Top Tips for Success in Low Tier Ground RB Battles

[@IAmTheStig32]

My ten tips for new players: 1) Your most important first choice: I STRONGLY recommend picking either USA, USSR or Germany first. China or Sweden are also wise options. Britain use solid shot exclusively on their early tanks, therefore I would avoid them until you get some experience playing. Japan is... an interesting choice, but I wouldn't recommend them for a first nation. Early game Italy and France are War Thunder on Nightmare difficulty -- you should avoid them at least until you get to BR 4.0 in another nation. Israel is hardly worth doing ever. 2) Take APCBC in WWII vehicles if you can ever get it, along with a few HE shells for blowing up thin-skinned trucks and armoured cars. Smoke shells are also nice to have, take a few. Never take ACPR/HVAP, it's god awful. 3) NEVER take a full ammo load on tanks, more ammo just means more risk of catastrophic internal explosion when (not if) an ammo rack is hit. Trucks and armoured cars which are so thin-skinned that if you take a hit you will probably be blown to kingdom come anyway are the exception, so take all the ammo you need. 4) For tank upgrades, always research repair kits and fire extinguishers first. 5) Treads and barrels are always good opportunity targets for enemy tanks where you don't know precisely where to hit. If the barrel is gone, they can't shoot; if the treads are gone, they can't move. 6) Always Test Drive a vehicle to know the strengths and limitations of it. And generally just use your noggin, it's a bad idea to drive a slow German tank destroyer with a fixed forward-facing gun into the narrow streets of a town, for example. Freely experiment with light, medium and heavy tanks and tank destroyers to see what your style is. But whatever your preference, always bring an SPAA in your lineup (even a rubbish one) to shoot down CAS planes. Taking planes of your own is good but not entirely necessary, you can play without them if you want. 7) Stop, Look and Listen. I cannot stress this enough. Binoculars ("B" key, default) are free and with them you can peek over banks and cover that would be otherwise too high for your cannon scope. Scan the horizon and watch for movement, and never drive into an area you haven't scoped out first. You can also cut the engine ("I" key, default) -- tank engines are very loud, and you can hear an enemy from quite a distance away if they've left theirs idling. 8) Armour is fine, but concealment is better, and hard cover is best of all. Never needlessly expose yourself, even in a heavy tank. Always scoot to a new point after getting a kill, unless doing so would expose you to enemy fire. Be aware that tanks can shoot through fences, trees, light walls and even dead tank husks if the cannon is powerful enough. And always remember the single most dangerous place you can be is atop a hill or bank; being lower is (usually) being safer. 9) Stick closely to teammates. Good teammates will watch your back, bad teammates will draw enemy fire. Lone rangers wind up dead quick. 10) Be aware that you will die and lose games a LOT at first, at this point you are playing against people who have many years of experience at the game and have seen everything. Never get frustrated and post shit talk over chat, nor should you ever react to toxicity or insults posted over chat, it's never worth it.

[@ByTheThroneworld]

Thanks dude. Really helped a lot!

[@truckercarterO9]

Thanks bro Imma try these

[@goodnamepleaseplease]

good teammates we all know those dont exist

[@Seo-Jun2]

Thanks bro

[@PoopMiester69]

This is much more useful than the video

[@xpertbear44]

never thought of using the objective to my advantage to get the right distance

[@DawgIVLife]

I use it to estimate all the time since it was added

[@Itoon-h2z]

How to exactly know?

[@ashelyfrankow149]

@@Itoon-h2zit says the distance from the cap on the screen when you look at them

[@rickpilhorn]

"Tracers work both ways" This is taught to everyone in basic training

[@elnewbie2611]

There's a filter in the game that makes spotting tracers alot easier, it's in post xf settings, it's the one that reduces the sun glare and makes the game a bit yellowish In the same settings there are also filters to reduce fog and to make night maps brighter. I would recommend switching between post xf as needed because the yellowish one will make fog maps more foggy, it's a bit hard to explain but you'll see the difference, this is how I avoid using that Nvidia thing and still see the tracers clear.

