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Bleek said:
Should I save up for the Stuart M5 or just plump for the M3, is the M5 much better?

Seems to take an age to save up credits!
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I thought the M5 was rubbish for the brackets you had to fight in, absolutely paper thin armour (less than the M3 I think!) which means you get one shot most of the time. Only got slightly less annoying when you got the 75mm howitzer which meant you could at least do some damage.

But oh was it worth it for the M7, I love this tank. Basically a light tank flagged as a medium, great fun with the 6 pounder.
 
shock33 said:
I thought the M5 was rubbish for the brackets you had to fight in, absolutely paper thin armour (less than the M3 I think!) which means you get one shot most of the time. Only got slightly less annoying when you got the 75mm howitzer which meant you could at least do some damage.

But oh was it worth it for the M7, I love this tank. Basically a light tank flagged as a medium, great fun with the 6 pounder.
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Thanks for that.

In which case am I better getting the M3 and skipping the '5?

I currently use the M2, will the M3 be placed in similar matches i.e. be near the top of pile or the very bottom of the next 'tier'?
 
I had a good couple of battles with Chipps101 and Namorismo last night.

Saving to get my KV-3 and also working my way up to T5 on the other lines.
 
Mahnsikir said:
Nice list of changes, shame they didnt get the 88 changes worked out for this patch but I guess that since pretty much every german tank from tier 6 to 8 uses them a simple change isnt the answer but I don't feel that a huge change is needed.
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Absolute joke in my opinion that the 88 buff isnt coming this patch. Surely its just a couple of numbers that want changed, I thought it was jsut getting +30 damage. Thats not exactly going to be game breaking.

SkeeterUK said:
Starting russian td tree, almost got a su 85b.
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Seemed decent enough to me, abart from its complete lack of gun depression or elevation. Sat far back and machine-gunned out HE (as its penetration drops to 97mm(average) @ 500m) Seemed to do the trick. If you put Binos on it you get 512m view range, with spotting enabled once they get inside 500m.
 
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Havig now read the patch notes sorry i am not impressed they may be buffing aspects of the german line but again they are nerfing whilst giving out unneeded buffs to the russian line. Biggest joke is the armour buff to IS3 seriously how the hell can they justify that one. Moree and more i am just glad i didn't pay any real money into this because i think it is going to be a while if ever that this game justifys it.
 
I just noticed that the T-28 Schoolbus russian medium tank has the awesome 57mm ZiS4 as a gun option, that thing was absolute rape on my T34, its like a machine gun, having it a Tier earlier would have been sweet. It more or less prints money on a T34.

Is it off on an odd research branch or something that doesnt lead to the next tank? I cant remember why I was using (and hating) the 85mm on that tank.

Q: On Komarin, why did you put in anti-tank barriers at the entrances to the "island"? Now a light trying to go up the center can't just zoom past the island - it has to ram the barriers and end up losing speed as a result.

A: That's precisely why we'd put them in.
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lol

Q: I'll second a previous poster - is everything right with the Maus?

A: Yes, everything is right with it. It's just that everyone has gotten used to the Maus being a "softie" that's easily penetrated. Now it's a normal Tier 10 heavy.
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This is off a dev discussion off the Russian server, post 0.6.4 patch.

Q: Every other battle I lose creds, even with premium - will you change ammo costs for SPGs? It kind of sucks having to worry about your finances during the battle...

A: No. If we were to change anything, it will be to make things more expensive.
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Oh dear, someones doing it very, very wrong. :D In the Su-8 if I land just 2 shells on the head of a Teir 8 heavy, thats usually enough for about 20k profit for the battle.

Q: [Follow-up to the earlier question about the Germans not getting better Alpha strike.] So in your interpretation, all the German players are whiners, and if they'd just used their brains there would be no problem?

A: Exactly. Need to use their brains. The whiners, that is.
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:(

Oh sod it, here: http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/37393-first-post-64-developer-qa-on-the-russian-forums/

I'll only end up quoting half the damned thing :P
 
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Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I just noticed that the T-28 Schoolbus russian medium tank has the awesome 57mm ZiS4 as a gun option, that thing was absolute rape on my T34, its like a machine gun, having it a Tier earlier would have been sweet. It more or less prints money on a T34.

Is it off on an odd research branch or something that doesnt lead to the next tank? I cant remember why I was using (and hating) the 85mm on that tank.
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Yeah its great on the T-28, youre still as fragile as ever but even at the bottom of the list in a game you still kick accurate rapid fire ass. Had a round with tigers and other things rolling about and only 2-3 other tier 4s and still managed to get 5 solid kills. Over all using the 57mm played 16games and got 28 kills with 8100 damage making it one of my best tanks for the short time I used it.

It is on its own little branch (as are all the guns for the t-28) but i think its only about 4k to get, maybe less, just that people see the tier 6 85mm get starry eyed and go for that instead. In fact it was the only upgrade I bought for that tank, had to research the engines to get to the KV but didnt bother to mount them, not many tanks where you can ignore the tracks, turret and engine and still have a very good tank.
 
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That conversation with the dev highlights every problem in the game and why it is there his attitude stinks and sorry but overlords response that some meaning is lost in translation is poor damage limitation. What i already took from the patch that is coming is don't bother with german heavies and now we know if you do and highlight the obvious flaws and imbalances in the eyes of the dev's your a whiner.

Brilliant piece of community interaction and i am sure most people will be more then happy to pay to support that sort of attitude.
 
Are howitzers any good?

I've got one mounted on my Stuart M5 (light) and it seems rather slow and inaccurate - however I'm assuming it packs the punch to take on the heavy brigade?
 
Bleek said:
Are howitzers any good?

I've got one mounted on my Stuart M5 (light) and it seems rather slow and inaccurate - however I'm assuming it packs the punch to take on the heavy brigade?
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It's HE only, and I believe that it will always do some damage if it hits, unlike normal rounds which need to penetrate to do damage. Now that damage might be basically nothing, but it will do some.

The problem is the M5 gets stuck in a quite high bracket so you basically get one shot constantly (in my experience anyway).
 
shock33 said:
It's HE only, and I believe that it will always do some damage if it hits, unlike normal rounds which need to penetrate to do damage. Now that damage might be basically nothing, but it will do some.

The problem is the M5 gets stuck in a quite high bracket so you basically get one shot constantly (in my experience anyway).
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Agreed, I was having more fun in the M3 but the M5 typically gives me more experience and I'm saving for the M7!

The HE does seem to damage practically any tank, particularly from behind, but you need 2-3 hits on the rear of still about 5-10 on the front... the M5 is folded like a napkin way before that ever happens!

The other issue with the Howitzer is it's weight, it slows the M5 right down which defeats the object of a light tank, you lose the agility!
 
Urgh, it really gets annoying when it lumps you into high tier battles over and over. My Tier 3 Arty (Sturmpanzer II) got put into battles with multiple KV-3s about 5 damn times in a row.
 
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