AutoLoader: T30 equipment, Scouting Mountain Pass, Abandoning your team

T30 no VertStabs

I was today years old when I learned that the T30 (American Tier IX TD) can't load V-Stabs.

We can do Improved Aiming, or Improved Rotation Mechanism, but not Vertical Stabilizers. Huh.

Scouting on Mountain Pass

I'm not a big fan of playing LTs on Mountain Pass; especially from the North West spawn.

I'm never really sure where to go to be useful. You can pull up in the E3 area and light the enemy crossers; hopefully your team can shoot them, but unless you're willing to push down into the bowl for what is probably a duel to the death dogfight with the enemy LT(s) you're going to be pretty limited.

And if the enemy LTs push down into the bowl and get up on the E3 ramp then you're going to get spotted and killed by the enemy shooters around G5. Just not a great scouting situation; especially if the enemy has wheelies.

Don't be that guy - Bailing out edition

On Steppes this morning in a Tier X battle and about 2 minutes in our T26E4 announces he's "Going AFK" because he "Shouldn't have pushed so far in a tier X battle". He did zero damage and finished last on the team by XP too.

Ultimately it was a very close battle, and maybe if he'd stuck around to fight, we could have won it. Who knows what would have happened if he'd done even 1 shot of damage, or even if he just tracked one of the enemy tanks where our guys could shoot it. Or helped to spot. Even a Tier 8 can be a little bit useful.

I was in a Defender and I still managed to finish 4th by XP and 8th by damage with a kill.

But no, he bailed on us, and we lost. I guess that's why after 61,000 battles he's still not very good at tanks.

Don't be that guy.

GLHF!