World of Uninstall I'm never playing again...... Re-instaling.

[helgur]

10K XP to go on the Lorraine


I already hate the Lorraine

[DaDutchDude]

I am not a big TD fan, so the ISU I had for ages was slowly collecting dust, esp. since I only had a 49% win rate on it and was on average loosing money. And as a non-premium player, I really need to be careful with my tank ISKies. However the current discount on the Obj 704 made me decide to finally upgrade. So I bought it, free XP'ed the tracks, retrained my ISU crew to 90% for credits, transplated my rammer, vents and camo net from ISU and with quite some apprehension, I started playing.

So far, 8 rounds played, 7 won. Color me surprised. I guess the greatest difference is that this thing can actually take a hit like it's actually built instead of vaguely thrown together just enough to not have the BL-10 shoot out the back when it's fired. I've had a completely unreasonable amount of 0 dmg pens to the front, so I guess there's a lot of spaced armor there. Other then that, I have no clue why this thing seems to play so much better so far. I must have just had good teams so far and will be back ranting in a couple of days time, but so far, I'm quite happy.

Edit: Also, I considered upgrading my AMX 13 90, but decided against it. The Lorraine does not really appeal that much to me, and as a tier 9, I wouldn't be able to play it much anyway.

[sahtila]

BL-10 on isu is totally OP for its tier. 1-2 shotting most of opponents at tier level it usually plays.

Ah yep object armor is surprisinly good now and then, having constantly problems penetrating front armor even with Foch's cannon. Also it has very good camo, effictively it means its possible to often drive in open areas 300-400m from enemies without getting spotted etc. Dont shy playing offensively, especially if you are top tank.

[helgur]

First match with the Lorraine

Victory!
Battle: South Coast 29. juli 2012 04:41:54
Vehicle: Lorraine 40 t
Experience received: 3*450 (x3 for the first victory each day)
Credits received: 31*737
Battle Achievements: Sniper, Master Gunner, Sharpshooter, Mastery Badge: "III Class"

Its completly stock btw, I don't think this one is that bad. Its almost just as fun to wizz around with as the AMX 13 90

[lag]

playing the KV-13, coming from the KV-1S, but not really looking forward to unlocking the T-43. really want to get to the T-44, though. heard it's a ton of fun.

[Qui Shon]

So srsly, what rigs do you have on E-50?

[Loganbacca]

Draw
Battle: El Halluf Sunday, 29 July 2012 7:15:45 p.m.
Vehicle: T32
Experience received: 1,039
Credits received: 42,729
Battle Achievements: Sniper

Was going to post it in the rage thread, but I've nothing to rage about as it was actually a decent game.
Faced off against 2x JTigers at the same time (one with 10hp, the other with full hp) and managed to kill both with the help of arty support.
Tracked a T95 right at the end and would of been able to finish him off if I hadn't been nuked by enemy arty, and if we hadn't run out of time a few seconds later anyway.
The T34 suicide distracting the IS-8 was helpful (killed the IS-8) but unhelpful at the same time (since we lost the T34).
Too bad we didn't have just one or two more competent players on the team otherwise it probably would have been a win.

[Tordin Varglund]

So srsly, what rigs do you have on E-50?

..rammer vents vstab? I dont even remember. I just put that on everything.

[Shuko]

So srsly, what rigs do you have on E-50?

..rammer vents vstab? I dont even remember. I just put that on everything.

I got rammer, vstab, optics at the moment, but vent is perfectly fine as well.

[Qui Shon]

Ok ok, maybe it does have its upsides, the E-50.

Victory!
Battle: Himmelsdorf 29 July 2012 13:08:58
Vehicle: E-50
Experience received: 2,368
Credits received: 93,960 (compensation for damage caused by allies: 2,020)
Battle Achievements: Top Gun, Sniper, Mastery Badge: "Ace Tanker"

All of it peekaboo on the hill, except one arty kill at the end, from 92hp.

I fit the vertstab at least, not sure about bino's vs vents yet.


