Just use the same strategy for DM each time 1. pick a spot where there are loads of enemies, if you pick a really good sniping spot, there's no point of staying there if you only snipe off one tank every minute or so, you need to pick an active spot so you could get off loads of kills 2. Just pick a spot where you won't get noticed by other players, then you'll be able to kill ssteal effectively, there really is no set place in a DM especially in a map as big as polygon but as long as you'll not get noticed and survive to get enough kills, then it's fine.

Yeah with m3 mammoth it is... nothing can really take that thing out except if more than one tank fires at it ( or 2 lucky smoky crit shots) In bigger maps, shaft shows it's strengths as it has unlimited range and very strong accuracy, it is good at defense, only except when it's aiming at one spot at the entire time. In combe that's not an option, There's not a spot where the shaft can effectively aim at the flag spot without getting taken down as it's too cramped in combe to use shaft effectively. Also the ramp leading up to the enemy side is the perfect wall for players to hide behind before striking out at the enemy side defending. Shaft's can't move off of their spot to shoot at the enemy to try and slow them down and that's why their weak in that map

^ TDM's are the worst team games ever, get a few noobs to join and you're doomed. In CTF's, you could leave with perhaps 1 or 2 noobs as you could have still a strong team in a 10v10 ctf game. However, the opposite team will just keep aiming at the noobs and you'll lose in no time. That's the reason why I never played TDM's.... Defense, attack same thing when you stall to kill an enemy tank ;) When I delay my shot, usually the enemy is almost certain to die or have a very light tank such as a hornet so I can almost be certain to kill it in a few shots with my twins. This in my opinion is sometimes worth it to get a few extra points as long as you're certain you'll get the kill and not jeopardize the game :)

I wouldn't necessarily say they're mults, they're selfish and greedy but otherwise it's allowed. I do that sometimes but instead i hold back my shots so I let the enemy take our flag and then I kill them so I get more points. You definitely shouldn't do it in a team game but when I'm playing a game against other players that I don't know, I put aside my morality and sometimes play 'dirty' by pushing enemies and 'kill-stealing' like above. However, I do agree this is annoying but just do it back to them instead :)

Try using it at higher ranks, shafts never ever prevail in Combe if the other team is aggressive enough. ( What I mean by this is if they are all on the attack, some people like to camp on their side just trying to get a few shots with their thunder without contributing much) . At lower ranks, you will get tons and tons of noobs that'll be easy to kill ( mo hornets are a massive occurrence in WO ranks) Shafts are useless in that map, besides getting kills, they can't do much else. Say your team wants to attack, in a map as small as Combe, it usually helps if you all attack at once. Shafts will never contribute in the attack, maybe sometimes if the enemy are foolish enough to step out of cover but otherwise shaft will be on the sidelines for an attack. They might take out one defender but they'll respawn back much quicker than your shaft can get fully charged again and kill them. Defense in maps such as Combe and Sandbox aren't meant for shafts either. A good defense in either map would usually consist of a freeze and maybe a thunder or railgun. Sahfts are terrible out in the open. You do have the wall to get cover behind though but that's not much good as their are two different paths to attack the flag and I doubt anybody with shaft could defend them both. Shafts just arent made for covering more than one path of attack. For example, one time there were 2 shafts on our team. Our team weren't necessarily bad but because we mainly had the two shafts for defense, we lost the flag quite a lot of times because of the following reasons made above. Shaft is no means a bad turret, it's just not made for small maps

But it overheated... that was the downside of it. It made shaft campers have to time their shots well and only charge up when needed or when you think the enemy will approach. In my opinion, this was better than the re-made version as people would camp for hours just aiming at the same spot for the entire battle

1. Noobs who can't play and don't know when to leave when they know they are destroying their own team 2. Druggers who destroy your games by joining game when you're winning, then do a massive takeover 3. shafts when they join small games such as sandbox and combe 4. Arrogant kids who start swearing at you when your beating them 5. People who ask for accounts :mellow:

New people who come to the forum and make pointless topics ~shakes head~..........

You have a very bad sense of humour :mellow:

My chinese is pretty bad but I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean Christmas

^ wow very nice :o ( shaft was kinda designed for polygon though )

Fair point but this might cause too mean different supply kits to be made, it's better to stick to just one that has everything in it at 50% discount

^ I'm lucky that i'm not popular ^_^ Anyway, this might have been mentioned before but say a person was in a clan war and their 'friend' or person they share links with clicks on that battle, might he accidently mess up the game or just cause problems

I only started being active on the forum near the end of 2012, before then, I had no real friends on tanki so this didn't really apply to me

They need to change the amount of damage a mine does, I know that they changed the price of a mine from 100 crystals to 50 crystals because they weren't as effective as they were before ( for people who don't know, they could take out potentially any m3 hull in the game) and now, the majority of hulls at m3 can survive landing on a mine so they need to 'rebalance' the amount of damage a mine causes

The pro?? Who do you think you are? :P ;)

Shaft m2 is overpowered, only viking, mammoth and titan at m2 can withstand getting killed instantly and viking would be left critically damaged. Also, the rank requirements for those three hulls are at major or above so playing with lower ranks would mean you'd kill everyone very easily :)

Best hull ( regarding stats) ever!

Twins :wub:

The OP uses big words but he can't put them together

As far as I'm know, no there never was... Just some mis-leading videos on youtube

Edinburgh :wub:

Brochure? This isn't a holiday :P Anyway, people should learn how to use a gun by themselves, ask all the pros, most of them have learnt how to use it through experience in battles or through watching other people using it

Congratz!

Yeah, that's what I tell myself all the time... :mellow: