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(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Fri May 11, 2012 6:05 am

Momar wrote:Moving this to Fence Post

How will I shitpost with impunity now????????? Now all my posts will count thanks jerk!

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Fri May 11, 2012 1:18 pm

I got into that China map last night. It is very pretty. :allears:

The whole game is pretty. :allears:

You're all pretty. :allears:

This air tastes...great. You all need some of this air. :allears:

(?) · by **Artificer** (?) » Fri May 11, 2012 5:17 pm

Aramek, are you high?

And yeah, the China map is very beautiful. You spend so much time playing hide and seek thanks to the bamboo though.

The shoots of which are quite tasty. :-I

(?) · by **CaptDarrion** (?) » Fri May 11, 2012 5:33 pm

After like 200 battles, I still havent got into the new maps :bluh:

. I dont know if theres something wrong with my WoT or im just either lucky or unlucky not getting pulled into one.

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Fri May 11, 2012 6:11 pm

Artificer wrote:Aramek, are you high?

Only on Life, my friend. Only on Life.

Some Panda wrote:The shoots of which are quite tasty.

(I love them too.)

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 12:49 am

I ended up with a kickass battle with my M3 Lee (7 kills, which kinda made me feel like god lol)

And another one in my KV-1, which landed me the Ace Mastery badge, and actually... both tanks got it :allears:

I love them!

But my computer crashed before I could post my stats for those battles :gonkity:

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 1:52 am

everyone welcome our newest tanker
despite being completely new to the wide world of tanks he is already learned good

[17:44:25] <ControlVolume> the is-8 doesn't have armor
[17:44:40] <ControlVolume> the e-50 has better armor than the is-8
[17:45:18] <Westy543> Hahaha
[17:45:35] <ControlVolume> but better than the e-75 because the e-75 doesn't have armor
[17:45:39] <Westy543> right
[17:45:41] <Westy543> it's basically paper
[17:45:47] <ControlVolume> i ran into a tree and the branches penetrated
[17:46:03] <ControlVolume> the tank just pringled around it
[17:47:01] <Westy543> rip

real stories from real warzones :saddash:

(?) · by **Glaed** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 5:05 pm

kfjihviehvkshvijhyiuhwuibheibhewiubheuibhiuhdubhesbhiuvhiuhuivhejk :twonk:

It's that damn dude that stole my name in tanks. :-/

I WILL KILL YOU.

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 5:12 pm

The only reason why I'd kill the dude is because he says E-75 has no armor, and also that he thinks the Tiger II is a shit tank....

*cocks shotgun* I wonder where he lives :rainbert:

And Glaed, your name is legit enough, don't go killing him for that... At least I can kill him because he insulted the best Tier 8 tank in-game and the best tank in the entire damn War....
Oh World War II, when did you become obscene

(?) · by **Glaed** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 5:22 pm

It's just annoying because he knew I was using it elsewhere and now I have people constantly confuse me for him in a couple of places.

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 9:30 pm

Glaed it's nice of you to finally join the clan!!! :allears:

Also the King Tiger by far was a terrible tank in WW2. Sure, it was well armored and had a strong gun, but it broke down ridiculously often.

(?) · by **Throbulator** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 9:35 pm

Best tank was the T-34, I will knife fight you to death or untill we run out of knives if you disagree. :glare:

Also Control Volume is a butt.

(?) · by **Necrosaro** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 10:15 pm

I just sent in an application to join [PONY]. The name is Necrosaro in the game as well.

(?) · by **Glaed** (?) » Sat May 12, 2012 10:58 pm

Welcome!

Nice av.

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 12:36 am

Throbulator wrote:Best tank was the T-34, I will knife fight you to death or untill we run out of knives if you disagree.

Also Control Volume is a butt.

Well, looks like we'll have to duel it out... And really, the best tank in-game that was in the war is Tiger, I'm sorry, whatever you say, I don't care, I love the Tiger in-game and in the War, it had insane armor for when it came out, it had a good gun and range... The best part about it was that it's range was ridiculous for a tank at the time.

