Top Tips and Tricks From The War Thunder Community 

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That moment in ground realistic when your team has captured all three points right away but now your team is suddenly 3 tanks and ten planes. uh oh.

I've got one: don't plan your journey through the tech tree based on what you want at top tier; by the time you get there, it won't look the same.

heres one of my own, If you already have 2 objectives on domination, don't focus too much on trying to get the third, focus more on defending the ones you already have

My problem is usually 'new' maps (the ones I've never played before because they only tend to appear in higher BRs/Tiers). I personally think it takes dozens of matches to fully start to get a grasp on how each map works, and with how gaijin tends to do it, you sometimes only play given map once every 50 matches.

Another good but of advice: Always make sure to upgrade your crew skills. In tanks, your aiming speed, reload, and repair speed can be upgraded and improved, and I’ve noticed a huge improvement in my reaction times and capabilities by upgrading my crew.

I didnt get to comment on comunity post, but: When over G-ing go into negative G to avoid it. Pitch up, and down (Set keybind for last wings)

When making a line up for minor nations you will not always be able to make a line up in one br. A general rule of thumb is to build your line up at the br of the nearest heavy or medium tank and then fill the line up with lower br spg or light tanks. Light tanks and spgs dont have their benefits negated by the enemies having more pen.

I might add, to play your vehicles just like how they were and are used in real life! pretty much every vehicle in this game is modeled after a real life vehicle, and therefore has it similar strengths and weakness's For EX: if you watch how the leopard 2A5 , 2A6 crews train, you will notice that they are trained to stop at the crest of a hill, keeping the hull of the tank in cover, Fire, then immediately reverse back into cover. I've noticed that when i follow the same technique that I do better myself. So basically follow real world strategies.

Mark the map... Gaijin has given us such a great tool to give information to your team quickly yet i encounter soo many matches where im the only one marking the map, it takes 1-2 seconds and can save other players lifes. Did you get shot? Mark the map where, did you die? Mark from where you got killed. The mark doesn't have to be right ontop of the enemy just a rough area so people know where to look. Mark the map quickly 1. Hold down L Alt 2. Move your mouse over the small map 3. Click where they are Do this instead of opening the big map as you lose situational awareness when the big map is open and it generaly takes longer.

Some tips from a Jumbo player. if you can't shoot the machine gun port shoot the coupla if you have aphe. it will take out his commander, gunner (most of the time) and loader (part of the time). then destroy their barrel if you have a sub 9s reload. if not wait till their gunner comes back and shoot coupla again. and remember if you can't hit any of that and you have to engage shoot the barrel and tracks. My playstyle in the Jumbo is overwhelm and destroy. I use my armor and surprising speed to get in close to get a side shot while using my 5s reload to tear apart anything i can hit from barrels to tracks to machine guns. my turret traverse is probably faster than you and i have 15mph stabilizer. if you can shoot a track when the jumbo is at full speed it will make a sharp turn exposing its super weak lower side hull. it is 38.1mm and the ammo is stored there bellow the turret. If you know you can't do any of that just try to disengage and report them to the team. they are a high priority target and cas should try and take them out. at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="367">6:07</a> this tip does not apply to the jumbo. your ammo is all in one place if some one hits it your done if you have 10 rounds or 50. if you are playing a jumbo take more rounds the better you get with it. in AB i take 50 aphe, 15 apcr and 5-10 of he& smoke. in rb it is reduced. i find i have ended with matches firing my apcr because i ran out of aphe

Tankenstein... Thank you for continuing to create THE BEST War Thunder tips and tricks videos. I've tried watching many other RU-vidrs who post WT tips and tricks videos, but yours are better! Your videos are always clearly communicated, concise, and packed full of useful information. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't have a half hour to watch other RU-vidrs ramble on at length without really getting to the point, or spending half the video joking around. I know when I watch one of your videos, I can get the info I need or want in a reasonable amount of time and then get back in the game to try out what I've learned! Thank you very much for creating THE BEST War Thunder content on RU-vid. Keep the videos coming, and keep up the great work!

My tip, bind your MGs or secondary autocannons to separate keys. I bound mine to 3 on my numpad so I can press that and swap to whatever top mount my tank has. It's great for vehicles like the Leo 2K or XM-803 that have high mounted autocannons. It lets you peak over cover since it switches the gunsight to said top mount. Plus it lets you engage aircraft or even small targets without slewing your entire turret

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="361">6:01</a> "It's over T-34 I have the low ground !"

