[In-Game] Songkran Celebrations (Crew is Crucial)

Hey Tankers, this week your tank crews will be joining in the celebrations of the traditional Thai New Year!

Key Attractions

Should you manage to place Top-10-by-EXP on a victory, your crews will pick up twice as much Crew XP as usual.

Additionally, there are a number of discounts available to help get your crews into shape specifically: - Doubling of the normal yield of Free XP : Crew XP conversion - 50% Discount to Crew Skill Reset Costs (200G > 100G) - 50% Discount to Crew Respecialisation Costs (200G > 100G)

The Songkran Celebrations also have a series of missions yielding food for your crews as well as decals for your tank.

Making the most of "Crew is Crucial" events

I look forward to these "Crew is Crucial" events each month, as they are great opportunities to get a crew ready to go in a new tank. As a general rule I will:

Tier VII and under: - Recruit 75% Crew Members for 20K Credits each (10K Discounted) - Equip Vents and Run Food (this get your 75% crew to 90%) - Run 6th Sense Directive - When crew hits 100%, apply Training Manual for 2M Credits - Give everyone BiA as their first perk - Give the Commander 6th Sense, and use Free XP to complete it -- (Normally 76K Free XP to do this, but only 38K Discounted)

Tier VIII and over - As above, but recruit a special commander (e.g. Holiday Ops) - Optional - Get Academy crew for 200G each (100G Discounted) - Optional - Get Retrained Crew for 200G each (100G Discounted)

While this sounds expensive, I generally run my line tanks in tandem with a compatible (or not) Tier VIII Premium vehicle in a bid to subsidise this grind and pay for my (many) mistakes in the field.

Personally, the timing of this event is great as I rounded out the Tier IX Germany Heavy Mauschen recently, and being a higher-tier vehicle with a 6-member crew it made sense to hold off until crew recruitment and training discounts were available.

For more information, go to: https://worldoftanks.asia/en/news/specials/ps-songkran-celebrations-12-april-2021/