Other [Issue 32] Editorials

[Remaine 4,687]

 

Greetings, tankers! Do you want to make your sentiments known? Enlighten people on a particular subject? Or even just to promote something? Well, look no further since the Editorials are back in business!

 

Simply send in a private message to Editorials (you MUST send it to that account, NOT this one) with your piece. In order for it to be published, it will need the following qualities:

 

- To be appropriate

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Your private message MUST be titled "Editorials"

 

You can send me up to two articles per month.

 

Happy writing!

 

Edited January 7, 2018 by Hexed

[Remaine 4,687]

 

Before I start this story, I would like to say that the rabbit tanker is me (@Yisroel.Rabin), in case you didn't know. :P

 

It all started while I was sitting in my office on the 500th floor of a skyscraper, while chewing on a pen.

"Ew! That isn't a carrot, that's a pen!" I said. Then the door opened, and an assistant walked in to the room.

"We have evidents that someone is out to get you. Shall we work on this case sir?" She said as she handed me a file of papers. I slowly took the file out of her hand and started flipping threw the papers.

"This isn't good!" I said "Who is this rabbit hater we are talking about here?"

"No one knows yet, bet I got a hunch. We know where he might be staying..." She said.

"We?" I stopped her in middle of the sentence in shock.

"Yes, we. Our team is: Alex_Castillo (Me), Smash95, and super703." She replied.

"Ohhh. Okay keep going" I said.

"Okay... Well we think he might be staying at the Roader Hotel." She continued "Should we investigate?"

"Yes, let's leave tomorrow morning at dawn." I said.

"No time for that! We have to go now!" She said as she pulled me out of my revolving chair and over my desk. We went outside where a car was waiting for us.

"Hop in!" Said the driver. "We dun have much time." So I did, along with Alex. It was quite strange, there was a driver, and a guy sitting next to me who was snoring his head off.

"Wake up?" I asked the snoring man.

"What? Pancakes? Mom?" He said as he rubbed his eyes.

"Who are you?" I asked in fear thinking that he was some drunk dude.

"Hello sir, my name is Smash95, but you can call me Smashy." He answered. "So are we there yet Super?"

"Who's Super?" I asked.

"Ugh. You ask to many questions." He said "He's super703, also known as our driver."

"Okay, I guess I'll be quiet now" I said feeling offended that he said I ask to many questions. So from that point on it was just awkward silence, me and my phone, and a dark night outside my window. I got so bored I was about to hop over Smashy to see if it was a dark night outside his window too. But I held myself back.   

"Are we there yet?" I asked again.

"NO!" Everyone shouted.

"Wow wow, no need to yell, my ears are big but very sensitive." I explained.

After at least 20 mins of driving, which is quite a lot in rabbit time, we made it. I opened the car door, and flopped out on to the ground. I felt like I have never been in a car that long. It was happy to be back in the streets with my long coat protecting me from the rain drops falling from the roofs, after a big and strong rain storm. But for some reason the streets were much louder then back at my home in New York city. I wondered where we even were but I was to afraid to ask, I thought if I made one more sqeek he would turn me into a pretzel and eat me as a snack.

We were at some sort of movie theater in the outskirts of town. Although this looked like New York city, something was different, very different. I was starting to get suspicious as I took out my note pad and described all the people their, you know, in case they are criminals or something of the sort. I knew this was no picnic in the park. It was something way bigger.

Without saying a word we all walked into the movie theater. A very strange security guard was standing there. He short, but fat, weird looking mustache, sun glasses in middle of the night, and an iPhone he looked a bit addicted to. Anyways, he stopped the four of us.

"ID please." He said. So Alex, Smash, and Super, handed their ID in. "What about the rabbit here? Got an ID sir?"

"Ummm, I don't think so." I said in fear, not even knowing what ID meant.

"Then you cannot enter this building sir! LEAVE NOW!" He suddenly yelled unexpectedly. But then Alex whispered something in my ear. The three went inside leaving the security guard very suspicious about what Alex had whispered, and what I was up to. I dashed! Running between humans feet, then at last, made it to my destination. There was an open window waiting for me, I hopped in.

"Thanks for letting me in Alex." I said in releaf while taking a look around the room I was in.

"It appears, you have the wrong room Mr. Wabbit." He said in a sly voice. I knew I was in a heap of trouble now.

"Who are you?" I asked, as I tried to cover up the feat that was screaming inside me.

"I'm someone who wants you out of here!" He replied, as he chased me out of his room. I ran out of the room, he chased me down the hall with a stick. Until finally I smashed into someones feet. It was Smashy!

