It's more difficult then I thought.  As you can see, I'm still missing 5 pieces for the tree and 3 for the tank. Last time I converted tier 4 ornaments - I received the damn useless star - I already have the WoT top.  There is the way to get what you want for sure (convert only blue ornaments to receive the ornament, only the garlands to receive a garland etc), but I don't receive enough tier 4 pieces to be patient :)  Any way, I still have some time till Jan 16.

The recent x5 XP for the 1st win gave me a nice boost for my not-fully-upgraded tier 6 tanks.  I finally installed M-10 on KV-2 and collected some XP towards top guns for Hellcat and T-34-85.  But to be honest I don't like playing tier 6 yet.  Just 'cause I don't have nice crews for my tanks.  It's hard to play with no 6th sense perk.  I got used to it on T-67.  I put the same crew on Hellcat and other US TDs, but without retraining it's a meh any way.   At least 6th sense works, but Hellcat feels sooooo slow.  I normally lose more games then I win on KV-2, Hellcat and T-34-85, so then I have to play several T-67  games just to "fix" my stats :)  

I'd like to get AMX ELC, but after trying AMX 40 on my other account... no way :)  It's terrible.  I'll have to collect enough "free XP" to skip "the duck".  But first things first.  Right now my free XP will go to german TDs.

Here is a bonus code from Advent Calendar (official WoT website) which will give you 3 consumables for each nation: NZGJK3HKB6M45Y2S

Get in for x3 XP week-end and discount for free-XP conversion! :)

X-mas/New Year missions are pretty fun.  I don't have many tanks of tier 6+, but even with little guys of tier 4 and 5 it's doable.  Even if you play (and win) only the 1st game on each - you have plenty of time til Jan 16.  I have to admit - I played a lot recently (up to completing 20k daily New Year missions).  And I was lucky enough with my tier 6 (Hellcat, Crom and T-34-85) to receive level IV rewards for them (even lvl IV-V mix once, for 4 frags).

You can "convert", say 5 ornaments/decorations of tier 1 to receive one tier 2.  Just remember, a) you cannot choose what you receive, it's random; and b) do not convert lvl 5s!  All you would receive is ONE lvl 5!  Lvl 6 does not exist!

Now, I collected almost-full Sweden female crew with "festive atmosphere IX".  Still missing a gunner.  Maybe I'll be lucky enough to bring it all up to X, maybe not, I care less.  I'll have to play mostly my tier 6 tanks for that, and I don't like them that much - yet.  Actually I managed to bring my stat up to 51% win two days ago, but now I'm back down to 50.8%  Time to get back on my TDs, normally I have better results with them - or T-34.  I don't like heavies that much and I don't have light tanks atm.  Actually I played Crom as light recently, 'cause MM was bringing me to tier VIII games :)

Any way, there are 2 pictures under the cut, that's how my decorations look like right now.  Note that I have 2 lvl 5 ornaments and 2 or 3 lvl 5s.  It doesn't matter if you mix or not, each ornament gives you points (3 for lvl 3, 4 for lvl 4 etc).  You just need to make a total for "festive atmosphere" level.  I didn't note all of them, but some are like this:

lvl 3 - 10

lvl 4 - 16

lvl 5 - 24

lvl 6 - 32? not sure, maybe 30 (a free garage slot here too)

lvl 7 - 42

lvl 8 - 52

lvl 9 - 64

lvl 10 - 80

That includes both X-mas tree and the snow-made-KV2.  So you have 16 slots total.  Do your math :)  Basically you need all lvl 4 ornaments to reach lvl 9 and get a 4-girls Sweden crew (not mentioning other rewards).  All lvl 5s ornaments will give you a gunner for your full-girl-crew.

I exited the clan.  Just like most of the people I had a chance to play with there.  Looked like this WoWS-based clan gave up the idea of expending to WoT.  Oh well...  

I may give up on OMC modpack as well, as it is not working - again - just after the main update 9.17 was done.  But then this snowitzer-event update came up (and it's cool, I like it.  I do not push it, just play as usual).  2 days - no new OMC update, and now their website is down.  Maybe it's time to go with the original XVM.

Lol :D

This is my 2nd account.  I haven't played for a while again.  Decided to try it tonight - and voila, Master on my little Marder.

Unlocked Hetzer and AMX40 on french line to ELC. It's going to be a loooooong road.  "The duck" is terrible.

I received my 1st Kolobanov's medal.  Funny, it was not my main account, 'cause yesterday too many "veterans" were online and I coudn't win a single battle getting the worst possible teams.

