most of you will already know that, but I just thought I share a few things that took me some time to learn and could have helped me alot if I knew it earlier.
1st. To type a public message (not only to your team), press ENTER, type the message and THAN press CTRL+ENTER.
At the begin I thought I had to press CTRL+ENTER to open a public chat and than press ENTER to send the message, but my messages never go public, always to my teammates only. Till I figured that I was doing it wrong.
2nd. Diference between AP and HE
AP stands for Armor Piercing Shells.
Those should be used against opponents that are max. 1 tier above you (except ARTY's) and anything bellow.
AP does low the "healt indicator" on the opponent, but will do squat if your in lower tier shooting at a HEAVY higher tier.
HE stands for High Explosive Shells.
Those should be used agains opponents that are higher tier and/or stronger than you, since your AP would'n penetrate their heavy armour.
HE hits does damage to internal sistems of the opponent, like killing crew members, damaging engine and such.
ALthough HE does not reduce the "healt indicator" it does damage to an extend and may help your teammates to finish him off, while earning you the EXP points for damage dealth, which is your primary goal.
So be sure to always have some HE and AP loaded, and use them to best fit the situation at hand.
3rd. To alter between AP and HE, just press the shell nbr. twice (tipically 1 for AP and 3 for HE).
i.e. If you have AP loaded on your tier 3 tank and you see a HEAVY in your way, just double press "3" to your crew to replace the AP shell by an HE one. Some player just fire their AP away, thus spending money and giving away your position.
4th. When your hidin in a bush try not to move your hull, since any hull movement will give away your position to a potential observer.
You may move your turret, but don't move your hull (aka moving fw, bkw, turn, etc.).
Well, those are some things that took me some mtime to learn and would've help me alot if I found out about it earlier.
Fell free to add more tips to this thread.
I hope I could help at least some of you guys.
Hope to see you in battle.