"Pleased to meat you." Smash said. "May I asked, what on earth were you doing chasing this poor wabbit down the hall with a  stick?"

"Oh, that, um..." He said but had no answer. "Oh look at the time, it's time for my next um... checkers came with my cousin."

"Ok, bye then..." Smash said suspiciously. The man went back into his room. "That was no regular man Mr. Rabbit, let's go back to Alex and Super. I think we gotta have a meeting about this one." So we both walked back to the main entrance. Then I saw Smash tell Alex and Super what happened. When they finished, Super gave a look at me for a second, then he told me to follow them into the elevator. So without even think, I did. Why? Because that security guard saw me. He ran for the elevator, but he made it a second to late. I laughed so hard because of his stupidity.

"Why you laughing?" Alex asked.

"Oh nothing." I giggled. Then we made it.

"I need to use the washroom for a second, be right back." Smash said.

"Uh, ya me too..." Super and Alex said.

"Okay, have a great time." I said. "Wait, that sounded so weird... I mean great time in the washroom?" I continued talking to myself. But there was no time to think anymore. The weird man with the stick came running for me again! I knew he didn't give up yet. I had no where to ran, I can't open doors, I'm only a rabbit. So I closed my eyes in fear, sqeeking my last words.

"Oh God, please don't do this, I'm to young..." I sqeeked to myself quietly. But then I opened my eyes. "Am I alive, is this heaven? Wow it looks so much like the building I was just in."

"Nope, you're still alive." Super said. "We kinda lied to you about the washroom thing, we just need to get code_root to chase you again, so we can catch him."

"Mr. Rabbit, meet code_root, code_root, meet Mr. Rabbit." Alex said.

"Pleased to meet you Code. But may I ask why would you chase me?" have I done something to you?" I said.

"First of all, I go by R.H. now, and yes!" He replied.

"What does R.H. stand for?" I asked in confusion.

"Rabbit Hater!" He yelled.

"Woah Woah now, no need to yell." I said. " Wait! Did you say Rabbit Hater!?"

"You bet I did!" Remember me, the year was 1998, I worked in an office a floor below you, the 64th floor." He said.

"Oh yes, well you deserved it, why shouldn't I have..." I tried to explain, but I got interrupted by Smash.

"Enough with the chit chat guys." Said Smash. "code_root you're coming with us!" He continued as he put hang-coughs on Code

"Great.." Code said sarcastically. We left the building without that silly security guard. Then ran for the car, hopped inside, threw, Super threw Code in the drunk, closed it, and off we went!

After some time we finally made it to the New York city jail. Super parked the car, then we all got out. Smash took out Code, although half asleep, he knew where ever he was, it wasn't going to be good. We all slowly walked towards the police station door, and Alex was about to knock on it, when all of a sudden the door flew open...

"Hello fellow folks! how may I help you!?" He shouted.

"Um, are you okay?" Asked Alex.

"Never been better how are you?" He replied.

"Good?" Alex said.

"Anyways, pleased to meet you, my name is GoldRock, but you can call me Mr. Rock" He continued.

"Okay, 'Mr. Rock', we have a prisoner for you." Said Smash.

"Name of prisoner?" He replied.

"code_root." He said "Anymore questions?"

"No." Mr. Rock replied. "Wait! Did you say code_root? That guy is most anted here in our little town."

"Really?" I asked.

"No :P" He said. "The most wanted prisoner is the guy who keeps stealing my doughnuts."

"Okay, congratulations to him." Alex said. "But we need this guy in the slammer a.s.a.p."

"No problem, follow me!" He screeched. We all followed him into the police station. "Here we are, at last, the slammer."

"Okay can you just lock him up and flush the key down the toilet?" I asked. "I don't want him out of there."

"Um, I'll try to remember for next time I visit the washroom." He laughed. "But you gotta sign these documents first."

"What documents?" Alex asked. "I don't see any."

"Oh you'll see em' all right..." He said as he took out literally hundreds of papers.. "Okay, sign here, here, here, and here..." I wrote my signature at least one thousand times on all those papers. "Okay, I have all the info I need. Into the slammer Code!"

Mr. Rock unlocked the hang-coughs, threw him in the jail, slammed the door shut, locked the door, and there, his job was done. Well, except for the flushing the key down the toilet part.

"Thank you Mr. Rock." Super said. "Come on guys let's go home!"

"Ughh, I hate you Rabbit! I am the hater of rabbit, the rabbit hater!!!" Code yelled. "I'll get out some how, and when I do, be ready to be penalized.