For myself, If I play a certain BR and country, I watch my ammo usage and play style on maps and adjust my lineup and storage accordingly. With premium vehicle purchases, I got most of them during sales or with the discount coupons, but have not really played most of them. I have them if needed, but I don't feel comfortable using them unless my tech tree has caught up to them. I'm more used to the WWII era and prefer them to Cold War or later versions.

One tip I need to say to those that dont know: You can shoot through the train cabinets that are beside the A point in Stalingrad Factory. I have gotten a lot of kills because people think they are safe there.

Good video. As a partially colorblind player, I changed all of my colors (player names, silhouette colors and such) so that I can better see what's going on in game. I'm also pretty much locked to arcade, as I play on a small screen and can't really see the enemy in RB (unless he's obvious or drives in front of me without noticing me). Still, I try an RB match every now and again, just to switch things up.

Good stuff Tankenstein! I have to say as a returning player (I left the game b/c I couldn't fly!) that I learn *more* from your videos than anybody else's... Probably the best information I got concerns creating a lineup... Keep up the good work!

For the ammunition advice, I personally like the see where the ammo is deposited, and then choose however much I carry with me. The XM-1 (GM) for example, stores the first 25 shells in the back of the turret, while storing all additional shells in the front, so it's (in my opinion) best to take between 20 and 25 shells, but never more, as those additional shells will rarely actually be useful and will make you much easier to kill.

if u do disregard the advice and buy a high tier premium make sure its in Germany and use the 15 cm sig as ur 2nd vehicle and for the 3rd buy the kv 2. if ur gunna whale at least whale correctly

When I play french auto-loaders, or British MBTs I only take the 1st stage ammo, so there is no ammo in the hull at all; even if it means i can only carry 8 shells to a battle. And against light targets I use the squash-head shells if the gun has it. Also there are BR brackets where only +0.3 or +0.6 is the maximum uptier i even bother to spawn (at least in naval and ground)!

one piece of advice I would give is that if you feel angry and such get a nimble tank/car and try to get to places you shouldn't in matches, makes you relax more by not thinking about the battle

Very good vid from an Old Guard. One addl tip....Range with binos before you crest hill or come around rock. That way when you move into firing position you have exact range. Huge 1st hit advantage.

Always enjoy the content and its very helpful I've been playing for about a year now im a noob lol and this helps alot warthunder gods put me only in upteir so I learned weak spots are key and learning to safe shoot not go for hull shots first

Love your videos thx for helping new players understand the steep learning curve War Thunder has.

My first premium i bought since i started in 2014 was the Tiger II H Sla.16 on the first days of the pandemic, i felt like my friends that played league of legends spending money on a F2P game like ¿wtf am i doing? the next thing was the T-55AM1 (had a hard time getting used to the apdfs and atgms era but i managed to get to the T64B and then), then the Leo 1A1 L/44, then Yak 38, then Su7BMK, T72AV, XM-1 and now i have the A10 early so...yeah i may have a problem

Trying to explore maps takes a long time when you die before you get anywhere. I don't know what this "grind" thing everyone talks about, is. I just play, stuff goes boom or I go boom. Eventually I get more stuff. I'm not in a hurry. If it's a "grind" you aren't having fun, you're working. Quit it.

Buying premiums outside BR i think is fine. It helps the grind so much if someome is interested more in high tier. But expect to be destroyed for a few hours of gameplay, and try to use backups to get more practice in. And before trying matches you have to get some game time in Assault Arcade, to practice and know how easy it is to die, how high-low-level ground works, weakspots etc.

One of the most important tips you can give someone is that most of the time it isnt worth it to save your fellow team8 by going rambo and lose your own veichle, at the end of the day War Thunder is a game that you are ment to enjoy, not get frustrated because you tried to help some random person that happend to get themself into a bad spot

I’d like to add bind neutral for your tanks transmission because it’s faster to go into reverse by tapping into neutral first as opposed to waiting for the tank to come to a stop and then back up

Boy do I wish this video came out when I started playing XD I had to learn all this the hard way through trial and error, this video is definitely gonna help akot of newer players

If you want get a higher tier premium to help grind your tree, I recommend looking at bombers and using them in realistic battles. Very good research bonuses and most of the time you can destroy a few bases and possibly a player by your gunners before you turn back to land. A lot easier to play well at lower skill level than a fighter. Just don't forget your crew points on weapon maintenance and gunner stats.