So if you got a problem, prepare for a sniper round inside you're head :glare:

I love Tiger, your argument is invalid

And Westy... a high velocity 88? If you think that's good... that's a huge understatement... The gun could penetrate any tank in the war, and sure the mechanical problems were occasional, it was still operational, better than when the Jagdtiger came out :-/

If the Jagdtiger was actually taken time on with the testing and bug fixing, oh man, it may not have won the war for Germany, but it would've pushed the entire war back by a few months at least...

(?) · by **ScionVyse** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 1:01 am

World of Tanks Classic, Season I: Division 19
Complete: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:00:13 PM
Armored Outlaws vs. Ponygoons
Technical Victory!

Hurray! We are the best at showing up to matches! NO ONE IS MORE PUNCTUAL THAN US! :twonk:

(?) · by **CaptDarrion** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 1:06 am

Or they got too scared of us to even show up :-I

.

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 1:11 am

Necrosaro wrote:I just sent in an application to join [PONY]. The name is Necrosaro in the game as well.

Hey I just got your app. Welcome to the clan and welcome to ponygoons! :pinkietoot:

Edit: Teru, it's like saying the Jagdtiger was one of the best tanks because of its horrifying 128 that knocked Shermans out without them even knowing what was hitting them. The fact that its gun broke simply from lack of proper alloying made it sub-par. It was also HUGE. Another problem of the King Tiger is despite its amazing gun and armor the resources it took to build were ridiculous.

The T-34 was probably one of the best tanks of the war.

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 1:47 am

Westy543 wrote:
Edit: Teru, it's like saying the Jagdtiger was one of the best tanks because of its horrifying 128 that knocked Shermans out without them even knowing what was hitting them. The fact that its gun broke simply from lack of proper alloying made it sub-par. It was also HUGE. Another problem of the King Tiger is despite its amazing gun and armor the resources it took to build were ridiculous.

The T-34 was probably one of the best tanks of the war.

Lol, I agree with the Jagdtiger, particularly because for the most part, it just became a fortified bunker, it would not stop breaking down, the immense size of the gun also contributed to its awfulness since the 128 was such a big ass gun....

Meanwhile, Tiger II... I am not saying anymore it's the best, cause you kind of realize that once you look at it from a mechanical point of view

T-34 was one of the best tanks of the war, deadly balance between armor, speed, and mobility... It's productivity was like in the thousands, per month, so suffice to say they were the zerglings of the war :-I

Tiger is another best tank of the war, it wasn't completely balanced like the T-34, but with its 88 gun, and the armor, along with its mobility (which was okay to some extent), it was a very powerful tank, and so yea...

T-34 and Tiger were very good tanks, case closed :yay:

poor USA only had M4s to make up for it :fluttersmith:

Ah well, they were also little zerglings..... more like banelings

I better not be only guy who plays starcraft II here.... if so: :glare:

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 12:22 pm

The T-34 and Sherman were the best tanks for exactly the same reasons: while not the best they both could be built cheaply and fast, and could preform all roles adequately and all things considered the T-34 and Sherman were equals (Sherman wasn't a shit-can like most people make it out to be deal with it scrubs)

Panther gets an honourable mention for basically being a precursor to the modern MBT but falls short in the "not breaking down all the damn time" category because Germany is terrible at tanks and over-engineers everything and that knocks it out of the running; if they ever actually fixed the maintenance issues and got production into full tilt shit would own but thankfully the Nazis are terrible and it didn't thus the war was shorted and many lives were spared yaaaaaay Nazi incompetence!

(?) · by **Raganti** (?) » Sun May 13, 2012 9:18 pm

ScionVyse wrote:World of Tanks Classic, Season I: Division 19
Complete: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:00:13 PM
Armored Outlaws vs. Ponygoons
Technical Victory!

Hurray! We are the best at showing up to matches! NO ONE IS MORE PUNCTUAL THAN US!

What, no replays of this match? :v:

(?) · by **Throbulator** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 12:44 am

Raganti wrote:
What, no replays of this match?

