World of Tanks closed beta

So I just started playing this game, pretty good! The grind seems pretty intense though, 80k for a new tank and about 2k per battle.... Am I doing something wrong here? Thats 40 battles per tank upgrade. Sounds a bit steep

 

Took about 300 battles to grind the KV to research KV3 & S-51.
KV sometimes gets to beat up on small stuff,ie biggest best tank ambling round the map one-shotting whatever it sees but vs the higher tier stuff it gets smashed pretty easily.

Oh wait, 80K silver? I make 45K fairly easily with the S-51.
Higher tier stuff tends to make more cash per battle & some sweet-spot tanks can rake in the cash really easily.

I'm about 70K XP into a 168K grind from IS3 to IS4 & thats after I fully upgraded the IS3.
Then IS4 costs 3.5million silver to buy once I'm done.
I have similar size grinds for most of my tanks now.
Only 80K XP for SU152 -> ISU152 but there is 50K of gun upgrades I haven't got yet

Some careful attention to the sharing of modules across vehicles within tech trees can help make things not so bad eg my Tiger, Tiger II and Panther all have the same top engine & its also used in Panther II and JagdTiger which I don't have yet

I've currently got 14 tanks, 6 are lower tier ones I've kept because I like them.

I highly recommend AT1 with the 57mm gun. High rate of fire, good accuracy & can penetrate armour of stuff much higher tier than you.

 

I'm using the panzer ii right now, grinding to get the panzer iii.. I really want to get the maus cause it's really big so I wanna stay on the German tech tree. But I'll check out the at1. Im hoping for the final game they have bigger battles, like 64 tanks would be awesome, and reduce the grind. I could see it getting tedious after awhile

 

PzIII is pretty nifty.

Good speed, has some staying power & I quite liked the HE gun on it.

There is supposed to be 30 vs 30 coming but I haven't actually heard anything on that front for a while.

Problem with reducing the grind is what happens when everyone has Maus & IS7?

 

Anyone know how those towed artillery modules work? Can you deploy one in addition to your tank? Or am I not understanding WTH that thing is?

 

The which?

Self Propelled Artillery are tanks for purpose of the game.

You use ctrl + right click on the radar map &/or shift to switch to an overhead view where you can aim their shots.

 

So last night I got this beastie:

ISU152 with 152mm BL10 gun.
Its the most penetrating gun in the game & has equal highest damage other than SPGs. (286mm penetration & 750HP damage)

I've been working my way through the SU152 & ISU152 mostly just using the default short 152mm gun which does most effect by splash damage.
While that was cool & I have been able to really hurt a bunch of the biggest tanks in game that way, this thing is a totally different kind of awesome

The hull itself is very weak for the tier though, only 90mm armour & a bit over 1000HP so you mostly gotta find spots where you can see but not be seen.
By comparison, German top end tank destroyers Ferdinand & Jagdtiger have amongst the thickest frontal armour in the game so can/should actually be out in the front of attacks.

This gun is actually rather typical of the 'World of Prototypes' problem because they never actually produced it due to problems found in testing.
Many other tanks have similar situations of tested configs that were not used due to shortcomings or outright failure in testing being fully functional & often superior ingame vs the historical config.

 

I've been enjoying WoT a bit since reading about it here. Know anyone looking for a new Tier 3 SPG operator?

Edit: actually, I know the answer is no, lol, so I'll rephrase - know any groups looking to help out a tier 3 spg operator, learn him up some? I'm getting along pretty well, but it's getting grindy without any friends playing.

 

Game has gone live now.

All beta stats & vehicles wiped back to 3 beginner tanks + those who fought 1000+ beta battles get a special Sherman variant. (this helps substantially with earning silver!)

There are also 3 special tanks for those who buy/bought gold packages.