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acrisis, on 19 April 2020 - 09:58 AM, said:
Lots of points ...
First things first:
Having multiple accounts is a waste of time and money. Because you are doing the same thing over in multiple accounts and don't benefit from accrued crew skills, clan supply benefits, premium time, premium tanks, ...
If you have an account from 2013, that means you play(ed) World Of Tanks PC.
Correct?
How much did you play? Still active?
What device do you play WOTB on?
PC? Laptop? Tablet? Phone?
Are you proficient using the device?
If a touch device. Have you gone into settings and adjusted the size and layout of buttons, sensitivities, etc so that it is comfortable to use?
Are you set up for success?
Do you have consumables installed like repair kit, multi repair kit, adrenaline?
So that, if you get tracked in a bad spot, that you can repair and move. If set on fire, that you don't burn to a crisp.
Do you aim in?
It takes a lot of hits per battle to help the team win. As in, more than 2, 3 or 4.
With a good number of tanks there is a big aim circle and if you just move around and press fire ... the shot will miss or hit some place you don't want it to hit.
So, with less accurate tanks especially, but good in general, let that circle shrink down, aim in, then press fire.
Where do you aim?
Angles come into play for bounces and ricochets. So good shots are perpendicular to a surface.
Importantly zoom in, so you get the gunner view. Don't just depend on 3d overlook. Zoom in before the shot, look for grey areas ... because just shooting pink/red means it will do nothing, typically.
Front lower glacis, commanders hatches, flat sides and rears are good places to aim for.
Don't YOLO.
Do not rush out there and implode. That's a waste of a tank and gives the red team an extra gun.
Play with more caution.
Hard cover.
Hold hard cover. Solid objects protect your tank from shells.
Don't CAMP.
Don't sit in the back and be that sniper, waiting for something to hit from the safety of the back line, waiting for reds to come to you.
Do you over expose?
Try to only expose to one red tank at a time. Hold that cover during reload. Then go out a bit to fire.
Can you hull down?
Use depression in terrain and map features to hide the tank hull.
Can you side scrape?
Put the nose and lower front plate against hard cover / building.
Angle out in reverse slightly to fire.
Read the minimap.
Where did the greens go? Where are the reds? How many are where?
Look at the minimap during reload to try to surveil the battlefield.
Lots more can be talked about, but above are kind of the essentials.
And, there are video series on all this. I will see if I can pull up some basics.
PS: Low tiers have separate queues for new players and existing players, fewer tanks, ... so the old advice to practice in lower tiers may indeed be hard to apply, due to queue times.
i still need to master some of those xD
