Hey everyone; I’m Luke Kneller and today we have our first episode that contains replays from around the world!
Remember, if you’re not from Europe you can still submit your replays.
Just create an account on the EU server so you can use the website and leave your actual details in the description.
Right, onto the Warm-up!
We begin the warm-up on Live Oaks.
The French AMX 50 120 is enjoying a little Sunday drive,
but as we know, in World of Tanks, you can’t just watch the birds and admire the scenery.
Eventually our hero meets his nemesis.
The British FV 215 TD spots a Frenchman out on a stroll, and immediately goes berserk.
The Englishman charges at the AMX as fast as he can.
He comes to point blank range, fires and… blows up.
Well, shooting HE at touch range is not a good idea.
It’s like wanting to eat a dumpling so bad that you accidentally stab yourself in the eye with the fork.
But never mind, let’s continue.
WARM UP
The warm-up continues at the Abbey.
A valiant and fearless IS-6 is left alone facing four enemy SPGs
The first kill is quick and easy, and the second SPG is soon spotted.
The IS rolls out, kills the SU-8 and doesn’t even seem to notice the hit from the Hummel or the GW Panther.
Where are they anyway? Are they praying for help from above? Of course they are!
It’s time to go visit the abbey.
The Hummel is dispatched and another hit is ignored.
One more time.
Poor Panther’s hiding in a corner.
Ok, shoot me one more time.
Are you quite finished? Bye!
Three hits with no damage.
The arty are so cute when they can’t even dent your armor.
We finish warming-up on Komarin.
The T28 Prototype and a T32 are left facing six opponents.
The enemy have almost captured the base and the battle seems over,
but a raging IS-3 kills the capturing Hellcat and comes after our heroes...
You can already tell how this will end, can’t you? Of course you can.
With some help from his ally, the one hit point Prototype will win the battle.
And so he does.
The greedy IS-3 let his whole team down,
and we hope that he was reported and is getting a ban in addition to the defeat and the scorn of his teammates.
Bad IS-3.
You shouldn’t have done that.
That’s it for the warm-up, let’s proceed to the nominations.
Defender of the week.
This week’s defender is another EU player.
His name is Spyinfo and he drives the Object 268 on the Abbey map.
The battle begins.
Our hero tries several positions and ultimately decides to help his allies push one flank.
It turns out however, that the enemies pushed faster.
The TD climbs onto a hill and gets a nice shot into the IS-7, reducing the cap.
The T110E5 drives carelessly through open ground and gets sent to the garage almost instantly.
The problems are not over though, as the base is still being captured.
Our TD gets down from the hill and rolls towards the base.
Even a T-54 doesn’t manage to slow him down.
Finally we find the culprit for the howling siren.
It’s like the old saying goes: “If you stay too long in the enemy base doing nothing, you’ll get sent to the garage.”
A half-dead T-54 is spotted on the left, and easily put to rest.
However everything is not going smoothly, since an enemy does the same to the last remaining ally.
Our hero is left alone.
After a skirmish with an E50M and an E75 it’s time to return to the battle-tested hill.
What? Another one? The JagdPz E100 comes as a nasty shock to the Soviet TD, as can be seen by the hasty snap shot.
Ok, let’s go back.
OH!
It seems that the E50M was chasing us.
Well… not anymore.
The capture starts again and the hero of the hour decides it’s time to return to the hill one more time.
The hill turns out to be pretty useless this time, but the JagdPz E100 comes into view when going down.
Now things are clear – both opponents are at the base.
This calls for action.
The E75 is spotted, shots are exchanged and the German leaves his countryman to fight alone.
There he is.
An almost untouched E-100 just driving around our base.
This miscreant needs to be outsmarted, but how? Trying to get to his rear doesn’t work.
How about a bluff? The TD fakes going around again, but doesn’t really.
The cap is reset with a precision-shot into the enemy’s hatch.
The opponent fired, get another shot in!
It connects, and the German has one track at the garage’s door.
It’s time to use psychology again, and make a double bluff.
This time our hero really does go around and flanks the enemy.
Yes, the maneuver worked!
The German didn’t suspect a thing until it was too late.
Great tactics and strategy brought our hero this well-deserved victory.
He is the Defender of the Week.
Congratulations.
Scout of the Week.
This week’s top scout is the vladcoolboy, driving a T-34-2.
He realizes that a battle with tier IX tanks is not the time to play the hero.
The Chinese med helps a slow TD get going, and heads out to spot the enemy from behind a small hill.
The opposing heavies get dismantled before his eyes, and the inspired Chinaman moves forward under covering fire.
The enemy IS-3’s marker winks out and the hill is conquered.
Now a dash across the river.
A shot from the SU-101 damages the engine, but the most dangerous place is already passed,
and the distracted opponents continue to take damage.
The makeshift scout takes a peek around the edge of the hill, and the spotted enemies immediately come under heavy fire.
Since the tactic works, repeat until done.
The last enemy is cornered and not a threat.
As you can see scouting isn’t just for light tanks.
The secret lies in finding good positions and taking smart risks when needed.
A 15-1 victory, more than ten thousand damage from spotting, scout and patrol duty medals.
And not just the scout medal, but also the title of the best scout of the week.
Congratulations!
Top Gun of the week.
This week’s top gun is a player from the European server named Gwandi driving a T54E1.
The map is Ensk.
Our hero gets the first kill on an overly bold ELC AMX, and so it begins.
A skirmish near the warehouses eventually ends in tears for the T26E4, and soon after for the T29 as well.
A shell strikes home from the left, another enemy is spotted.
A cheeky feline – the Tiger 1 is put to rest.
Finish off the AMX AC 48 and move on.