I just woke up and wanted to listen so SOMETHING, for one minute I thought I put on Phlydaily, I was like "HEY he finally calmed down" P. S your plane vidoes has helped me a lot :)

Great video! This will help me greatly

Build a strong Tier III lineup and use it to grind vehicle events to sell them in the market as cupom. Then only buy things from Gaijin when 30% or 50% sales show up.

on the binocular tip - i've killed so many i could not see through the scope.. but i could see through the binos

One thing I wish more people would know is that you don't have to smoke every time you get shot. If you have a team around or a squad, smoke will hurt you more than if the team can have a chance to kill the guy that's shooting you.

Good vids, but I started the game not long ago (20h in so far) , and I really didin't enjoy arcade, and was happy to play realism. Since then I'm having a blast on realsim so I think it depens what kind of player you are (and you make more xp ^^)

lol I wasn't really serious when I wrote that comment, that just popped up my mind since it's a rather lame tip from the loading screen. But here's a serious one - this took me several hours to figure out: Make sure to bind a key to "Set target for squad" and also make sure "Automatically join squads" in the "Common Battle Settings" section is enabled. This lets you set a marker that your squad members can see, so perfect to pin point an enemy's location and since the marker is also visible on the mini map, it can come in handy to check the exact position, so you can mark it on the mini map for every team mate even when you're not quite sure where the enemy is exactly.

Oh neat! Didn’t expect to make it into the vid, thanks!

1) learn what objects can be shot thru and with what ammunitions, this ties heavily with AB where you can see red names above enemy tanks, many buildings, walls etc can be shot thru, but onbly with certain ammunition,... also learn what objects can be destroyed with machineguns so you can use ammunition that dosnt go thru those objects without the risk of well that ammo not getting thru, example fences, walls, crtain buildings cannot be shot thru with HE or HEAT but may be destroyed with machinegun so you can shoot .... also learn diferences betwen machineguns, german MG42, american .50 cal or russian 7.62 machineguns have diferent capabilities when it comes to destroying walls, cutting down trees etc 2) dont respawn when the match is practicly WON / LOST, you wont get any rewards and you just losing time that you could spend inside next battle actualy doing something, getting RP/SL 3) if something is "too OP" to face, research it, play it, you will quickly learn that it is not, and you may realize that some tanks are only OP downtiered but uptiered they are garbage full of suffering 4) if you get stuck in certain nation because the tanks are just bad (for you) .... *cough* sweden 7.0-7.7 *cough* ... just play other nations or play lower tier of that nation and research the higher (bad for you) tier ... i have researched whole France IV with SA50 just because i hated how long the autoloaders ammo replenishment is 5) dont force yourself to play lineups with way lower BR tanks (uptiering your tanks to the newest one u have)... either play that new tank solo too speed thru its upgrades or just dont play the new tank and play old lineup and grind whole new lineup

Tip, you can use your bino's to shoot. Very useful at times.

Bought the XM-1 and grinded the American tech tree to tier 4 in no time flat. Now I have a preset that is all shermans. Realistic should be like the planes. One tank one battle. Then have a different game mode that has respawns.

I’m not sure if this was added in the comment a but I will say it It is a good thing to know your enemy’s weakspots, BUT It’s also good to know their strenght too, and also know what your own vehicle can and can’t do. if you face a tank hulldowning with awesome gun depression and armor, don’t try fighting, retreat and either ask your team for help or make a flanking alone And also one more thing. Use the free look and binoculars a lot, free look is C on default. You can check your surroundings without rotating your turret

"dont shoot anything you see" procceds to shoot everything on his way

Obi-Wan: It's over T54E1, I have the high ground T54E1: Too bad, were in war thunder buddy

Not paying attention to BRs is a massive problem for new players. Like, when I was starting I was so excited about playing with some of my favorite planes that as soon as I unlocked them I put them in my line. And this off course, let to some terrible uptiers I was not prepared for and a shit ton of frustration

I had a situation where I grinded up to about 6.3 in tanks and planes and then had to reset my account and if you find yourself in this situation I'd say go ahead and buy a premium vehicle if you want to help with getting back to your original level but make sure to experience the game at every level. There's a lot of fun to be had with ww2 planes as well as jets. Same goes for tanks. And dont ever buy silver lions with golden eagles.

another tip is if ur at high tier with thermals some tanks with thermals have commander thermals and they are high on top of tank and are nice for spoting the enemy then peeking to shot, plus they have alot more zoom than main gun and wider view

I started three weeks ago and I’m still looking for a good comprehensive Video for the complete noob, I am not sure if you’re aware but all the abbreviations you use consistently in this video fly right over my head. If you’re going to use an abbreviation for something to explain to New Boyz perhaps you should use the full term and the abbreviation at the same time.

Yes, love the Tips and Tricks. Thank you all.