"Yea yea yea, keep dreaming." I laughed, as I walked away. We all got in the car and started our long drive back home. Although it seamed like this adventure was over, I felt deep inside that this wasn't the end, I felt that Code and I would some day meet again, but no one knows.

 

TO BE CONTINUED!

 

 

 

We're back with Part 2 of The Rabbit Tanker! Before diving back into the adventure, we shall recap what happened in Part 1. Let's just say that Alex, Smash, Super, and I met Mr. Rock. Then we spoke for a bit about something I don't even know about, then finally Mr. Rock locked that nasty Rabbit Hater up, and we started our drive home. But now for the actual part 2!

After a few hours of driving, we at last came home. I dashed up to my office on the 65th floor, slammed the door, and got to work. Ah, who am I kidding, I don't work after long rides and adventures like the one I'd had. I sit around and watch TV and eat my favorite snack, carrot chips, YUM! Anyways I sat in my fancy chair which was 10 times thing size of me, reached for the remote, turned on the TV and closed my eyes shut! Ah, nothing beats a good old dark quiet night in New York city, the only sound was the TV and the mice sqeeking in the little hole in my office wall. But all I cared about at that moment was my TV and carrot chips.

"Oh, how yummy!" I said as I stuffed a huge hand full of carrot chips in my mouth, you can even say, I bit of more than I could chew.

"Hello viewers, and mom. My name is R3Z0GNATE. And I have some breaking news!" Said the man on TV.

"Breaking news, blah blah blah, who cares!? Get to my favorite cartoon already, Rabbit Tails." I said to the TV as if it would hear me.

​"A criminal has just went missing" The reporter said.

"Oh seriously, who cares?" I said.

"And his name is code_root." The reporter continued.

"Where have I heard that name before?" I asked myself. "WAIT WHAT?!" Code escaped?! How?!" Without even thinking I ran straight down to Alex's office on the 37th floor. "Open up Alex! Open up!"

"Woah, no need for the screaming." She said as she walked towards the door. As soon as she opened it, I leaped across the entire room, right under a sofa. "What is it Rabbit?"

"Its code, Ms. Castillo," I said fearfully. "He escaped!"

"Again? Oh well, looks like the job hasn't been done." She said. "Back in the car Rabbit. I'll call the others." So she did, she called Smash, and Super. We all went back to the car, and drove off. I felt so tired after that long drive I'd had about half and hour ago, but I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing that the Rabbit Hater was after me. So I woke myself up as much as I possibly could. But it turns out, I was so tired I fell asleep on Smashes lap after 5 minutes or so. I must say he makes an exultant bed for a rabbit.

After a while we made it back to the police station. I was so mad about Mr. Rock letting him escape so fast, I knocked on the door so hard, but as you may not remember, I'm a rabbit, my hard knock made basically now sound what so ever.

"Need help?" Asked Super.

"Umm, I guess." I replied. 

"Okay, no prob." He replied as he turned the door nub. "Ah, there we go."

"show off..." I said. "Thanks anyways." We all walked inside, to find Mr. Rock inside the slammer instead of Code!

"What on earth?" I asked "What are you doing in there?"

"Oh that's a long story..." He said. "I kind of wanted to get rid of that key, because I knew I would forget by the next time I had to go to the washroom, so as soon as you left I went to the washroom. But when I came back I found that Code was gone, and that there was a box of doughnuts as his 'replacement'. I had no idea how he got out, but I thought I'd try eating one of those doughnuts, you know, to 'investigate'... So I took out the spare key from inside my hat, opened the jail door, and ran for the doughnuts. But little did I know, I was tricked as soon as a took a bite out of my yummy doughnut, some mysterious man with a long coat and a hat with the brim covering his eyes, came running for the jail door. At first I thought he wanted my doughnuts, but then I noticed he wasn't out to get my food, he kinda wanted me inside the jail. So he slammed in shut and ran off. There is my story."

"Wow, you're stupid." Said Alex.

"Ehhh," He said "Okay fine, yes, I am stupid, can you just get me out of here?"

"Fine, we'res the spare key?" Alex asked.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know." He said.

"Why are you even a police man?" Super asked. "You should some sort of Mod for a video game, or something like that."

"Mod for a video game? Where did you get that from?" He laughed.

"Well, where did you decide to investigate doughnuts by eating em'?" Super continued.

"Videos, games, and video games. Prob sir?" He said.

"Ummm, I actually have no clue. What kind of police man learns stuff from videos and games?" Super asked in shook.

