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World of Tanks Blitz Game Guide

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World of Tanks Blitz Liberates Players from Mid-Core

App Store has been held hostage by a handful of top grossing games for years. And like in any industry also game companies try to take the top spot by cloning the winning products, which is the reason for mobile gaming market turning into a rather boring war of clones.

I love World of Tanks Blitz because its simply a great game. There are no timers. No lives. No farming. No crafting and no resource caps. Theres just the fun and engaging multiplayer battle where progress is made by playing instead of waiting. World of Tanks Blitz makes the most out of touch screen devices offering players an experience that none of the other games are willing nor able to do.

Because World of Tanks Blitz has stayed mainly out of the top 50 grossing since it was launch a year ago, it has not received the recognition it deserves. In this post I deconstruct why the game is good and what keeps it from becoming great.

GAMEPLAY The Perfect First Person Shooter for Mobile

World of Tanks Blitz (WoTB) is a battle on a randomly selected map between two teams of seven players. Winning conditions are simple: team has to either destroy all of the opponents or hold the central flagged area of the map for 100 consecutive seconds. There is no respawning in WoTB, which means that after players tank is destroyed his active session is over and he may stay in the battlefield only as spectator. Each battle takes maximum of six minutes, though without exceptions battles end well before the time limit.

Map Design

There are a dozen of maps in WoTB each with different characteristics of size, design, terrain, location, weather and land leveling. Every map offers different tactics to different tanks. All the maps are compact to ensure short sessions though large enough to enable strategic team gameplay.

Unlike in MOBAs the maps are not symmetrical or perfectly balanced. Instead the maps, which are thematically located in the Second World War battlefields, are full of graphical and structural variety just like in first-person-shooters. The lack of perfect map balancing is not an issue due to very small investment of time needed from a player. Because the sessions are so short player doesnt feel frustrated when their tank is not optimal for a particular battlefield and/or starting location.

The battles in World of Tanks Blitz take place in legendary World War II surroundings from North African deserts to Russian Russian snow covered villages.

Mastering a map is a long and fun process. In the beginning the battles are chaotic as new players clumsily drive around and shoot at everything that moves. As players progress, they start to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different types of tanks, which allows them to read the maps better. Quickly hills with rocks and trees on them are potential tank destroyer hideouts while wide lanes become the battlegrounds for heavy tanks. One key rule stays the same throughout the game: never go alone as you will die almost instantly and annoy your team who will be one tank down.

Tank Design & Player Roles

The impressive roster of 90 some tanks in WoTB is divided into four different types: light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks and tank destroyers. Each of the types has its own unique role in a team.

There are four very distinctive type of tanks in World of Tanks Blitz. Based on the tank player chooses their role in a battle is either to scout, flank, charge or snipe.

Light tanks are fast and agile due to their light armor and weak gun. Their role is to scout enemy tanks so that rest of the team can see them. They annoy enemy to reveal their locations and sometime you can sneak behind the enemy to shoot them into their weak spots.

Scouting enemies is crucial part of the battle. Without a couple of capable light tanks driving around team will be answering fire instead of taking the first shot. The concept of scouting really separates WoTB from other similar games Ive played before. Not only is it really fun to drive fast in the heat of the battle while dodging enemy fire the balancing is also made so that players driving light tanks are rewarded heavily for spotting enemy tanks allowing player to progress without actually engaging in firefight.

Sadly light tanks quickly lose their place in the roster and are mostly replaced by more specialized medium tanks.

Medium tanks fill the gap between light and heavy tanks. They are all quite different due to variety of guns and armor theyre equipped with. Medium tanks role is constantly changing throughout the battle. They can flank the enemy or function as scouts. Medium tanks can even battle on the firing lane given that player is ducking often behind structures. Medium tanks really require player to know his tank understanding its strengths and weaknesses.

WoTB tank balancing is very good but far form perfect as one of the classes, light tanks, gets obsolete in couple of months into the game due to overly wide range of medium tanks.

Heavy tanks are force to be reckoned with. They are heavily armored vehicles with powerful guns. Heavies strength is also their weakness as they are slow and hard to maneuver. These tanks occupy usually the front of the wave. Their role is to draw fire as they can absorb a lot of damage. Heavies armor is weak on the sides and back, which makes them vulnerable to flank attacks from medium and some light tanks.

Tank destroyers carry the heaviest weapons. There are two types of tank destroyers: ones with heavy gun, heavy armor and extremely limited mobility and ones known as glass cannons, which means they carry a very powerful gun but have extremely poor armor. Tanks destroyers are the snipers of WoTB. They occupy high ground positions with good visibility, shooting angles and cover relying heavily on scouts to spot enemy positions. This is a tank for patient players who are willing to sit idle in the background and make the few shots they make count.