Click here to view video.

Basically this, but more WWII. :smirk:

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 2:03 am

lol... best replay ever!

Now to find out when another tourney will be around so I can join :twonk:

I'm sorta joking since if the battles are on the weekends, then I really can't be trusted, especially if they are every weekend... my parents are divorced, so I'm on a good computer at my mom's... And then I can't even play World of Tanks at my dad's (Unless my step-mom stops being a bitch and let me play a little bit... even then, her computer is acting up :facehoof:

)

So like I said (back on topic) Best. Replay. Ever. :-I

The M4 Sherman was a nice tank, but the Fire Fly is the variant you're talking about, the most common M4 is the Sherman... And that was only just more than par with the Pz IV... Forget the Tigers, they couldn't pen those monsters (frontally, and really, when is it gonna ever make it to the sides?)

Now M4 Fire Fly (Easy 8 I think) is a variant that was used by British tankers or canadians, USA didn't really use them, but so the Fire Fly was the M4 that could destroy (Or at least damage) Tigers and Panthers (There have been times where a Sherman would actually kill a Panther, but I don't think there was a kill for Tigers in the Sherman)

The USA and Russia were very productive in making these tanks, and they were all very good tanks, not the best quality like the Germans, but the quantity made up for that.

With that being said, who here thinks the T34 (Tier 8) is a worthwhile tank to get? I'm thinking about getting a second premium tank to keep my credits up... This is due to the fact that I'm gonna start grinding the credits for E-100 the minute I get the research, but that's quite a ways away, so I just wanna know if T34 is worthwhile...

I still don't like how you guys don't think the Tiger II or E-75 have strong armor, and I have steel walls to prove it :glare:

(?) · by **Vorelas** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 2:25 am

Teru wrote:I still don't like how you guys don't think the Tiger II or E-75 have strong armor, and I have steel walls to prove it

It's because we're all totally super serious tankers, and the King Tiger's armour can be penned the french long 44 of all things. I mean really. :twonk:

It's mostly just an in-joke Teru. :-/

I'm not sure how much the T34's performance has changed, but it used to just be a T29 with a bigger gun and tier 9 heavy matchmaking. T34 performs reasonably well at tier 8 from what I see of it, but I don't know if it's worth the cash or not.

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 2:34 am

Vorelas wrote:It's mostly just an in-joke Teru.

I'm sorry, I'm still fresh meat, please keep that in mind :v:

Vorelas wrote:I'm not sure how much the T34's performance has changed, but it used to just be a T29 with a bigger gun and tier 9 heavy matchmaking. T34 performs reasonably well at tier 8 from what I see of it, but I don't know if it's worth the cash or not.

I am not sure, if it's because of premium (which doesn't matter since I have 1 year of premium :v:

) or not, but I've seen the amount T34 players recieve per battle, and it's about 100k+ every time I see it (You still have to keep in mind for the repair costs and the ammo costs, but that's still a shit load of money, it makes me dizzy looking at them making how much I make in two rounds with my Lowe... That's prolly cause of the shit teams I had this past week, thank god the x5 special is over >.<)

But if it's cheaper than the Lowe, I'm by all means gonna get it, even if it is the same pricing as the Lowe, that's still a decent deal, considering the net you could be making...

(?) · by **Glaed** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 5:59 am

Teru wrote:Words about Firefly and Sherman and Easy 8

Well, Sherman is the more "general" name, there were a bunch of variants. Heck, there was a "variant" placeholder for Canadian production. The main difference between an ordinary "sherman" (World of Tank's M4, which I've seen referred to as a "Sherman I") and the E8 was actually the suspension, although they also mounted a better gun and engine than the first run variants of the M4. The Easy 8 name actually comes from the suspension, since it was such a smooth ride compared to early Shermans.
Actually, speaking of, an increased variant number (Say M4A1 over M4) doesn't necessarily mean an overall improvement or better variant, and a bunch of changes were made to specific variants' design and production without any change to the variant number, so an M4 from early in production and an M4 from later in production would look a bunch different, carry a different gun, and so on.

