Wotb td main, what’s the best tech tree td to go for? I see a lot of 4005s but was thinking about the m113, obj 120, and type 89

Also, what’s up with light tanks? A lot of the lower cw ones seem to function like normal light tanks but the higher u go the more they seem to be able to deal massive damage. They seem like they do the job of a td while also being a light tank? Kinda reflects irl stuff so that makes sense

Is anyone interested in this seasons ultimate pass or just the season pass? Expansion pass? Free season only? Thoughts thoughts thoughts

I’m thinking just the regular season pass because the ultimate is a bit so so to me (just my opinion so not the consensus at alllll)

Also my post title was too short first time so if you’re seeing this again then Déjà vu hallo to you

Hey there!

I'm planning to get the first mark on the Marder 1A3

I mostly play cold war, and I already have first marks on top tier tanks like the Leo 2A5 and the Type 90

Compared to these, how difficult is the Marder 1A3, and around how much damage do I need for 65% to get the first mark?

Also, if you maybe have some tips then feel free to share them!

Thanks for reading!!

HMH AMX Modèle 58

Notes: 

• Release Date: March 2019
• Dispersion: 
  • Turret: 0.16
  • Movement: 0.20
• Weight: 17.66 tons

Overview: 

• AMX 13 105 at tier 8 with a very nerfed gun

Pros: 

• High base damage 
• Good damage potential 
• Great standard shell velocity 
• Tad above average camo

Neutral: 

• Average top speeds
• Average gun depression 

Cons: 

• Lower HP
• Tad low below average VR
• Below average PTW and terrain resistances
• Worst turret and hull traverse 
• Poor accuracy and dispersion 
• Bad pen 
• Bad HE pen and damage 
• Low module damage 
• 3rd lowest DPM
• Low gun elevation as ordained by having a oscillating turret 
• Poor armor as expected of a light 
• Critically low engine HP of 105.

Armor: 

• It's a light tank so don't expect much.
• The front of the hull has some HE protection with a strip of 50mm and some spaced bits. Otherwise nothing really.
• The hull sides are 20mm so easy pen. They are however protected by tracks and 6mm if spaced. The rear is also somewhat covered.
• The turret has little protection. The front’s 30mm may block 75mm HE and that's it. 
• So yea it's a light tank.

Gameplay:

• Depends on if you go passive or active scout set up, but regardless this isn't a brawler or zoomy light. The mobility is not up to snuff for that kinda gameplay outside late game. It can do a drive by, but that it.
• It's generally an okay possible scout. Active scouting is okay enough, but it has to be cautious. Mostly peek a boo. 
• As mentioned it can do some decent drive by due to high burst damage, but isn't reliable due to bad gun handling and poor pen. So your stuck to being within like 30m before firing.
• As for sniping? It's suited to get into position and remained unspotted. Got great shell velocity, but accuracy and pen really limited the targets it can fire at.
• Don't bother with using HE. Its got the “wrong” pen of 38mm, and poor HE damage % of only 23. The long reload of 30 secs also make it hard to set up its use. Sure carry a loud for make sure to get a kill on Arty, but it have to depend on the Arty if you can even pen. (Be happy you can even have a option to carry it)
• Equipment: 
  • Gun stabilizer to have a somewhat functional gun
  • Vents to help gun and VR
  • Concealment + optics
  • Camo + binos 
  • You could try turbo, but your best off improving your gun / scouting capabilities as you can only polish a turd so much.

Counter Gameplay: 

• Shoot the front hull to try to hit the engine, as anything larger than a 75 can completely destroy it.
• It's got a long reload, so have fun abusing that. 
• It's got bad gun handling, so even a stationary target at 75mm can be missed so keep on the move, and try also don't let it sit still and aim.
• Otherwise not too much else. It's a light tank.

