Very tempted to buy T92 cause terrain resistance and dispersion... but then I don like the design...

Should I play Charioteer and skip Conway or;
Should I play skip Charioteer and play Conway...

my FV4202 did it again... within 2 hours can destroy more than 45 vehicles... guess time constraint can unleash player's capability...



This post has been edited by air: Dec 2 2017, 10:14 AM

Just spent RM65 bought 5 tokens... envy u can play Japanese tanks to survive, My FV4202 and Skorpion G is not easy to stay alive and deal good damage at same time, even my SU100Y only can get 2nd place in XP... Waiting for today's final mission for the remaining 1 tokens...

Ever since I "drove" the Churchill 3 & AT15a, any vehicle which moving 20 kph is an instant NO-NO to me~ (Japanese heavies is really SLOW)

About the german TD choice, Ferdinand is obvious better choice on papers, better than JPanther 2 as in:

- Armor thickness & distribution & 350 more HP
- view range
- Camo value

While worse in:

- Vehicle hull control & top speed
- terrain/traverse resistance

If I play turretless TD, there are a few things I would like to consider:

1. Gun arc
2. Frontal plating distribution
3. Total HP
4. View range
5. Innate Camo value

Reloacting speed will be my least concern as I always find nearest large cover if I am spotted.

Daily offers at 3rd Dec 2017:



This post has been edited by air: Dec 3 2017, 02:27 PM

Just got my Alpine tiger... gosh it is super face-hugger... can go for pushing match with other Tier 9 heavies...

Any equip and crew advice for Alpine tiger?

I am thinking putting 1 of the female crew into CHINA tank line, but so far no further plan to expand the tank line...

Yup just updated, will try it tonight on Conway/Charioteer/Doombarn/Deathstar/IS7/STRV-103B/212A lolz

Currently farming and saving Combat EXP for 1:45 conversion discount rate



In comparison of SK-G:

Charioteer on papers => I feel it is a long range sniper with high speed rounds (better shell PEN/velocity/camo values/mobility, but worse accuracy, still can compete due to Gun depression & APCR shells)

Conway on papers => Entry peek-kaboom type (Additional 110 damage but in a severe expenses of all gun-handling stats, only better in HP/mobility/view range). half-baked capability on peekaboom & mid range support, but master neither both.

FV4005 => sacrifice everything for good mobility and great gun in peekaboom~, Basically is tier X version of KV-2/SU100Y.

Playing charioteer under premium account I am still ok not to skip it...

but Conway 0.36 dispersion + 850 shell velocity... maybe test server experience may prove me wrong...

SK-G 0.29 dispersion really can get tons of kills, and its 1 of the reason it keep rolling in the silvers.~

Is it normal to have such high ping due to everyone sharing the same server?

Tested so far overall I din have much problem on driving Challenger/Charioteer and Conway though...

Since This mid-week discount is good for re-training crews, I shall start on Challenger on last day of the offer...(based on my current available free XP)



Free premium tank for the Winner country tankers:



This post has been edited by air: Dec 4 2017, 10:22 PM

Rule of thumb for me:

1. Find the tank I am interested
2. Check wiki for anything need to take note when upgrading module
3. Free XP those important module.
4. Free XP the top gun.

Ever since I get Alpine tiger... I feel so soothing cause able to channel my aggressive-ness

1 fight 4 tanks, 1 of the earlier deaths, but able to get top 3 EXP earned...

AT15 is still okay, after top gun upgrade... still can fight back... but not AT15a premium tank... its speed is terrible, but gun even worse...