It’s a pity most of the allies are out of it already.
No matter.
It’s time to carry!
Wasn’t there a T-34-2 near A0? Better go check that out.
Oh, he’s not alone.
A Crusader SP is hiding behind a house, but that doesn’t help him much - Good luck in the next battle.
Reload, show a track, fix it and unload a drum into the Chinese med.
Seven kills so far.
So who’s next? The party at the city is starting to be over.
Our one remaining ally – the T34, is trying to hold off an entire hoard of opponents.
Our hero thinks he is going to be lonely soon.
He rushes in to help, but its too late.
One against five.
Great.
Our hero is careless and gets hit several times.
Now there is no room for mistakes.
At least he knows where the enemies are.
Within 15 seconds the enemies go from five to two.
The M46-Patton, Lowe and the IS are no longer a threat.
The remaining two panic and try to capture the base, but the American will not be stopped now.
Going to the railroad and carefully scouting the base.
The enemy Lowe is left with 74 hp and the T32 is sent to the garage.
With the magazine reloading it’s time to go lion hunting.
Just need to spot the Löwe again.
There it is.
The shot on the move would have been a spectacular ending to this battle,
but even a basic shot gives our hero the title of the Top Gun of The Week.
Congratulations.
Sniper of the Week.
Once gain we have three winners.
We’ll start with a shot from the player named Elessarus, driving his Object 704.
He has already done a great job defending the base, and has moved to the flank to welcome an enemy M103.
An equally hospitable Waffenträger also wants to say hello, but our hero doesn’t intend to wait in line.
Never mind what they say about the BL-10.
It manages to send a greeting perfectly through the small gap between the ally’s hull and turret.
The American responds with smoke signals, and we move on.
The ruined houses in the center of Erlenberg have much to teach for lazy and inattentive tankers.
There are so many holes in the walls that no place is completely safe from attack.
Our sniper named Boewik_2008 is driving a tier 9 Waffenträger,
and at the start of the match he starts looking for targets among the buildings.
He sees an enemy Leopard on the other side of the river.
At first glance it looks like an impossible shot, but the accuracy of German guns and perfected skill combine to prove otherwise.
The shell passes through a tiny crack and takes out the unsuspecting Leopard.
Yet another spot to be marked “unsafe”.
Our series of unusual shots is brought to a close by another Waffenträger auf Pz. IV,
this time driven by the player called On4uk (Onchik , probably).
The battle at El Halluf has been really intense, and only our hero and the enemy artillery remain.
A shameful tie is less than twenty second away, but the German’s intuition tells him there’s still a chance.
He thinks, scan’s the bushes, listens, maybe even smells the air, and then places an accurate shot into the Frenchman’s hiding spot.
Luck? Probably, but the victory and the title of “sniper of the week” are well deserved, just as with our other participants.
Well done!
Bets replay of the week.
And now it’s time for the main event – the Best Replay of the Week.
We have two heroes today, but from the start of this glorious battle on Airfield they act as a single entity.
First Lelouch1 in his British tier 10 MT, and Bakuman_fan driving its Japanese analog take good positions on a hill,
and leaves the enemy T34 with no chance to survive.
Then our platoon faces some inactivity and so the Japanese gunner decides to put some shells into his favorite bushes of the season.
The results are unknown, but it’s a sensible thing to try.
Our heroes coordinate and send a careless Patton back to the garage then finally decide to change position.
Just as the STB-1 gets going he needs to return and help his friend fight a cheeky T44.
Another change of flank and another Soviet MT reaches the end of its hard, hard road.
Now the heroes start taming two King Tigers.
While the closer KT falls into pieces under the fire from the British alone, the farther one takes a team effort to put down.
In the best horror movie fashion a wild Waffenträger auf E 100 appears out of nowhere,
its gun-sights gleaming in anticipation of the easy prey.
It’s not hard to hide from him, but the Japanese tank suddenly starts taking shots from another Waffen.
This is not good.
Additionally a 704 reveals itself by destroying an allied 261.
Our heroes are left two against six, and not in the style of two Maus-tanks toying with tier VIII victims.
A fragile calm descends for a moment, but then the German charges down the hill and a furious melee begins.
Miraculously the Brit manages to spin the TD and the Waffenträger fires into the sand then is left burning under the scorching sun.
The 704 enters the fray and destroys the heroic Briton,
additionally a half-dead IS-3 shows his face sending a last goodbye to the Japanese gunner.
A sad time indeed.
But 187 HP and four opponents left.
The BL-10 can’t compete with the STB-1 turret and the 704 is motionless while an AP shell from the arty bounces off our now-lone hero.
The Waffenträger still has a lot of durability left and a head-on battle would not end well.
The artillery also seems unlikely to just drown itself, so it’s time for a plan B.
The German is left alone to think deep thoughts.
The 261 is found first, but intuition tells our hero to keep moving.
There is another one here...
ah-ha, thought so!
A couple of shots and only two opponents are left.
The siren is howling, of course, and so our hero returns to the base.
The Japanese loads an HE shell just for the Waffenträger and its giant paper-thin turret.
The first hit takes a hefty 500 hp off the unhappy German.
Another HE for the escaping SPG.
Now it’s time to trade shots and trust your luck.
The 261 is gone, but it’s not clear what can be done about the German.
The WT opens up, but is too impatient for careful aim.
The remaining shells strike rocks, with the only hit bouncing off.
Now it’s vital to act quickly.
A head on charge and the helpless Waffenträger auf E 100 doesn’t live to see his drum reloaded.
A victory in a very intense battle, 11 kills for the platoon and a great display of skill and teamwork in very unfavorable conditions.
We award a commemorative medal along with the gold!
Congratulations!
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