Honestly surprised how few people know about carrying at least a few HE rounds, it is really useful. (kiwipotato)

With the tank repair thing, even if you don't wait out the full free repair, the more time spent repair the less it costs to repair. If you know it's your last battle for the day, you can still save plenty of credits just for the reduction of letting it repair for the ~8 hours you sleep for.

Here's a tip: never count on your armor. If you're new for example, tanks aren't these indestructible driving fortresses, they get knocked out easily. Your armor is usually just a last resort type of defense. Unless you're a jumbo, if so just use your front armor like it's bedrock. (though on higher tiers the jumbo armor can get penned by a lot more vehicles, including panthers, which are rather common.)

A few more tips. 1. If you are behind a hill, the binocular's viewing point is a bit higher than the gun sight, allowing you to peak without exposing your tank. Meanwhile using the 3rd person view allows you to see even more when you pair up with the free view button. Same applies to peaking over a corner. Turn your camera 45 degrees inward will allow you to corner peak. 2. SPAA aiming guide. Watch your SPAA replay after each game to see how you can improve your aim. 3. One possible reason to bring under-tiered vehicles is to bring something 5.0 br lower than your enemy (not the match br, but the enemy you are killing). This gets you godmode achievement and gives you 20k SL and can be increased with boosters.

We all needed this video when we first started warthunder. Now the more experienced players will know basically everything in this video, but for new players this is gold!

I'd like to share some of my most frequented tips on German tanks. 1.) ALWAYS utilise terrain and cover. Even side scraping your tank may save you from AP rounds, and as added plus, you survive longer! (except for top tier where german MBT's have mostly paper sides.) 2.) Remember your tank's strengths and weaknesses, and use them to your advantage. Take for example, the Panzer 4 G, the Panther and the Leopard 1(7.3). The Panzer 4 G is suited to brawling as it can easily juke a shot and force a bounce, combined with its decent firepower it can penetrate anything. But the Panther is more suited to longer range engagements as it's mediocre armour and less than ideal reverse speed may hinder it's capabilities in urban environments where it can be flanked easily compared to hiding hull down behind a hill. The Leopard 1 is a jack of all trades, master of none tank as it's one of the most mobile MBT's of the BR. It can easily reposition itself in a annoying spot where it can harrass the enemy team with its high penetrating APDS combined with good ballistics. It's tradeoffs is that it isn't as armoured as the Panther's and Tiger's and many new players don't notice that. 3.) In top tier, it's always a good idea to bring a SPAA (Gepard, Wiesel) that can either knock out tanks or scout. Helping your team reduce the numbers of the enemy or scouting them out is very useful, and you may also get the occasional helicopter kill! (This only applies for when you have run out of spawn points, please don't leave on us we need you 😭) 4.) For the love of god, don't spawn in a Low Tier Tank in top tier, unless you have a squadmate who is decent and can cover your ass. (This is self explainatory.) (Shadowpelt1)

If you have a hybrid power system like Ferdinand or Tiger P, you can rush in more than with a simple Tiger, because you can also very easily retreat. Also, using these tanks in arcade usually means that CAS bombing wont hurt you, because you can always just press S and get out of there faster than most other tanks.

A tip Id like to add With tanks that have stabilizers in midtiers like the shermans, you can set it to move at CC 1 so that you can VERY reliably shoot on the move when pushing into an area without having to stop instead of jitter moving in or full speeding in. Best case scenario is if you also meet an enemy pushing in because you will always get the first shot on them

I agree about APCR being almost completely useless but in some case like facing Tiger 2H and Ferdinand while you’re playing T-44. It can be helpful to bring a few APCR that actually have much higher penetration than APHE to get gunner and driver out when encountering them from the front ( HasegawaKazumi )

Smoke shell tip; on urban maps you can hit high up on the nearby buildings. The smoke will mess with CAS, but if high enough, enemies on the ground are still visible. Another tip; don’t shoot at everything you see. Pick your shots. Doubly true for AA.

The first tip I think it was will actually be super useful, thanks mate! Wonghy

Thank you so much for some of these tips, lots of psychology stuff I really don't pay attention to, thank you man, definatly subbed now(:

These tips are super helpful, thanks man!