So far tested Alpine Tiger for a couple of battles:

Free Premium tanks => Average performance or below (as expected)

The good:
- Decent speed (Off road is a must, and clutch braking should improve its hull turning for quite a bit for flanking/anti-flanking)
- Decent upper plate and great front turret armor, able to face-hug with defender with very little chance to being PEN-thru
- As long as u can keep its lower plate hidden/angling by obstacle/dancing, upper hull plate can only be PENNED frontally by 200 pen or above to reach your ammo rack (means no angling, side scraping is more practical)
- by using side slopes & exposing only the turret and peek outside... U can enjoy tons of bouncing hits sound on your oval-shaped turret
- having 1 of the best camo for among all HTs (camo + repair + BIA is applicable to this tank)
- Will never facing Tier 10 (Tier 9 is hellish enough for this tank's pitiful 250 HEAT PEN)


The bad:
- The gun is limited to facehugging & melee brawling only, due to its bad accuracy, personally feel no point to use VSTAB to compensate it.
- AP shell penentration only 175, you can only bully most MTs/LTs/TDs except Pershings
- 250 PEN Gold rounds is 5600 silvers, this means, you gain NO silver profits if you take this tank against tier 7 & 8 HTs with HEAT gold rounds.
- can get ammo-racked easily without Wet Ammo Rack equipment, Safe Stowage + Wet Rack is highly recommended.

How I view/feel/suggest about this heavy tank:

1. fight HTs => no silver profits, fight MTs/TDs = they use gold rounds against you, pick your path, both are equally hellish

2. Vehicle handling > Camo > Gun handling => For maneuver/flanking against MTs/LTs/TDs, Gun handing improvement is quite pointless IF you are using AP rounds & using HEAT shells on MTs quite wasteful

3. This tank able to take many hits from multiple tanks when reversing into S line & with decent speed can really RAM well when face hugging. Consider putting vehicle impact if you want to rush and facehugging effectively.

Again I must remind this point again:

Alpine Tiger is a frontline support/ flankers
vs HTs with HEAT shells => no silvers
vs MTs with AP rounds => silver profits but got risk being PENNED blindly.

Equipments: Rammers/VSTAB/WetRack/Optics/Vents/Enhanced suspension(side scraping)/toolbox

This post has been edited by air: Dec 6 2017, 10:52 AM

haha added to my post.

After these tries, I can confirm using AP ammo with this gun is super pitiful & crying accuracy & I am looking for another way to earn better silvers.

Next trials will be on its suspension and vehicle control:

1. Off-road + clutch braking, Sixth sense + BIA, rest all repairs
2. Rammer(optional)/Enhanced suspension/toolbox/Vents/Wet Rack
3. See how far I can push this tank's speed & traverse for a flanking role.
4. Speed VS track repair speed (need to gauge from Equipments/skills)

Having a decent heavy tank to flank enemies/behind might yield a better outcome?

Double credits?

I thought its just 50% more silvers? while the bonus mostly offset by expensive HEAT shells

Dancing and baiting shots for more than couple of minutes, is quite boring to me... and its pike nose front hull design... can do only half/hull angling to hide the inner pike side OR side scraping... Either how the front hull will be PEN by more than 220mm shots...

The more I play this tank, the more I feel I need to max off-road driving + crutch braking asap to make use of its flanking speed for better contribution.

Since it earns way more credits than other premium, my method of spamming this tank without getting boring is keep trying to flank the frontline/support on the side as much as possible before dying, while using ONLY the AP rounds.

Using more than 8 HEAT rounds 250 pen will almost always result in no net profit/rugi...

This post has been edited by air: Dec 7 2017, 02:02 PM

Yesterday having a good game streaks, able to intercept HTs' sides and rear within cities, having 70% of the light tank speed does helps a lot (Thanks to in progress offroad driving), silvers keep rolling into my pockets~

Alpine tiger's top speed is just the engine speed limit, with fresh crews, it will almost never hit past 40kmh even on flat ground... With 70% Off road I able to hit 45kmh consistently on soft terrain...

With such speed, Alpine can direct take shortcut and rush into some choke points and hold the position better than LT/MTs, it can further pressure the flanking sides by simply charging frontally, since not much MTs/TDs can chill and PEN your Alpine when u rushing in high speed.

Now next my Alpine need Clutch braking and BIA+vents for further hull control in order to compete fast MTs/LTs/TDs... it might sounds weird using HT to play like this, but 175 PEN gun is beyond despair...