"Just forget it." Smash said. "Something tells me we should pay another visit to the hotel a.s.a.p." So we took off for the hotel leaving the weird police man still locked up in the jail. After a long, bumpy drive in middle of the night, we finally made it back to the hotel. I opened the car door, and dropped out right on to the floor.

"Finally, normal air!" I said.

"The AC was on..." Alex said.

"We rabbit only breath fresh air." I said as I tried to brag.

"Okay? Well there is the security guard again." Alex replied.

"Oh good, I got a few questions for him." I said in a sly voice. "Come on bros!"

"I'm a girl! How many times can you call me bro already?" Alex said.

"Oh yea, sorry bro." I giggled. We walked over to the door as the security guard stopped me, again!

"Sir, I ain't stupid. I remember you. Bring an ID this time?" The security guard said.

"No, but what I did bring is a few questions." I replied. "What's your name?"

"Give me your ID rabbit." He said without even listening to my question.

"Alright, if you don't want to answer that, answer this. How old are you?" I said.

"ID." He started to get mad, but I wasn't scared of some old tough security guard, pff.

"Where have you been between last time I came and now?" I asked on.

"ID!" He yelled.

​"I'm sorry sir, but that answer is unacceptable." I said. He tried to punch me to the next country, but since I am a small creature I walked under his legs right into the building without him even noticing.

"Uh, where did he go?" He asked Smash.

"That way!" Smash said as he pointed up.

"Okay bro, thanks. Be right back, I gotta get a big ladder..." He said sounding so smart.

"Yes, you do that..." Super said. As soon as he went to find his "big ladder", the rest of my crew walked into the building with me."

"That was fun. But what now?" Smash asked.

"I say we check the visitors list, I bet that code guy is on it." I said. So we went over to the guy by the counter to ask him for the list of visitors. "Hello sir, we're looking for the list of visitors, you know, to pay a visit to out friends."

"Okay, here you go." The man at the desk said as he handed the list to us. I scrolled threw the list, I got to the C's.

"Aha! Here, code_root! He's here." I said.

"What room number?" Super asked.

"Let me check," I said as I looked back down at the paper. "Okay, here it is, code_root, room: Right in front of your face!"

"What the heck?" Smash said.

"Muhahaha, you think you can fool me rabbit?" Said the guy at the desk. "Well think again!" He yelled as he ripped off his fake beard and mustache. It was Code!

"Oh dear..." I said. "Run!" We all ran for our life in shook. A guy behind a desk was the the last person I would suspect to be Code.

"Not so fast little rabbit!" Code said has he pulled out his pistil. "Stop rabbit, or I'll shoot!"

"Stop or no stop, you'll shoot either way. Might as well keep running." I said.

"Fine then, you leave me no choice," He said as he squinted his eyes. "three..." But while he was counting down, out came the security guard with his ladder.

"Oh yea babe, I'ma kill that rabbit once and for all!" The security guard said, but then he lifted his head to find my crew and I running towards him. "Yes, time to finish this!" He started running towards us now, we were surrounded with Code with a gun on one side, and the security guard running towards us on the other.

"DUCK!" Smash said as he pushed Alex, Super and I into an elevator which just so happened to open right beside us. The elevator closed, leaving Code and the security guard charging toward each other. BANG! They ran right into each other, and as they bashed, Code accidentally pulled the trigger releasing the bullet, and shooting right to the sealing, causing serous damage to it.

"Look what you did!" Code yelled at the security guard. "I should have never hired you, I-Iero."

"Sorry, you told me to finish him, and that's what I tried to do." Hero said.

"Try isn't good enough Hero." Code said.

"I know sir. I won't fail this time, I know it!" Hero said. "Just make sure they don't leave the building."

"Okay, but what's the plan?" Asked Code.

"Oh, you'll see boss, you'll see." He replied.

Meanwhile, in the elevator.

"What do you think happen to those two?" I asked.

"They probably bashed into each other, causing Code to shoot the gun straight at the sealing." Super said.

"I doubt that." Alex said. "But do any else of you have a weird feeling about that security guard? I mean, just because Rabbit didn't have his ID, doesn't mean he should be out to kill him, right?"

"Now that you mentioned it, that is kind of weird. Do you think the security guard is working with Code?" I asked.

"Could be." Super replied. "But we until we have proof, we can't arrest him."

"Are you say we should follow them and collect proof?" Alex asked.

"Exactly!" He answered.

"Come on, why?" I asked. "I'm tired and scared pf those two huge guys."

