We here at Wargaming, we feel festive,
and with the holidays around the corner
we want to make sure we bring the festivities into the game.
We’ve got a lot of great stuff going on for December.
We’re trying to give back to the players.
We’ve got new tanks that nobody’s seen before.
I’m really excited about the KV1 Captured.
The Captured KV1 is a Russian tank that was captured by the Germans
and it was captured in cold weather in the snow,
so it has a snow paintjob.
But what the Germans did was they painted a giant Balkenkreuz
all over the tank
to signify that “this is a German tank”.
The Legion 59 Patton is a combination
of the American M48 Turret
and the Hull from a Type 59.
Both tanks are dual crew trainers,
so the KV1 Captured can train Russian crews and German Crews,
and the Legion 59 Patton can train American crews and Chinese crews.
The theme for December: we really wanted
to celebrate the holidays,
give to charity, so along those lines,
we partnered with War Child a fantastic charity
that helps children whose lives are torn apart by war.
We’ve created a special in-game bundle
that contains tank and crew boosts,
small and large first aid kits.
Players can purchase these bundles
as many times as they want and all the net proceeds
- every last cent - will go to War Child charity.
A lot of players have requested the MTLS,
well we’re bringing it back with a little bit of holiday fun.
Players who login in game between December 15th and January 2nd
will receive the all fabulous Blitzen.
And the Blitzen is a really cool slick tank.
Not only will it have Christmas lights
while the holiday garage is up,
but it will also be decorated
with a lot of holiday branches all across the tank.
The design for the Blitzen tank was:
A tank that might have been decorated by the soldiers
if they were parked somewhere around with their brothers
- everybody having a Christmas meal or something like that.
And what they would do to the tank to make it a little festive.
So, that’s where you get the lights on the tank.
Another cool feature
is that if the tank spawns in a winter map,
it will have icicles hanging all around the body of the tank.
We also have the 12 days of Tanksmas:
Starting on December 13th running to December 24th,
return every day for a new op and a new reward.
At the end of the event, you’ll receive a gift
based on the number of ops you completed.
Since we want to celebrate the holiday season in our own way,
we’re going to be bringing our lights into the mix.
And we’re going to be doing so
in a bundle called the Tanksmas Lights Bundle -
and this is a very special bundle because
we will be offering 25 times 3 XP boosts,
as well as 10 times 6 crew boosts and 5 garage slots.
What’s fun about this bundle is that these 5 slots
will be filled with 5 Type 7 Combat Cars.
These cars have very colorful fun skins
and this is our way to celebrate
not only lights but also lights in tanks.
The two Krampus special events are “The Presents Stealer”
and “The Coal Bringer”
and in “The Presents Stealer,”. Krampus is in the town of Erlenberg
and he’s trying to steal
the presents from all the residents, so your job is to stop
Krampus and all his toy tank elves that are helping him along the way.
The second special event for Krampus is “The Coal Bringer”,
and this takes place in Port Snow.
What you’ll find
is Krampus and the toy tanks are cruising through the city
-just wreaking havoc -
and your job is to stop them before they reach the final ending base
and take over the city.
When I was asked to come up with a design
of the Krampus tank,
I had this idea of “what’s cooler
than the cover of a metal band album?”
Let’s make it fit on the cover of that album,
and will it be cool?
And if it’s cool enough for the cover of a metal band album,
then it’s going to be cool enough for the game.
It is the most insane thing that we’ve ever made
as far as tanks go.
For Christmas we’re bringing back
the toy tank mode,
which is one of the most fun things I think we’ve ever made
for all these special events.
And the coolest new thing that we’ve added is pickups,
so when you kill a tank
it actually drops a present that you can pick up
and it has all this cool little stuff in it.
Also starting on December 23rd and running through the end of the month,
will be our Naughty or nice campaign.
Be sure to log in and play a match:
your first win each day will award you a gift from us…
or a lump of coal.
So come play World of Tanks this December with us.
Have some fun, hunt Krampus,
get free gifts from us, and help the children.