World of tanks

Links

Wiki, references

• WoT Wiki
  • Basic Tactics
• wotinfo.net — camo-calculator (compare 2 tanks, incl. camo explanations)

Statistics

• vbAddicts — All kind of statistics per tank, maps, etc (gross income, net income,
• Efficiency Calculators (enter pseudo)
• WoT Tank Compare

Fan sites

• WoT-Shot (mods, tips, best tanks, videos)
• WoT Guide - Unofficial (with tank analysers, guides...)
• WoT Guru (general guides, weak spot guides, tank guides, map strategy...)
• Tazilon (very detailed scout guides, detailed map guide for scouts)
• World of Tanks - unofficial (mods...)
• 9.3 patch reviews:
  • http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/09/05/9-3-first-feedback/ (including Chaffee, and new US light tanks)

Map guides

• wotguru - map strategy
• Heatmaps on vbAddict

To create map guides:

• maptactic.com

Guides

• WoT new player guide (excellent video about scouting, M24 Chaffee)
• Guide to grinding the US Heavy Line
• USA - M5-Stuart - Forum guide
• Passive scouting guide - Forum guide
• WoTGuru — Which tank line is right for you
• Lert's simple guide to becoming a better player ((As the very foundation of everything he's doing in game,) A good player protects his own team's hitpoints while seeking to remove the enemy's)
• Lert's guides to shells, shell types and shell mechanics (HE shells have much less penetration than AP, but always do damage)
  • When to use HE shells (Use them only on Howitzer though or to reset enemy capture points)

Some Google queries

• world of tanks playing against higher tiers

Skins

• Skins shaded zoom (see colors here) (or also on wot-shot

	Zone penetration, weak point (easy pen)
	Combat pack, ammo rack
	Power plant, engine
	fuel tank
	Top gun, crew
	Non-penetration zone, multilayer armor

• Dendyt - official skin site (links broken)

Mods

Fan sites:

• Locastan mods
• WoT-Shot

• Best mods in world of tanks

XVM (or Locastan HD minimap), J1mb0 crosshair or MeltyMap’s MathMod (better), POGS/GREPA’s/Oxmaster’s Contour Icons, Artasan’s White Death Mod, Hit Zones skins, Tank Info Panel.

• Aslain's mod and mod installer
• World of Tanks 9.5 Mods

9.4

• XVM - Extended Visualization Mod
• SimpleVM (official link, old link Nice config for XVM
• Fix wrong minimap zoom hotkey (see [1]). Edit res_modes/xvm/configs/SimpleVM/hotkeys.xc:
• See also J1mb0 settings (all hotkeys are in the J1mb0's version of hotkeys.xc)
"hotkeys": { "minimapZoom": { "enabled": true, "keyCode": 29, "onHold": true } }
• Color Messages and Session Stats
• Information panel (more mods available, like hit zones)
Config for 1920x1080 (griffinwin):

		<!-- ARCADE -->
		<arcade visible="true"> <!-- Sichtbarkeit - true/false - Ja/Nein -->
			<location x="-480" y="498"/> <!-- x, y - Koordinaten x=seite Y=höhe -->
			<delay>10</delay> <!-- Anzeigedauer in Sekunden, nachdem das Ziel nicht mehr Anvisiert ist -->
		</arcade>
...
	<!-- HINTERGRUND -->
	<background alpha="40"> <!-- visible - 0-100 0=transparent -->
		<location x="-90" y="-125"/> <!-- x, y - Koordinaten x=seite Y=höhe -->
		<scale x="150" y="75"/> <!-- x, y - Grösse. 100 - Original -->
	</background>

Mid player panel: width 75

• Crew mods (anime, female ;-) )
• Gun sight of tank
Original website: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/56831-093-j1mb0s-crosshair-mod-xvm-config/
• v9.3 Pogs contour icon mod 3.x Oxmaster (show tank stat instead of contour)

Light tank, Medium tank, Heavy tank, Tank destroyer, SPG

	CLEAR MAX FSR RLD icons (here 3s reload time, 440 HP, 96mm avg pen)
	CLEAR MAX FSR VR RLD icons (here 3s reload time, 370m view range, 96mm avg pen)

• White-death by Artasan
• Damage indicator v.4 (or v.2) (show accurately direction of shot from enemy, and timer)
• No scroll mods (old version for 8.11 No scroll mod) (avoid switching between sniper/arcade view with the mouse wheel)

On test

None

Not installed

• locastans enh. HD minimap Gen 3 (might partially conflict with XVM, see here).
• Women crew icons (another one ;-) )
• Free camera [2]
• Free camera PMOD [3] (from [4])
• Topographic maps
• MeltyMap'sMathMod (curse link)

8.11

• List of WoT 8.11 mods
• 0.8.11. Pogs contour icon mod 3.x Oxmaster) (show tank stat instead of contour)

Not installed

• Druid's tank icon mod (8.10, seems to mess up with other mods)

Controls

Right-click + move               Look sideways without moving turret
Ctrl + right-click minimap       Arty, quick move

Tanks

Info on tanks I played, or found information on.

• J!nx Contest (showing winners and tank type for each tier)

We have (from X to I): Bat.-Châtillon 25 t, T54, ferd/jgpanth, T29, Hellcat, M24 Chaffee, T40, Marder II, Cruiser Mk III, Leichttraktor ([5]).