"Rabbit...." Alex said.

​"Fine, but just imagine following two people who are out to kill you." I said.

"I wouldn't be scared at all." Smash said trying to tell me there is nothing to be afraid of. It didn't help much though.

"What floor?" Super asked.

"Oh, we're going to the top floor." Alex said.

"Okay." He said as he pressed the for the 175 floor. "Away we go!" He yelled as we started our flight to the top.

 

TO BE CONTINUED!

 

Edited February 27, 2015 by Lhamster

[Remaine 4,687]

Guide to Hulls by @Penguin40

 

Turrets have always been talked about in the newspaper. In every newspaper issue, they are there. But what about hulls? Only the recent hulls series may be a very good guide. So here I am, trying my best to tell people how to use hulls effectively.

Hulls are the second part of your tank. No matter how skilled you are with a turret, the wrong hull makes that turret useless, and vice versa. Hulls mainly differentiate in terms of health, speed and manoeuvreability. This is one reason why hulls do not have variety, and therefore are suggested to be micro upgraded first. There are three categories: light (Wasp and Hornet), medium (Hunter and Viking) and heavy (Titan and Mammoth), with one in-between hull (Dictator). Light hulls are usually used to attack, but make for very good defenders and snipers too, mainly because enemies would use the light hulls to attack! The medium hulls can take up almost any role, from attacking to defense, though Viking's relatively slow speed prevents it from attacking effectively. Heavy hulls are used only for defense, midfield and sometimes assault (taking out enemy defenders. 

One very unnoticed feature of hulls is what turrets can be used with it effectively. Wasp works with nearly all turrets except Twins and Shaft. Hornet, on the other hand, works with both Twins and Shaft, but does not work very effectively with three major turrets Wasp works with: Smoky, Firebird and Ricochet. Hunter works with practically any turret, except maybe Twins. Viking, on the other hand, is effective with only four or five turrets: Twins, Thunder, Freeze, Shaft and maybe Vulcan or Hammer. Dictator works with only three turrets very effectively: Railgun, Thunder and Ricochet. Titan and Mammoth work with very similar turrets: Twins, Thunder and Freeze, and sometimes Shaft. 

Another very overlooked feature is Power, which determines how easily it can push other tanks. Weight determines how hard it is to be pushed. Stability is also a major feature in hulls. Wasp has very low stability, which is also the main reason why it does not work with Twins (yes, stability can also affect number of turrets able to work with it). Hornet has good stability, so flipping may not be as much of a concern. Slower and healthier hulls usually don't flip because of recoil, but instead by low stability when jumping from a high area, though Hunter is still rather easy to flip.

Drift is another feature of hulls. Some turrets and hulls are greatly hindered by drift, others are simply made better, like Hornet-Railgun. All hulls have a certain amount of drift. Drift can often add more skill to a combo, like Hornet-Railgun. 

Manoeuvreability is another feature of hulls. It determines how much the tank can do manouevres. Hulls, mainly the light ones, take skill to control, and this is mainly determined by speed. Obviously, more speed means tougher to control, and tougher to control means a good reward if controlled effectively! Slightly micro upgrading the drift (only one or two parts!) can help a lot, since drift also makes a hull harder to control.

That's about it. If you think I simply talked about what hulls are, no, that's not what I did. Learning the mechanics of hulls can help a lot in using a hull or defeating one!

Edited February 15, 2015 by Remaine

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The Lost Weapon Part 1 and 2 by @Penguin40

 

Smoky XT. A weapon lost in history, forgotten and removed. But where did it originate from?

 

"It was part of a weapon. A lost weapon made from combining all 17 parts of tanks in XT form. It has the features of all the weapons combined, including the recently discovered Shotgun. But the weapon was destroyed, and only their remains were left. The only surviving part was the Smoky XT. If we find the remains, we can recreate the weapon. The remains are swords with powers of the part they are of," a Smoky XT user named Alex Smoke said, as a Bridges CTF battle appears with the Smoky XT in it. Blue Team was winning, and the team in which the Smoky XT was in was Blue Team. The Blue Team's flag was suddenly taken by a Thunder M3 who was rumored to have fitted the Railgun XT sword in his Thunder. The Smoky XT ran after him, but a Railgun had targeted him. When it was about to shoot, a sudden shot deflected him, which turns out to be the Smoky XT's shot. It quickly took the flag and shot the Thunder with the flag. Suddenly, the rest of the tanks escaped just as a gold box dropped. The Smoky collected it, but got horrified when he saw a symbol where the gold box dropped. "The Railgun is somewhere here. I can sense weapon power from here. Penguin!," The Smoky XT suddenly said, as his Smoky XT turned into a Railgun XT. Numbers then appeared at the gold box's drop location, as the Smoky read them, "20-8-5-19-8-15-20-7-21-14." The Smoky tried to work them out, when a voice suddenly called out, "The code says, "The Shotgun"". The Smoky XT looked around to see the Thunder, who wrote it down on a notepad. "It's part of a poem which is the code that unlocks the laboratory which is the hiding place of the Shotgun XT," the Thunder said. Suddenly, both the Smoky and the Thunder vanished and reappeared in Rio, the hiding place of another part. A symbol appeared at the skyscraper, which again changed into numbers. "19-20-18-15-14-5-18-20-8-1-14-5-22-5-18" were the numbers. "Stronger than ever," the Smoky said, as a door to inside the skyscraper opened. Both the Smoky and the Thunder entered in, only to find the Hornet XT about to explode.

