A guide for teachers.
Welcome to another gaming review/teacher-tutorial on the game World of Tanks(WoT) developed by Wargamming inc. Wargaming has three different vehicle based warfare game, World of planes, World of tanks, and World of Warships. Thankfully all of these games are completely free, and can simply be downloaded and played. However, Today, however, we’ll just be focusing on World of Tanks(WoT), which is a pre-21st century tank warfare game. Using historically accurate tanks like the Tiger I, and King Tiger.There are a total of seven different nation each with unique tanks to play, all tanks fit into five different categories: Heavy Tanks, Medium Tanks, Light tanks, tank destroyers, and SPG(Self-propelled Guns, also known as arties or clickers). You can then engage in tank vs tank warfare in 15 vs 15 matches on various maps. The goal of each match is to either capture(cap) the enemies base or destroy all of their tanks.
How well has the game stood up in the gaming community? Fairly well, it was released around 2010, and really hasn't lost any support from the players. It’s being played on a competitive level, and the Wargaming has received several top notch gaming medals for the game.
The actual game-play of WoT is quite complex, a video of high level game play can be found here. This game-play is of the highest tiered vehicles: T10. There are ten tiers in WoT, allowing tanks throughout history to be broken up into fare levels of play. An example of this is the mighty Tiger I, which you may have heard that during WWII it was able to one shot m4 Sherman's and T-34s 1000 meters away. Which is where it earned it fame. However, in WoT Tiger I’s are placed with similar leveled tanks(I.E they all have fairly equal damage, armor and health) making it so the tiger I can’t one shot tanks. In fact let me show you WoT’s German tank line:
As you can see the tech tree is massive containing almost all of germany's tanks, even experimental and theoretical. If you look closely you can see the Tiger 1, a tier seven heavy tank. Thanks to WoT's game placements the tank gets put into t7(tier “x”) and up matches effectively separating it from lesser tanks like the t4 Panzer.III.
So how can you use this to educate your students? Well I’ll give three examples, but mind you there are a lot more out there.
- example 2: Ever had trouble with students understanding why scientific names exits? tank tree's e and many fold of tanks are a great example as to why specific names are required.
- example 3: what's a better way to explain physics to students then through a game that uses advanced physics to blow things up? Hint…. there isn’t. Anyway in WoT theres an advanced physics system for shell penetration, shell drop, ramming, and jumping( yes you can jump tanks).
So we've talked about the pros for WoT in education, but what about the cons? Well there are, sadly, a few cons to discuss.
- Problem one: Getting your school to allow you to use this fantastic game?
- This is indeed a big problem and one that I’m not entire positive with. But I’m pretty sure that if you can link your standards to the game, which I’ve already done in my handy dandy standard specific guides. You may convince them to let you use it.
- Problem two: Not understanding how to use the game?
- this is a good concern, but have no fear… Because I’M BAT… nah but I have created some really hand guides that help guide you through using the game in your classroom including an installation and first day in WoT guide found here and here(WIP, heh).
- Problem three:ha there isn't one
As always the infamous and semi-professional paladin of education gaming: Palacia signing off, hope you enjoyed the guide and email me at cymeks.hun@gmail.com if you need anything at all.
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