These are some awesome tips and it really helps. Thank you ❤

During test flights, you can practice dropping bombs from different angles of approach. You should practice in the same way as is usual in the game. You remember the return fire and fly as if you were being shot at. The replays after a game then show you where the bombs landed. I often hit tanks directly on the roof, for example, with a bomb and could then see what happened in the replay. Gaijin didn't make provisions for this case and so it happens that there is a graphic bug on a regular basis. Yesterday I hit a panther directly from above and the bomb stayed in the air while the panther drove on. But not so far that it wasn't destroyed by the blast (1000 lb)

Thanks for making this. it helped me a lot :)

I would like to mention that another really helpful crew skill is repair speed. The reloads don't matter if your guns are broken

A good tip for naval, if you know you cant penetrate the main belt of an enemy using SEP or APHE, use HE and target the bridge, funnels and secondary weaponry , thus crippling the enemy as they cant change steering direction if you hit the bridge, are slower if you hit the funnels, and cant suppress lighter vessels and CAS if you knock out the secondary weapons, plus you can easily start fires which slow down repair and eliminate crew. Ogaly_Bogaly

Thank you so much for this video, It really helped me. Mainly that part, how to fire over the hills by using binoculars. THX

Thanks for the video mate very helpful 🎉❤

Excellent video and well done covering so many tips

I've been playing ground forces for the past 5 months and didn't know that I could take away the grass xD So, you've got a new sub! :) (El_Rolfo)

Great video with good info 👍Definitely excited what more content you put out! Name: Cookiescool2 I came into this video thinking I wouldn't learn anything but now I feel dumb for not knowing?? That being said WarThunder's tutorial system and UI I think often prevents newer players from even taking the time to explore some of the settings and options they have beyond in-game tactics.

Thanks man you helped me a lot😊

actually useful tips and thanks for showing the keybinds (spinmyturntables)

A tip that I have learned, don't panic move whenever in a SMALL vehicle if there is CAS up especially if you're in an open-top like the ASU-57. Either position yourself in a covered or obstructed area, if that is not possible sometimes just staying still will help more than trying to dodge a patrolling plane. Their vision is based on movement... sometimes. However, if you have already been spotted or have been netting kills REPOSITION. Some newer players will see a spot working then stay there leading to eventual flanking or CAS runs, don't ever stay in one place too long. Also if a plane is coming in to strafe you, try to drive towards the plane. This will, most of the time lead to them pulling off before they can complete a full run or will make them crash into the ground trying to get you. You might not survive but getting CAS down is always worth more in the long run.

Man the smoking yourself tip was so accurate..the amount of players I've seen smoke up AFTER I hit them and saw them, allowing me to just keep shooting at them while they blinded themselves is crazy...or the amount of teammates smoking up for a 10 sec repair, blinding himself AND me, making sure we cant take out threats is rage inducing..

That corner shooting is so useful man, and also very cheeky, I love it lol (Germ_XAloeVera, PC)

so many good tips, in your vid and comments. If you are playing with the USA side in Realistic Ground, always pack the m22. it is good at getting the points and, if you sneaky, can pen ALOT of tier 5 tanks thus making you quite alot of SL. happy hunting!

These tips are really great for newer player who haven't played the game as much, but the ones that helped me the most were one about engagement positions, I often play Russia so gun depression is an issue I have, and the tip to just move to an adjacent hill is simple but true, and the one to use smoke grenades to help with stalemates was great too.

‘The closer you get, the worse it becomes.’ And proceeds to say ‘if it works against you, get closer.’

This is actually very helpful thank you

I really like the shade you threw at repair times on Tip #17. Really runs in the face of those people who says "turn auto-repair off to save money", when the repair time is 16 days... Wow, amazing, I can play this vehicle in two matches per month, 24 matches per year. So efficient. Saving much money.

i already knew every single one of these but good video nonetheless. Great for players just getting into the game and really well explained on your part. Also, Sugarcoated_

One of the best tips i have for new players is to stop rushing and learn to spod a good position on the map, I see most people rush to another part of the map after capping a point but an experienced player could set up a choke point on the route that other players would take. Basically easy kills but it doesn't mean you are camping, and also might be boring a bit so yeah. But definitely its a good thing to slow down from time to time and just find a good place to ambush enemies since most tanks are really good and this or are made for this task like most low tier ifvs(E.G. bmp 1 since it doesn't have a stabliazer) and some tank destroyers that arent that good on the move:) in game nick is GalaxyZi

Just discovered this channel and I can't believe you have this little subs. You deserve more! Also I like your straight to the point video style. As a fairly new WT player your vid was quite helpfull Kokosz2004

If you're an IS-1 or 2 or object 244, your rear armor is better as the engine will rarely get set on fire for some reason, has a sloped upper rear plate and will bounce shots even if it shouldn't be possible.