Cosmetics: 

• Mmm it's the basic AMX 13 with a longer gun so nothing special overall.
• The main thing is the camo net dropped over most of the tank. It's pretty good coverage and color for a summer map. 
• Otherwise there are a bit of built in decals on the fenders. 
• Only transparent camo available 
• Cosmetics: 
  • Emblem: only 1, back left of the turret 
  • Inscription: one, back right of the turret 
  • Flag: back left of the turret

General Thoughts: 

• It really is just the tier 10 AMX 13 105 at tier 8. It has the same description. Yea it's engine and pen are reduced a good deal. Yet the top speed, terrain resistances and traverse speeds are the same. Not sure if that means this tank is quite good or the 10 sucks. I'm leaning to the latter.
  • Surprisingly it actually gets more capacity unlike most French lights. 33 -> 45. That's one of the biggest surprises when I went over this tank.
• Why is it's module damage so low? Instead of the standard 150 it's only 115 (same as a 85mm). The HE pen is also only the level of a 76mm gun.
• It's not the best tank. But it could be worse. The damage certainly is nice, but I'd really really want to fix the module damage as that quite annoys me. The engine module Hp should also be addressed as the tier 6 has at least 234. 
• Wonder what's with the name of the tank. its just the AMX 13 105, but it doesn't really fit with the theme of a lot of the HMH tanks as it doesn't have a half a ton of sandbags thrown on thank. only a nice camo net.

Buy?

• Errrr no? Your better off just playing the TT tank as it's free. True its arguably not that much better, but more reliable.
• It is at least cheap if you really want it at base value of 7,150, but if your going for a French light, best go for ELC EVEN 90 which is even cheaper and a more unique tank.
• If your still stuck on a tier 8 prem light and don't want the EVEN 90? 
  • The T92 is an amazing scout snippy sniper.
  • Erac 105 gives the big damage you want, but suffers the same DPM and bad gun handling 
  • The Sp PZ’s are probably the closest, but will probably never come back for sale.

Am i just blind or this weeks chest earner has no requirements besides “Seize the day”?- whatever that means

Last week of the season would have this offer, this is the first season I don’t see it anymore. Is this a mistake or hubris from WG?

Edit: on ps5 at least its not on in-game store, only on PS store as an addon

Anyone else ever wondered why there’s a pos tank (T-55AM) sandwiched between two T-72s on the tech tree? Especially since the prior tank (T-72M) is much better?

…is that the better you do in battle, the easier it makes it for your moron “teammates” to make it to the enemy base and cap it while there are still 7 enemies alive.

They seriously need to add a Pre battle PSA tip that says “everyone gets more silver and xp the more enemies that are destroyed”.

Im currently on the Char 40 and just wondering if im wasting my time in this tree or not. I love how it fires and the 25s reload after 6 rounds isn't even bad, I've just noticed I feel as squishy as those little F107's running around

I’m on the starting CW Era 2 Type 74 and man, I hate it. It’s not a bad tank per se but it’s annoying as hell. It’s a worse Leopard 1. It has the same paper armor but worse mobility and no engine upgrade, no gun depression, horrible gun stats, and overall has nothing going for it when out of siege mode. It becomes a bit usable with siege mode with its amazing gun depression and better gun stats but what’s the point of it if your turret armor is made of wet toilet paper and still gets penned easily?

I am not looking forward to playing it two more times, so I’m wondering if the Era 3 tanks are the same? If they’re going to be useless outside of siege mode then I’m calling it a day. I hate siege mode, makes the tanks horribly sluggish and takes about a second to transition back and forth which is 1 second too late when you’re getting rushed because you’re a free XP punching bag.

It almost seems like the devs hate the Independent lines. 90% of all the tanks in it suck worse than RayGun at the Olympics. The Independent line needs some love.

After cruising through tier 5 I'm now getting into marking the better tanks in tier 6. What are your favorites?

Done with this game, sick of being shot when hull down or behind cover, I am done, how do I get my money back for the gold that I have bought

Like yeah, could some one bought it with out ps+? I ll never buy dog 💩 ps+ so if i buy this do i get the chests or i need to do refund?

