WOT is sure a fun game. But underneath, I hope that future generations will become curious about history because of this game. After all, without history, there's no future, most likely we will keep repeating our mistakes.
It seemed the current media educated generation that's born from the late eighties onward have very little memory, exposure to the catastrophic events that happened in WW1, and WW2. Now the world war 2 generation is fading away, we are getting very little media coverage on the horrors of war and the individuals that can give testimonial on their experiences on that war.
Everything is digital, you-tube, instant entertainment, and everything can be summarized in a few text messages are viewed as valid. Yet true to life experience, the living breathing human being, recounting their in depth experience, are often dismissed because it is too lengthy, too complicated for instant satisfaction.
I think people are often lured into simple answers for complex questions. Wars are breakdown into statistics, mortality, wound ratios, kill ratios. Technical readouts of tanks, speed, armor, penetrations etc. These are rational, easy to quote numbers.
But behind all these numbers, there is an individual, a living breathing human being, that one way or another, make history happen.
As Chieftain illustrates on the picture of shattered armor glass on his tank, however one thinks of his testimonial, his contribution to his part of history making, I hope people will realize how these collective testimonials are for the future generations. It is part of these experience that help an individual, create that spark of interest, to try to understand meaning of written history and ultimately, a better human being out of it. We can always hope for a better world because of the historical lessons.