Oh my God, you finally put me on your video. I am the Russian light player that helped you on hill. Your nice words made me feel so good this morning. I was honored to play with you and even more Honored to be in videos. If you ever need any help what so ever .
This series/channel is pure class. I feel your advice and videos have had such a marked affect on my gameplay even if only mimicking taking certain positions. Managed to bring up type 61 win rate from 48% to 54% and I chalk that up to medium tank advice.
First! Also, thank you, Taugrim, for not being a gold spammer. I'm trying to get to unicum on silver but it makes the game so much harder. Been a fan since your prot pally days! O7
Been playing the T28 lately, still getting used to it. Love my T28 Prototype but the T28 is a whole different beast. In one of my matches tonight I blocked over 4400 damage with my armor, did over 2500 damage and even did around 600 spotting. We lost but I was impressed the abuse my T28 took before the enemy team took me out after killing 5 of their tanks and blasting other members of their team. I'd like to think my success was in part from watching your videos. So thank you for your valuable info and suggestions.
i am grateful for you taugrim for continuing this series taugrim....it good to see you keep playing this game,but as for me i decided to give up on this game(even more after QB video).so i hope you continue making these kind of video for us to enjoy
Thank you for the code and keep up the great work, you've motivated me to reduce my gold layout by over half in most tanks. Focusing on aiming skills much more now.
I started this line a while back. I like the mobile turreted TDs (up the the T 25/2). I have had the T28 unlocked for a while now, but the slow turretless playstyle is just off-putting for me now. Maybe I'll get to it at some point, but the idea of the grinds through the T28 and T95...blech. Anyway, great video as always.
Great video. I have mostly played the lighter armored TDs that you, more or less, have to camp with. I did play up the German heavy TD line to the JP E100 and found that the armor was much less reliable than I thought. The combination of my inexperience with heavily armored tanks and the fact that most people will spam gold at you in that tank led to a lot of frustration and, ultimately, that tank being a permanent fixture in the garage. My issue lately has been the unreliability of the gun on my WT Auf PZ IV. 276 pen yet somehow manages to not pen a lot. I’m not talking about heavy tanks either. If I fail to pen the front of an E100 I get it. My issue is when side shots on heavies or shots on lights and lightly armored mediums don’t pen. I had a close game the other day where at the end it was me and a really good IS3 player against another WT, Skoda T50 and a light. All where on low health. Where were in a city. The IS 3 took out the light and I managed to catch the T50 looking town the wrong road trying to catch the IS 3. I had an open side shot with time to fully aim. I was maybe 100 meters away and he had about 300 HP. I lined up up on the side of his turret knowing that there is nowhere on the side of his tank that has anywhere near 276 armor fired. I tracked him and did no damage at which point he turned and clipped me before I could reload or get back behind cover. If this had been an isolated issue or even a rare one it would be briefly frustrating but ultimately no big deal. Unfortunately, it keeps happening. I have had games in that tank where I have scored multiple non-penetrating hits against lights and mediums. It is hard to maintain enthusiasm for a game when that kind of thing keeps happening.
One of these days I may go back and re-purchase it. It was my 1st tier 9 medium. Very comfortable tank, and even better after the buffs last year to its top speed.
Just repurchased my T28; sold it cuz it was sooooo slooow. No surprise there...but have been playing the Mauschen and its speed is hardening my arteries, so figured what the heck, T-95 here I come, albeit slowly. Thanks for the very credible class.
Been tempted to play this line, but I played up German TDs and completed the line to the Jagdpanzer E100, which makes me reluctant to play turretless TDs again. Got old being left alone to be surrounded and die...
I have 1600-1800 wn8 in tier 8 heavies and tds but only 1100 in this tank, after 70+ battles. I try to play this like a heavy, however I get goldspammed every time. Particularly, I found the Lowe and the new TS-5 difficult to deal with. (I regularly encounter TS-5s in close quarter, and it just becomes hp trading)
Find i get penned by everything in this tank. I dont understand why, but from the even just showing my front I get taken apart almost instantly. Grinding it stock doesnt help but feels like its nowhere near as bouncy as it maybe should be. Just me?
