4581

Sadly, after coming close to making it into the top thousand in Defense Points the lag and disconnect issues have gotten so bad I’ve had to stop playing. Now I’m down in the 1600s. Boo! The new matchmaking system has seemingly lowered the amount of “I hate you MM” chat messages that pop up when a game starts which is good. What’s bad is that I’ve occasionally had to wait two minutes for a match.

sigh

Still, I love playing my new Jagdtiger. It is such a beast when tricked out. (I try to wait until I have enough free xp to research everything before I buy a tank.) For example, two games in and I was getting a nice feel for how to play it. Start up a third game, turns out to be Mountain Pass and we’re defending the North. An IS4 is at the top of the list and I’m second. They’ve got an IS4, IS3, Lowe and some other stuff. We’ve got a few more TDs than they do, no speedy scouts for either side, and only one low level arty for each.

I trundle off to defend the ice road because hey, that’s what I should do. I notice that I’m halfway to the defensive spot and no one is following me. It looks disorganized at base. Uh oh. I coast into the right side as a slugger and jagpanzer start my way. Yay for backup! Slip into sniper mode and wait. An Easy 8 shows up trying to speed to under the bridge, snapshot BLAM! He’s hurt and tracked. Back up a second to spoil their aim, when I’m a third reloaded I move forward into place, turn on sniper mode and my aiming reticle fully narrows just when I’m done reloading. Cool! I have the timing down. BLAM! Easy 8 gets hit again. Reverse and I notice my fellow TDs settling into place. Forward and into sniper as a Lowe shows up, BLAM! He backs up, I back up… hey, wait a second, arty hasn’t even tried to hit me yet. Nice. Bridge okay, looks like we have a heavy and medium there, have somebody watching the river, and the rest are taking the big loop to the S. Down 1-2? Oh! An exchange of light tanks and a pzIII. Well, back to business. Hey, they’ve got a lot more showing up down at the bottom. Uh oh.

Our Jagpanzer fires from the rock to my left and takes care of the Easy 8 as I settle into sniper mode again. An IS4 and Pershing have shown up. Damn. Ping-BLAM! Hey, they’re finally firing back and I bounced one. Woo-hoo! Hit Enter <IS4, Lowe at ice road> it always helps to let your teammates know where the big bads are. Back, forward, sniper mode. BLAM! Wait, what the hell am I doing, they’ve got the IS4 in front of the Lowe, who’s in front of the Pershing, who’s now in front of a Slugger all jockeying for position and all aiming at me. Shouldn’t I… wait… I’m a kick ass Jagdtiger damnit! I’ve seen what these babies can do against me, now to see what it can do for me. Screw this backing up crap. The line is drawn, gauntlet thrown down, and the Barbarian definitely doesn’t need food badly. At this point, it hardly even matters if I let my reticle narrow. It’s a target rich environment. Ping-ping-BLAM-ping! Aha! Finally that Lowe backs up as he’s down to about 13%. Ping! That’s right suckers, I’m not moving. BLAM! Whomp… Okay lost 200 health there, still good. BLAM! Eat lead Pershing. Ping. Oh great, another dork has shown up. I - SHALL NOT - BE MOVED - BLAM! Their Slugger is down. Looks like the IS4 has been joined by the Lowe again, we’re still holding the bridge and our guys are in a nice fire fight at the SW corner, and we’re up 4-3 though our IS4 had died. My TD mates are doing okay and the Slugger is using me as cover. Ping! That’s okay little buddy, I’ll keep you safe. Hey, shouldn’t our arty be hitting them? shrug