• NoobMeter tank stats

U.S.A

II - M2-Light

• Very funny little tank. Fun to drive and play. Got mastership very rapidly. Best gun is the rapid fire gun, which allows to turn around target, and shoot while driving.

IV - M5-Stuart

• Had to play lots of game with that tank in order to get the M24-Chaffee. Was hard to play at the beginning, but was getting more fun when fully equiped. Not as fun as M2 / M3, but force to learn the basics of WoT. In the end, was a nice experience

V - M24-Chaffee

• An excellent scout, according to [6] (+also another video on youtube)
• Very expensive to repair (on purpose, according to [7], see also my post on [8])

T-40

• An excellent tank killer, especially when equipped with the 105mm AT Howitzer M3.
• With the Groundhog Day mission (+75k credit when killing 4 tanks and surviving), I collect 300k easily with this tank.
• Reported as best tier IV tank in Winner for J!NX on Random Battles

M4A3E2 Jumbo Sherman

• vBAddict stats and equipment
• Guide [9]
  • Suggested equipment: stock turet + derp gun (105mm Howitzer) + vert. stab. + ramer + binos
    • Works ok, but have to use GOLD ammo.
  • spam with he, and when u have nice clean shot use premium shell, u have 150 pen with 350 dmg WITH two shots for 1 of kv-1s btw, AND with better frontal armor...
  • Hull down, little angled position.

T-34

• wotguru guide

French

ELC AMX

• Not played. Very fast light tank, and thin. Can hide easily in rifts, or behind small relief.
• Probably not so expensive to repair

German

VK-2801

• Seems favorite scout from Tazilon, an expert scout player.

E-25

• Equipment on vbAddict
• Suggested equipment [10]:
  • Camo net, vent, rammer
  • azakow: no optics, no camo net, no rammer, but Vent, Binocular, Fast aim. Crew: Dead Eye (1/2 hit module), Safe Storage, Designated taret, Large repair
  • Vent, Rammer, Optics.

Premium tanks

Nation	Premium	Tank	Class + Tier	Net income	Net/min	Survived	Winrate	Kills	Price
German	Y	8.8cm Pak 43 Jagdtiger	TD VIII	23847	4412	40.79%	48.28%	0.781	36.79€
German	Y	Löwe	HT VIII	21680	4071	35.31%	48.93%	0.677	43.95€ / 49.99€ (+3 equip)
German	Y	E25	TD VII	10763	2076	35.82%	48.55%	1.040	25.75€
German	Y	Panther/M10	MT VII	9992	2199	34.88%	48.74%	0.665	22.49€
German	Y	Dicker Max	TD VI	12752	2578	35.84%	47.29%	0.798	13.59€
German	Y	Pz. Kpfw. IV Schmalturm	MT VI	10183	2250	35.65%	48.12%	0.621	15.55€
German	Y	T25	MT V	10661	2602	29.65%	51.66%	0.742	7.35€
Nation	Premium	Tank	Class + Tier	Net income	net / min	Survived	Winrate	Kills	Price
USA	Y	T34	HT VIII	22610.94	4372.55	33.73	50.38	688,00	43.29€
USA	Y	T26E4 SuperPershing	MT VIII	11417.50	2159.17	38.66	49.00	710	27.45€
USA	Y	M4A2E4 Sherman		6582.49	1856.51	30.57	51.51	805
USA	Y	T7 Combat Car		4467.00	1449.66
USA	Y	Ram II	MT V	5435.11	1444.01	31.56	53.72	803	8.29€
USA		M4 Sherman		5713.71	1380.70
USA	Y	M22 Locust	LT III	4480.40	1374.80	33.98	52.10	565	5.05€
USA	Y	T14	HT V	5541.65	1347.73			795	7.35€
USA		M10 Wolverine		5214.02	1212.72
USA		M41 Walker Bulldog	LT VII				52.67
USA	Y	T2 Light	LT II						4.45€

Tips

• Use perforation indicator to know whether shot will penetrate (In Settings, Reticle, Gun marker). In cas of J1mb0's reticle, this is the tiny black dot at the center that changes to red/orange/green depending on whether shot will penetrate or not.
• Use optimal Game and graphics settings
• Enable server reticle. This shows where the server thinks you are really aim at.

Maps

Convert Locastan HD map to PNG

• Download Locastan HD minimap
• Minimaps are in .dds format, which can be convert to .png using ImageMagick [11]:

identify ./spaces/29_el_hallouf/mmap.dds
convert ./spaces/29_el_hallouf/mmap.dds ./spaces/29_el_hallouf/mmap.png

• To convert all maps to .png:

for f in $(find -name "*.dds") ; do echo $f; done

Wiki

• Ammo
  • AP: Armor Piercing shell. With normalization (5°). Lost penetration over distance.
  • APCR: Armor Piercing Composite Rigid shell. Gold ammo. With normalization (2°). Do not penetration over distance. Very high penetration.
• Battle Mechanics
• Gunnery & Armor Penetration (WoT)

Troubleshoot

Launcher in french, but game in english

• See this post. Try WoT mod installer from this forum post?

Clans

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