World of tanks

Links

• WoT Wiki
  • Basic Tactics
• Efficiency Calculators (enter pseudo)

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)

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

Mods

• List of WoT 8.11 mods
• Locastan mods

• 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
• locastans enh. HD minimap Gen 3 (might partially conflict with XVM, see here).
• (from WoT-Shot) 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

• (from WoT-Shot) Crew mods (anime, female ;-) )
• (from WoT-Shot) Gun sight of tank

  Original website: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/56831-093-j1mb0s-crosshair-mod-xvm-config/

• Women crew icons (another one ;-) )

Tank contour icons

• v9.3 (0.8.11. Pogs contour icon mod 3.x Oxmaster) (show tank stat instead of contour)
• Druid's tank icon mod (8.10, seems to mess up with other mods)

Controls

Right-click + move      Look sideways without moving turret

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 ([2]).

• 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 [3] (+also another video on youtube)
• Very expensive to repair (on purpose, according to [4], see also my post on [5])

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

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.

Troubleshoot

Launcher in french, but game in english

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