Wow this helped so much thank you:)

quick and simple, thank you for not dragging the video out on unnecessary stuff, straight to the point lol i like that Employedmemester

no sure i would agree on the leadership priority, i would take targeting, driving and maybe rangefinding (if you've trouble with distances) bc leadership is really expensive and even if maxed would only contribute 10% to reload time which is only really noticeable on tanks like kv-2, is-2 etc does the map ban in squad really work? that would be so awesome. i know that with the server collection it always uses the selection of the squad leader. i would agree with everything else though oh and i didn't now about auto jettison thx for that good video overall. to the point and well presented a sub well earned ign: B4mL33

Dude!!! Honestly this info much better than other sources I saw before)))

5:05 ayo that's me in that panther A (helpful video btw)

this is the first video ive seen of yours and i think ill be sticking around! keep up the good work! (dragonvansword)

For range estimation you can also use cap points so if your good at converting or easier yet keep it in km because 1 km = 1000 in your gun sight.

another tip, if you die and you know where the enemy was, you can hold alt while its showing the enemy for the brief moment after you died, and drag the cursor over to the minimap and mark the location of them

Yooo i did not know some of these nice thanks man Stormfly698

10:40 even better, when turning at high speed in a tracked vehicle, release W before starting the turn, it causes your tank to slide and pivot more then actually turn and helps maintain your speed while also increasing your turning speed. Does not work on all tanks, works best with lightweight tanks but even my maus seems to turn faster that way. It goes for slow speed to, when you spawn instead of holding A or W and A to turn left, hold W for a split second until your tank is rolling forwards, then let go of W and press A. This gives your tank momentum to swing through the turn instead of relying on only the engine power to turn it.

The German tanker M.Wittman, and his crew, was very proficient at turning the hull of his tiger to help turret rotation, it became second nature to them since they first manned the casemate stug during operation Barbarossa. (Haymarket)

Tbh I found out that you can use HE shots and lob them over areas you want the shrapnel to hit, for example, I sometimes willingly shoot the hood of tanks with HE so I can propel the shrapnel up to the gunner which I found sometimes penetrates better than advertised, you can even take out engines as well this way you need to know that the initial impact may not do that much but with the shrapnel, You can get a good hit and blow him up 😂

Note that sidescraping works best in lower br games, as chemical ammo and darts will gnaw through extremely angoed armor, also that since most MBT's have little to no sidearmor compared to their fronts so using your front to bait might work better at times, ideal scenario would be if you could use your turret or not get seen at all in the first place (Tankrider1241)

2:35 no, do NOT angle the IS, because the IS-1 and IS-2 have built-in sloped sides, and by angling you make these flat and give the enemy an easy kill. Also do not angle the IS-3 because of its pike nose, which is best working when you dont angle. For the Panthers, angle just a little bit, if you angle too much some shells (like the D-5T shell) can go through the side and kill you. Nick: RoboGen123

2.8K hours and this vid was still very helpful, some good info on breaking stalemates is always nice! PC Username: Sir_Human

Really nice quality video, and amazing advice It really helped me out in ground RB, however, since I’m now trying out air RB, so can you make a video for air RB advice? Thank you (SeptilSG)

I'm going to take this tips to be better.. BTW, GadoKo is my name on the game mate, hi from MX!

Insane tip: If you are playing a tank with a stabilizer always priority the Brake System and Suspension modifications, they are the most useful trust. Jokes aside if the stock grind is too painful just go for tier 1 APFSDS instead of Parts if you need to. Also the Engine modification is basically Transmission and Filters modifications in one. (Boltzxx)

About shooting from binocylar - it's better to hold LMB and then doubleclick B. This way you will momentally return in binocular and perfectly see where your shell just felt

actually some useful tips that have helped me out, thank you.

Also turning off the auto repair always is a good way of spending slightly less SL, as it will always ask you to repair the vehicle before going into battle, thus if you spend even 20 minutes and then return to play, it will help slightly in the SL spending.

For the new players, don’t try to rush the point with a light or fast moving tank. It may work sometimes, but you can get a lot more kills by flanking and finding a good spot to pick off targets. (Cognos1203)

One thing I learned too was to set up commander firing, so if your gunner is knocked out, you can still shoot

Ufonarancs I'm still new here on the channel but I like your videos. I hope you keep uploading videos for a long time. (I came from Hungary.)

Pro Tip: To improve your win rate, don't just leave the match after only 1 death but try to respawn in other vehicles. Even if they aren't as good as your first spawn, your respawn might just be what your team needs to win the game! (NoXium)

Thx for the tips, im 100% going to use them.

Also another good tip with crew upgrade stamina it helps your pilot recover from g lock faster if i remember correctly

Good to finally see someone else talking about the grass in tank sight tip, it's so helpful and the game still looks great, unlike using ULQ. (ImAFatCheezIt)

4:06 As for turning off automatic repair (and also automatic ammo resupply if you really want to save SL), it saves you quite a significant amount of SL no matter how often you play. Even by just going to pee between games, the repair cost will tick down by a few SL which you will then save. You literally lose nothing and in the long term save SL. You can do calculations for how much you will save based on your tier and how often you play etc, but it is definitely worth it for anyone since you don't lose anything by doing it.