"What's this?," Alex came out of his tank and said. A horrified Penguin also came out and said, "Disable this bomb quick!" as he took the cover of the bomb (a fake Hornet XT) out to find out that there are only 30 seconds left for the bomb to explode. Penguin quickly tried to disable the bomb, as a voice from the bomb came, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2...... BOMB DISABLED". An elevator appeared, and Alex, Penguin and a stranger secretly following them went inside the elevator. The stranger suddenly vanished, making both Alex and Penguin suspicious. Alex said, "I think someone is following us." A sudden blow to Alex's forehead knocked him out, leaving him unconscious. The stranger reveals himself to be Penguin's brother, before reappearing. Penguin was horrified, since the stranger was really Penguin's brother who is only known as "XP". The elevator went to the top floor and the elevator's door opened, leaving both Penguin and XP surprised. Alex was standing in front of them with the Isida XT.

 

"What's the meaning of this, Alex? How did you get that Isida XT-S V7 part?," Penguin said. Alex replied, "I teleported. You two did not see. The Isida was here. You jus.," Alex suddenly stopped and he got horrified. "XTS V7? That's the codename of the strongest weapon in history, created by a mysterious type of energy called the Ene-XT," Alex said, horrified, "Whoever is trying to destroy it is trying to destroy the world! Or else they want to kill us to get that weapon, and use it. I think this is someone from the Tank Weapon Defense, a top-secret team dedicated to protecting the world from potential danger. But who? I think Sniper Ralen Scopes, our top sniper may be behind this. But who are you, XP?," he said. The stranger replied, "Waspet Raili, brother of Penguin. I think our top Twins agent Twinton Stwonet may be the one. I've been spying him for years," the stranger said. They went below, and got out, only to find that they were in a different skyscraper. Penguin said, in horror, "China? You said you teleported, Alex, but you just teleported us into the second-tallest skyscraper in the world! What are we doing here, Alex?". He replied, "The Isida was placed here. I have the Railgun, which was in Rio. There's one in the sea of Rio too." The three suddenly teleported to Rio, just close to the ocean. Alex prepared his Railgun XT, and shot into the ocean. A signal came from the shot, as the Freeze XT came out of the ocean, somehow attracted to the shot. "What did you do, Alex? How did the Freeze came out of the ocean, a.." Penguin was speaking, but he was interrupted by a Railgun shot hitting Waspet, who suddenly fell. Penguin and Alex traced the shot, but no one was at the area where the shot came from. The two went there, and found a Twins and Railgun. "Twins XT. Someone combined the two. The Railgun seems to be Twinton's sniping gun given by the TWD for sniping needs. Waspet must be correct, unless it was stolen," Alex said, bringing a face of horror on Penguin and Alex, and a surprised Waspet and someone else behind them. Alex turned to see a suspect. "Sniper?," he said, bringing yet another face of horror on Penguin as well as Waspet.

Edited February 15, 2015 by Remaine

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                              FLIPPING GONE WRONG

                                               by tony990_Superstar

 

Have you ever been flipped on Tanki before by a hammer or a railgun or even a shaft? Thankfully now it’s nearly impossible to flip anybody anymore, but I have a story about a Tanker with a hammer turret trying to flip my friend and I that backfired so badly he left the battle.

 

A few weeks ago I was playing with my friend who I had met in a 2042 battle in November. We were playing on the same team in an epic Monte Carlo match in the English 5 server. The score was 1-0, our team was losing, when the guy with a hammer arrived.