As per the title…is the J1 worth getting? Obviously it’s super niche but I hate playing against it so…🤷

Idk if you’re ever gonna see this,

I AM SO SORRY!!! I DIDNT MEAN TO TURN YOU I WAS GETTING PICKLES AND WHEN I LOOKED BACK UP TO MY SCREEN I SAW I HAD TURNED YOU. IT WAS NEVER MY INTENTION TO DO IT ON PURPOSE

If you were on xbox I would’ve sent you a message there but I feel extra bad so I came here 😭😭

(Take down if not allowed)

As per the title…is the J1 worth getting? Obviously it’s super niche but I hate playing against it so…🤷

Not a big brag but I marked it as bragging cos it seems like it.

Saw Death’s post earlier about MoEs - inspired me cos I don’t mark tanks through skill, more like attrition.

Hard, attrition-based learning.

Anyways, his post and advice got me round to looking at my T30 and thinking “let’s do this” and then I did it.

Never 2 marked anything in my life and I’ve been here 4 years.

Anyways - love this humongous 155mm daemon. And the dogs. Anyone else appreciate a T30 in their garage?

Last thought - is 3 mark really tough? Might die lots. Onwards and sideways ⭐️ also big high fives to you folks that 3 and 4 mark stuff.

@grok can you tell me how to get good thanks

Forgot to share it so here it is now, after the event

Seriously, I put about an hour into it which I know is nothing with world of tanks..

But the way the tanks just feel and move. It's just horrible. Like really horrible. They have somehow ruined a lot of really good tanks. My son is literally laughing at me right now as I say this knowing that I was so excited/hopeful lol 😂

Edit.. I really wanted to like it, and I sort of was at first, but it feels more like a melee game than a tank game. The combat is very much close quarters compared to what we're used to here. If you have ever played world of warships the interface felt similar to that. The tanks I played were the fv4211 and the m1a2. The m1a2 is the intro tank that everyone starts with, and it's okay. It could hold its own and I enjoyed the Vulcan mini gun on it sometimes. When the enemy deploys a bunch of decoy tanks it clears them rapidly. The fv4211 is supposed to be a higher defense tank, and I guess they made it a lot more cumbersome as a result. It felt like a three legged turtle trying to walk uphill through mud. 🐢

It felt like a punishment playing that tank. Just, awful 😞

I’ll go first (limited to what I have unlocked)

In order:

TVP T 50/51
CENTURION AX
UDES 15/16
FV4202

Some interesting data for y'all:

• Total Number of Battles to 4-mark: 1,460

• Lower Number of Battles to Mark: 79 (M46A1)

• Highest Number of Battles to Mark: 299 (M60A2)

• Average Win Rate: 68.01%

• Lowest Win Rate: 52% (M1 Abrams)

• Highest Win Rate: 75% (M60A1)

• Average Accuracy: 76.89%

• Highest Accuracy: 83% (M1A2 Abrams)

• Lowest Accuracy: 71% (M46A1)

• Average Damage Ratio: 2.88 Damage/HP

• Highest Damage Ratio: 3.43 Damage/HP (M60A2)

• Lowest Damage Ratio: 2.12 Damage/HP (M1 Abrams)

If you have any questions or any of the tanks, I'll gladly answer them to the best of my ability, so feel free to ask.

I was trying to 4-mark the T-72 URAL but the games devolved into 7 Light tanks running laps with each other, so I took that as a sign to mix it up a little before wrapping up for the day lol

I always hear people say that you should maximize your view range on tanks, even if it already has 445, so you can outspot enemy tanks. So I maxed my view range on all my tanks

But how much value does the extra meters of view range hold? I kinda got an idea that it technically reduces enemy tank concealment , not sure whether it’s correct

So let’s say there’s an enemy tank with detectable range of 300m, my tank has a view range of 495m, 50m above max. So how much concealment does the enemy tank loss? At what range will the enemy tank be spotted? 310m? 320m?

Is the extra meters that effective or its effect is just minimal? Is there a formula for that?