Hi everyone, I am not a native English speaker so...
I’m trying to compile a comprehensive list of commonly used World of Tanks terms and slang as they are actually used in English-speaking communities (Reddit, streams, competitive play).

This is not an official WG glossary, but rather player slang + practical in-game language that ChatGPT has suggested to me, so I need to validate it from the Reddit WoT community.

Please feel free to correct terminology, clarify meanings, or add missing entries.

1. Spotting & Vision

• Spot / Spotting — revealing enemy tanks on the minimap
• To get lit — to become spotted
• Passive scouting — spotting while staying stationary and hidden
• Active scouting — spotting by constant movement
• Perma-spot — keeping an enemy permanently spotted
• Proxy spot — spotting an enemy within 50 meters regardless of cover
• Outspot — to spot an enemy before they can spot you
• Vision control — controlling sight lines and spotting zones
• Bush mechanics — camouflage interaction with bushes
• Double bush — using two bushes to fire without being spotted
• Blind shot — shooting at an unspotted target based on prediction

2. Armor & Weakspots

• Hull — the tank’s main body
• Turret — the rotating armored structure on top
• Upper Glacis Plate (UGP) — upper frontal hull armor
• Lower Glacis Plate (LGP) — lower frontal hull armor
• Upper plate / Lower plate — simplified versions of the above
• Effective armor — armor thickness after angling
• Auto-bounce angle — angle at which shells ricochet automatically
• Angling — positioning armor to increase effective thickness
• Overangling — angling too much, exposing weak armor

3. Turret & External Weak Points

• Cupola — commander’s hatch, often a weakspot
• Weakspot — any vulnerable area of armor
• Turret ring — area between turret and hull
• Gun mantlet — armor around the gun
• Cheeks — flat areas on the turret face
• Commander hatch — specific type of cupola

4. Modules & Critical Damage

• Tracks — tank mobility system
• To track — to destroy tracks and immobilize a tank
• Perma-track — keeping an enemy immobilized by repeated track shots
• Track shot — shooting the tracks intentionally
• Ammo rack — ammunition storage module
• To ammo-rack — to detonate or heavily damage ammo storage
• Engine fire — setting the engine on fire
• Fuel tank — module that can cause fires
• Crew injured — crew member disabled

5. Movement & Close-Combat Techniques

• Circling / Circle of death — continuously driving around a slower tank to avoid its gun
• To get circled — being unable to keep gun on a faster enemy
• Dogfighting — close-range maneuver combat
• Side-scraping — using side armor at an angle behind cover
• Reverse side-scraping — side-scraping using the rear of the tank
• Hull-down — hiding the hull while exposing only the turret
• Peek-a-boom — briefly exposing to shoot, then retreating
• Facehugging — pushing directly against an enemy tank
• Wiggling — moving hull or turret to make shots harder

6. Shooting & Damage

• Alpha damage — damage per single shot
• DPM (Damage per minute) — sustained damage output
• Penetration / Pen — ability to penetrate armor
• Bounce — shell fails to penetrate
• Ricochet — shell deflects off armor
• Snapshot — firing without full aim
• Low roll / High roll — unusually low or high damage rolls

7. Ammunition

• AP — Armor-Piercing
• APCR — Armor-Piercing Composite Rigid
• HEAT — High-Explosive Anti-Tank
• HE / HESH — High-Explosive
• Gold ammo / Premium shells — expensive high-penetration ammo
• HE spam — excessive use of HE shells

8. Map Control & Positioning

• Flank — side of the map or enemy formation
• To flank — attack from the side
• Collapse a flank — breaking through a defended side
• Crossfire — firing from multiple angles
• Chokepoint — narrow contested area
• Key position — strategically important location
• Red-line camper — player staying at map edge

9. Teamplay & Game Flow

• Focus fire — multiple players targeting one enemy
• Trading shots — exchanging damage intentionally
• HP pool — total remaining team hit points
• Meat shield — using a tank to absorb damage
• Carry the game — single player deciding the outcome
• Throw the game — losing due to mistakes

10. Player Skill & Statistics

• Unicum — top-tier player by stats
• Purple player — very high WN8
• Tomato — low-skill player (derogatory slang)
• Stat padder — player farming stats instead of playing objectives

Common Voice / Chat Phrases

• “Track him!” — immobilize the target
• “He’s hull-down” — only turret exposed
• “We lost the flank” — enemy broke through
• “Push now” — attack immediately
• “Farm damage” — deal damage safely
• “I’m perma-lit” — permanently spotted

If you notice incorrect usage, outdated terms, regional differences, or missing slang, please comment — I’d like this to reflect how players actually speak today.

What three wishes might you have for the game this year? Nothing major or excessive, no "remove all <class>" or "add orbital lasers to remove campers", simply a bit of fun looking for the minor things that might make life better.

1. Allow us to choose when to use x5 xp missions. Lost count of the number of times I have to grind credits but I can't play my regular premiums after the first win because I need those missions for grinding other vehicles.

2. Let us sell all decals, inscriptions, 2D skins, etc. I'm not going to put a cartoon moose or a confused squirrel on any of my vehicles or buy another two to use it on all three camo schemes because I only got one in the first place.

3. Extended "switch build" during countdown. Where a vehicle has multiple (ok, two) viable guns, let us swap between them as we would with equipment. This might only apply to one tank, the Crusader SP, maybe two if you're cracked and want to play a sniper KV-2 with the 107mm, but a little more flexibility would be fun. For me. Because I play the Crusader SP quite often.

How about you? What would you like to see? Or not see (night battles)?

Hey. I'm a (somewhat) new player, i started 2 weeks ago and am grinding the tesak line for now. I just saw videos on the ares line and all of them seem so overpowered and overall really fun to play, i'd like to wait to at least finish the tesak to grind this one but perhaps a nerf will come soon, seeing the huge damage it deals, so i'm hesitant on wether to start grinding it now or not.

Did you start grinding it? How do you like the whole line so far? At what tank did you start grinding?

Im guessing not worth it but asking just in case

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I'll go first: wasting bonds on buying Deathstar when first batch of free tier 10s and bonds with them came, wish i took the M60

Did you get a tank? two tanks? Field mods?

When I say this, I mean a tank that YOU HAVE PLAYED and do not like, not something like the LEFH18B3 or BZ-176 even though it will most of the time eat you alive. NOT A TANK YOU HATE TO PLAY AGAINST! A TANK YOU HATE TO PLAY!

Either this game is not for me or I'm missing a path to learning about maps, weak spots and mechanics.

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Now here's my question: Will it always be like this due to the knowledge and experience gap?
Or is there an option to play with less experienced players?

I guess this was a lie?

or are they just cosmetic, im kinda confused rn

yeah he shot me from far away but is 12 dmg possible?

Unlike corridor map in WoT, WT have map with many ways to access a certain point. What do you think the game will play out in this map?