So I switched to my little twink, bought and really liked Hotchkiss for some reason.  Maybe I should play more medium tanks then my beloved TD?  Not sure.  I'm still trying to pull up my statistics on the main account.  51% seem to be cursed.  Every time I'm getting really close to it - I start getting bad teams only (red- low orange stats players) vs good ones (yellow-green, sometimes blue).

"Tanksgiving"

4 days of celebration - you get x3 XP for 1st win, also all equipment is 50% off right now, so if you need a rummer or a vent - hurry up.

Also you can retrain your crew (or buy a new one) for 50% off, and if you have some gold - now there is a discount for permanent camo etc.

More pictures are under cut.

In case you didn't know - Tankrewards.com is an official "sister-site" of WoT.  They run various ingame missions every month.  Then you need to log in on their site and claim your prize.  I had 24 daily missions done - oh, well, needed 25, not sure how I missed one.  But I qualified for 10 missions prize and got a "mistery crate".   Here is what I received.  "Payment" showed up ingame same day.  Yey! :)

And back to the terrible teams, which manage to lose even with 70% chance to win.

I was as high as 50,94% winrate.  Now I'm 20+ games off 51% again.  But I guess it doesn't really matter since WG changed "borders of the colors".  I'll need 53% to be "green".

You probably heard of some WG stuff changes.  The most noticeable one is - Murazor is now a Balance Department Lead.  Who is he and how it may impact the WoT?  Well, I may not be too far from the target if I say - he was a gamer, a tester, a popular youtuber who criticized WG a lot for various reasons.  Now that he is a WG employee - he has an opportunity to "fix" it all :)  In any case, game-balance is one of the key things to keep the game interesting.  For example, nobody liked terrible premium tanks.  

As for Murazor's own play-style - he is a fan of German heavy and medium lines, he hates arty and doesn't really like TDs.  So... may be it's a good idea to start working on German lines right now.  I don't play arty and it was promised to be nerfed a while ago.  But to be honest I now worry about TDs a bit.  

Did germans have special helmets for a tank crew?  Well, yes.  The guy on the right is wearing a tank helmet.  But as you can see it's hard to add the headphones to such helmet (not mentioning the helmet itself looking... ugly), so germans ended up wearing a headset on top of a standard garrison hat, like the one you see on the guy on the left side of the picture.  

The guy in the middle is a soviet tankman wearing iconic soviet tank helmet.  Why those guys are together on the same photo?   It's September 22, 1939.  Nazys and Commies are best friends.  They just had split Poland and have a parade together in Brest - at the new Germany-USSR "border".  Don't forget about this page of the history.  

...and one more.

I noticed that if I play about the lunch time - MM brings me to tier 3-6 games.  But late afternoon and evening - hello tier 7th.  And I'm useless at those games.

LOL

Another Master on t67.  And a bunch of other medals.  Including the "100 years" one and a set of "stickers" for any tanks.

BTW, I almost brought my winrate back to 51%. 

I did it!  Master on T-67.  Well, to be honest, it was an easy battle.  The enemy team was not doing good at all.  Battle results screen is under cut.  Yea, I could survive and maybe even make 6 frags - but I seen that we're winning 'cause I returned to our base just in time to kill one enemy tank and damage the other one knocking down his "capture" points.  I just kept shooting at KV-1 while our guys were about to capture the enemy base, so I kinda didn't care any more and didn't bother to hide.  Pure luck - some of my shells did not penetrate him and he killed me :)  But we won.

Today the new mode "Convoy" is finally available.  I haven't played it yet, not a big fan of WoT machine guns :)

But!  Today  I received a new rental - Dicker Max.  It's a German TD tier 6, which is always available for gold-purchase (ingame too, not just at the store).  I just tried it for the 1st time.  It's weird, I like it.  It's slow, so I need to be extra careful.  It's not as "invisible" as my T-67 is.  But the gun is sweet - it's accurate and powerful.  Reloading is somewhat slow, but if I'm far enough - I still have time for the 2nd shot (and 2 shots are enough to kill a Cromwell for example.   Aargh, hate those road-runners).  So maybe I will not be disappointed with Nashorn as much as I am with the tier 5 German TD.  Hope so. 

I tried playing that German tier 5 TD.  

3 games = 3 defeats, under 100 xp for each one and I was killed pretty fast :)  

So I went back to my T-67 and started doing those individual battle missions.   Not bad, I have 3 or 4 to complete the TD "quest".  Sometimes I was done with my mission even if the team looses the battle.  So that was like a little candy to keep me happy :)  

Not sure which light tank would be better for LT missions, my Crusader is not a "pure" LT.  Probably I should go for AMX ELC.