And bam, very next game

Victory!
Battle: El Halluf 29 July 2012 13:19:19
Vehicle: E-50
Experience received: 2,167
Credits received: 85,567
Battle Achievements: Confederate


maybe it was the stab that did it :P

[SteeleResolve]

Im 60k xp away from e50 - unfortunately my patton/JT/t30 grind for tier 10's is taking priority

And finally made 50% win ratio on my m104 - when i first got it (with that t34 premium patch) it inherited the old stats from the tier 9 t34 (ie something REALLY bad like 42%, thanks to the shitty stock gun ) but have only made class 1 medal.

Think I'm going to sell it, although I might sell the t110 too as that inherited the old t30 stats :'-(

I dunno, will wait and see if the new tier 10s will be worth the credits

[Muffinsrevenger]

Victory!
Battle: Erlenberg den 29 juli 2012 13:14:55
Vehicle: T34
Experience received: 1*725
Credits received: 133*624
Battle Achievements: Confederate


So damn close to topgun! silly derp-34, y u no shoot straight?!

[Fourfingers frankie]

pretty much every time a team has a T30 and we dont we get murdered by him. What should i be looking to exploit to stop that happening?

[Varcaus]

pretty much every time a team has a T30 and we dont we get murdered by him. What should i be looking to exploit to stop that happening?

Shoot the hull?

[Dahak]

pretty much every time a team has a T30 and we dont we get murdered by him. What should i be looking to exploit to stop that happening?

Just picked one up myself due to the discount and tier 10 TDs, feeling silly for having sold it in the first place after the switch. Second loader isn't 100% yet but I seriously doubt that the reload is going to get under 17 seconds, so after he fires you've got a big window to exploit. Additionally the turret turns glacially slow (18 d/s), so if you're fast enough you can just drive around him. Lastly Wargaming has repeatedly nerfed the dispersion from movement/turret rotation, so unless you're actually touching the tank he'll probably have to take a moment to aim even after the crosshairs get to your tank. Can't mount a vertical stabilizer to compensate, either.

Due to the awful hull armor (wee 51mm rear) the driver has to honor every single threat around him, even if it's a lowly T-50.

[DaDutchDude]

pretty much every time a team has a T30 and we dont we get murdered by him. What should i be looking to exploit to stop that happening?

A well played T30 can definitely be a game changer. The trick (or at leas a trick) is to save shots for him. It's often better to take a shot from somebody else to shoot the T30 then to shoot at the first thing that takes a shot at you, only for the T30 to pop out and calmly shoot you safe in the knowledge you're in a reload cycle. Tracking a T30 in the open is even better, so aim for the front corner so you can do damage and track him, giving you a good chance of getting a seconf shot in before he is reloaded. And the last thing you want to do (or better, something you really DON'T want to do) against a T30 is to just charge into the open. Cover first, do damage second (but that really should be the idea of almost all matches unless you have a medium / light swarm, where your cover comes from movement.)

[Hel OWeen]

I know Czechoslovakia had nice domestic tanks

Yepp, at least both German Pz 35 and Pz 38 were actually Czech tanks.

[ctrlchris]

Chris' tips for shoosting t30' - I.CANT SLEEP EDTION

shot the hull.
Wait for the reload.
Wait for him to do something dumb like not shooting you and shooting some other baddie.
Go fast and circle the baddie.
Play corner games a bait a shot and hope he hits the corner.

Tapatalk etc

[Dirk Magnum]

Lorraine 40 t researched. Undistributed experience spent: 83,569. Free Experience spent: 26,431.

Didn't have a chance to play at all in the last 48 hours so I said screw it and free xp'd the last bit on the 13 90. At least I'll still be able to credit grind for the reduced price before the deadline.

13 90 is going to be an insane free xp grinder now that it's elited. I've been averaging ~700 xp on victories lately with it, which is more xp than I usually get in a winning Lowe match.

[Fourfingers frankie]

Lorraine 40 t researched. Undistributed experience spent: 83,569. Free Experience spent: 26,431.

Didn't have a chance to play at all in the last 48 hours so I said screw it and free xp'd the last bit on the 13 90. At least I'll still be able to credit grind for the reduced price before the deadline.

13 90 is going to be an insane free xp grinder now that it's elited. I've been averaging ~700 xp on victories lately with it, which is more xp than I usually get in a winning Lowe match.

I've been using it for that myself, it's awesome especially as I move between a 58 - 60% win rate. Can't wait for the new gun when it goes up a tier.