Category: World of Tanks Blitz

Supertest: Otto Carius’ Tiger 217 Tier 6 Premium German Heavy Tank

~ Sebastianul

This is the Tiger which the famous German tanker, Otto Carius, commanded. We now have both major Tiger I variants as premiums. The Tiger 131 being a Tiger I Ausf H and the Tiger 217 being a Tiger I Ausf E.

In April 1944, Otto Carius got the Tiger tank no. 217 under his command. He commanded it only until July 1944 because of his battle wounds. The tank itself was blown up under Baltyisk (Pillau) in 1945 because it was unfit for further duty.

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About the Possible Polish Tech Tree

~ Sebastianul

This is just a quick heads up of what we can expect from the new Polish tech tree.  A dozen or so “projects” were found at WAT (Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna which translates to Technical Military Academy) by Wargaming. The “projects” aren’t serious proposals meant to be produced, but students’ theses in order to graduate. If I recall correctly, one of the projects was a 60 ton heavy with 200mm of frontal armor made by a student named Lewandowski.

Edit: The projects are from circa 1960’s

All in all, I’ll take a student’s schoolwork than completely fake tanks.

WoT Blitz Q&A – 15th June 2017

~ Sebastianul

Thanks to Vladimir for translating.

– Will there be news on the patch this week? – No, 3.10 will be a smaller technical patch;
– I’ve seen some French LT screenshots somewhere, and also some of the TD’s. Is this fake information or are these branches planned? – The introduction of these is planned, the next French vehicles will be TD’s;
– I have conducted an experiment with the equipment that gives +5% armor: IS-6 has 60mm rear armor, the caliber of the gun used is 183mm, so it cannot ricochet. If we add the equipment, the armor is 63mm, times 3 it’s 189mm, so the shell should ricochet – but it doesn’t. However, with the IS-7, where the rear armor is 70mm, the 183mm gun ricochets at a steep angle. – The equipment works properly. The goal is not an increase in armor thickness, but a change in the homogenousity factor – a hidden parameter reflecting the “quality” of the armor. The equipment increases this coefficient which increases the armor protection. We, however, do not publish the exact homogenousity coefficients. Since the armor plate effectively remains at the same thickness, the three caliber rule does not change.