I've yet to see this good frontal armor you're talking about while playing this myself. I haven't bounced a single shell frontally from any t8 or above tank. Lower tiers yes, but nothing of equal or higher tiers.
personally i did enjoy the T28 i didnt mind the speed and the gun is pretty good (i played it post buff) and i finished the grind with 65.5% winchance (Eu server) i angled mostly inbetween shots and it still bounces stuff like E50M's or sometimes gold shells from russian meds because they think they can auto pen all tier 8 tanks i almoust every time i play most tanks agressive i like to bein the action instead of camping i mostly camp when im low hp (basicly 1 shot) or im a lightly armoured TD on a campy map
@Taugrim Hello, and good day! I would like to ask if you can spare little of your time and effort to do a unicum guide with the T-10/E-75 heavy tanks. I would like to see your thoughts on these tanks. Much love, I appreciate your reviews Taugrim! Now, I know you may never get to read this but if for some divine reason that you do, just know that I cannot thank you enough!
I would disagree with the HE rules. My rules for HE are: Big gun caliber for the tier(examples like 75+ at tier 3-4, 85+ 4-6, 105+ 4-9, 122+ 5-10) Low accuracy(Bigger than .36) Weakly Armored Target(Know where to pen) Heavily Armored Target(Cannot pen reliably at mid range, possibly due to lack of accuracy) High HE Pen/Damage(Pen higher than 80 like derp 152s or HESH, alpha 150% or more of AP like the 122/128 guns on Russian/German Heavies) Ridiculously large ammo capacity(like over 50 shells) If at least 3 of these conditions apply to the situations common for a tank, then I load a respectable portion of HE. For instance, I can responsibly spam about half my ammunition as HE in the VK 100.01 simply because the ammunition pool is large and typically I despise the use of gold ammo unless it is absolutely required that I do my full alpha's worth of damage on a shot, for example, the front of a Type 4. I never, ever carry HE in almost any Russian medium tank because most of them have useable pen and accuracy(only derp guns and A44/T44-122) and need a full complement of ammunition to carry games successfully. Most light tanks are a waste of time to load HE unless brawling other lights is superbly common, like in a t100 LT where HE into another lights ass can cause a lot of critical damage and potentially remove a tank off module damage alone. In respect to this video, finishing off low health targets is not always reliable with HE, even if the meme is "H E a l w a y s d o e s d a m a g e" but it is very subjectively up to RNG as the penetration of the HE round has a big part in the damage calculation along with the alpha of the gun firing it.
I didn't like T28, but I have 70% winrate in my T95 and 63% in my E3. I play solo and ultra aggressively with crew skills and equipment maxed out to repair tracks as I like to attract point blank play with 3 or 4 tanks surrounding me. You can smell their underwear as I keep turning no matter how many times they track me, haha.
@@taugrim yeah that's the biggest pain about it. I love the gun and dpm of it. If you're able to stay alive through the barrage of shells at you and keep the gun singing you can have really good games.
most often it is not the lack of W-pressing (though that is important), it's the lack of staying together while doing so on a city map. The fast tanks have to wait for the others to move up every now and then. That's what killed the west push, soft tanks rushing up front alone and then getting stomped by their counterpush. It's easily as much their fault as the t-10s, though he should've moved up earlier. Even one corner can mean a separation that allows enemys to rush you on city maps so ... STAY THE F**** TOGETHER people ^^.
I thank you for all your videos it was a great joy for me to watch. But now it's time to disabo, In the last years I lost my complete interest in WOT. Thank you and goodbye!