Time to start picking my shots. That means you IS4. I’m going to ignore all those other gnats gnawing at my hull. You’re going down. BLAM! Ping, boom, missed me! Nyah! BLAM! That’s right, back up to hide you chicken. Come on, come on, reload faster before he escapes. BLAM! Ping. Gotcha! When the hell did that 59 show up? I hate you too! Hull down isn’t going to help you, I am the mighty Jagdtiger. BLAM! Take that Pershing! That’s right, start aiming at me 59 and not the Jagpanzer who just tracked you. Ping - BLAM - Ping. Oooo… that had to hurt. BLAM! So long Pershing, nice to never know you. Now it’s just you 59 and guess what. I’m going to move and it isn’t going to be backward. Up 7-3. Time to… CHARGE!!! Vroom, vroom… okay wait, I can’t exactly vroom, and I should wait until I… BLAM! have to reload. You’re down to thirty some percent, made a giant TD mad and he’s coming for you. You shoulda stood in bed. Trundle trundle. Man, I gotta come up with something different because saying trundle trundle just isn’t working for me. Ping! Oh yeah 59, start quaking because that’s right, I’m stopping and taking my time to line up my shot. Go ahead, take the first one. Ping. My turn… BLAM! Sorry Charlie, no tuna for you.

Okay, last I saw that Lowe was still alive, let’s go wide around the corner, zzip! He misses and there he is at 11%. Line up and BLAM! Free zone baby! Chuga Chuga. Yeah, that sounds better. Okay, they’ve still got an arty, my TD crew are following behind, our guys are finally starting to cross the bridge, the others are still hung up in the SW. What the heck guys, we had half their team over here and you guys couldn’t advance? Let’s see, their arty is still up, could he have gone to their arty spot up high? Or has he gone into the bushes behind their base? Chuga Chuga. Hit Enter <East is clear>. There, now my teammates know. Hmmm, I’ll go up the left side of up the hill at an angle to get a shot if he’s at the arty spot and oh yeah, there he is, snapshot, BLAM! Nighty-night. Can’t see over the top, do they have someone who’s rushed back? Come over the top of the hill and… hiya VK3000! Here’s a nice welcome for you, BLAM! Do not mess with me.

Okay at their base, East still clear, looks like my Jagpanzer buddy has stopped to cover the river or fight someone there and Slugger buddy may have stopped to help him a bit as he’s lagged behind and is only now now making his way up here. Make the slow turn to cover NW as the bad guys are being forced back. 30% capped. 60% capped. 80% capped. Hey look, a beat up Tiger right in my sights. BLAM! Hi Slugger buddy, you made it. 98, 99, 100% capped. Woo-hoo!

Killed seven and took seventeen hits with barely a scratch. Got Top Gun, Invader, and Steel Wall. I love you Jagdtiger!

Really, they should have switched to HE and rushed me but hey, I’m not responsible for their screw-ups. :-)

4582

awesome writeup dude! if only every other game went this awesome…

you make the JT sound gobs of fun.

4583

Yeah, great writeup, really enjoyed reading it.

JT is loads of fun… in a good position… and no arty… and shy enemies. :)

That position JAG was talking about is nearly perfect and not only for TD’s. The only problem with it is that arty can still hit you there. Always take the right side of that icy road and hide behind the rock but even then you still can get hit.

JT’s two main weaknesses are his soft belly (like anyone else, really) and narrow traverse (vertical and especially horizontal) on its gun comparing to pretty much all other TD’s. JAG’s position nullified both of the weaknesses, add the JT being the highest DPM vehicle in the game and the hill that prevents enemies from rushing him, he was nearly invincible there. As long as his enemies had no arty. :)

Too bad TD’s have a dead end at tier 9. BTW the devs said they are thinking about introducing T10 TD’s and mediums but no decision has been made yet. Fingers crossed!

Great job JAG!

4584

Are the Soviet T4 and T5 light tanks any good?

4585

Yes…

4586

They’re fast and irritating and look like they’d be fun to play. Not fun if you’re arty on the other end, though.

4587

i havent managed to get a t50-2 (the tier 5 one) yet, but the t50 is fun as hell. Fully tricked out it does 70km/h and turns on a dime. It has power coming out of its ears, especially if you take the 5k silver fuel consumable, so it keeps its speed. Until you bump into something or get tracked by splash damage. If that happens its game over.

The one thing it lacks is firepower. You can kill things with it but you need time and luck. The other new light tanks do not have this problem, especially the son-of-leo who gets a 105mm HE chucker to wtfpwn arties with.