Just bought Challenger and used it on couple of battles: (BIA + Camo maxed with some skills on progress)

1. Control slightly lesser than FV4202
2. Speed acceleration much better than FV4202 & SKG
3. 300 damage 30 pdr can let enemy feel way more painful than FV4202 gun
4. Very odd avenger turret hull, 200mm armor at the REAR of the turret
5. The experience is like in the middle between Skorpion G & FV4202, but definitely better experience than both especially on slopes (SKG cant have 10 degree depression on slopes, FV4202 alpha damage too low and cant overmatch STRV-S1)
6. Facing only up to tier 9, thats make a lot difference than SKG/FV4202
7. The only downside is, 900hp with little armor thus cant even do minimum brawl, and its not premium vehicle

I expect Charioteer performance will be better than this Challenger, Conway might be worse experience than SKG due to dispersion & lower shell speed

This post has been edited by air: Dec 8 2017, 09:26 AM

Zomg I still have 2 female crew ready to recruit... but the countries I am playing so far:

USSR : SU100Y & KV-2 (1 female commander allocated to KV-2)
UK : FV4202, AC 4 Ex, and Challenger (free female commander allocated to challenger)
German : Skorpion G (0 female)
China : Alpine tiger (0 female)

Should I put female crew on premium tanks instead? those 2 female crews I got is from Personal Mission, will they be gone after patch update?

How I wish I can trade my FV4202 to Primo Victoria~

This post has been edited by air: Dec 8 2017, 11:35 AM

JUst read WOT asia forum, some reliable source said that Defender wont be on sales in near future, including Advent Calendar/Dec sales...

Finally can rest my heart and fully focus to grind for FV4005...

About the female crew assignment, any good suggestion on some other nations' tank?

to me female crew is a great premium starter crew with free BIA + Sixth sense as commander.

My current idea:

-3 female crews for Sweedish TD (maybe 1 for STRV first?)
- 1 female driver for Alpine Tiger, directly complete Offroad + Clutch as starting crew... HT not really need Sixth sense as badly as other type from beginning.

Among all types, my garage still lacking LTs to complete the missions.... any recommendation?

This post has been edited by air: Dec 8 2017, 04:43 PM

Sweedish TD:
1. previously I thought of buying STRV-S1 when it was RM130++ but then its armor only can bounce 90mm calibre and below, I might as well as using an UDES with the same gun ? 30mm is very different from 40mm armor when it comes to overmatch...

2. Will definitely skip until UDES in order to play the Siege mode TD, can use that RM130++ for premium account for grinding instead of buying STRV-S1

3. STRV-103B is 1 of my tier X goal definitely, after FV4005

About Alpine tiger:



China version I checked online seems having X2 crew XP... will test further...

only 50% more crew XP as usual... I wonder how they able to estimate 100% bonus silvers from alpine tiger...

About Female crew:



If such mission reward unclaimed, will it disappear when new patch updated? I already used my free gifted female crew on CHallenger.

This post has been edited by air: Dec 8 2017, 10:34 PM

Somehow I cleared the HT-15 with Alpine tiger... how do i reach 4000hp damage caused/received/blocked?



now I have 3 female crews ready... putting them into UDES to grind tier X IKEA TD seems good?

Been while since last time update here:

1. So far Advent Calendar Day-19, haven spend a single penny on tank
2. Unlocked & bought Bishop on 50% discount.
3. Currently holding 360K XP & waiting for 1:45 conversion rate offer.
4. Grinding Challenger/Alpine Tiger/SK-G

Anyone here can give some suggestion, which line should I choose for my first tier X tank?

UDES 03 => STRV-103B line (I have 3 female crews ready, can start with BIA + camo + SS instantly)

VS

Charioteer => FV4005 line (turreted high velocity APCR sniper transitioned into medium-close range peekaboo, the crew are BIA & camo ready)

Both line boasting high PEN gun and yet play very differently.