Category Ace Tanker Award

I’m putting together some boring stuff related to the Advent Calendar offerings year to year. Starting with 2016.

I’ve pieced together some information that may be interesting to look at for those that have been playing for a while.

I’ll also post the results of a recent google survey I conducted regarding this past advent calendar and the offerings we had for winter 2020.

I’m also updating a list of premium tanks available for gold. There have been some changes in the tanks available in-game for gold.

Someone asked me to put together some charts showing the black market offerings year to year. I’ll see what information I can dig up for that as well.

It may prove to be interesting, although I’ve never personally participated in the event.

Stay tuned.

Playing today as “Darkauron_WinnerRvge” (using anonymizer), PeterAn started off tonight’s battle by announcing that he was going to sit on the redline because the last match he played had shitters in it.

At first, I thought maybe he was joking. But no, our top tier heavy, a 55% winrate player, drove to the darkest corner of Mines and sat for most of the battle until he got spotted and then he moved to another hiding spot.

I got killed early on by playing dumb. He got killed last by being an asshole.

I’ll convert the replay and upload it to youtube. This kind of bullshit is what makes this game shitty.

thanks, PeterAn, you are a pathetic shitter.

Wargaming released what they’ll have in the loot boxes this year.

Watch the video but for a quick summary, here is what you can expect:

Larges boxes in four collections – meaning you’ll have to fill four books again.

Guaranteed rewards: Gold, 2 decorations (1 level 5, one random), some additional surprises which will be additional gold. premium days, credits, 3D styles, or a premium vehicle.

The last couple years, gold is usually 250 to 750. Premium days 1, 3, 7. Credits: vary a bit, 100,000, 250,000, 500,000.

Premium Vehicles:

Tier 8:

• Bisonte C45 auto-reloading heavy tank
• British GSOR 1008 TD autoloader
• French Medium Bourrasque – a 2 shot autoloader
• ISU-152K soviet TD with BL10 gun

Lower tier:

• M22 Locust Tier 3 American premium light
• Pz.Kpfw...

Last year I made daily posts about the offerings in the Advent Calendar.

this year, not so much.

Firstly, no one reads this drek and, secondly, it’s too time consuming.

So, I’ll sticky this post and add each day’s offering to the list with my useless comments attached.

Dec 02: The American premium tier 8 TD the TS-5

I have the TS-5 and it’s a lovely TD to play. A good reload, great armor and a complete bull in the battle. I don’t like to play back map, redline sniper. Instead, I like to push right up with an in-your-face style.

This doesn’t help my winrate but I sure do enjoy it.

Dec 03: German Medium M48 RPz

This dozer is a snoozer (doesn’t rhyme but good enough). Don’t waste 7000 gold or $32 US (also avail for $99 in a bundle)...

This was from yesterday. A pretty decent battle in the T-78 with 2k damage and 1.7k spotting damage. Took out 4 enemy tanks, spotted 8, and damaged 10.

Not exactly a monster game, but I had a hell of a good time in the process.

I forget about this site now and then but I got an Ace Tanker in my Super Hellcat yesterday and thought, wtf, why not just put the photo up.

It wasn’t much of a battle, but I guess I did alright.

I only did 2200 damage with some 600 spotting…but, somehow, that came out to an Ace.

This was a hard fought loss on a team that essentially camped and would not engage the enemy. We were down several tanks but managed to even things out before losing more tanks again.

I managed 5619 damage with 1493 spotting and seven kills to take a Top Gun, High Caliber, Tank Sniper, and the Ace Tanker award.

I wish it could have been a victory; alas, it was not meant to be. At the end, my team simply crumbled and fell apart despite my attempt to rally.

Of course, this was a battle where the King Tiger was top tier against tier 5 and tier 6 tanks.

I simply drove forward and kept firing.

Pushed the team to victory (or lead them?).

Didn’t fire hardly any ‘gold’ rounds.

Here is a 54% player who sat literally at the back of the map the entire round. Never moved until we were almost assured a loss and then only grudgingly joined the match and helped us cap.

He fired 1 connecting shot towards the very end.

If you see this bozo in battle, do not rely on him for anything.

It’s bad enough when bad players play poorly, but when a good player chooses, for whatever reason, to AFK the round (while still responding to chat messages), it’s almost like an intentional display of poor sportsmanship.

Phooey on you, 2ACR.

This guy, Patator_972 of the CLAIM clan, is not your typical asshole.
Maybe he’s banned from chat or maybe he just likes to annoy people who have chat turned off? I don’t know, I didn’t ask him. However, in today’s game, he started off almost immediately with ‘drawing’ on the mini-map repeatedly to form words to insult people.

I’m using OBS to capture his graffiti-spam. Unfortunately, I added him to my blacklist almost right away due to the distraction he was causing.

After calling us a shit team, we went on to bring home a victory despite some really bad deployment by my ‘teammates’.

I tried to take a screenshot while watching the replay and this is what it grabbed – which is kind of funny because this essentially illustrates just how annoying this kind of thing can be.