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The Man, Walter Christie

For someone known as "The Father of the Modern Tank," John Walter Christie has an impressive life story. Compared to his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Christie was a cross between a brilliant inventor and an adrenaline junkie.

Initially a naval architect, he did consulting work for passenger lines, pioneered early submarine designs, and developed a new turret-track design for battleships. He later developed some of the first horseless fire engines. When WWI broke out, he returned to military inventing, trying to sell a prototype gun carriage to the Army.

Christie’s proposal was rejected by the Ordnance Board, but he found success after presenting a groundbreaking amphibious tank prototype to the Marine Corps in 1924 . While they liked the tank, the military was less than happy with its cross-country ability, and the personality of Christie himself, who had brilliant ideas, but an unshakeable belief in his own superiority. With help and support from a young George Patton, Christie devoted himself to developing a design to solve the mobility issue, and was able to sell seven models of his tanks to the Ordnance Board.

The tank he designed was too revolutionary for the times. It could travel 60 MPH on tracks (faster on just the roadwheels if the tracks were removed) and was capable of climbing a 2 ½ foot wall or crossing a 7 foot trench. The board refused to adopt it as a standard model or pay for more vehicles.

Discouraged, Christie sunk more of his money into the design and sold two tanks to the Soviet Union, who called it the "Christie-Russki"and enthusiastically adopted both the design and mobile armor tactics it was meant for. The British took an interest in his designs as well, and British Covenanter, Crusader, and Comet cruiser tanks can trace their lineage directly from Christie’s concept of a fast tank with sloped armor, a fighting turret, and good cross-country mobility.
Walter Christie Weekend

Event Starts: 04:30 PDT (07:30 EDT) May 3, 2013

Events Ends: 04:00 PDT (07:00 EDT) May 6, 2013

In honor Walter "Father of the Tank" Christie's birthday this weekend, we have put a number of vehicles he had some part in the creation of on discount throughout the weekend. In addition, we've got x2 Crew Experience, discounts on Premium, and much, much more!
x2 Crew Experience
Premium Account Discount

3 days for 350
7 days for 650

Up to 50% Credit and Gold Discount for Premium Ammo
15,000 Bonus for Earning the Invader Medal
30% Discount and 30% Credit Increase Per Battle for the Following Vehicles

VII Comet Comet VII SU-100M1 SU-100M1 VII T-34-1 T-34-1
50% Discount and 80% Credit Increase Per Battle for the Following Vehicles
II BT-2 BT-2 II Cruiser Mk. III Cruiser Mk. III III Cruiser Mk. IV Cruiser Mk. IV III BT-7 BT-7 III T-46 T-46 IV A-20 A-20 IV Covenanter Covenanter V Crusader Crusader V Type T-34 Type T-34 V SU-85 SU-85 VI SU-100 SU-100** VI Cromwell Cromwell**

**These vehicles will only receive a 80% Credit Increase, but no Credit Discount
Resources

1) Larrabee, Eric. Commander in chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lieutenants, and their war. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 416. Print.

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NO discount on BT-7 WHYYYY?????????

 

Nice video For me Tiger was one of the best moving bunkers in war

 

Yeah uninstall XVM and play plootons you will feel better in one sec

 

M3 Lee is worse overall but have better gun

 

That video was on this forum But its good anyway

 

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http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33979-special-walter-christies-birthday.html
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http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33973-how.html
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A video containing any game or game genre x1: (10 pts)
http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33987-video-world-tanks-goes-live.html#post463285

 

Only Cruiser Mk. III will get some money for me. XD

 

In game tiger is very flammable when hit by arty. XD
And in real world tiger is good, but king tiger is better. XD

 

5 posts in any forum at Game Forums - GameOgre.com Free MMORPG Forums that is not trivia = 50 Points

http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33966-i-wonder-part-20-a.html
http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33979-special-walter-christies-birthday.html
http://www.gameogre.com/forums/worl...tiger-panzerkampfwagen-vi-tiger-1-ausf-e.html
http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33984-developer-q-3rd-may-2013-a.html
http://www.gameogre.com/forums/world-tanks/33972-world-tanks-pro-league-half-way-through.html

 

Let me answer that with one detail from the yesterday's stream.

During the breaks in between games, the 2 commentators turn to her to see if she got questions from players on the chat, and she was like "just a moment, I need to check how our pancake poll is doing" xD .
She actually made a poll on her facebook page about which you like more, steak, sushi or pancakes and asked players who were supposed to be watching the stream about it xD . The facepalm of both commentator guys when they heard what she was up to was an epic one xD

 

Polan, don't you know that lying is a bad thing?

 

Yeah, it's 2 early for an auction, we still need to see how will the season progress

 

If same tier would you pick Heavy Tank or Medium Tank for 1v1 on T8?

 

If you could go on only one T8 tank would that be AMX 50 100 or T32?

For the sake of the argument let`s say that you wont go further than T8 EVER and it has to be one of those two.

 

I love Terraraia, I am glade to hear its coming out for the Xbox. Cant wait to get it.

 

I love Terraraia, I am glade to hear its coming out for the Xbox. Cant wait to get it.