Champion TC

So we are doing medium and junior tc's, are there any plans to do the tier 8 tc's?

Short answer: Nope.

Long answer. Champ TC requires experienced TC players to be competitive. You need how know what targets to shoot without somebody calling targets, know how to move in a group and certain know how to interpret the orders without the FC having to micromanage. You need to shield your allies to spread the damage, scouts that don't die, players who now how to move around to get maximum DPM. You need T32s and IS-3s fully upgraded, equipped and with experienced crews. And these players who have all of these need to be active and join up on the TCs.

And we simply are not at that level yet.

I remember Champion TCs were done by me back in the early days of WoT, with many many experienced players brought from the outside.

In short, what Vallu says is true. The Champion TCs I did were disastrous (50% win rate) compared to my Medium TCs (90% win rate on average). And this was including experienced players brought from the outside who were well over 60% win rate most of the time.

Champion TCs really do need co-ordination and actually...some practice. Personally I don't see any problem hosting Champion TCs to practice. But if everyone who goes in are in it purely to win and are not interested in losing regularly in order to learn, then Champion TCs are not for you yet.

If you want to play champion TCs we can work on that.

But there are some requirements:

Find 12-14 players who want to play champion TCs within SGTA.

Those players should be active and have at least one of the following tanks:
IS-3s and T32s, as main force and firepower
AMX 13 90, as scouts
AMX 50 100, good burst dmg but needs a n experienced player
Tier 6 arty preferably GW Panther

Moreover you need to be willing to spend time in training rooms to practise team based skills like shielding, focus fire, setting up firelines and stuff. This will not be once a week like the classes, it will be every second day if you really want to get into this.

Which brings me to the next point, dedication:
You need to find players who are willing to train that much and have fun doing so. They are hard to find sometimes.
At the beginning you might lose to more experienced clans but if you work as a team you can even beat unica.

Wasp

Wasp wrote:

At the beginning you might lose to more experienced clans but if you work as a team you can even beat unica.

Wasp

Tbh back in the old days my companies regularly beat the likes of AoE and in one instance Pirates on Medium TCs. They are not really as awe-inspiring as many would have you believe...

Wasp wrote:If you want to play champion TCs we can work on that.

But there are some requirements:

Find 12-14 players who want to play champion TCs within SGTA.

Those players should be active and have at least one of the following tanks:
IS-3s and T32s, as main force and firepower
AMX 13 90, as scouts
AMX 50 100, good burst dmg but needs a n experienced player
Tier 6 arty preferably GW Panther

Moreover you need to be willing to spend time in training rooms to practise team based skills like shielding, focus fire, setting up firelines and stuff. This will not be once a week like the classes, it will be every second day if you really want to get into this.

Which brings me to the next point, dedication:
You need to find players who are willing to train that much and have fun doing so. They are hard to find sometimes.
At the beginning you might lose to more experienced clans but if you work as a team you can even beat unica.

Wasp

Can I be the exception, KV5 or Tiger 2? I laugh at burning IS3's and exploding T32's or I could just shut up and bring my GWP

And further to the chat yesterday it would be good if we are playing at Champion to get some people used to platoon commanding within a company. Not the same as a random platoon btw, can be 5 or 6 in a platoon in CW and TC.

This is something I would be very interested in, time is my enemy though. I finish work nightly around 21-00 to 22-00 UTC+2 time.
IVe been grinding german to 8, got a tiger 2, but im happy to reinvest my time to get an IS3 (just about finished on kv1s)

I think we need to play a lot more med and junior TC.

Still lots of people not following FC commands and sitting out in the open to be raped by arty. You won't get let off in high tiers you'll get pwned

I agree with monty and the rest who think we should focus on jr and med.

I was more curious for the future rather than interested for now as I don't have a tank that would fit in a champion tc. I completely agree that we need more practice at lower level but maybe its something to build for in the future?

I split the off-topic discussion to here https://sgta.forumotion.com/t254-what-are-your-goals-in-the-game

It is not so long, when we actually think about the champion TC more seriously then now. True it was before reorganization change of classes plan and before the spliting of academy, but we made plans for champ TCs. Like lists of our tanks and even try the champ TC from time to time. Frankly it was the reason why I spend time to research both T32 and IS-3, train crew, learn tactic for heavies etc., because my t6 arty (M12) was not good enaugh to participate. I dont say, I need to hear: "We will do champ TCs next month"; but I would appriciate, if there is at least some will between clanmates to head that direction in future. Otherwise it feels a bit like waste of time.

