Originally posted by Alpha99

Originally posted by yaminsux

Tactics #1 - defend your arty

Tactics #2 - destroy enemy arty

Tactics #3 - If you cant do #1 and 2, hide in bush and be arty food.

Defend your arty against a Tiger in your BT-7 you get oneshotted and die in flames.

Defend your arty against a IS-3 in your Panzer IV you get oneshotted and die in flames.

Have you had enough yet?

What yaminsux was trying to point out is that at the start of the battle many of the light tanks will try and zip round to scout the enamy and to try and find their artillery so either they can destroy it else their own arty can.  Going 45-60 km/h in a small light tank that's dancing/jinling makes you very hard to hit (though once hit yhou're still toast).

Note you get experience (for researching up to your next vehicle) for finding enemy vehicles (note this does not have to be first time, if some one else has found them, then they've gone to ground again and you're uncivered them once more - this counts), for damaging enemy vehicles (thoise scratchs on the enemy arty and light/medium tanks), and for destroying them (unlikely but I have sene light tanks finish off motrally wounded big beasts).  Get the exp in, research your next tank/spg/td and move on up.  (BTW if you get frustrated at dying, don't go TD as they are defensive sniping machines that require patience - drive one of these and you'll learn to hate low tier and light tanks as they knock your tracks out, move round your lightly armoured sides and rear, and pumble you).

Originally posted by angriff

Face it this game is not historical at all and there are little tactics other than gang bang rushing.  It is after all an arcade game and is exactly like Navyfield for Tanks.

I'm sorry but you've just summed yourself up there as an arcade game player who should avoid MMOs.

I, like a good few people out there, have effectively moved from Navyfields (European servers) to WoT. Both games are incredibly tactical, however both have lots of players who care little about team play and just go after kills in a self-centered way. In Navyfields general play there's always been an issue over game play and tactics as you get impatient players who just assume they can charge in all guns ablazing and sink everything in sight (I would love to say these players don't hang around long, but alas many do stay). Once you get on to Fleet actions however (Harbour Assaults, League, Cups, etc) then the game becomes extremely tactical in nature. The same should hopefully happen after the Clan system comes out in World of Tanks.

And before you accuse me of being an IS-7/Mauss driver, I only started AFTER the last wipe and so have had to work my way up while the big tanks have been around. Sure it took a tier or two to get used to what to do and help from my friends and fleet mates - but the same information can be got from the WoT forums. As to balance, yeah it's a tad fubar at the moment, but the developers are looking at it. I think it also depends on time of day as when I was in low tier tanks, during weekend afternoons I was against other low tier tanks, highest being KV and Panzer 4s, however come the evening I did find myself with the heavy stuff. Same thing is still happening, so while I'd expect to be facing the big stuff in my T43 medium tank, I have seen the occasional loltraktors appearing.

Note there's a patch out this week that adds 2 more maps and has a fix for balance (so fingers crossed).

No one dares say anything like this on the official NFEU forums are the threads are locked and deleted very quickly and people are receiving forum bans for them.  People are also not willing to post on their own fleet forums in public areas as the GMs are also using these for excuses to ban (which in many countries is illegal - as one GM has already found out).

I never thought I'd be writing a post like this, but I must warn anyone thinking of joining the European servers to either head over to the US ones (NFNA) or skip the game entirely.

While many of the moderators do a reasonable or good job, the actual games masters them selves are out of control, and as they effectively run the company there's no one to keep them in check.  These people have made the game very personal, have targetted certain fleets and are inconsistent with their bans.  One such ban was only removed when the GM in question was threatened with legal action for what he had done.

Long term players are now leaving to either stop playing the game or to start/restart on NFNA at an ever increasing rate, but alas, unless the more apathetic players (whom have contributed little to the game except euros) start to move nothing will change, as we feel only a drop in revenues may cause the situation to change.

I feel most sorry for the mods [mod edit] as they are the ones who tend to be unfairly targetted as a result of the issues, despite the fact they have no real control in those areas.  There are, however, also mods who really should not be allows to carry on, but are being protected by the GMs.

And for the GMs of FNEU, this forum is totally independant to your game.  You can NOT take anything I have written here as an excuse to do anything to my account.

Damn no delete your own post option

There is a catch to this method though.  The crew increase is greater for a BO per level than a sailor or a national sailor.  This means at higher levels you'll have less vets/experts resulting in a smaller spotting range.

Having said that, by the time your BO reaches the top levels he should eb maxed out regardless so this penalty is only temporary and also not a big dissadvantage once you get used to ranging you guns.

It's one of those games you'll either love or hate.  I'm semi-addicted to it.

It's also one of those games you need to perservere with.  The learning curve is quite shallow, but you have to get ued to the fact that try tackling a battleship in a frigate or destroyer and you'll last only seconds.  There are game rooms, however, designed for smaller ships.

It's also a game where it's worth reading the guides first, will stop you making costly mistakes that could hamper you further down the line.