Yeah binos are very useful. And in 4.0-6.0 if you learn how to shoot from binos it can make you invincible. I use it on my VK from distance and man it's so good

What i usually do, is if i struggle with a particular heavy tank, or whatever i struggle to damage. That's when i'll go check out where it's weaker in the garage.

Good advice, tho on the shell count I only carry 15, I found it to be the sweet spot 4 me. Since teammates can get u killed more often than not, go solo or let them drive ahead. 9 times out of ten they will got shot and give u the opening u need.

"Never take more ammo with you then you really need" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="761">12:41</a> Say hat again Tankenstein. Say that again.

Good advice, tho on the shell count I only carry 15, I found it to be the sweet spot 4 me. Snce teammates can get u killed more often than not, go solo or let them drive ahead. 9 times out of ten they will got shot and give u the opening u need.

I have started looking at the finishing stats and seeing if there are any players that got a huge number of kills in naval or ground battles, and watching the replays from their POV. I can pick up their tactics and preferred ambush spots, as well as how they play certain vehicles. Learn from the best!

I have a tip for you guys. Watch RU-vidrs play War Thunder. When I was still in school I used to watch Baron Von Games, Phly, Etc. Baron got me into wt and then when he stopped uploading Phly took over as main source of WT videos for me. I couldn’t afford a computer and am a huge tank and plane nut so I used to love watching the vids. Anyway after years I finally got a second hand laptop that just barely was able to play the game. And even being a complete noob and having to use the touchpad due to not having a mouse I still was great at the game. I jumped straight into Realistic as Arcade was hard. Still don’t understand how people play that having their location broadcast to the enemy team. But yeah never really had to look at armour values of enemy tanks in the hangar to probe for weak spots. Already knew tactics and map dynamics. I basically learnt war thunder from never touching the game. Simply watching others play.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="289">4:49</a> i mean there are some exsceptions, i have the AM-1 (br. 5.7.) and everything else i have is around 4.0 or 5.0 and they work pretty damn fine in arcade and that one gamemode that gives you a chest every day, but sometimes i do get uptiered like one time i got in an arcade match with the AM-1 in my lineup and i was using a p-47 and i had to fight a kikka, wll that jesus my teammates helped but i mean it was crazy

Funny you should mention a Heatmap for maps... i have actually been working on this for the past year

My number 1 tip is to just have patience...

Slight expansion on a few of them: even 2 teirs apart, even at low teir, is a lot. I once grinded for the PE-8 with my favorite 2.3 lineup, and when I tried to play it just added in with my 2.3 lineup it was miserable (it was also my first plane above 3.3).

Nice to see my F-4F skin in the vid :D

Using GE for RP on the last little bit of modifications at top tier can be worth it because it saves you the SL. I'm talking 1-10 GE.

Since i discovered the mechanic to know exactly when a enemy passes trough smoke/ drives behind. My winrates in tanks with smoke in a 1 vs 1 situation just skyscrapes.

The only thing I may recommend spending GE on to boost to for us Helicopters or heli mods.

As someone that's only played for two weeks here's some new player tips... 1) this is not a team game. You're on a team, but team play is non existent. 2) Aggressive = dead....Trust me. I'm very aggressive and realized I had to slow down because there is no team support. Once I stopped going in guns blazing I went from bottom of team to top 5. 3) Never expect tactical play. I.e. you rush past the CP, draw fire and leave it open for a cap. Nobody will cap. And support. 4) If you're former military, just expect massive tactical stupidity. You are alone. 5) You are alone amongst your team. Accept it.

Without laser rangefinder I usually battle sight my tank cannon to the distance of one range square on the map. With this you can snapshot without thinking about elevation and get kills within 4 to 500 m easily

Use your engine button, stealth is a gamechanger sometimes

The thing that really helped me was every time I got killed I pinned one thing that I did wrong. After alot of grinding I learned to see the mistakes before I made them.

for the amount of ammo you should take, I think you should take around the 1st stage amount

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="576">9:36</a> that shot trap tho

i am not that good at the game but here one of mine that i use a lot, when you cannot see your target because of a bush or similar, go to to binos, hold left click and aim at your target (do not release left click) then press shift, hope this helps someone :)

I bought the av-8a when I was in br 3.7 because it was half off and honestly it only took like 2 days to get used to

Buy crew slot and level up that crew slot by playing reserve or your comfortable tank to level it up

i always flank enemy and there are no too much weakspot there. they show the side, just make sure dont shoot into engines. kill the ammo before anything and they will stay paranoid.