Now the Firefly's an entirely different tank. It's an American M4 (generally A4 variant) hull converted by the British to mount a British designed/built turret and 17 pounder gun. Interestingly enough later in the war they became a lot LESS useful because that gun didn't have good HE shells (and even when it did get them way late they weren't anywhere near as effective as even the standard 75mm Sherman gun's HE) and was a bunch less useful against soft targets (buildings, non-tank vehicles, infantry).

Other random fact Glaed knows about the Firefly: Since most of them were converted M4A4's, an average Firefly would be right at 2 inches longer than say an E8 or the WoT M4. Had to do with the engine setup. And why were most of them A4's? It's what Britain received the most of through Lend-Lease. (again, engine setup. A4 had a Chrysler multibank engine with 30 cylinders, the variants fielded by the US had V8 engines.)

I know way too much about tanks.

TL;DR: Firefly and E8 are different tanks and Glaed needs to stop spouting random tank info. Also yes the Firefly is cool.

(?) · by **ScionVyse** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 6:15 am

A fun fact from a Canadian to add to those. The Canadian modification of the M4 was called the Grizzly. It was basically an M4A1 Sherman with more armour and a more rounded sloping. It also had special Canadian-designed tracks. :yay:

I love me some Canada! :twonk:

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 9:03 am

I hate the (non-E8) Sherman in-game cause it uses the dumb A1 cast hull which makes it look like some sort of dumb anime tank and I HATE IT HARD EDGES ARE WHERE IT'S AT MOTHERFUCKER

Glaed wrote:[the Firefly] became a lot LESS useful because that gun didn't have good HE shells (and even when it did get them way late they weren't anywhere near as effective as even the standard 75mm Sherman gun's HE) and was a bunch less useful against soft targets (buildings, non-tank vehicles, infantry).

Incidentally the "Tank Destroyer Doctrine", combined with the fact that the 75 on the Sherman had superior HE characteristics compared to the 76 and the fact that the US

not expecting the Germans to build more than like two Panthers is why most US Shermans still had 75s at the time. Ironically by the time more 76 Shermans started getting sent over the need for them had decreased as German tanks became increasingly rare sights on the western front and the ones that did show their face could be penned with the 75.

(?) · by **Artificer** (?) » Mon May 14, 2012 4:06 pm

So, in light of D3's release, how much fun I'm having on Tribes, and Wargaming's other releases down the line, I'm shelving my plans for an IS-7/IS-4 until further notice. :-/

I had forgotten how the grind in this game can be and at the moment I am content with the top tier tank I already have, which is the Patton.

Which is a good tank. Right? RIGHT?! :twonk:

(?) · by **Strabo** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 8:12 am

Oh yeah, its always good to take a break when you feel yourself burning out. Don't let it get to the point where you have to force yourself to play the doubles cause then you'll just end up hating the game.

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:27 am

Artificer wrote:S
I had forgotten how the grind in this game can be and at the moment I am content with the top tier tank I already have, which is the Patton.

Which is a good tank. Right? RIGHT?!

I heard a rumour that the Patton has more armour than the King Tiger and E-75 combined (all 10mm of it)

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:29 am

Woah woah woah

10mm? Did they buff them in 7.3?

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:30 am

It's called slope you bloody moran

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:32 am

You use those for skiing right

man when physics comes out I better launch my tanks down inclines in order to build more speed to CAP FAST with!

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:33 am

You're thinking of slopes

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:34 am

(?) · by **[Insert name here]** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:41 am

You muppet

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Tue May 15, 2012 9:45 am

you monster

(?) · by **Westy543** (?) » Wed May 16, 2012 12:12 am

Okay in other news

Click here to view video.

Aaaand... WATCH OUT! :tinfoil:

(?) · by **Pickled_Matt** (?) » Wed May 16, 2012 12:25 am

sorry i haven't posted here in a while. saw that you guys were in the military month challenge if you guys win your battles and we win ours well be put together in a match.i hope we fight each other. :applejargh:

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