The Plan - Week 9

I have my Cromwell, I`m happy now!  And she is fully tuned, camo painted and labelled with the irish flag (in rememberance of my Flames of War never came to be irish division of the 8th army) and called her `Gnome`.

But wait?  Wasn`t this a weekly post about World of Warcraft?  Weeelllll, technically I never said that in the title, but yes, it was supposed to be that.  But the truth is, even with Darkmoon, I barely played at all this week.

You see, I still had that raffle price of 7 days of premium and 1000 gold I won through an Outpost Facebook page contest, and last week I finally redeemed that one.  So taking the opportunity of the additional experience gained and higher income, I played mostly World of Tanks. 

Thanks to this, I managed to `upgrade` all my vehicles by at least a single tier, kept some of the older ones I like playing with to get their `Elite Status` experience to use in the development of other tanks, and of course been racing around in my Crusader (see that earlier Killer Crusader post of this week).  Whom also received a new paint job, the aussie flag for the 9th DivCav I did field in Flames of War with a fair ratio of success, and a nice For the King motto on her nose.

But I did play some WoW though, namely sunday and monday, half an hour each or so... it`s not that I`m tired of it or something, I just didn`t came around to it as WoT is an addictive game, and I still have some Perfect Worlds games I`m wanting to give a shot.

In the end, it is all in awaiting until Saint Seiya Online gets available to play over here ;-)

The coming week will see a low WoW gametime still, as I have a lot to do for my collections and related stuff, so bar the weekly Karazhan run it`ll be lowtime in Azeroth, not setting any goals there.  Next week though it is the two weeker back to back world events of Noblegarden and Children`s Week, and then I`ll be `at it` again in full swing to try and get my hands on the easter egg Strider mount and the week after to complete my pet sets from that event, before having to wait another year!

Never the less, I did get Mr Pinchy from my caught Crawdad, and the Dancing Bear Mount from the Darkmoon Faire, the ticket hunting there for the Strider will have to wait one or two faires longer...

This week, I`m going to continue aiming to upgrade my Alecto into an AT-2 and my M8A1 into a Hellcat though hehe BOOM BOOM...

Beware of the Killer Crusader!

I finally redeemed my Outpost won raffle code this weekend for 7 days of Premium and 1000 Gold Pieces in World of Tanks, and I have been playing the game a bit in a further effort to evolve the Crusader into Cromwell on the british light tanks research tree.

And this morning, I got an absolute top result in, with double experience as it also was the first win of the day.

I started on this map by the usual flanking move to ambush any opponents racing to the flag, and delivered the killer shot on a Heavy.  Then I duked it out with an oppossing Crusader, putting the tally on 2 kills, something not happening to often in the light tanks, as you are basically the ones scouting out the map and enemy positions before dying a horrible tank destroyer induced death.

However, as the field was at 3 remaining tanks for us, and 5 for the opponents including 3 arty pieces, I went on a solo slim stroll on the edge of the map.  My team mates luckily handled the remaining light and heavy with both their medium tanks, as I got a blip for the first artillery piece, quickly finishing it off.

In retalliation I got a direct hit from the second piece, but struggled on with about 100 HP remaining, the high rate of fire of my 6 pounder making short work of the other arty as he couldn`t reload fast enough.

Strolling further, I found the last one in the side, and the poor bloke, one side against a rock to cover his flank, couldn`t turn my way fast enough to fire back due to that same rock, earning me my Tenente Pascussi medal (yep, the itialian lieutenant I fielded the model from in Flames of War as my army commader) for killing 3 artillery pieces.

I also got another Master Gunner badge for at least five penetrating hits in a row (must have been almost a dozen actually with the duel and the 3 guns) and a Class 1 badge for scoring better then 95% of the Crusaders in the past 7 days.

I know this is more the exception then the norm, but I just like playing those light tanks the most, the high rate of fire light cannons on relatively fast turning turrets is something I enjoy more then the big killer boom-boom guns of the Heavy`s and Tank Destroyers.  Like everyone, I got machines of all kinds in the garage, but I usually play the faster tanks first, only going to the others and try to develop their trees further if I have time to spare...

World of Tanks - Rumbling around the fields again

This must be some kind of melancholy week.  I painted again, and I MMO'd (sort of) again as I reinstalled World of Tanks two days ago on my home PC.

The reason for this is actually quit simple though, I just can't invest time in decent online playing, so paying subscription fees is wasted money at the moment, and I can't keep up with the Metagame in RPG's, like Guild Wars.

WoT on that part is easier.  It's free, and the tank battles are 'scaled', so your not thrunching around in your starter Cunningham tankette against Tigers and the likes.  And I loved playing the 'midfield' the most anyways (the level 5 - 6 class battles, with Shermans, Panzer 3s and the likes).  I usually played with my canadian Ram II (a premium tank from the US list).  Install the game, hop in a tank, shoot around in random generated teams for max 15 minutes a battle, and repeat.  I loved this game, I still enjoyed it friday when I gave it a new go!  Then again, I always liked tanks, if you can call an L33 that...

Now to get an idea how long it has been, I played through the full closed AND open Beta back in the days, and a while during launch.  The french where still in development and where rumoured to go and have 'captured' Italian premium tanks in their various levels.

So I had high hopes when I reinstalled, only to find out the french where indeed there, but without italians.  And the US tree had finally been filled out, the Britains had also arrived and there where chinese riding around...

OK, so it HAS been a while, but at least it has the Brits now to play until (if?) the Italians arrive.  I'm hotching and grinding XP now in my premium and elite status tanks, so that I can build up from my Cruiser III to the sexiest tanks of the second world war: the Crusader (hey old FoW opponents, 9th DivCac comming back at ya') and the Cromwell. 

After those, I'll just be stocking up and converting to 'free experience' that the day the troops yelling Avanti Savoia arrive, I can immediatly 'tree through' an M13/40!!!