[@DawgIVLife]

I think you are talking about Polynom thats the one I have tested and can see tracers easier

[@elnewbie2611]

@@DawgIVLife yeah I think it is that one, very easy to see when people shoots and the tracers.

[@SgtPrimendra]

Tips : 1.When your teammates is capturing the objective, your task is to protect them from the enemies. Scout the potentially attacking position to keep your teammates safe. 2. If your teammates passes the objective, it can be a signal that they want to protect you while capturing objective by scouting the area from the enemy. So if you see this, Capture The Objective! 3. Light tanks (M3, the BT family, and Puma) are great to capture the objective from one point to another points.

[@pliat]

Seeing “low tier tips” next to a picture of a tiger 2 almost makes me cry. I remember unlocking that thing for 380k RP…

[@meferswift]

Tips for simulator air player: For bomber. If you play bomber or, aspire to play bomber. Spotting a bombing target that are not Airfield can be little hard especially when the map is camuflaging the base. Try look at the map and learn terrain feature. Maybe the base are near a crescent shaped river bank, or near a twist of river flow. This help gave better general direction if for example you fly 8000 meter above the ground and unable to see anything clearly. another help is just try look at tracer, sometimes the base would try to shoot at you and their tracer would help you

[@Mortales0092]

Videos about wt. Player shoots, one shoot. I do the same but: critical hit, critical hit, hit, hit. Enemy shoots me, I die with one shot. If I don't die with one shot, almost the entire team has killed me and I'm just waiting for the final blow. The game only rewards you if you give life and soul to it. If you don't treat it like a job, you get nothing.

[@thatwierdbilly]

thats the reason most warthunder players have no job

[@TheGXDivider]

Pro tip : at higher br, angling is useless against darts.

[@R4ZORLIGHT]

One huge advantage DLSS2 has however, is that the jagged edges are nearly completely gone. I play on a 1440p monitor and use DLSR to let the game render it at 4k and the using DLSS Quality/Balanced to let it render at 1440p so i get good fps. Now you have the best of both worlds.

[@nate2838]

Range finding off capture points is something I used to do when sniping in BF3. I miss that game.

[@georgeszweden9497]

High BR SPAA: click where the game tells you to click Low BR SPAA: watch the 1 pixel tracer to see if it disappears for 1 micro second behind the 6 pixel plane

[@___w___212]

i had recently developed using the capture point tactic(on my own) since i kept on missing my shells so i had to come up with a way to estimate quickly

[@heebie9550]

Thanks Dawg, keep up.the good work. Now, time for 10.0 tips :> AND YES SQUADRON PLZ

[@gokuismymom8553]

I am relatively new and my biggest issue is aiming. A lot of the times I die I actually get the jump on somebody but my shot either doesn't do enough damage or it doesn't penetrate. Its hard to remember how to kill all these tanks.

[@DawgIVLife]

Yea it really is hard to remember all of the weak spots on different tanks. A general tip I would give is to remember where the gunner sits on the vehicles that you face and shoot for areas where the gunner will die first giving you the ability to take your time and line up a better shot.

[@niklasmolen4753]

Start learning some of the most common ones. T34, M4 and PZ4 and PZ3, KV1 are very common. Then there are a whole bunch of different variants of them. But they almost always have the same weak points. At lower BR, just honk and drive.

[@xenophobicsokkorean6055]

The one sturmpanzer lobbing HE from spawn 💀

[@mrm3me12]

I started war thunder in arcade mode and am slowly switching to realistic, so this was very helpful 😊

[@MegaJani]

"They will be on the screen *now*" *proceeds to promptly end the video*

[@BepisTime]

Yeah they did come up on screen?

[@MegaJani]

@@BepisTime Can't click on them if the video immediately ends

[@SukhoyBoy4113]

As a 4 year pilot in this game that just got interested in ground RB, SPAA took me 3 matches to be effective with.

