Heh. Think we should do a separate thread on WoT Premium tanks?

Anyway, I like the Type 59. Never having had a T8 Medium before, I'm at a disadvantage for comparison's sake, mind you, but here we go:

Reasonably fast and agile, good armor that is bouncy enough to get you into and out of a few scrapes. The radio and view range are, 600ish and 400ish meters or so respectively.

The gun isn't so hot, being a T7 100mm, but its adequate if Matchmaker is kind enough to give you some juicy lower-tiered targets to beat up on. Accuracy is "meh," but I offset that by getting in close.

I'm treating it like my E8 in that you want to "wolfpack," with some other Mediums in order to get more bang out of your bucks (literally) as by itself, the tank will not do as well.

Credit-wise, I think I'm pulling 20-30k a game (note: I'm really bad not to notice this last part as I just like driving around shooting other people. Damn the cost and damn the pay! I play to KILLLLLL!!!!)

I've not encountered the "Wallet Warrior Hate," yet in this, but I fully expect to once more people climb into these things. It'll be like the Lowe heyday a few months back when you'd queue (sp?) up a game and both sides would have multiple Lowes and KV-5s all over the top of the ladder. That doesn't seem to be the case quite so much nowadays to me, but maybe I'm just getting lucky with the matches too.

As far as specs on how I'm running the Type 59, I've got the crew all at 100% with their focus on repair first. I've got vents, rammer, and v-stab and my intent is to make that gun work as best as it can while cool, fresh air blows on the smiling, Chinese faces of my crew as they send another Imperialist dog to hell.

LOL! Great description and thanks for the update. I may consider getting one payday. I tried the method of playing first round on all tanks in garage and it does indeed rack up some points. I also noticed the Lowe definitely eats up my gold as well. So, a Type 59 may soon be sitting in my garage. Matter of fact, I got tore up by a Type 59 and 2 Lowes last night's iteration, sure it wasn't you blasting away at me?

Matt

Don't think so as I'm sssllllooowwwlllyyy getting better at using the tank.

I always have this goofy "learning curve," with any new tank where "learning curve," really means "flail about, overcompensate, rush headlong into 4-5 heavies and die quickly, get stuck on those odd outcroppings,"; that sort of thing.

I wish I was as good at WoT as some people brag about being on a couple of other boards I lurk on.

Why is the Lowe eating up all your gold?? You're not using gold ammo, are you?

Could be from converting experience into free experience. Allows you to blow through the tech trees faster. It is an expensive (real money) method. Personally I would use the experience to train crews. But then I don't own any premium tanks.

Admittedly.....yes, in hopes of getting first kills. I stopped after running out of gold, but only spent about 500 on ammo. Gonna give the Type 59 a whirl this weekend. Then will start researching the American TD tree next.

Matt

I am a little conflicted about the Type 59, As I understand it, the tank was not really fielded before the year 1959 hence it's designation. What bums me a little bit is that while many of the AFVs modeled in WoTs were never in service and sometimes just blueprints, they were @ least designed during WW2 and are contemporaries of that period. I consider the type 59 to be one of the first modern designs and so a little out of place in WoTs timeline..

Now I think a modern WoT would be an awesome next project (The maps would have to be huge because of the increased lethality and engagement ranges of modern tanks! ) but somehow the type 59 feels wrong to me.. IMHO

(Imagine Bill Cosby's voice and gestures here:)
"The T82 with the derp is all the rage with the kids and their hippity-hop and their boom-shh-boom-wikki-wikki-wikki."

I always blow with the TD / howitzer combo, but others swear by it. The American line is fun, though.

Getting kills does not earn you anything special or extra in terms of credits or xp. Only doing damage.

Thank god fer damage xp because I will whittle an enemy down to 8% or so and then watch someone else take them out! Now of course for the 'war effort' I am happy But I was wondering how much credit I was getting fer grinding the bastage down!