Once you’ve completed the tutorial you should be back on the main screen with your tank ready to go. As with the plane tutorials it’s short and to the point, worth doing even if you’re supremely confident in your tank commanding abilities for the 100 Gold Eagle reward at the end of it.

This helpfully covers the essentials of tank combat (drive around, point gun at red things, shoot), with an emphasis on finding vulnerable spots when targeting enemy tanks for maximum damage. You should have a tank tutorial option in the top right of the screen: Selecting Tanksįirst thing’s first, at the top of the screen click over the “To Battle” button to bring up the mode selection window, and select Tank Battles, then click “Army” in the bottom left corner of the screen to switch from planes to tanks. Issue 2 of the War Thunder Community Magazine has an introductory guide, and “The Academy” section of the official War Thunder forum has plenty of threads. are common between air and ground forces, those aspects of the main guide should still hold true, but for the finer points of tank combat you’ll need to head elsewhere. I’m not much of a tank player myself, so this is a very cursory introduction to ground forces research, upgrades, the economy etc.

The British government wished to hide the true nature of these new vehicles, though, so created a cover story that hundreds of sweater vests were being sent to the troops, with shipping crates stencilled appropriately, and the nickname stuck.Īt the time of writing tanks had only just been introduced to War Thunder and were only available for Germany, the Soviet Union and the USA. One area in which they didn’t fare well was trench warfare, where manhandling bulky aircraft “over the top” then pushing them through no man’s land towards enemy trenches proved rather ineffective, so in 1916 Ian Tank had the idea of taking an aeroplane, removing the wings and propeller, and adding armour plating and caterpillar tracks to create the vehicle that bore his name: the Armoured Fighting Ian. Aeroplanes, invented by Ian Aeroplane in 1903, really caught on with the military in World War I, initially for reconnaissance, then for bombing and ground attack.

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