QUOTE(mowlous @ Nov 21 2017, 11:13 PM)
Some like to go face so they buy defender, but to me I just wanna see big boom, skorpion g is like a paper tank with tier 9 best gun, basically its the exact gun as e75 last tier gun. but paying for one doesn't mean instant win though, if you are careless its still very easy for enemy to fry you, it took me few hundred match to finally do 3 - 4k dmg per round on good days.
Also unless you are a premium tank collector 1 premium is good enough to cover credit and exp. unless you want other premium to train different class crew.
The skorpion g is fairly big in size, so not all grass is suitable, for me I went full stealth, first perk camo for all accept leader, leader do 6 sense, 2nd one leader camo the rest is up to you. Equipment rammer is a must, after that can go with bino and camo net.
Once you are good at hiding shots you will turn the tide of the battle most of the time if you hold a choke point enemy who charge most likely die to that falcon punch every 11 - 9 sec (depending if you have other perk like bia and coffee etc.)
Over all I wouldn't say buying premium or playing one is spoiled, yea sure they give you certain advantage but its not like game breaking type of advantage, I just see them as playing a grainded tier 9 tank. The only advantage is if you die fast or early you won't loose money, or earn much w/o doing dmg. So its very much still depend on your skills to be able to take advantage of a premium tank.
Also sort of a way to support the game dev if you are busy.
My current status I have 2 tier 9, 4 tier 8, 3 tier 7, 6 tier 6, 4 tier 5 ........ most of the enemy tank I most feared is from normal tree ..... so far I've never really feel threaten by premium tanks before, even those with trollish armor.
Also

1. I will buy Defender if they re-release again, my style is a mix of 30% push + 50% peekaboo + 20% minor sniping type, no harm to have at least 3 T8 premium tanks around rotating between battles for rapid silver farming~
2. TIER 8 PREMIUM: Currently I have FV4202 as initial crew trainer up to 3rd skills + silvers, I just bought Skorpion G as my main BIG GUN for COMBAT XP farming, these 2 premTanks are great to grinding silvers non-stop.
3. Skorpion G size relatively much SMALLER than SU100Y & SCUMBUS though... if u can survive with these 2, finding bushes within short time is no problem for SKorpion G
4. About being spoiled by T8 premium, I would rather say that:
a. Almost all tier 6 tanks needs a bunch of VERY GOOD crews in order to overcome the TIER 8 match.
b. SU100Y as example => it has an almost perfect mid range big gun, but all other aspect need to be recovered/fixed by crews & equipments tremendously.
c. TIER 8 premium is like => finally you can actually do something for team with 75% crews and almost 0 equipments (just now my uploaded picture is done by less than 80% crews), and of course as silver earner~
d. TIER 7 premium is like => jack of all trades, the only good part is you can actually save some RM, (I would rather buy Skorpion G )