Thanks for all the pro tips, it helped me alot :> (peakka)

these tips for war thuder actually helped me a lot for great CCCP Bias

Pro tip: On the Tiger H1/E take the lesser pen shell as it has a huge amount of post pen damage and will easily on shot anything you shoot, anywhere on the tank, it's very helpful for shooting spaced out crews and shooting cupola's BonVion

My little tip would be to keep in mind that on the snow maps, the actual ground ground is a few inches below the snow, meaning that on hills you're able to shoot through the very top layer of snow even if your reticle shows that the ground would stop the round. SnancFafcok

thank you for the tips, first one helps me alot lol

Just subbed. I just started playing War Thunder, my best tank is a 3.0, and I'm going for the second stug rn

Small tip for farming plane research: Play bombers in Air RB. Just mark the base you want to take, allign yourself with it and wait it out. Bombing bases gives good research and SL. You can just watch youtube or eat a meal while flying towards it, and once you're close to the base just drop your bombs and head back to your airfield. It's very unlikely you will be able to go again so you can either wait it out or just J out. Is it boring? Yes. Is it effective? Yes. (QuiteMunchy)

HANDBRAKE-- keymap left/right handbrake in control settings for Q and E (if you are not using them). Alot of tanks turn faster than normal when you use W and left/right handbrake. especially if the tank has poor neutral steering/ reverse speed. use this for increased mobility, faster armour angling or faking out a Cas bomber just before he drops his bombs. (EvoComBlue)

Hi there ! Nice vidéo and tips ! Some i've already hot some of them but still appreciable ! (Laegthir in game !)

The very first tip about the corners , that's new for me , even after years of War Thunder , I just manage to assault them by surprise but usually it gets tense and I get stuck in a situation where the oher guy either waits for me , or he might flank me! I also have a friend which needs help with Wt and I'll send him this video! Patriot_Alffy69

Targeting is actually the most important crew upgrades you can fully upgrade first and you must as it doubles the turret rotation speed and its cheaper to max out compared to any of the mentioned in this video In addition: some nations gets early auto-loader which negates the need to upgrade the loader

I have been playing for so much with so many euros spent on this damn game and possibly didn't know half of them, thanks for all of this! My nickname is Jorkhin!

thank you so much for this wonderful guide

The best tips for a beginner frr Verry good video dude

Tysm I'm a new player and this was helpful

In game nickname is flabySPARTAN Some tips you can use test drive and xray to test out how many shells is optimal for your tank to have or your willing to risk. Like if you know you have a weak spot with ammo behind it test how many shells you have to give up to not have ammo there if possible. Also learn enemy tank weak spots by remembering the names of tanks you struggle with and search it in the research menu top right and hit enter to see all, find the one you need click to go to it, right click it, preview, go to the armor protection analysis, change the threat to the nation, rank, vehicle, and ammo type, click save choice so you don't have to find your vehicle every time, and hit protection map it will paint the tank bright green were you can pen it from the angle you have the camera at helped me a ton starting out hope it helps someone else too.

Thank you for tips but can you make a video how to get your souls back from the snail

damn, coming back to this game after a long brake with WOT, your video inspired me to do so... time for some heli games :DDD (Georges68)

This was so helpful, already using it in game

dispite being in the 2.5 brs, the BT-7 (a 1.7rbtank) holds up great. mainly do it its speed and large/heavy rounds

do you have any tips on noticing enemies faster in realistic ground battles? I dont have such good vision

i carry at least A few HE and AP (CaptMadman). also keep up the great Content

As an experienced WT player I still find videos like this very helpful. Great work, everything nicely explained :) That pro tip with an engine smoke and thermals is my favourite, I use it very often and bait my enemies into a trap Nickname: Maverick_Fulcrum

AccursedSniper Tip for Air players: If you’re in a head on dive down instead of rolling left or right. Doing this makes it harder for your enemy to track you and keep guns on you. Also US top tier players…. Shoot lower plate or above the cannon barrel on Russian tanks this will almost always net a kill or disable the enemy enough to kill or have a teammate finish them.

4:52 what’s interesting about this is America’s 8.0 lineup, which is 5-6 ground vehicles strong. However, bringing more than 3 of them guarantees 100% full uptiers.

Already subbed so here is a comment. Also im trash thanks for the tips

most of these are really useful, thank you

I honestly thought, most of those tips were just common sense or physics tbh. But still a nice compilation to help less experienced players (WadikJuunge)

2 tips that i got is : 1. Whenever you play top tier russian and need depression over the hill, use your dozer to to change the ground that allow you to depress the gun 2. When you use anti air, try to bait the plane by firing 1 bullet every 4 seconds, the enemy will think that you're tank firing it's main gun but in reality, you are a gepard XD (i love doing this)

Wow, this was actually very helpful!

Damn why you have so little subscribes, you doin great content and funny too ;) and thanks for this tips. Torrez91

thanks now i gotta perfect them and by knowing myself i will never never

I’m new but one thing that helps me a lot is waiting for ur team you can’t take them all and it’s good when ur with others.

These are amazing tips thank you