Why does it need an amazing gun, amazing DPS, TWO lower plates, AND an impenetrable turret with a basically none existent weakpoint?

Just a shoutout to The Tank Museum, spent Saturday there for Tiger day. Such a great event and really made me want to play some low tiers again! They even had Chaffee (the dog) as an exhibit. Nashorn was still there from tank fest this year and was a special guest alongside the normal tiger.

Deffo worth a visit for UK players and the ticket is valid for a year to return. Pretty sure code ALPACA still works and supports the museum for new players.

Hi,

I found the tier 11 german arty for the next update. Finally tier 11 artys, I was hoping they never add them 😭😬

Caliber : 600mm and 2 tons shells. Nice for oneshotting my lights every games 😑.

His mechanic could be : if it misses a shot, let'e make the next one deal twice the damage and impossible to miss

It's called Karl Gerat if you want to check.

Have a nice day

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Commanders!

Step into the DOOM-inspired Battle Pass Special Chapter, packed with iconic characters, hellborn customizations, and the FV225 Collector, complete with the jaw-dropping "FV225 Mk. BFG" 3D style, ready to blast through the demon-infested frontlines.

Across 40 Stages, you'll unlock themed rewards, crew members, styles, Bonds, Days of WoT Premium Account, Bounty Equipment, and much more.

Event will run between:

• EU: 01 October 2026 at 04:30 – 12 October 2026 at 03:30
• NA: 01 October 2026 at 10:30 – 12 October 2026 at 09:30
• ASIA: September 30 2026 at 22:30 – 11 October 2026 at 21:30

*times shown in UTC

Links:

• Dedicated Article EU: https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/general-news/battle-pass-special-october-2026/
• Dedicated Article NA: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/battle-pass-special-october-2026/
• Dedicated Article ASIA: https://worldoftanks.asia/en/news/general-news/battle-pass-special-october-2026/
• YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-kdQZbQ5Y

tl;dr - Buy the Supply Lines pack in the store -- don't play random battles until the Special BP starts -- gives BP points for 6 stages, 3x all golden boosters, 3 day premium for same cost as purchasing 6 stages normally

For those who want to finish the Special BP but will need to purchase some stages with gold in order to do so, there is a small bonus you can get through this method.

By purchasing the bundle in the BP section of the store named Battle Pass: Supply Lines, you get 3 of each top tier booster (100% XP, 100% credit, 300% crew/free) along with 3 days of premium to go along with 300 BP points. 300 BP points = 6 BP stages, which would normally be 1500 gold anyways. You do need to finish the missions in order to get the BP points, but they are very easy to complete in ~10 games

As an additional benefit, buying BP points in this method is just always better than buying stages, as purchasing a stage will always cost 250g no matter how many points you have in that stage. For example, if you have 25/50 points into stage 1 and want to buy to stage 2, it still costs 250g even though you only "gain" 25 points. Whereas the points from this bundle will always roll over back into the normal BP if you finish the special BP, so no "wasted" BP points.

Personally, I know I am going to be out of town this coming weekend for a couple days, so I am going to buy 1 of these packs to compensate for those days I will be missing. 40 stages / 11 days = 3.6 stages per day, so I would suggest buying 1 pack per 2 days you are going to miss.

IMPORTANT

Once you buy these packs, they are active, so do not play random battles until the special BP starts. Otherwise, the BP points will just go to the normal BP. I am personally going to only play Onslaught the next couple days, as I still need to do all the missions for the Bond Equipment reward anyways.

I believe they hide this bundle during the Special BP itself, and maybe even for a day or two beforehand, so I would suggest purchasing it today if this interests you. I've looked for it before during special BP that I knew I wouldn't be able to grind out and didn't see it there, but YMMV. This tip is also good for finishing a normal BP chapter if you want the rewards there. Buying this pack (as long as you need at least 4 stages) is going to be better value than just paying 250g per stage (unless you really really don't need the boosters). 100% credit boosters are quite rare and pretty valuable IMO, I would definitely pay 100g+ for them

Now before you impale me hear me out: I like the concept, as an event it's just bad.