 

I had just upgraded my shaft to an M1, so that would mean that most likely, the firebird (with what appeared to be a Storm paint scheme) who I was targeting at the time would be destroyed. I had locked my aim on him when the shaft flipped me right by the edge of the lower section.

 

Quickly, I warned my friend about this new player and took action. I went into my garage to bring justice to the person by equipping myself with a hammer turret myself. When I got out and was fully equipped with the hammer, I saw that not only had the guy flipped me, but he had flipped my friend too.

 

I took action almost immediately. I snuck up behind him and tried to flip him right behind the flag. My plan was unsuccessful, and I found out right after I shot him that it was because I only had a wasp and my target had a hunter. He turned around quickly and tried to flip me again. The front of my wasp was launched up 30°. I regained my balance, but at that time the distance between the hunter and I was halved, and I had to quickly back up to a spot that I knew was best for defending myself against a hammer.

 

Usually most people figured out that going over the ramp in front of me (see the picture above) would mean I would be able to go under their tank, shoot (sometimes you only need to push) and flip them. This guy had no clue that the chances of him making it over without getting flipped were slight. As the traitor went over the ramp, I moved my tank forward and shot the front of his tank, sending him into a backflip back onto his side. He had been defeated.

 

 

That wasn’t the last of him though. He respawned behind me in the lower deck and I went to the other side of the ramp to flip him again. This time he was smarter though. He didn’t try to go over the ramp. Luckily my friend pushed him toward me until about 35% of his tank was on my side of the ramp, and I pushed him right over. He landed upside down on my friends tank, who then jumped over the ramp in front of me himself as I backed up. The hunter was upside down on the ramp (exactly where I was at in the picture above.)

 

He must've been pretty mad because a few seconds later, a message popped up in the chat saying he had been banned for an hour, so this obviously wasn't the first time that day that he got in trouble. Not only had my friend and I defeated the hunter, but he had been banned too. I looked to the upper right corner of the screen and saw that he had left the battle. We had won THAT battle. The hunter was gone, and his plan had backfired so badly he had to leave the battle.

 

Afterward, my friend and I continued fighting against the REAL enemies for the remaining five minutes of the battle. My friend brought in a flag to tie the game and I shot down one of the snipers a few moments before he was going to shoot somebody else on our team who was taking the flag in. We went on to win the battle 3-1 as someone else on our team at the time captured the flag while my friend and I were battling the rebel, the one who learned a valuable lesson that day: karma will always come back to bite you.

[Superlative 500]

 

 

                              FLIPPING GONE WRONG

                                               by tony990_Superstar

 

Have you ever been flipped on Tanki before by a hammer or a railgun or even a shaft? Thankfully now it’s nearly impossible to flip anybody anymore, but I have a story about a Tanker with a hammer turret trying to flip my friend and I that backfired so badly he left the battle.

 

A few weeks ago I was playing with my friend who I had met in a 2042 battle in November. We were playing on the same team in an epic Monte Carlo match in the English 5 server. The score was 1-0, our team was losing, when the guy with a hammer arrived.

 

I had just upgraded my shaft to an M1, so that would mean that most likely, the firebird (with what appeared to be a Storm paint scheme) who I was targeting at the time would be destroyed. I had locked my aim on him when the shaft flipped me right by the edge of the lower section.

 

Quickly, I warned my friend about this new player and took action. I went into my garage to bring justice to the person by equipping myself with a hammer turret myself. When I got out and was fully equipped with the hammer, I saw that not only had the guy flipped me, but he had flipped my friend too.

 

I took action almost immediately. I snuck up behind him and tried to flip him right behind the flag. My plan was unsuccessful, and I found out right after I shot him that it was because I only had a wasp and my target had a hunter. He turned around quickly and tried to flip me again. The front of my wasp was launched up 30°. I regained my balance, but at that time the distance between the hunter and I was halved, and I had to quickly back up to a spot that I knew was best for defending myself against a hammer.

 

Usually most people figured out that going over the ramp in front of me (see the picture above) would mean I would be able to go under their tank, shoot (sometimes you only need to push) and flip them. This guy had no clue that the chances of him making it over without getting flipped were slight. As the traitor went over the ramp, I moved my tank forward and shot the front of his tank, sending him into a backflip back onto his side. He had been defeated.

 

 

That wasn’t the last of him though. He respawned behind me in the lower deck and I went to the other side of the ramp to flip him again. This time he was smarter though. He didn’t try to go over the ramp. Luckily my friend pushed him toward me until about 35% of his tank was on my side of the ramp, and I pushed him right over. He landed upside down on my friends tank, who then jumped over the ramp in front of me himself as I backed up. The hunter was upside down on the ramp (exactly where I was at in the picture above.)