4588

The T50 and T50-2 are great fun. Incredibly fast and maneuverable, you know that you are annoying the hell out of the enemy team when you’re sighted. I feel like I’m in a clown car when driving them because you are constantly swerving and jinking just to stay alive.

4589

Is there a consensus view on the T5 light tanks yet? I’ve got an elite M5 Stuart and an elite Leopard. The VK 2801 (son of leo) looks fun, especially with the ability to mount the same 105mm the Pz IV can, which is pretty fun.

But getting the 55k experience in the Leopard itself would take fricking years!!

4590

Im halfway to the uberleo and t50-2 and almost done for chaffee

gonna catch em all!

4591

How is the M4 Sherman? Should I use it to skip the T1 Heavy?

Also, I’m trying so hard to get enough xp for the IS so I can get one half price but I’m still about 10k short including all my free xp…

Edit: Wow, the T-34 isn’t bad. Pretty much won the game for us by myself by running up the side, soloing a Pz3/P4, soloing another Pz3/4, killing a Pz4 who showed up to help the last guy, and then soloing a M3 Lee. Then capping. They all just kept bouncing shots and I was able to use my speed to keep hitting their sides. It was pretty sweet. Got steel wall and sniper.

4592

I liked the M4 better than the T1; with its upgrades, it’s a solid tank for its tier, while the T1 Heavy is pretty lackluster.

4593

I just unlocked the M6 with the T1 heavy - I didn’t find it especially unenjoyable. Never played an M4 though, went via the M7 to easy 8.

That said, there are better tier 5 tanks (pz IV or KV for starters)

4594

Well, the I’V has good firepower but the good turret is fugly for sure. The KV is too powerful for its tier IMO, the way it is implemented, but I never really enjoyed it. The M4 at least, when upgraded, dorks pretty well as a general purpose medium, and I found it the most fun of the three, for some reason.

4595

Just got the Tiger II the basic gun is less then optimal. But a 5X weekend is a good thing. ;)

4596

Had terrible rubberbanding lag the last hour or so and had to quit playing very annoying!

Also, yeah didn’t mean to imply that Pz IV or KV were better or worse than M4, just that both were definitely better than T1 heavy. Pz IV top turret is a travesty against tank porn!

4597

Yeah, what were they thinking??? Half the fun is the cool tanks, and that thing is an abomination.

My clan had a cool run in Clan Wars last night. We still haven’t won a territory but we came close at least, getting to the final round against That One Bounced! (T1B). They had I think two T92s and the rest a mix of Tier X heavies to our T92/GW Tiger + two Tier IX mediums, two Tier IX TDs, and Tier X heavies. We were on Mines, and on the first two runs we started in the south, and won handily against some Quebecers. The final battle though put us in the north, and we weren’t able to push around the hill effectively enough. They hugged the hill and minimized our arty and their arty killed a third of our team as we tried to make our way around the flanks in the water and the town. Good match though, and played with sportsmanship and politeness, which sometimes is a rarity.

4598

Battle of Moscow weekend rocked! \o/ I didnt manage to play as much as i would have liked, but still ground out the millions of silver needed to buy the T-44 and the M48 Chaffee. Also lots of utterly awesome fights among the packs of KV’s, Pz4s and Tiger P’s.

4599

Yup it was a profitable weekend for me as well, unlocked the IS3, almost unlocked the T-50-2. I am having a terrible time with my recently elited E-50 lately though, I get the sense I am playing far too aggressively and getting punished for it.

4600

IMO E-50 is more of a highly mobile TD than a medium. I know in my T-54 I usually lose vs. E-50 if we fight from some distance and I usually win up close.

M4 was great, I really liked the HE gun on it, lots of fun.

I love this kind of weekend specials, they add like an additional layer to the game. And I have never had so much exp on elite tanks before - about 200K now. It’s going to take A LOT of gold to convert it all to free exp. :)

I will probably spend about 20K of free exp to finish off the Tiger, it looks like it’s not working between us, the magic is lost and we should start seeing other … err, tanks. IMO Tiger should be tier 6 tank in this environment.