I would be interested, always interested in learning and improving. I have IS-3, KT, T32 and GWP.

I enjoy the TC's when I can join, and they are a vast improvement over where we were 6 months ago where we could often wait an hour in between games while people swapped tanks or went afk. I'm not a fan of the bias towards certain tanks, while I understand KV-1S is desirable being excluded because I want to grind S-51 with my KV-2. Watching people come in after me and get added to the team because they chose the "right" tanks.

All said I enjoy being part of the clan despite having that lone wolf mentality most of the time.

In the future, yes I'd like champ TC a lot. Now? As long as some people play med TC as a solo game, while others try their best to follow orders, we're a long way from that future.

I think TC is really fun, and I would like to become a competent FC at some point, both jr, med, and champ, but I feel that with less than 2,5k battles I don't have the knowledge yet.

What I would like is some sort of FC training, preferably in a training room, so we don't fail miserably if I ever am in charge. Then I'd like a lot of jr/med TC to hone my skills, the skills of others, and to figure out what tactics are sound, and what tactics are sure to fail.

Maybe then we can start thinking about champ TC.

Played about Thirty Champion TC tonight, this is the kind of teams you will play against:



Mistakes are severely punished. that said, we thrashed an EFE-X clan team easily, so with good teamwork you can win anything.

Any SGTA member wishing to play Champion TC may be able to fit in with WHO/WHY if we have space (Clan members have priority). We regularly have EFE, PTS, 322, OMNI etc players in our TCs.

You will need at least one of the following fully upgraded with 100% crew:

IS-3
T-32
AMX 13 90
AMX 50 100

Tier 6 arty (preferably GWPanther but Lorraine 150 or S-51 are allowed to depending on the FC).

If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll get our FCs to add you to their friends lists.

A few basic things to note:

You need to be very careful to obey the FC commands to the letter.

If you fuck up you will sometimes be raged at in chat - accept this

You must remain arty safe at all times. You won't get a second chance as one tier 6 arty hit will basically kill you or wreck your modules, making you useless for the rest of the game.

Teamspeak is mandatory (you need to be able to listen as a minimum)

People with very poor stats are probably best not applying until they have improved. Generally we don't look at people unless they have at least yellow EFF/WN6/7. The reason for this is the high number of good players you come across in Champion TC and therefore we cannot weaken our team by taking below average players - hope you guys understand this

I'm up for a bit of fun Monty, GWPanther is the only thing I've got on the list (T32 rofl!) but maybe the Chinese 110 is acceptable too?

When do you usually do TCs? I'm starting to miss Champ TCs...

I got my IS-3 and T32 ready. Fully upgraded and equipped, with 90% on the 2nd skill. And I do have my S-51 fully upgraded and equipped, with 90% on the first skill. But me in arty, in TC? Really?

PS. And I can sympathize with the FC

Got meself a nice T32 and soon AMX50/100. I am up for this.

And here's me with only my KV-4... oh well. I suppose a T-50-2 would be not much use either?

I will forward all your names to the FC. We hold TCs regularly, there is no set night. If you are online we will definitely use you when we have gaps (clan has priority as you understand).

most of the Champ TCs are run by my good friend Sringoot, he is the best FC in our clan in our opinion. We have a very high winrate in Srings TCs, generally 80 - 95 % with between 20 and 50 individual battles on average.

I think the 110 is acceptable for use, but of course the decision always rests with the FC The T-50-2 is a problem as Sring will not use them (his pinion is hat they dont have the firepower and thus are wasted slot), he prefer 13 90s for scouts.

Vallu, I very much doubt we will need you in arty, we have plenty of arty players and I think it would be more productive to utilise you in a tank Bet you can't get guess what I play? hehe

What I will do is let you all know the next time a champ TC is on or get the FC to invite you (you are all on my friends list so I can see if your online), Sring usually hosts open rooms so you can just join. The TS info will be in the room header also

I would say 90% of our TCs are Champs, but occasionally we run meds (if we cant get the players) and sometimes Absolute too (but generally to train for CW)

Hope to team up with some of you dudes soon