrs Fortean in their Hellcats tonight - they were the victims of a crap team tho..

I shot you both! But Siggy got the kill

Yeah that was embarrassing, i think we were the only ones that got kills though!

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over 12 years ago

You were.  I shot you both as well but killed Fort.  Someone else got you VickMeist.

We won't mention the Ruinberg battle where again you had a very poor team.  I didn't do much in that.  Following a clan mate around who hit with every shot while I missed.  ALthough I mya have hit you VickMeist.


How's my driving? - Whine here

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Hard News wrote:

You were.  I shot you both as well but killed Fort.  Someone else got you VickMeist.

We won't mention the Ruinberg battle where again you had a very poor team.  I didn't do much in that.  Following a clan mate around who hit with every shot while I missed.  ALthough I mya have hit you VickMeist.


you are such a diplomat!  I must admit wine was involved...of course not making excuses though (hhmm)

 

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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Now, I am a sensitive soul, and I stupidly kinda get a bit pissed off when someone calls me a noob, or openly abuses me in game for my tactics (no doubt justified sometimes :)), BUT another player did this to me the other night during game, THEN he also DMd me to say it was my fault we lost the game (Fort was playing too and said it clearly wasn't).  I gave a carefully worded response and then blocked him.  Has this happened to any of you guys??

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over 12 years ago
vickmeist23 wrote:

Now, I am a sensitive soul, and I stupidly kinda get a bit pissed off when someone calls me a noob, or openly abuses me in game for my tactics (no doubt justified sometimes :)), BUT another player did this to me the other night during game, THEN he also DMd me to say it was my fault we lost the game (Fort was playing too and said it clearly wasn't).  I gave a carefully worded response and then blocked him.  Has this happened to any of you guys??



Yeah it was Sigfried Line Assault we were defending. I'm not sure what the guys problem was. We were pretty much overrun in the south/middle straight away. (Myself, this guy and Vicks were north), the game was pretty much over. I killed one and was taken out. This guy died. Vickmeist killed 4 and was last man standing.

I think he was wanting you to come straight into the base rather than trying to circle them, (that approach killed me and him though so not great tactics). But by that point the game was lost and either tactic was doomed as you were up against another 6 odd tanks.

You need to not let it get to you.

Today got my KV1 pulled into a tier 7 battle were everyone was calling each other "f*cking noob", "idiot" or "f*cking moron" I'm guessing all the kids just got up a little cranky without their sugar fixes.

Still having Nvidia graphics card problems, despite getting help form WOT and uninstalling everything and rolling back drivers. I can crash every game or I can go 20 games without one. Getting pretty annoyed as reading forums etc seems to be WOT's issue rather than Nvidia. Won't put up with it for much longer.

Do I buy the New Total War game? Has an even worse history of crashing than WOT.

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over 12 years ago

I don't think someone who killed one, can blame the loss of a game on someone who killed 4. 


Allegedly

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over 12 years ago

It was more the fact he personally contacted me to abuse me, rather than how crap or great I was, oh well 8 games today and 8 losses...

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over 12 years ago
vickmeist23 wrote:

It was more the fact he personally contacted me to abuse me, rather than how crap or great I was, oh well 8 games today and 8 losses...



lol "fr*ggin noob, u suk, etc".

(hides carving knife)

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over 12 years ago

A few days ago, one guy got pretty shitty with my so-called camping at Ehrenburg - I'm a BP for goodness sakes - and I got the full "noob" treatment...then checked out his record...I had the last laugh!


Oh, I just won this...a 'Burno's Medal'...


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over 12 years ago · edited over 12 years ago · History

Name and shame VickMeist.  We're happy to put shots into someone who is being a dickhead to our allies.

I've been having a love/hate relationship with my bathtub.  Consistently top three in damage but just getting the worst teams imaginable (or opposition that is stacked).  W/R in it tanked from 70+ to 55% as I tried to get it to 100% first skill.

Then last night it all came together.  In two battles I made 10,000 XP with the September monthly bonuses, including a top gun + Halonen match on Severogorsk.

First skill done.  6th sense on.  Perry re-sold (my 3rd time with with the SAu-40).  Now... to re-train the crew to my AC 46 and start again with a new bathtub crew or not...

September specials fantastic for crew and XP grinding.

Also, for those with a German medium line.  If you have the 30.01 (H) in your garage when 8.8 comes out you get a free tank, a free slot and a free 100% crew.  It's being made a Tier V heavy so you get the new Tier VI medium as a replacement and you end up with both a heavy and a medium crew.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago

The 3,000th...

Current state of the BP project...


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Personally, I think I'm a fairly world clarsh BP pilot - why then is my winning average below the SEA average for the BP?  Sucks.

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over 12 years ago

Probably because you are solo pubbing and your rivals platoon alot more.

Can make a huge difference with the average mental age of some of the idiots on this server.

Also.  I bought a Dicker Max.  EVERYTHING bounces it.  In three battles I think i have had one penetrating shot and that is a guess as it was a blind shot.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago

Poor tonight.  Down to 53% in the BP.  Some of these noobs out there are just so woeful.  

And cowardly too.  Can't stand that.

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over 12 years ago

Oh yes.  Had one last night in the D.Max - Ruinberg twice in five battles in it - I was the only one that went to the road on the right side of the map.  Got two kills.  In a Tier 7 battle we had a KV-1s that got three and me, and that was it.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 12 years ago

Terrible team tactics at Erlenberg. Heavies going halfway down the map when defending the base on Assault map. Then they can't get back in time to stop the base getting capped. Seen this happen 3 times in the last day. This is tier 6-8 not noobs either.

I play and enjoy my KV-1 now and again so I understand it's important for a heavy not to get isolated, but training it down to the other team's spawn point on assault???

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