World of Tanks has been crazily popular in ex-USSR countries all this time.  They created their own slang, and some nicknames for tanks or any other game-related stuff are so funny I keep laughing at for a while.  

Fadin's medal sounds like "medal' Fadina" (stressing fA).  In case you've forgot - that's the one for killing the last enemy with your last shell.  The word "greedy" (not a bad word, just the one kids would use to call you for not sharing something) sounds close, you just need to change the 1st letter - zhAdina.  So...  Medal Zhadina.  Cute, isn't it? :)

Ok, I opened tier 5 German TD, so Marder is "elite" now. Funny.  When you're getting close to 100% crew, open all upgrades and start "feeling" and enjoying your tank - it's time to unlock the next one.  And what should you do with your crew?  Should you keep using your old tank or retrain your crew to the new one - and lose 10% of crew's xp...  unless you retrain for gold.  Doesn't make much sense to retrain for silver, does it?  Oh well... Guess I'll just keep playing Marder for now.  At least till my crew is 100% and about 40% on the 1st skill.  Then if I retrain them - they will be 100% (and no skill).

Any way, today I completed the 2nd "tier" of the mission - first I needed to collect some XP (30k IIRC), then make 50 kills - and I received a free garage slot.  Not bad.  It also unlocked "tier 3" missions, which will start on September 19.

This post is for those of you who don't want to spend any real money on WoT.  So far I only bought one prem for real money - the tier 4 Pz B2 (10$).  I don't buy premium account as I'm not in a big hurry.  But I bought several garage slots (it'e inevitable) and spent some gold on converting free experience and dismounting complex equipment (oh well).  

How did I get a little bit of gold for that, without spending  any real money?  There is a website, called coinsup.  So far I have no major complaints about it.  They do not ask for your WoT account data, but send you a confirmation code via sms.  Should you give them your real phone number? Heck no.  Be smart and find other options on the web (free ones of course).  Should you give them your main FB page authorization info?  Heck no, have a backup one.  Same about your e-mail address.  Now, not all their links are "clean", but I assume you have an antivirus on your pc to block any unwanted crap.  I only do their supersonic ads and quiz games, plus online games I do not need to download (FB of browser games).   That takes me like 10 minutes a day, so roughly I can receive 250 gold per 3 weeks.  That's enough for a garage slot or some minor stuff once in a while.  If you have some spare time - it could be an option for you too.   Have fun!

Sounds like most of the mods will not be needed any more.  I was using damage log, 2 rows of tanks in my garage, XVM and some minor stuff.   All of it but XVM will be added to the game itself  in a month or so.  Thank you devs!  

Plus if they really fix the "invisibility" issue - that should make the game better for sure.

I don't care about the new premium tank, a "new" map" etc (read more).  Adding more stuff to the game is ok, but fixing the existing issues is much better.

Is it worth it?  My opinion - no.  The tank is a meh (pretty much the same as a "regular" T-44, which is ok but just ok), the time you'd for this marathon is too much. 

150k and 150 frags per each nation - roughly you'd need to make 40 frags and 40.000 xp every day for a month.  Maybe it's a piece of cake for  some high-skilled guys, but not for me, with my tier 5th mostly.  Lets see: I can make 1-3 frags per game, so that's not a problem.  Each game lasts about 7 minutes, so even if I get 1k xp per game  (which I don't, 500 is my optimistic average on TDs not mentioning other tanks), I'd still need to spend 4,5 hours playing - DAILY!  Also I don't have any tier 4+ for France, Japan and China, so add more time and effort for those.  No, thanks!

I found a nice tool to see "expected damage" for your tank.  Somewhat like a goal if you want to bring up your ratings (WN8 and such) or just to become a better player.  Here it is. 

Here are TDs I currently play.

Marder is a boring one.  I feel so will be all other German TDs up to Borsig.  I already opened the next tier 4 Stug, but need to collect more XP on Marder to open the gun on the way to "the bathtub"  Pz.Sfl.IVc.

Compare the crew.  I started from zero except for one guy I had in barracks for a while - he was not needed for Pz B2.  Unfortunately I retrained his old crew mates for that heavy.  But who knows, maybe I'll give up on Gernam TDs if they are that boring...

