Advent calendar day 22: Swedish medium Lansen C

The Lansen C is a new tank to the game. I believe it was released earlier this year around March.

You can pick it up for 7500 gold or for cash starting at $35 USD all the way up to $122 USD for the big holiday bundle package.

I have the Lansen and it isn’t a bad tank but it also doesn’t have anything to do with the tech tree tanks that were also released this year.

All the tech tree tanks have the pneumatic suspension and look more like the STRV TD line tanks while the Lansen C is more of a traditional medium tank.

Would I recommend this tank? I’m not sure. Maybe if you have a lot of gold laying around but I’m not sure I would put a lot of cash into it.

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Advent calendar day 21: 360 days of premium

Really? Where’s the tank?

Here’s how they suck back the loot box gold – offer a year of premium for 20,400 gold.

You (or at least I) can get the deal for $81.99 USD.

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Advent calendar day 20: Brit heavy tank the CAERNARVON AX

I believe the CAERNARVON AX, a tier 8 heavy, was available as the final tank available on the advent calendar.

I have the tank, it was also a mission reward tank earlier in 2018.

You can pick it up for a whopping 10,500 gold or from $47 USD to $127 USD.

Not sure I would buy this one again. I don’t play the British heavy tank line and I didn’t really enjoy the tank myself.

Still, I think it’s a reasonably good tank and may be of interest to folks playing the Brit tech tree.

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Advent calendar day 19: Chinese light tank Type 62

Strictly speaking, I don’t play the Chinese tanks (yet) in World of Tanks. I did buy the Type 64 a while back and play that now and then but I haven’t made a lot of effort to work my way through the tech trees. However, having said that, I *did* go through the TD tree and I have played all the tanks through tier 9.

Anyway, no one cares about that.

Today, I picked up the Type 62 with loot box gold. It set me back about 4800 gold.

The cash price, if I had been keen on spending real money, begins at $24 USD and goes up from there to $113 USD.

I haven’t played the tank yet… I’ll probably wait for the hype to die down a bit.

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Advent calendar day 18: French medium tank Lorraine 40 t

I’ll give this tank two turrets up. The Lorraine 40 t is one of my favorite tier 8 premium tanks. It’s definitely not an easy tank to master but once you get the hang of it, you can punish enemy tanks with good pen and good alpha damage. It has a better clip damage potential than it’s tier 8 medium brothers like the Progetto and the Skoda T 27.

The 40 t is currently available on the advent calendar for a whopping 10,700 gold or in one of four packages starting at $48 USD. The top package is offered for $126 USD.

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Another holiday special: Russian Tier 5 TD – SU-85I

Not available for gold (it’s not a calendar item) but for sale in the store for $14 USD, $45 USD, and 67 USD, depending on the package.

Introduced in 2014, this was originally only available through the gift shop (is that still a thing?) and not on the tech tree.

It was in the game at launch and was supposed to be released in box sets so until version 9.0 it was never seen in the game.

It’s a captured German tank based on the Panzer III hull with an 85mm gun on a fixed turret.

At one point, it was once one of the rarest tanks in the game.

A 2014 review of this tank suggests it wasn’t worth the 10 Euro price (in 2014 money). Here’s a link to the review. Apparently, this tank is often the victim of ram kills and single shots from virtually every tier 6/7 tank.

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Advent Calendar day 17: French light AMX 13 57

I got duped into buying this last year. It’s a fun tank but it does nothing but EAT credits because you seem to always want to load the gold in this beast.

You don’t see a lot of these in the wild but they pop up now and then. If you want this tank, be prepared to shell out (no pun intended) an actually quite reasonable price of 5000 gold. Bear in mind, this is a tier 7 tank, whereas the previous tanks on the calendar have been tier 8.

Of course, you can always choose the cash price of $25 USD for the base package or $113 for the full-blown Holiday extravaganza. This still includes the 10K gold and 10Mil credits from previous days.

Not sure I’d want to dump $100+ bucks on this deal although I would like the ‘Dark Night’ style that comes with it.

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Advent calendar day 16: US heavy tank the T26E5

I’ll give this one two thumbs up and recommend you buy this if you play American tanks. It plays more like a medium rather than a heavy and you may find that it does best when you aren’t going head-to-head with other heavy tanks.

The Festive T26E5 can be obtained for 9700 gold or $44 USD all the way up to $126 USD.

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Asshole of the day 15 Dec 2019: GEMANICUS

This fellow, GEMANICUS, from clan Baked starts the battle off giving us all some great advice and tells us why we should listen to him: 3 marked 60 tanks!

He didn’t end up doing very well in the battle but he kept on trolling through the match.

At the end of the round, I received the following message from him:

I do not understand the point of this type of after battle message. What is he trying to convey to me? That he’s a superior player? Hardly, he has insignificantly better stats in the game.

He has 54,684 battles in the game since 2013 with a 51.35% win rate. Compared to my 56,116 battles with a 50.69% win rate.

I don’t play for stats, just for fun.

But when I looked a little closer, he noticed that he has 25% of his games in one, overpowered, premium tank (th...

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Advent calendar day 15: Russian light tank LT-432

Today’s offering is the Russian light tank LT-432. This one tempts me, a little, except that I abhor light tanks. I can’t make them work. I briefly enjoyed them several years ago when you could sneak into enemy territory and wipe out unprotected arty; but, for some reason, that rarely seems to work anymore. I think it has to do with buffed view ranges on every other class of tank, removal of maps where it was easier to sneak around, and the complete overhaul of light tanks was back in the day.

At any rate, for the low, low price of 6500 gold (which I now have, thanks to loot boxes) or good old American cash: $31 USD to $117 USD in 4 packages, you can own this probably OP Russian light tank.

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