 

He must've been pretty mad because a few seconds later, a message popped up in the chat saying he had been banned for an hour, so this obviously wasn't the first time that day that he got in trouble. Not only had my friend and I defeated the hunter, but he had been banned too. I looked to the upper right corner of the screen and saw that he had left the battle. We had won THAT battle. The hunter was gone, and his plan had backfired so badly he had to leave the battle.

 

Afterward, my friend and I continued fighting against the REAL enemies for the remaining five minutes of the battle. My friend brought in a flag to tie the game and I shot down one of the snipers a few moments before he was going to shoot somebody else on our team who was taking the flag in. We went on to win the battle 3-1 as someone else on our team at the time captured the flag while my friend and I were battling the rebel, the one who learned a valuable lesson that day: karma will always come back to bite you.

 

 

 

I liked @tony990_Superstar the most.... Good work to all of you! 

Edited March 21, 2015 by Superlative

[Penguin40 1,714]

By the way, my entry's the whole of Part 1. I'll send Part 2 soon. I sent P2 to Conan as my reporter application. I'm pretty excited for having my entry shown!

[tony990_Superstar 68]

I liked @tony990_Superstar the most.... Good work to all of you! 

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Going to try to write another article for the March edition if I can think of an idea.

[jazz20 1,181]

Nice job @Yisroel.Rabin  ^_^ . You're working your way towards Reporter status. Keep it up ;)

[delnina2 1,570]

It was fun to read it ! 

[Penguin40 1,714]

I liked Yisroel's Rabbit Tanker the best. It was very enjoyable and I'm waiting for Part 3!

[CanadaRockz 11]

Me go make bad article and make rem read it

[Remaine 4,687]

K

[deadtoyou 2,502]

K

Changed your nickname again? :P

 

Man, you must have tons of crystals......

[Raredust 454]

^ ikr

[Rodhlann 20]

Wow! This game has everything! Not only has it taught me about strategy and shown me experienced film on how to play, but it also has extra stuff like a monthly Press? I hope I can write an article every month and one day maybe have my own spot on the Press! I LOVE this!

 

Just one question: Is there a difference between a Press member and somebody who writes for Editorials every month? I would like to share my Tanki experiences!

 

But meanwhile, I will read this months Editorials to see if I can brainstorm any ideas.

[Rodhlann 20]

Also, one more question:

 

Can my article be something fictional but still relate to Tanki? (I love writing fictional literature, especially short stories like these.)

[Raredust 454]

- Rodhlann

 

1. Anyone can write an editorial. You just write your own article and send it to Editorials via PM. A Press member, however, is an official Tanki Online reporter. He/she writes articles, along with other reporters, and they're published in the Tanki Online Newspaper. The Press is not currently accepting applications right now.

 

2. Yes, you can.

[Rodhlann 20]

- Rodhlann

 

1. Anyone can write an editorial. You just write your own article and send it to Editorials via PM. A Press member, however, is an official Tanki Online reporter. He/she writes articles, along with other reporters, and they're published in the Tanki Online Newspaper. The Press is not currently accepting applications right now.

 

2. Yes, you can.

Thank you for your help! I will try to write an article for next month. I might even do a series I was thinking about today! Also that is fine if I am not official as long as I can write and have it published in Editorials like the people above.

 

Thank you again for your help!

[Rodhlann 20]

I submitted Part I of a 3-part fantasy series, hopefully it gets accepted!

[Penguin40 1,714]

I wanted to do Part 2 and 3 of The Lost Weapon, but I'm too busy in games. Will try to do the two parts for Issue 34. (hint: they're going to be very exciting, hopefully).

[liverpoolaum 811]

I wanted to do Part 2 and 3 of The Lost Weapon, but I'm too busy in games. Will try to do the two parts for Issue 34. (hint: they're going to be very exciting, hopefully).

good luck

[liverpoolaum 811]

soon i will submit mine

[TriNitroToIuene 4,765]

I submitted two entries - an article about ramps and a story

[Rodhlann 20]

I submitted Book I, Part I of a fantasy series relating to Tanks. Book I will be split up into three parts, and Book II will be the same.

 

Here are my plans:

 

BOOK 1:

Part I- March 2015

Part II- April 2015

Part III- May 2015

 

BOOK 2:

Part I- June 2015

Part II- July 2015

Part III- August 2015

 

I may expand into a third "book" but I probably won't. It depends how these two turn out.