My Own Fault...

Alright, it's almost 1:30 AM here now, so I'll make it fast.

There won't be any posts for the weekends, as it's already Monday here...

Why? Well, the truth is pretty simple: playing games. There's some new things going on in World Of Tanks that took me both days, that and also I've been playing back the good ol' Fallout: New Vegas.

Yeah... became so absorbed in the games that I didn't even took some time off to do the post that I needed to do for the weekends.

Now, the main question: when will the next be on instead?

Honestly, I can't tell... why? Well, it's because of the unpredictability of my workplace tomorrow. There might be that long work period again, or maybe not... that, I won't know.

Most of fault goes to them not putting up a schedule beforehand, and always doing thing last-minute...

Anyways, that's all. Again, don't know when I can put up a post... but just be patient. It will be up, just don't know when.

-Panzer Fist-

AMX 50Beast Match

I'm back, and with a video too...

Well, it's Thursday already... or going to be Friday soon here. Time for another post in the good 'ol blog.

In the last post, I said that the next post might be about the 110 and some videos on it too. But as how little time I have left 'cause I'm tired AND also there seems to be way more 110 replays that I've thought (around 8, EIGHT), I figured I might as well just post a quick one here.

And as from the title of today's post, it's gonna be an AMX 50B replay... the French Tier X Heavy Autoloading Tank.

It's like having a 4-round revolver.

Just wanted to show this particular one as it's the only tank to have only one replay saved... even the Maus replays that I've saved have about 4.

In case you guys didn't know, I have about 4 Tier X tanks unlocked and obtained now. They are the AMX 50B, 113, IS-4 and the Maus. They are also obtained in that order, too... so yeah, the AMX 50B was the first Tier X tank that I've obtained.

When did I got 'em all, you say? Well obviously I've been playing World Of Tanks for quite some time now and I've been slowly getting them all, one-by-one. Tough work, but finally got 'em all.

But we'll continue that later... for now, it's the French autoloader's replay.

Ugh, that little mistake at the end proves how tired I am right now...

Pretty good match in there, though. Coulda get more damage done plus an extra kill if I didn't reload near the end there.

I've always preferred the French autoloaders over the American ones... I just prefer having that extra speed to go around to be helpful. It certainly did show in that match.

The French nation was actually the first nation that I advanced in... so it's pretty straightforward to get a Tier X from them first. I remember when I've first obtained the AMX 50 100... damn that 50 second reload time! But now I don't mind the reload times anymore.

In fact, I've even went and bought myself a few French heavy tanks that I used to play through for nostalgia... the first was the BDR G1 B, which was played for about up to 600 matches before I sold it. Then I moved on to the ARL 44 and even got the AMX 50 100 back again.

The BDR was a good tank, but I prefer the ARL 44 for it's "sniper gun" and sometimes useful front armor.

Why only Tier X Heavy tanks though? Well, those are during the times where I played tons of heavy tanks and gotten quite good at it. But now, my next Tier X tanks are gonna be Tank Destroyers... specifically about 2 only. They are the Object 263 and either the Jagdpanzer E 100 or the T110E3.

When am I gonna get them? Well, most of them are in Tier VII now... so it shouldn't be long to get at least one of them first... whichever that one it, of course.

Well, this certainly dragged on longer that I've imagined... That ate up 3 of my hours just like that, and Thursday already turned Friday today here... as it's already 2:30 AM here. So I guess that is all for today then.

I don't know when the next post will be up, but I want to get one done on the weekends. Dunno what it might be on, but at least it's something.

So without further delays, I'll be off to bed. See you in the next one!

-Panzer Fist-

100 Years of Tanks

And I'm back...

Time to get on with long-delayed post: The '100 Year Tanks' Event.

'100 Years of Tanks' Event.

As from the name, this event celebrates the 100th anniversary of tank history... or more specifically, the anniversary of the Battle of Somme which is the one of the first battles to feature the Mark I tank, which coincidentally was the first tank made.

British Mark I (Male)

I won't go into the history of the tank and the First World War... I'm more into the World War II stuff since I used to study that for History.

But if you're interested in the tank history, I'll link the Wikipedia article to the Mark I and *maybe* more below.

British heavy tanks of World War I

Lanchester Armored Car (WW I)

Now, what does World Of Tanks do about this? Well, that will be the Convoy Mode of course. It's pretty much an escort mission type gameplay.

Simple gameplay: one team attacks the Mark I, and one team defends the tank.

People play a wheeled vehicle called the Lanchester Armored Car. Probably the first purely wheeled vehicle in World Of Tanks.

Oh and by the way, we can't drive the Mark I tank. >disappoint

So anyways, the attacking team needs to destroy the tank with dynamites which spawn on the map... as the gun on the armored cars are just machineguns. They need to keep setting the dynamites on the tank about 4-5 times before it will be destroyed. Another way for them to win is to delay the tank from capturing the base.