Wow everyone here is respectible i love it. Im not giving out the secret in this video im sure you guys know about it though. Well its not exactly a secret
1. I hate this tank 2. it's awfull, no speed, no mobility, no camo, no view range, nothing 3. armor ? on 48 games : 11x pen by T6 with simple AP at +400 meter direct to my frontal armor... I finished the t28prot and it's really good him, the t28 is my worst TD, i've T1 => T7 minimum all nations. Thanks for review
It has 38%/24% camo with full camo crew+paint and bia,thats better than an ISU.Camo is great since it is low profile TD.View range with binocs is enough to see what ever is shooting you or bushspot.If you wiggle they will miss the cupola most times.I guess this tank is a test if you are gonna like T95.Stick with T28 prot and play it like a HT.
@@Kanivalos80 i've 34% camo (after 3 sec) + 426 meter view range (not using binocular cause no turret). My SU-152/ISU-152/T28 prot, i've +2700 win8 for all... my T28 = -1100 win8...
My man, you're obviously very smart. I love your videos, but it drives me insane how you say cue-pew-la. There's only one U in CUPOLA. I've literally had to turn your vids off when you start saying this incorrectly 30 times. Please learn to say the word correctly. Again, I love you videos; you have a lot of good info and insight, it's just really distracting and detracts from quality.
Maybe I remember wrong, but i recall that whole idea behind your channel was refusing pay to win, using skill and knowledge instead of money in order to achieve victory and that's why you don't use gold ammo. So why are you using food comnsumables? Those are even more p2w.
To suggest that food is more imbalancing that premium ammo is just plain silly. Food makes *my* tank stronger, but more susceptible to fire. Gold ammo makes *your* armor largely irrelevant, while you are stuck with having to lug all that heavy armor around: slow speed, sluggish acceleration, poor traverse, etc.
It still is a consumable behind a paywall, not available to me if I don't have a premium account or patience to grind. Without it My gun handling is worse, my vision is lesser [which impacts equipment choices, as in food can enable you to pick vents over optics and still max out vision while providing further benefits], my reload is slower, my acceleration and hull traverse is worse and i'm pretty sure I'm skipping few things here. Don't pretend like having ALL that is an equal trade-off because once every 100 games you get some fire damage. Sure, it's not as direct of an advantage as gold rounds, but it does offer a huge advantage, otherwise you wouldn't use it, especially if it's a trade-off. You are right about dismissing food being more imbalancing than premmo, it's hard to quantify, but I am dead sure it still is a big advantage over F2P players. I mean I used food from time to time, you get it from various events - and the difference is really there. But again, that i don't have to prove, you literally can see in your garage how big of a rise all around numbers get from that. Bottomline, as I understand, you are not against P2W rather against disadvantaged playstyles of heavy tanks?
I've never debated that paying for the game provides an advantage. I've actually said it does: taugrim.com/2015/02/19/road-to-unicum-guide-videos-for-world-of-tanks/ For full disclosure, I am a paying customer of WoT - that is, I do spend money to purchase gold, which is used for the following: premium subscription, training/reskilling crew members, converting tank-specific XP to Free XP so that I don't have to play tanks stock, premium consumables, and camouflage. These things do definitely improve one's stats. That said, I have at times played without a premium subscription, and in many cases when I use Free XP, I use it to skip low tier tanks and to unlock the first functional gun of a new tank, then I grind out the remaining modules for that tank. That said, gold ammo is the most game-imbalancing thing in the game. It makes armor largely irrelevant.
Alright, so one can say you pick your battles. I can respect that. Thanks for this discussion and for all the content you produce, you're one of the most insightful WoTubers I know and I appreciate taking your time to shed light on my doubts. Cheers, man.
Oh my God, you finally put me on your video. I am the Russian light player that helped you on hill. Your nice words made me feel so good this morning. I was honored to play with you and even more Honored to be in videos. If you ever need any help what so ever .
This series/channel is pure class. I feel your advice and videos have had such a marked affect on my gameplay even if only mimicking taking certain positions. Managed to bring up type 61 win rate from 48% to 54% and I chalk that up to medium tank advice.