This is just a piece of happiness

👍👍. The biggest one. Have a half decent internet speed. Otherwise u will have a lot of frustration. Set your controls!

Hey tankenstein, i came from GTA using the modern jets (for dogfighting) and even have been test driving the modern jets in war thunder. In my opinion, the beginner planes are too slow and dont have enough firepower. I want to buy a premium vehicle thats in one of the top tiers because i think i can handle the controls alot easier than the beginner planes. Do you think i should do it? Please give me an aircraft suggestion since i dont care which country its in.

So question about the full ammo thing what about spaa? Some people don’t use binoculars?

lol I bought the object 120 when my max tank br was 6.3 and I still managed to do well because it is probably the most point and click tank at that br (still, don't buy any sort of premium that is more than a br above what you have)

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The tip about bringing different ammunition types.. Heard this one a lot but I gotta say I totally disagree except some few cases like with the begleit or the strv9040s. Switching ammo increases reloading speed and confuses people since you gotta shoot the one you have loaded before getting the bullet you actually want. If you can't pen something, I'd say going for the barrel and then the tracks is a more reliable solution

I'm glad that my favourite rank is 3-4 with early jets.. despite playing this game for like... 10 years tbh. 3-4 Rank is where you'll probably get most fun. You get solid mid-war to late-war vehicles on all nations, you don't need to deal with unbalanced BS that is top tier.. not really bitching about the F14 but honestly. MiG-25 Foxbat would be great as it was designed to counter F14s. Not MiG-29 because then, you'd have to fight against F15s since again, both planes were developed to fight each other.. guess most people wouldn't like that lmao

for some weird reason i played very bad on my 5.3 german tanks idk why i just rushed towards higher br tanks and got till tiger 2p but ran out of sl . I got forced to play my 5.3 tanks again but now out of a sudden I'm mvp in almost every match and at least 4 kills per match. This was partly because before the switch I was just a mindless tunnel vision Germany player and I'm new still to the game but I did some research and now I'm better and I also cap on 8 kills in my tiger 2p and jpanther lineup

hint hint : if you play germany and wanna be a tiger and panther main use the tigers for mid to close quarters and the panthers for long range because the panthers have better velocity but less explosive filler so close quarters don’t really work for it

Me: *Abuses Binos' elevated position to shoot through bushes against unsuspecting enemies*

map knowledge is the most important thing about ground rb.

CAS players get rid of your bombs/rockets before dogfighting and if you see a CAP point being taken attack. If the enemy tank/vehicle completes the capping of the point then it will usually take considerable effort to win it back and if there are only a few players left in the game time may run out.

Would you do a radar guided AA guide? I have 2k hours and still don't understand it.

When I ambush a tank I always wait for the last one and wait for him to be at a certain distance away and then I shoot the last guy. After that I kill the rest

I never spend GE on anything other than premium vehicles/crew slots and only with discounts

I never had experience with jet bombers i grind with bombers tbh the vautour is a bomber i can handle tip: keep your alt and do a dive bomb the base, now if u did this right u pull up in the direction of ur teams bases u lose 150kmh (use airbrake otherwise it's very hard to pull up) and try to take some ai units (with vautour good game 8ai (2 bases) but if u don't have experience with the bombers DONT BUY U CANT PLAY IT i see no one using the vautour tactic they lose almost all of their speed and get destroyed if there's someone on ur tail (supposing no afterburner jets) u have 2 massive engines and have more power try to get to ur top speed (must be higher than 700kmh) you are gonna dodge aim 9bs when they stall out turn to ur airfield, (extra tip1) best 1.0-3.0br bombers,dive bombers Germany ) (extra tip 2) best starting nation is Germany but France has very good autoloaders can u leave a like to this and to the vid, tankenstain can u reply i had to write this for the whole vid can u say hello

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="350">5:50</a> well at least my gun doesn't have depression and my gun is happy with it's life

Another tip: Never accept vehicle exclusivity. Everyone should have access to all vehicles.

HSTV-L is need to use full ammo too I think.

I really wish there was a solo play vs computer to hone your skills as soon as I get In A real match, I get one shotted before I even fire a shot!

I bought the Kv-122 (5.7) and I only had 3.7 vehicals. That was a big mistake and the closest BR now is Kv-1. 2,000 research points in till I get Kv-2

I am on soviet 5.3 BR. I still take my 2.7 Su-122. It is one of my most successful vehicles. I can more easily kill a Tiger or a Panther in it than I can in my IS-1.

Personally i think that using your tanks strengths to your advantage is a good one. I can still get kills with a 2.0 tank in a 4.0 lobby because i can outplay them