Now, on to the defending team. These guys have to protect the tank as it makes it's way to the enemy base. Whenever the enemy is successful in setting the dynamite to the tank, it will be de-tracked. The team then will have to repair the tracks by picking up a repair kit from the map.

Each dynamite and repair kit can only spawn once and carried by one person only. That's where teamwork comes in. Oh, and there's also bonus pickups you can get from the maps which will give you either the "cannon" that one-shots others or the "actual machinegun" which carries some rounds. Multiple of these will spawn on the map, up to 3-4.

With the explanations outta the way, it's onto the replays. I'll be showing two replays: one's in the defending team with a victory, and one's in the attacking team with a defeat. I'll be showing the defending team replay first.

And now, the attacking team with a defeat. Not so bad gameplay, but still a loss.

There's a certain trick when playing the Convoy mode, and that is modules. Nothing to expensive attached, just some cheap ones that are going to help in the game mode quite a lot.

Light Spall Liner, Toolbox and Vents version 1 are attached.

The first module: the Light Spall Liner for absorbing ramming damage and also making the vehicle slightly heavy, hence adding more weight to the rams.

The second: the Toolbox. Just general fast repairs to help getting out of troubling situations quick.

And the third: the Vents version 1. Improves overall stats to help the crew control the vehicle better.

Consumables are not necessary, but it's up to you.

So far, the convoy event was pretty interesting. It's just there 'cause of the 100th anniversary only. Pretty disappointed that you can't drive the Mark I tank, but I've heard that the console versions do get to use it.

Lucky folks...

Anyways, that was the '100 Years of Tanks' Event post that took too many delays to post... also took me to edit and create the post up to 3 hours... man that was a lot of work for a fairly short post.

But at least it's done. Now I can delete the videos regarding the event and save more space for other work coming up. I think I'll do a post on the 110 Chinese Heavy Tank, or maybe something else with come up instead. I dunno...

I guess that's all the time for this post then. I will put up another one on the Thursday... until then, stay tuned.

-Panzer Fist-

Sudden Delays... again.

*sigh* It's getting real annoying now...

So yeah... in the end, the videos that I was supposed to post about at November 1st never did happen. What's the problem, you ask? Well, I'm gonna rant about it now.

TL;DR section at the end for those who can't be bothered.

With that outta the way, let's get right into the rants...

The moment I've reached the usual workplace on Tuesday 1st November, we got ourselves some last-minute HUGE workload. Lasts from Tuesday 1st November to Sunday 6th November. Received one day-off for our efforts, and it's been placed for Monday 7th November.

Yes... just in case you didn't know, sometimes we have to work at the weekends, too.

So all throughout the days I was doing the usual works, but I didn't set foot at home at all (not even the weekends) 'cause we sometimes have to continue working up to 11 PM. On the Sunday itself the work ended at 11:42 PM. By that time, the public transports will be gone already. So I've slept over there instead.

Then next morning, they asked everyone to clear the place... as in leave the workplace ASAP...

... at 5:30 AM. In the morning.

So everyone that slept over at the place has to hurry up and leave as everyone's on off... so they wanna lock up the place as fast as they can.

It's a good thing the public transports are around at that time, so not much trouble. Got home, took a bath and went straight to sleep again. lol

Guess all that work really did a number on me. But what to expect when you are in a team of three peeps, but the other two are absent for about 4 days? Practically have to do it all myself.

Anyways, woke up from my slumber and it's 4 PM.

Opened up the com to check on some stuff. One of the first things I did was applying for leave for the next 4 days, so yeah... I have the whole week to do all the posts I need for World Of Tanks. Then I've noticed that the World Of Tanks updated again. But at least I've recorded the '100 Years of Tanks' gameplay already. The rest on the other hand...

But I still went to check those old replays to see if they work. Surprisingly, they still work! No problems at all, which makes it even better. Then I got on to record them, only got to a few but it's mostly the 110 video parts are done. There's still more than just that tank, though.

Then not before long it was dark outside. Took so much time recording videos that I didn't even realize it's 10 PM already. Wanted to continue some more but for some strange reason, my body can't handle it anymore. Got real tired all of a sudden so I just went to sleep.

Then I woke up at 11:38 AM in the morning. The first thing that came to mind is...

"Shit! I forgot to upload the '100 Years' event video yesterday!" -Not exact thoughts during that time

And so now we are here now. This is just to tell you the whole that happened during those few days. I will keep the '100 Years of Tanks' event video on a separate post so that it won't clutter up everything, and it's also much easier for people to find it without the giant wall of rants this post has created.

It's also easier for the people that don't give a damn about what happened in those few days about me to find the post, whichever way works.

Okay, I think that's enough for this post... anymore and it might be a page from a novel or something.

TL;DR section below.

I'll be posting the '100 Year Tanks' videos soon on the blog, possibly about 5 hours later. I got some stuff I need to sort out soon.

With that done, I'm off. "Be right back"....

-Panzer Fist-