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[4TankersAndDog]

So you're in your little scout tank and MM delivers you the bottom tier...time for despair?  To rage against RNGesus in chat before YOLO'ing up the middle or finding the nearest lake?  Breathe deep and take heart my friend, the Match Maker has just given an opportunity to punch way above your own weight, potentially delivering massive assisted damage far above your normal tier and commensurately huge XP and WR rewards...you have been given a gift, don't frak it up.

My goal when scouting is to light up the enemy tanks, preferably in a key strategic area of the map, so my guys can shoot them from range/cover, so they can see the layout of enemy forces and move to counter their thrust, and also in closer-in combat my guys can see exactly what the red tanks are doing so they can peek & DERP more effectively. There are 4 big things to doing this well, tank & crew setup, knowing the meta-game to predict where the red tanks are most likely to be, knowing a good location with cover, and learning when to not shoot.

 

For tank hardware and crew, it's all about doing everything possible to increase view range and increase your cammo value, plus getting 6th Sense absolutely ASAP.
For the meta-game and good locations to hide, that's what I hope my videos here are illustrating.
For when not to shoot...oh it's so hard, do you throw a killing shot into that Hellcat with 50HP left sniping your guys from the far ridge but almost certainly expose yourself? 90% of the time the correct answer is no, don't shoot, let your team clean up, but it's soooo hard...

 

With any tier scout tank I usually start a match with a passive scouting location like in the videos below, but then after a few minutes when all the chess pieces are on the board I'll start thinking about good infiltration opportunities to sneak in and kill some arty, or flanking opportunities to hit an enemy salient from the side to turn their thrust so my team can roll them up.

 

 - PLEASE WATCH THESE FIRST -

Scouting 101 video covering the basic mechanics of scouting:

Tanking 201.5: Scouting video discussing the role of scouting within WoT:

 

Map list, constantly being updated and revised:

Abbey, North Start #1

Abbey, North Start #2

Abbey, South Start

 

Airfield, West Start #1

Airfield, West Start #2

Airfield, East Start #1

Airfield, East Start #2

 

Cliff, North Start

Cliff, South Start #1

Cliff, South Start #2

 

El Halluf, Northeast Start

El Halluf, Southwest Start

 

Empire's Border

 

Ensk, North Start

Ensk, South Start

 

Erlenberg, North Start #1

Erlenberg, North Start #2

Erlenberg, Assault - Offense #1

Erlenberg, Assault - Offense #2

Erlenberg, Assault - Defense #1

Erlenberg, Assault - Defense #2

 

Fisherman's Bay, North Start

Fisherman's Bay, South Start

 

Fjords, West Start

Fjords, East Start

 

Glacier, Northeast Start

Glacier, Southwest Start

 

Highway

 

Himmelsdorf, North Start

Himmelsdorf, South Start

Himmelsdorf - Encounter

 

Karelia, Northeast Start

Karelia, Southwest Start

Karelia, Assault - Offense #1

Karelia, Assault - Offense #2

Karelia, Assault - Defense #1

Karelia, Assault - Defense #2

 

Klondike, Northeast Start

 

Lakeville, North Start

Lakeville, South Start

 

Live Oaks, Northeast Start

Live Oaks, Southwest Start

 

Malinovka, West Start

Malinovka, South Start

Malinovka, Encounter - North Start

Malinovka, Encounter - East Start

 

Mannerheim Line, Northeast Start

Mannerheim Line, Southwest Start

 

Mines, North Start

Mines, South Start

Mines, Encounter - North Start

Mines, Encounter - South Start

 

Minsk, South Start

 

Mountain Pass, Northwest Start

Mountain Pass, Southeast Start

 

Murovanka, North Start

Murovanka, South Start

 

Nebelberg, Northeast Start

Nebelberg, Southwest Start #1

Nebelberg, Southwest Start #2

 

Overlord, North Start

Overlord, South Start

 

Paris, West Start

Paris, East Start

 

Prokhorovka, North Start

Prokhorovka, South Start #1

Prokhorovka, South Start #2

 

Province, Northeast Start

Province, Southwest Start

 

Redshire, North Start

Redshire, South Start

 

Ruinberg, North Start

Ruinberg, South Start

 

Sand River, West Start

Sand River, East Start

 

Serene Coast, North Start

Serene Coast, South Start

 

Siegfried Line, North Start

Siegfried Line, South Start

Siegfried Line, Assault - Offense #1

Siegfried Line, Assault - Offense #2

Siegfried Line, Assault - Defense #1

 

Steppes, North Start

Steppes, South Start

 

Studzianki, East Start

 

Tundra, North Start

Tundra, South Start

 

Westfield, Northeast Start

Westfield, Southwest Start

 

PS, curious how I set up my own Light Tanks?  Just did a little Garage Crawl video recently...

 

Edited by 4TankersAndDog, Today, 12:00 AM.

[Defiance_]

Thnx Mate! +1 Will Watch in a bit.

 

TX

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[OutOfService]

You missed Mittengard 

[4TankersAndDog]

LOL, if you REALLY want Mittenguard...

[OutOfService]

Already seen it, I was just joking about trying to find a passive scouting location on Mittengard. Love the vids you do Watched most of them during cool downs.

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Edited by 4TankersAndDog, 16 February 2016 - 11:11 PM.

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Edited by 4TankersAndDog, 27 September 2015 - 12:17 AM.

[Meverick]

Most useful post ever, upped you, btw some links aren't working if you can check pls .

Edited by Meverick, 27 September 2015 - 12:24 PM.

[4TankersAndDog]

You probably hit a link for a video I have done but scheduled to release in the near future (I try to pace them one per day).  Let me see here...Mountain Pass comes on the 30th, Lakeville the 1st of October, and Erlenberg is scheduled for the 3rd.

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[Meverick]

Nice as always

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