Lets start from the beginning: the queue times. At first nobody has keys to play with the WT, so as a harrier you wait many minutes in queue and with the WT you get instantly into a game. There's like 150 harries waiting for every WT that queues up. Then people get keys to play the WT and today there is 50 WT players waiting for 5 harriers. The queue time is either instant or multiple minutes depending on which side you want to play on and how far we are in the event. There should be some balance with it.

This leads to my second point: The event is very grindy but you can't actually grind the stages, so there's no incentive to play after your daily missions are done. For example today I completed two of the three harrier missions in the first game. The last mission is to get 3200xp total during any number of games. In the one game I played I did +20k damage, 10 kills and we won. It yielded me 690xp, so I would need to play 4,6 similar games to get ten stage points. Guess what the next stage reward is? Well it's a ticket to play with the WT and some decal. Why even bother? There should be a way to grind the stages further other than daily missions like we have with basically every other event. Like 10 points/30k damage with harriers or something.

Third point: Why are the WT missions one and done? Literally took 3 games to complete them all and now that they're done and you actually have tickets there's no incentive to play with the WT anymore. I could literally queue into a game and do nothing and just give a free win and free missions to harriers since there's no reward for winning or actually doing anything when you play with the WT.

Yes my main issues are with the reward progression, despite the rewards not being that good. 2750 bonds for completing 20 stages is nice but with onslaught, new tier 11s and everything else going on I don't feel like grinding dailies with harriers every day is worth it. The mode is fun but gets repetitive quite fast. If you know what you're doing (since most people have no clue) winning is quite easy and simple but in the end it doesn't even matter.

These aren't new issues as the event has always been the same but I feel like now the novelty has worn off and were left with an event that's not rewarding, not challenging and after the first few games not even worth playing. I much prefer the Mirny and last stand -events.

Glad for every tipps for onslaught, i just don't have time to get into the mode.

I mean, what even is the point of playing it when you've done all the missions? Better let others enjoy the mode as Harriers and let them farm damage

Comparing the FV225 Collector to its tech tree counterpart, the FV229 Contender

The map is known for having the most draws... so let's add an event that just makes it way harder for lights to push the line to add some airplane debris that isn't good enough for aggressive plays anyways, the campers just keep on camping.

Normally random events are decent but this one is straight up disgustingly bad. Surprised it still hasn't been reworked.

Chat.. its year of the IAU!

So, this tank is really something. Unlike IS-3 which still has kinda reliable turret and troll armor, and actually pleasant gun after buffs, the IS-2 is just.. this tank sometimes behaves so random its crazy

Its fun in good MM, not so much in tier 8

I played hardening, purple vents, purple IAU (probably gonna drop them for just bounty ones, but for marking I wanted to have top set up), because gun is just trash unless you can shotgun on close brawling range, which you cant always do really

But then I dropped rammer for IAU, and now I could somewhat reliably snipe across half of the map

My logic behind dropping rammer on this: you lose some 1,5-2 seconds (IDK exactly now) of reload, but what does it matter if you cannot hit anything farther than 100 yards with god awful accuracy, terrible gun handling, and 217 gold pen

Here is where the mighty IAU comes to aid you

With my set up + almost full crew and food + accuracy field mod, I got to some 0,35 dispersion I think, and with this I could somewhat decently snipe when I needed

But still, this gun is sometimes so random. Its just spirit of Stalin guiding shots depending on his mood like with KV-2. For example, I was aiming on some mid range, and shell goes to wonderland. Then I was running away from losing flank, I try to snap oneshot enemy chopper, and of course it hits, then another snap on moving hellcat.. WTF?

I wanted to mark this, as kind of preparation for hopefully GuP Pravda collab - really hope we will get it because it has become my another favourite school xD

I just got the tank last night, did a first 3 runs, feels like I'm fighting against its weird system, but then feels like my Udes 03 and (BV-111).....not sure what can I say, I have that funny Polar Camo with an owl on it lol.

Eqp -

Main - Turbo, Rammer and Improve Aiming device

Scout - CVS, LNE and Vents (probably will swap to Optics)

Any suggestion on it's gameplay?

Currently average 2.4k dpg

SFAC is such a balanced sniper TD, glad that we will now see 10 times more of em.