Gun Depression - The minimum elevation a gun (In simple terms, how much the gun can aim down) Gun Elevation - The maximum elevation of a gun (In simple terms, how much the gun can aim up) Grinding - Repeated playing to earn experience to research. This can be done to hide your lower weak spots on heavy armored vehicles. This takes the angle of the armor into account, thus making the encountered armor thicker, or thinner.ДЇlanker - A tank that can flank around other tanks with speed or maneuverability, or the combo of speed, armor, and firepower to push through a flank.ДЇace Hugging - A term in which one vehicle drives up and 'hugs' the opposing vehicle. This is used to calculate how much damage a certain gun can pump out in one minute.Д®ffective Armor - The actual thickness of the armor encountered by a shell. Powerful enough to one-shot some tanks at its tier and below.ДPM - Short for Damage Per Minute. Though some tanks will need to play passively, this terms usually refers to frontline style tanks 'sniping' or sitting back rather than helping.Дerp Gun - A gun that is powerful, somewhat inaccurate, and large calibre gun. Tracks)Д¬amping - Sitting in one spot and stationary. However, when attempting to penetrate angled armor, it normalizes less: 3 degrees.ДЄctive Scout - A scout that engages contacted targets while at the same time spotting targets for his/her teammates.Д¬ritical Hit - Saying by Commander for a tank module hit (e.g. This type of ammo is premium ammo for most tanks and some high-tiered tanks carry this ammo as standard. Like AP, it relies on velocity and mass to penetrate, though unlike AP, it travels much faster and it is lighter, but loses more penetration as distance than AP since it weighs less. Also note that this shell always normalizes by 5 degreesДЄPCR - Short for Armor Piercing Composite Rigid. Some SPGs carry this type of shell as secondary or premium ammo. This, however, results in penetration being lost over a distance. AP relies on mass and velocity to punch through armor. This type of shell is the standard and primary ammo for most direct fire guns. Damage per shot tends to have low alpha but overall, high burst damage per clip.ДЄP - Short for Armor Piercing. Like the autoloader, it shoots clips of rounds, but at a much faster rate. In simple terms, a machine gun like armament.

This explains the two ammo racks that appears in the tank damage indicator.ДЄmmo Racking/Racked - Other term for explosion of ammo rackДЄutocannon - Not to be confused with autoloader.

A so-called 'readyrack' is placed near the gun. Not to be confused with Autocannon.ДЄmmo Rack - The area where ammunition is mainly stored. Alpha - The average damage per shot of a certain gun.ДЄutoloader - A gun that fires a clip of rounds and then reloads that same clip.

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