One more High Caliber - and defeat.  Yes, I'm the best of the worst :)

My WN8 is slowly climbing up from "orange", based on damage.  Used to be comfortably "yellow", but then the color scheme was changed by devs (or with their "blessing", guess for what reason).  But my winrate is down to 50% again.  It was up and down a lot recently, but somehow stays between 50% and 51%.  And I'm not that "wealthy" to use "golden-silver" ammo to assure the wins...

Ok, no clan events during the week, so I decided to keep going with my TDs.  

I was always looking at German TDs, especially the Rhm.-Borsig Waffentrager  (tier 8).  But the reviews and clan recommendations confused me so much I started looking at German heavys ant retrained my best crew 2 times.  I ended up loosing 50% of the 2nd skill, also re-trained it from camo to repair.  And then just gave up on German line, concentrating on clan-recommended GB and USSR tier 6s.     Any way, turned out I don't like those tier 6s as much as I like my TDs.  So I'm partially back to my initial plan.  I know the road to Borsig is difficult, those tier 5-6-7 TDs are all meh.  But at least they are TDs, I understand this class and like it.  

I still have to work on KV-1S to open KV-85 (28k XP).  Still have to fully upgrade T-34-85 and T-150.   But I don't enjoy the games where I cannot do anything to pull the battle out - and the stupid "team" loses time after time.  With TD - I can.  Or at least I can try.  Not like with a useless heavy. 

We'll see how it goes.  I bought Marder38 any way...

Happy Birthday, Ukraine!
Independence day parade in Kiev.  This army did not exist 3 years ago.  More photos here.   Video.

Another good game today.

I didn't have many High Caliber medals till yesterday, suddenly received 3 of them within 2 days plus a Top Gun.  Didn't think I was doing any different then usual.  Yet I helped to pull out several games where XVM was giving my team less then 50% chance.

I've reset the T-67 commander's skills (90%, for silver) just as I planned - to get the "6th sense" skill. 

Not bad, it helps.  I had several really good games this evening.  Sometimes I was playing over-careful, being not sure if enemy spotted me after a shot.  Now I can relax a bit, especially on the maps I like.

First I trained all crew to get camo skill up to 100%.  Then I kept collecting commander's experience (with no 2nd skill) till his crewmen got their 2nd skills up to 40%.  This way my commander got the "6th sense" 100%  plus 13% leftover for another skill (camo again) after the reset.  Now, why I didn't just train the "6th sense" right away?  'Cause it doesn't work at all till you make it 100%.  Other skills like camo, repair, recon etc - they start working right away, from 1% and up.

The best game today.  

Guess I played much better, then XVM expected, lol :)  See our chance to win?  Pretty much the same story as the previous post, low chance to win, but ended up with a victory.  But so many games were opposite story!  No matter how I do - bad or ok or good. I'm a "below average" player, so it cannot depend just on me.  And it's  the same story for any tank I use - T-67 or any other mediums or heavys I have.  Not even mentioning the Crusader, it's cursed :)

I'm so tired of idiots who want to be commanders.  Especially if they try to make me go spot for them.  I'm T-67, yet I suppose to be a light tank for their pleasure.  And if I say no or just ignore - they start calling me names and "reporting a bot".  Ok, I report them back for insulting.  As a rule, it's arty players.  Dumb useless idiots.  The worst part - I had to win the game for him any way.  Yes, I stayed back and finished 2 enemies after the idiot died (but he started barking at me much earlier, not after his death).

Discounts!

Mostly for prem tanks, but for some regular ones too.  I just payed a bit over 600k for T-150 (reg. price 880k).  Another example: Lowe (german tier 8 prem) is 10k instead of 12k.  Hurry up if you planned to buy :)

Yippie!  100% crew.  I used up the 1-hour hour 300% crew bonus (received it some time ago for competing a mission), and got enough experience for the last 2% my crew missed.  I was fed-up with all those defeats recently.  Like the one on the screenshot.  HOW the heck these teams manage to loose?

Just keep swimming...

Too many games lost for no reason.  Or 'cause some top tank doesn't load up.  Happened 4 or 5 times last night.

The game from the screen was "a last second win" - our TD vs the red heavy, both around 30% hp and the red was capping.  So it was literally a one shot thing.  Our TD was lucky.

It's a loooooong road... (to level up the crew).

My winrate was terrible for last 2 days.  My "teams" managed to loose 60%+ chance games like 10 times or even more.  Probably those guys with high WN8 just bought their accounts from good players.  No other way to explain.  

Yet another one of those games... 

If I get "Top gun" - that means both teams sucked.  But my team also had to loose...