First! Also, thank you, Taugrim, for not being a gold spammer. I'm trying to get to unicum on silver but it makes the game so much harder. Been a fan since your prot pally days! O7
High quality, lucid strategy and analysis again and again. Thanks for the CC code, too! Please keep up the excellence.
Been playing the T28 lately, still getting used to it. Love my T28 Prototype but the T28 is a whole different beast. In one of my matches tonight I blocked over 4400 damage with my armor, did over 2500 damage and even did around 600 spotting. We lost but I was impressed the abuse my T28 took before the enemy team took me out after killing 5 of their tanks and blasting other members of their team. I'd like to think my success was in part from watching your videos. So thank you for your valuable info and suggestions.
i am grateful for you taugrim for continuing this series taugrim....it good to see you keep playing this game,but as for me i decided to give up on this game(even more after QB video).so i hope you continue making these kind of video for us to enjoy
Thank you for the code and keep up the great work, you've motivated me to reduce my gold layout by over half in most tanks. Focusing on aiming skills much more now.
I started this line a while back. I like the mobile turreted TDs (up the the T 25/2). I have had the T28 unlocked for a while now, but the slow turretless playstyle is just off-putting for me now. Maybe I'll get to it at some point, but the idea of the grinds through the T28 and T95...blech.
Anyway, great video as always.
Thank you for this! I just started this tank with the hopes of tryin out the T95 :)
T95 is a BEAST!
Great video. I have mostly played the lighter armored TDs that you, more or less, have to camp with. I did play up the German heavy TD line to the JP E100 and found that the armor was much less reliable than I thought. The combination of my inexperience with heavily armored tanks and the fact that most people will spam gold at you in that tank led to a lot of frustration and, ultimately, that tank being a permanent fixture in the garage. My issue lately has been the unreliability of the gun on my WT Auf PZ IV. 276 pen yet somehow manages to not pen a lot. I’m not talking about heavy tanks either. If I fail to pen the front of an E100 I get it. My issue is when side shots on heavies or shots on lights and lightly armored mediums don’t pen. I had a close game the other day where at the end it was me and a really good IS3 player against another WT, Skoda T50 and a light. All where on low health. Where were in a city. The IS 3 took out the light and I managed to catch the T50 looking town the wrong road trying to catch the IS 3. I had an open side shot with time to fully aim. I was maybe 100 meters away and he had about 300 HP. I lined up up on the side of his turret knowing that there is nowhere on the side of his tank that has anywhere near 276 armor fired. I tracked him and did no damage at which point he turned and clipped me before I could reload or get back behind cover. If this had been an isolated issue or even a rare one it would be briefly frustrating but ultimately no big deal. Unfortunately, it keeps happening. I have had games in that tank where I have scored multiple non-penetrating hits against lights and mediums. It is hard to maintain enthusiasm for a game when that kind of thing keeps happening.
I feel your pain.
Oh wow, perfect timing. I was thinking of firing up the game again to grind for the T95.
Thank you for the CC code Taugrim! Merry Christmas!
Great work as always Taugrim
I love this and the t28 proto. Powerful gun and armor.
I ground through this tank before the armor buffs, and actually kind of liked it. Since the armor buffs it's a lot more like a tier 8 T95.
taugrim: busy typing how he will counter scorpion g if he comes to decap
scorpion g: "theresa walking meme"
Love to see a review on the Cent 7/1 don't see one in your list. Great vids btw
One of these days I may go back and re-purchase it. It was my 1st tier 9 medium. Very comfortable tank, and even better after the buffs last year to its top speed.
Just repurchased my T28; sold it cuz it was sooooo slooow. No surprise there...but have been playing the Mauschen and its speed is hardening my arteries, so figured what the heck, T-95 here I come, albeit slowly. Thanks for the very credible class.
The T28 is solid now, much better than when I first played it. The T95 is a significant upgrade at-tier.
>unicum
>0 skill rounds
Instant sub
Great guide Taugrim, now gimme some tips against arty party in this big thick box. Thanks and keep up the good vids!
Don't get spotted! But seriously try to stay near hard cover when possible.
