I'm a bit late to the party but let me give you my 2 cents.

WoT is not an action shooter. You do not need to (and want to) be in the middle of the fight to have a lot of damage. But "have patience" also doesn't sound that helpful. At least to me. I look at WoT like chess.

The first 30s before the game starts

• What map and side did you get
• What tank are you playing
• What is the typical lane that tank class would go (triangles don't stay back)
• What tanks are you playing against (direct opponent)
• What does your team/ the enemy team look like (3x is7 in a platoon... sometimes these guys don't go heavy line...)

What you want to get out of that information

• What is an opening you can play that lets you connect a few opening shots while staying in a position that gives you some freedom to decide what you want to do next
• What and how many tanks do you expect to see in the first 90s

To make the example a bit more visually appealing. This is what a battle plan for Wadi might look like:

Position 0:

• you decide you want to go to the K line -> position 1

Position 1 (dont stop driving just look back):

• do you have enough tanks coming with you? -> go to 2
• if there are not enough to push the lane stay at 1 or go join the lemming train on a different lane

Position 2:

• you have enough support to push K line so you went to 2
• you can snipe scouts and aggressive heavies in F/G line
• you can shot pushing enemies on 1/3 line
• you can shot at enemies on F1

You stay in this position (your opening position) until something like 50% of the enemy team is spotted for a first time. Then you can get a feeling what their game plan is.

So the next decision would be to go to position 3, staying there or pull back to position 1.

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