SPG question

Rolling around in my TOGII* I'm beginning to hate arty :P

the M41 is a beast, stick with it.

Nody wrote: »

I hated it and the whole American line of SPGs to be honest; with all nerfs to splash and accuracy they simply became to much of a gamble for my taste

I only recently restarted, hadnt got many high tier tanks at all, but i had the m41, first game back in and i managed to get a top gun medal with 6 kills. I didn't know there was any nerfs to splash damage at all, been using stock shells all the way. Which line of spg would you recommend? I was thinking of just plough through the yanks anyway and make a set as i have a pershing med and a t1 lol

that'd mean levelling up a whole new line from scratch though screw it, there's not much else going on in the gaming world for me atm either, i might give it a shot. Cheers!

the french tier 5 arty is class, having played german and russian tier5 before, nice to see soemthing better than hummel.

B0rG wrote: »

It does

but the newcomers are lured into the wrong ways of sipping tea in the bushes and throwing heavy objects right across the map. This aint right

that made me laugh.

The arty cap is at 5 per team. Since the arty nerfs, the number of arties being played dropped quite significantly. They say once the tier 10 arties are introduced (Summer time) the number of them in randoms should calm down a bit.

I won't cite the source right now, due to limited access to internet at work, and most of it will come in russian anyway, which is of little use here, but I do remember seeing comments from the powers that be (Serb and likes) that

* yes there is a soft arty cap for 3 artys
* damage mods and repairs bills for arty were an intentional nerf to limit amount of artys in the game

but on the other hand:

When there are low number of players in the q, MM will widen the level bracket for a match and loosen up the arty cap, in order to minimise the wait time. But some arty people claim they usually get up to a minute waiting time in q. I woudln't know, I don't play arty.

And from personal experience and I only started playing recently (so my tier3s didn't face the mice) I can tell that there are some weird matches at tier6 and tier7 with few t6-7 tops, couple of hummels (arty5) and the rest tier3-tier4. Got some funny games grinding chaffy

And right now I even wish for Dragon Ridge and Silent Coast to be back, cause at least there are some accessible no arty spots on those maps. Most of maps I get right now: malinovka, prohorovka and steppes. Heaven for arty, hell for everybody else.

As for widening the tiers I think the game is going really deep into monetisation stage, so we'll see more and more tier grind encouraging you to get prem tanks and spend money on free experience exchange.

Recent events such as british shells and "no more free slots when moving tanks around" is a good proof.

So that does make me wonder starting grind for batmobil is it really worth it? From 1390 to Lor40t is 250 000 odd and the same from 40t to batchat.

copeyhagen wrote: »

i LOVE playing as arty, i HATE playing against arty in my other tanks, damn arty noobs... get a real tank.

answer is the mighty T71

Arty trembles in fear when you get in among them

I've been doing some grinding my tier 7 russian arty and my tier 5 french arty and I have noticed that the new tier 6+ light tanks all seem to focus on getting in amongst the heavies with few making a beeline for the arty positions.

I had a match last night where we had two T71 and a chinese tier 7 light and NONE of them went scouting/chasing arties, all were getting stuck into heavies and TD's and all died quick .... one of them by enemy arty.

If you listen closely you may be able to hear the echo of "idiots idiots idiots" from me roaring at my computer.