Been tempted to play this line, but I played up German TDs and completed the line to the Jagdpanzer E100, which makes me reluctant to play turretless TDs again. Got old being left alone to be surrounded and die...
Well done.. the T28 is also quite the beast in strongholds.. depending on the map of course
Wish console would get the model from PC for this. Looks so much better then before and seems to have good armor too.
had to read the title twice to believe you're playing turretless td XD
Really nice shot on the ELC Even 90.
I still don't know if I'd go for the T28 Proto/T30 or T28/T95 line. Thank's for the video and your advices.
I have 1600-1800 wn8 in tier 8 heavies and tds but only 1100 in this tank, after 70+ battles. I try to play this like a heavy, however I get goldspammed every time. Particularly, I found the Lowe and the new TS-5 difficult to deal with. (I regularly encounter TS-5s in close quarter, and it just becomes hp trading)
Really love the t95 that comes after but have not mastered the e3 yet with only 33% win rate :)
Find i get penned by everything in this tank. I dont understand why, but from the even just showing my front I get taken apart almost instantly. Grinding it stock doesnt help but feels like its nowhere near as bouncy as it maybe should be. Just me?
Playing T28 myself....not enjoying it as much as the British armored TDs. Makes me appreciate the AT-15's wide gun arc.
Thanks found this video very usefull
I love your vids!
Another great tutorial. Thanks for the redemption code.
Taugrim for your next road to unicum guide, do a review of a tank that Wargaming don't want to buff😂 a T54E1 with silver ammo!
I've yet to see this good frontal armor you're talking about while playing this myself. I haven't bounced a single shell frontally from any t8 or above tank. Lower tiers yes, but nothing of equal or higher tiers.
can you do a vid on t28 prototype ??? what equipment should i use ???
I can't wait till they replace the t28 model for this one for console being stuck with the old one is aggravating
Where do you add the code?
1. na.wargaming.net/shop/wot/main
2. Click on "Redeem Wargaming Code"
3. Profit
we need an updated vid plz 2020 on the T28
We gonna see some Freedom Despenser games? (T95)
Yes. I'm grinding the T110E3 and Kranvagn lines simultaneously.
Great video. Did you play the t28 before the buffs?
Yes. The armor layout is significantly better now, especially the sides.
personally i did enjoy the T28 i didnt mind the speed and the gun is pretty good (i played it post buff) and i finished the grind with 65.5% winchance (Eu server) i angled mostly inbetween shots and it still bounces stuff like E50M's or sometimes gold shells from russian meds because they think they can auto pen all tier 8 tanks
i almoust every time i play most tanks agressive i like to bein the action instead of camping
i mostly camp when im low hp (basicly 1 shot) or im a lightly armoured TD on a campy map
The armor post-buff is much more reliable.
Plz review E50/E50m
Those were the 1st two episodes in the series.
@Taugrim
Hello, and good day! I would like to ask if you can spare little of your time and effort to do a unicum guide with the T-10/E-75 heavy tanks. I would like to see your thoughts on these tanks. Much love, I appreciate your reviews Taugrim!
Now, I know you may never get to read this but if for some divine reason that you do, just know that I cannot thank you enough!
I have covered both of those tanks previously 😉
Do obj 40u pls
its interesting what that T10 is saying in chat.....
Road to unicum Type 62?
I don't own it.
Nice
I would disagree with the HE rules. My rules for HE are:
Big gun caliber for the tier(examples like 75+ at tier 3-4, 85+ 4-6, 105+ 4-9, 122+ 5-10)
Low accuracy(Bigger than .36)
Weakly Armored Target(Know where to pen)
Heavily Armored Target(Cannot pen reliably at mid range, possibly due to lack of accuracy)
High HE Pen/Damage(Pen higher than 80 like derp 152s or HESH, alpha 150% or more of AP like the 122/128 guns on Russian/German Heavies)
Ridiculously large ammo capacity(like over 50 shells)
If at least 3 of these conditions apply to the situations common for a tank, then I load a respectable portion of HE. For instance, I can responsibly spam about half my ammunition as HE in the VK 100.01 simply because the ammunition pool is large and typically I despise the use of gold ammo unless it is absolutely required that I do my full alpha's worth of damage on a shot, for example, the front of a Type 4. I never, ever carry HE in almost any Russian medium tank because most of them have useable pen and accuracy(only derp guns and A44/T44-122) and need a full complement of ammunition to carry games successfully. Most light tanks are a waste of time to load HE unless brawling other lights is superbly common, like in a t100 LT where HE into another lights ass can cause a lot of critical damage and potentially remove a tank off module damage alone.
