No Hurry, No Pressure, No Rush

It's now past 10 days since the Age of Rage campaign came to Armored Warfare and I am sticking to my original plan. I have seen a few other players running around in their shiny new tier X Object 490's and I am not feeling the least bit jealous or pressured into getting one for myself, yet.

The BattleCoin bank is building up quite nicely, thanks to decent battles and teammates that have a clue on what to do. Granted, not all have been victories, but they out-way the defeats that have come my way.

As for the Moscow Contract, I haven't been plugging away to hard on that, but the progress is coming along at a surprisingly brisk pace. Some requirements are defiantly more challenging than others, including certain gamemodes that need to be completed through. Despite that, I will do what I can in PvE and not lose a lot of sleep if that isn't enough to park this new vehicle in my garage.

For No Particular Reason, Part 3

Another round of crate opening goodness from Armored Warfare.

A Day For Fireworks And The Boston Pops

....to all of you Americans, home and abroad!

Armored Warfare has a few specials and giveaways, if you are so interested.

Object 490B "Belka"

At the time of this posting, the Moscow Calling update for Armored Warfare has been Live for 9 days and I have finally encountered my first tier X Object 490 premium MBT from the Age of Rage campaign.

However, there were a few things upon seeing it that started to bug me.

Although not an exact duplicate of the M808 Scorpion Main Battle Tank from the Halo series, some the design features of the Object 490 immediately brought the Scorpion to my mind (namely the "quad-pod" tracks).

Another vehicle that came to mind was the German Jagdpanzer IV L-70, because of the sloping (but not nearly the extreme angles the Object 490 has) and the central cannon placement on the front.  

Once I put together the visuals of this new machine, I decided to take another look at the history of it, as published in Armored Warfare's original article. Despite all the information they presented, I felt there was a quite a bit missing and I was right.

Firstly, there were a few variants of Object 490 and the one chosen for Armored Warfare was the B or "Belka" (much like the XM1 tier VI premium vehicle were two separate models, one built by Chrysler and the one that made it ingame, constructed by General Motors). I felt somewhat deceived into thinking there was only one Object 490, since that was the way the article seemed to be written.

During my search for more information on this particular vehicle and thanks to Google translate, I came across this, containing a lot more details on the Object 490 variants.

Not Quite A Beauty Of A Battle, Eh?

Happy Canada Day (except it's nearly over at the time of this posting)!

Nevertheless, I wanted to do something to celebrate this day, despite being tired and worn out after a busy, real life day. I selected my tier IX Leopard 2A6, a winter map to remind me that weather is mere months from returning and elements that I grew up with during my younger years, namely oil and gas exploration and production.

Less than my best, here's how it all turned out....

Age Of Rage Plan

Now that Age of Rage is active in Armored Warfare, the countdown clock is already ticking away for when the event ends.

I am going to stick to my original plan of waiting it out and playing as usual (time permitting), despite the "cheap for Gold" price to buy into just starting the missions. However, I do see a decent deal for the more expensive package, once I factored in all the vehicles, Gold returned, crates and other goodies.

Even without buying into the event, I can still collect BattleCoins and bank them up, cashing in when the time is just right to do so.

Yup and so far, the plan is working out just fine.

Moscow Calling, Part 2

Well, my first attempt at Chapter 2 in Moscow Calling for Armored Warfare ended in defeat.

I felt confident with picking my "tried and true" tier VII Challenger 1 Wolf British premium MBT, but I discovered it wasn't the most appropriate selection for this particular battle. 

To be more precise, the end phase of this mission, called Castle.

The upside is I earned a few crates and BattleCoins for the new Age of Rage campaign. 

The downside is I thought I had learned a few lessons from the initial encounter and applied that new found knowledge only to repeat the same result with my tier VIII BMPT Terminator Reaper....