Any way, late night week-end is the worst time to play as for me.  Too many high-skilled players.  Maybe 'cause of this x3 thingie, this week-end is the worst I remember.  MM sucks despite what the devs said - my tier 5s were getting in tier 7 games too often, and in most cases half team were tier 7th, then all others were 6, except for me (T-67 or T-34) and the lights.  And what should we do vs tier 7s?  Stupid MM.

I did it on T-67!  A mark of excellence.  My hitrate is not that high, just above 50% and I often run out of ammo.  So looks like my kamikaze-style of running forward and "giving light" to my teammates added lots of assist points to my rate.

Slowly upping the crew and pulling up my T-67 statistics.  Weird,  my most loved tanks have the worst winrate.  T-67 is about 47%.  Poor Crusader is 44% and it seems to be cursed.  I may have a good result (2-3 frags and a lot of assist points), but then my "team" looses the game any way. 

Discounts!  

Garage slots and all equipment - 50% off!  

A free tank for 1 random battle!  

Happy Birthday WG!

I just received my free tank and purchased 2 more garage slots.  

As for the tank - looks like a meh (tier 2 soviet light), but 100% crew is nice (just 2 guys, yes). Any way, it's my 1st freebie from WG, so thank you devs!  I'll purchase some equipment too tonight.

No clan events, no people online, one of friends left the clan, I wonder if other one would stay...   The clan is concentrated on the WoWS and doesn't seem to care of tank-wing that much.  As for me - I tried to like those ships, but... It's boring.  I'd rather play Naval Action instead. Probably I will when it's finally released, right now it's too "raw" to really enjoy it, especially knowing that everything is going to be wiped soon, except for your rank and crafting xp - and I'm at the top of both :)

I'm back to solo mode and my Sergeant Wigga crew on T-67.  Last 10% are terribly long to finish.  I'll be playing T-67 at least till the end of this week.  If no tank I need goes on sale Monday - then maybe even longer.  I want to get at least half another skill for T-67 radio man - and something for his crew-mates of course.  Initially I planned to retrain this same crew for Hellcat, but I'm not sure anymore.  Tier 6 tank are a bit difficult for me to play yet.

I'm still trying to collect enough money to buy T-150.  My KV-1 crew is finally 100%.  

There was a rumor about 30-50% discount for IS-7 line and Leopard-1 line, starting August 15th.  So I I decided not to hurry with KV-1C, would be nice to buy it for 50% price.  And then maybe KV-85 if I collect enough xp.

As for the mods - well, still not enough custom configurations to pick something less annoying then the standard one.  

I tried to install OMC modpack, but figured out they still didn't update the XVM section (it's still 6.3.2.1 version while the new 6.4 was released yesterday).  So... why would I install the old version for WoT 9.15.0.1?  I'll wait a bit more I guess...

Update: Hahaha!  Did they read me?  "XVM 6.4"  in a new OMC update.

XVM mode for 9.15.1 is officially released.  What they did not add yet is minimap mod and multi-row at the garage.  They are still working on minimap and it will be fully functional "soon" (c).  The garage feature supposedly will be added to the game itself sometime "soon".  2 more patches are planned by WG this year, so maybe one of them will have it.

Ok, now I can finally install it and struggle with the config again...

I like Crusader, but despite even having a "sniper" mark on it, I cannot get a good winrate. 

But I had a pretty funny game today.  Crusader is not the best scout.  Being more "a medium tank with no armor" I didn't want to be on the way of our "big guys" fighting at those rocks.   The position I moved to was not good for shooting or even spotting, but then my solo flank attack worked out just the way I wanted.  

Too bad the other part of the team didn't reset the timer.

And how the heck I made the 2nd best damage-dealer of the team??  I was near the bottom of the list...

Arnie has a tank :)  Looks like M47 Patton. In case you didn't know, Terminator did serve in Austrian army (a required year, 1965).  

Finally 100% crew of T-34.

Seen bunch of variants for crew skills, decided to go with camo first, except for the radio operator. Yes, I know how it works, I should have been going with camo for all 4 first, but decided to try this way' cause T-34's viewrange is not that great.

A warning from XVM authors: there is no stable version yet, they are still working on it.  It will be published on the official site as soon as it's ready.

Do not download anything from other sites which may say "it's updated and ready to use".   Not yet.

There was some kind of update for OMC modpack yesterday (for small mods I imagine), but I didn't go for it, 'cause there will be a big update as soon as XVM is ready.   