In respect to this video, finishing off low health targets is not always reliable with HE, even if the meme is "H E a l w a y s d o e s d a m a g e" but it is very subjectively up to RNG as the penetration of the HE round has a big part in the damage calculation along with the alpha of the gun firing it.
deadeye perk dont work for HE rounds.
True, I forgot and edited that out.
Want this look on console
The main thing to know about T28, it is a brawler TD that cant Brawl.
T28 is awsome unitil enemy fire gold, all Heavy and Heavy Armored Td's are obsolete when enemy press 2. it's sad.
if you move close they dont need gold to pen you, if you stay far shitty accuracy gun wont hit anything. Your pick :-D
did you do one of these or the Waffen t auf 100?
LOL, I never grinded to that cancer of a tank. 3600 damage in like 10 seconds :D
actually can be a challenge. you get spotted very easy. And a nice big soft target
I didn't like T28, but I have 70% winrate in my T95 and 63% in my E3. I play solo and ultra aggressively with crew skills and equipment maxed out to repair tracks as I like to attract point blank play with 3 or 4 tanks surrounding me. You can smell their underwear as I keep turning no matter how many times they track me, haha.
It is so unlike to see you in such a slow, lumbering tank. Impressive none theless.
It's definitely a very different playstyle. It can be very enjoyable to bully or camo snipe enemies in it.
Nice doing a not so good td lol. Really enjoy the videos
The T28 after the armor buffs is solid now. Although the limited speed means you can't flex meaningfully.
@@taugrim yeah that's the biggest pain about it. I love the gun and dpm of it. If you're able to stay alive through the barrage of shells at you and keep the gun singing you can have really good games.
if you never seen premium chinese TD you can think T28 is ok tank. But oh boy it sucks if you tested WZ. Also first battle was so lucky cant even
The T28 was ok... but somehow everyone managed to penetrate my cupolas at 300+ meters with wiggling .... same with the T95 ....
most often it is not the lack of W-pressing (though that is important), it's the lack of staying together while doing so on a city map. The fast tanks have to wait for the others to move up every now and then. That's what killed the west push, soft tanks rushing up front alone and then getting stomped by their counterpush. It's easily as much their fault as the t-10s, though he should've moved up earlier.
Even one corner can mean a separation that allows enemys to rush you on city maps so ... STAY THE F**** TOGETHER people ^^.
This is very true. The squishy tanks over-extended.
Weak lower plate and it’s a tough behemoth
The lower plate is still 240mm effective, so I wouldn't call it weak. Weaker, yes. Weak, no.
Plethora. :D
Play the Jagdtiger!!
Haven't played the German TD lines. But I think the T110E3 will suit me more than the JPE100.
@@taugrim any advice how to play the Jagdtiger? It's got a squishy lower hull which makes it tough to play like the T28, or maybe I'm mistaken
12:14 lol xD
I thank you for all your videos it was a great joy for me to watch. But now it's time to disabo, In the last years I lost my complete interest in WOT.
Thank you and goodbye!
Wow everyone here is respectible i love it. Im not giving out the secret in this video im sure you guys know about it though. Well its not exactly a secret
1. I hate this tank
2. it's awfull, no speed, no mobility, no camo, no view range, nothing
3. armor ? on 48 games : 11x pen by T6 with simple AP at +400 meter direct to my frontal armor...
