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Total Tank Simulator is a World War 2 simulation game designed to be fast-paced and less focused on realism and more focused on simulating massive engagements with so much happening at once that it’s almost impossible to keep track of everything.

The game begins with you selecting if you want to play a campaign or if you want to just go into sandbox mode. In the campaign, you select a country that you want to be in control of and then begin progressing through the theater your country is involved in by taking part in deathmatch battles, wave defense, VIP elimination or VIP protection. Meet the victory conditions and you are able to proceed to the next phase of your campaign. Along the way, you can use earned money and research points to unlock access to better equipment to use against your enemy.

Once you begin a battle, you will use the money allotted to you to purchase tanks and other vehicles, infantry, planes, anti-tank and artillery units, and place them around the staging area in the most strategic way you can. Then, click “begin battle” and the game begins simulating the conflict, taking control of the usually hundreds of units on the screen. You can sit back and watch the chaos unfold, or you can hot-swap out into direct control of any one of the various units on the field and get personally engaged in the action.

The first-person controls are pretty basic, but it can be fun to drive a tank or use a sniper to hunt down your enemies while the rest of the chaos unfolds around you.  The entire game uses physics-based simulations for everything. Everything is destructible, from buildings to trees, and more. So as tank shells fly across the battlefield and strike buildings, you’ll see holes blasted into them, or even the entire structure collapse from its loss of integrity. Eventually, attrition will decide the ultimate victor the battle and the round will end giving you a rundown of how well you did and how much carnage you suffered.

One of the things that I didn’t like about the game was how relatively hands-off it was compared to most military simulations. Once you place your units, other than directly controlling individual ones, there is no way to direct the flow of battle and you will often see units doing things that seem stupid or suicidal. I even saw three of my tanks just drive off the edge of the map and fall into the bottomless void there, dying instantly…which was just frustrating.

Still, it is pretty fun to just watch everything happen. And being able to hop around and take control at will is fun. I guess you just have to realize that it is a much less serious simulation of battle, as indicated by the blocky, often brightly monochromatic models of the vehicles and units that wander the battlefield.

Ultimately, I had a lot of fun messing around with the game. The other option is the sandbox mode, where you can just design the craziest battle your imagination can come up with and see what happens. It’s usually just flat out madness what ends up happening, but there are always some pretty exciting moments that crop up during them.  So, if you’re looking for something World War 2 themed that is chaotic but not serious, this is a good option.

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Arcade Archives Series Produced by HAMSTER Co.

Hidden Archives is a joint project between Wargaming and Bovington Tank Museum, aimed at identifying combat vehicles displayed on original photographs that have never been seen before. The selection of photographs is vast and includes military vehicles ranging from before World War I through to the 21st Century. As a result, cataloguing the pictures and identifying the vehicles is a considerable undertaking indeed. This is where you can help!

Lend us your expertise and have a chance to see some really unique material – your involvement is crucial to carrying out this truly great, historical initiative.

How to get involved

Participating in the project is very easy and doesn’t require any registration or particular set of skills (apart from an exquisite knowledge of military history and combat vehicles, of course).

You can join the initiative by logging in with your Wargaming EU Account ID on the project’s website. You will then be able to take a short test that aims to get you acquainted with the User Interface and its mechanics, as well as assesses your knowledge. If you pass this test, you will get access to the archive containing thousands of never-before-seen pictures.

As aforementioned, participation is very easy. The archive has a simple and intuitive interface that looks almost like a browser-game or a quiz: you will be shown a picture from the archive and you will be asked to identify the vehicle it displays. To do so, you will be given either a multiple-choice tool or a list of vehicle names. Once you have assigned a name to the vehicle, you will be shown another picture, and so on.

Rewards

Other than the satisfaction of contributing to an historical archive, we’re also offering some in-game rewards for World of Tanks. The top 100 contributors will receive in-game prizes, ranging from Premium Account and Gold to Premium Tanks! If you’re not lucky enough to make the leaderboard straight away, don’t be disheartened - the rankings will be updated and rewards distributed atregular intervals. Also, the rankings will be available on the forums.

For further information or to discuss the project with other members, please visit the official forum thread:

Join the project and help us preserve history, Commanders!