Hahaha :)

Didn't think I was doing anything special during that battle - well, 4 kills but lights and lower-tier tanks, except for that KV.  So the Master badge and the Top Gun came up as a total surprise, thanks to my team's win.  I was about to say the WG broke their MM again, 'cause I was playing tier 6 or 7 games all evening.  Couldn't do much there.  Thought I'd play one last game and go to bed, but then - BAM!  Tier 5 game, I'm the top tank of the team, and I collected enough XP to open T-150.  Not enough money to buy it yet, just as usual, lol :)

OK, I updated the game, everything is fine now - no freezes.  Haven't noticed much visual changes, other then now I can see my clan emblem (couldn't before the patch).  And the tank symbols on mini-map and on top of the screen seem different - brighter, with black shadow added.  Looks good.

I don't see an update at Odem Mortis modpack page yet -  guess it will take more time for people to update all mods (XVM mainly), 'cause of the main game change from AS2 to AS3.  I'm not a programmer, but I used to work with Flash programmers, and remember that the change was dramatic.  As I recall, AS3 is totally different then AS2.  But both are obsolete, so I kinda wonder what would be the next step for WoT.

Couldn't play tonight - game keeps freezing for 2-5 seconds.  First I thought it was my connection issues, but turned out my clanmates had the same problem.  So we played like 3 games and quit till the update is done tomorrow.  

Normally it takes 2-3 days for mod-makers to update their stuff, so be ready to play "clean" game for a couple of days.

...And it's time to uninstall all mods :)

OK, think I finally found the XVM mod settings I like.  To be exact, it's not just XVM, but a modpack called Odem Mortis (OMC).  It was recommended by my clanmate, but I didn't want to add much to the game.  Nothing like fancy icons or colored names or skins for tanks - they look ugly.  If you want to see how my game looks now - click "read more".  I'll still have to manually remove the clock from the garage, 'cause it doesn't look good and is annoyingly large.  I play in window, so can see my computer clock and don't need one more.

I bought T-34-85 today and recruited a new crew for it.  Totally ran out of money, so need to farm at least 125k  to retrain crew and buy some unlocked equipment for this tank.  It will stay in my garage forever (strongholds and such).  So I'll probably customize it with decals and camo later, to make it look like "Rudy".  Too bad you cannot get last name "Jaros" for soviet guys :)

I'm still playing with mods, trying to find settings I like.  They all seem to be overwhelming, distracting and not giving me the information I want - and WHEN I want.  Caught myself with a thought that I spend more time tuning mods then playing the game now.

Damn, I did it, still can't believe it! Master! On t-34!! And an excellence mark!!!  That was an epic battle :) 

I finally decided to install some mods - XVM statistics plus some minor stuff like garages, carousel rows etc.  I didn't like any skins, they kill the look and the "feel" of the game.  So the list of all payers (at the beginning of the game) looked mostly red, and the chance of winning for my team was 50%.  It was me, KV-2 and a big soviet TD (keep forgetting the name, SU-100Y I think) at the end.  Being the fastest of three, I had to return to our base to light up the invader and knock down the timer, then I had to run back to the enemy base to join my two teammates (a platoon from some clan) and help them to destroy a Hellcat and find the last arty, so our SU-100Y would make 6 frags.  

Will take a break for tonight.  Also need to tweak the mods little bit, 'cause I don't like those bright colors for the statistics.

Guess I was wrong about my KV-1, I just had several good games, about 400+ xp and over 10.000 silver each.

Funny.  Seems like every time I have a meh or just ok game - my team wins.

But then if I have a great one and even earn some good medals - the team looses.

Does that happen to you a lot? :)

I unlocked T-34-85.

But cannot buy it yet :)  I was hoping to see discounts for soviet tanks this or next week-end, but this week-end is British.  Oh well, guess I'll just farm for 400k more gold.

The worst part is - T-34 cannot become "elite" till you open all other tanks from it - that's 3 more for 23k+ xp each.  So no expedited crew training for me yet.  Same about KV-1 line - I have KV-1S unlocked but need 50+k xp to open KV-2 and T-150.  I tend to gain xp slower on heavy tanks, so it's a long road.

I don't like how the crew training works.  It seems like I barely get my guys from 75% to almost 100%  when I unlock my next tank.  Retraining doesn't make that much sense, especially when the line switches, for example, from light to medium.  It's a bit better from tier 5 up - medium too medium mostly.  But still loosing 10% experience when retraining to a new tank (and back to the previous one if you need).  Meh.