I finished the t28prot and it's really good him, the t28 is my worst TD, i've T1 => T7 minimum all nations.
Thanks for review
It has 38%/24% camo with full camo crew+paint and bia,thats better than an ISU.Camo is great since it is low profile TD.View range with binocs is enough to see what ever is shooting you or bushspot.If you wiggle they will miss the cupola most times.I guess this tank is a test if you are gonna like T95.Stick with T28 prot and play it like a HT.
@@Kanivalos80 i've 34% camo (after 3 sec) + 426 meter view range (not using binocular cause no turret).
My SU-152/ISU-152/T28 prot, i've +2700 win8 for all... my T28 = -1100 win8...
@@seb4771 You are a 2700wn8 player and using a camonet on a T28?
@@Kanivalos802700 ON the tank, i'm just noob with 1800win8 (2200 7 days), 1000 on the T28
camo is good on T28, but yeah mobility is too bad for how armour is unreliable. View range is average.
My man, you're obviously very smart. I love your videos, but it drives me insane how you say cue-pew-la. There's only one U in CUPOLA. I've literally had to turn your vids off when you start saying this incorrectly 30 times. Please learn to say the word correctly. Again, I love you videos; you have a lot of good info and insight, it's just really distracting and detracts from quality.
I will endeavor to pronounce it correctly in the future!
Killed by RUSSIAN BIAS ! "Oh ! Your heavy, big shell only hit the thin side of my STALINIUM TRACKS ! *ping* *Critical hit !* " ... FU, WG !!!
Maybe I remember wrong, but i recall that whole idea behind your channel was refusing pay to win, using skill and knowledge instead of money in order to achieve victory and that's why you don't use gold ammo. So why are you using food comnsumables? Those are even more p2w.
To suggest that food is more imbalancing that premium ammo is just plain silly.
Food makes *my* tank stronger, but more susceptible to fire.
Gold ammo makes *your* armor largely irrelevant, while you are stuck with having to lug all that heavy armor around: slow speed, sluggish acceleration, poor traverse, etc.
It still is a consumable behind a paywall, not available to me if I don't have a premium account or patience to grind. Without it My gun handling is worse, my vision is lesser [which impacts equipment choices, as in food can enable you to pick vents over optics and still max out vision while providing further benefits], my reload is slower, my acceleration and hull traverse is worse and i'm pretty sure I'm skipping few things here.
Don't pretend like having ALL that is an equal trade-off because once every 100 games you get some fire damage.
Sure, it's not as direct of an advantage as gold rounds, but it does offer a huge advantage, otherwise you wouldn't use it, especially if it's a trade-off.
You are right about dismissing food being more imbalancing than premmo, it's hard to quantify, but I am dead sure it still is a big advantage over F2P players. I mean I used food from time to time, you get it from various events - and the difference is really there. But again, that i don't have to prove, you literally can see in your garage how big of a rise all around numbers get from that.
Bottomline, as I understand, you are not against P2W rather against disadvantaged playstyles of heavy tanks?
I've never debated that paying for the game provides an advantage.
I've actually said it does:
taugrim.com/2015/02/19/road-to-unicum-guide-videos-for-world-of-tanks/
For full disclosure, I am a paying customer of WoT - that is, I do spend money to purchase gold, which is used for the following: premium subscription, training/reskilling crew members, converting tank-specific XP to Free XP so that I don't have to play tanks stock, premium consumables, and camouflage. These things do definitely improve one's stats. That said, I have at times played without a premium subscription, and in many cases when I use Free XP, I use it to skip low tier tanks and to unlock the first functional gun of a new tank, then I grind out the remaining modules for that tank.
That said, gold ammo is the most game-imbalancing thing in the game. It makes armor largely irrelevant.
Alright, so one can say you pick your battles. I can respect that. Thanks for this discussion and for all the content you produce, you're one of the most insightful WoTubers I know and I appreciate taking your time to shed light on my doubts. Cheers, man.
So its not the T28 then. Lol
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