[@robod305]

As a major Sherman main I specialize in TnB torture

[@thatwierdbilly]

fair cuz your weakspot is right in the front like a target

[@BraydenTegenkamp-zi9dr]

Yes make a squadron for the channel

[@tinkermaster09]

i stuggle playing the tiger 1 because im always fighting at 6.7 everymatch ive ever played i just can pen a is2

[@rustyrolla5432]

Biggest tip I can give is if you come across a tank thats killing you a lot figure out the protection analysis of your tank and theres in the menu. Ie your a sherman facing panthers and tigers

[@gbro8822]

Great info, thank you.

[@Hafiyhs]

For Gun and Track META. They still have their machine gun to shoot you though.

[@familyfehl9975]

Love this game but it is pain. I would love to be able to spend on premium and halve the grind for vehicles / SL but can't swing that

[@TheEthanmcc]

would love the squadron idea, every squadron i join eventually goes away

[@MemekingJag]

because of squadron vehicle mechanics, most squadrons require a minimum activity per month so the members can grind effectively. it's common to get kicked if you don't meet your monthly activity.

[@draco1803]

Im using binoculars and just barely peeping over embankments… like 0.01 inches of my commander’s cupola is visible over the embankment and people are still one shotting me whyyyy😭😭😭

[@tatefanning4644]

squadron would be lit

[@Obsidian1985]

Ground RB is literal cancer, until they do something about the ULQ graphics bs its a garbage game mode to play.

[@Z4KJ0N3S]

anyone ever tell you how much you use the phrase "when(ever) it comes to"?

[@giggleshitter-r1q]

i cant penetrate anything even tho im shooting in the weakest points with best ammunition

[@TheManOfMyriad]

Meanwhile, anyone playing low tier British usually being unable to apply this info lol Rangefinding is useful though

[@Dark-lord-oftheSith-JP]

Btw, what’s the name of the squadron

[@Raktim2024]

New player here.. which SPAA is good in low tier.. currently I'm using the PBV 301 SPAA.. (Sweden).. in RB I cant see anything.. By the time I do see them.. I'm dead.. Any Suggestion.. how should I Improve my Tracking.. Also when I Focus in Air.. I'm still dead.. Enemy Vehicles with full Camo.. Ambush me by flanks.. even if I stay close to home base.. or keep changing locations..

[@niklasmolen4753]

PBV 301 is painfully bad. Unfortunately, Sweden has no good SPAA. You must have something that shoots a lot and for a long time. US M13 and M16, German Wirbelwind, Russian BTR152 are all good and easy to use and available in several nations. The best, however, is the Italian M42. When you play in AB, you get help aiming. After a while you learn roughly how to see where to shoot. Then you apply it in RB. But it is a difficult art to learn. Look at the map often if you see enemies nearby. Be careful because everything can kill you easily.

[@Spitfire552]

How much of this applies to Xbox like I can’t use sight distance control

[@DawgIVLife]

You can plug in a keyboard and mouse to your xbox and have all of the features a PC player has.

[@Wreckman10]

How do you use the machine guns next to the gunner on the Sherman’s?

[@Cons_studios]

Wdym? On the turret?

[@lothefish9344]

I’m so bad at this game it’s painful to even tap the to battle button I need tips that are actually effective please help lol

[@mildlyinterestingtoad]

Can someone tell me how many meters is each line?

[@josecanto920]

Can someone help? Once every like 10 shots do i get a one shot one kill, im usually shooting at where the driver should be and most of the times its "No penetration", but when someone shoots me 8/10 times its one shot one kill in the same spot that I shoot at. EXPLAIN

[@TheHotDog97]

Ya im about done fooling with this bullshit

[@RidingJay]

Would i be able to join the squadron ( if you made one that is) i just ask bc im a truck driver and im only home 2 weekends a month. Not sure if thatd be a problem?

[@DawgIVLife]

Yea you can join at the end of each month I do kick the inactive players but you have to be at zero activity to get kicked which is pretty much not playing at all for 2 months. Squadron is DWGYT next time slots will be availability is July 31st

[@RidingJay]

@@DawgIVLife thank you! Ill have to join sometime around the end of august haha. Im going to start a new job for a differnet company so ill be on the road by the end of this month! Also love the videos so far! My 6 year old also enjoys them. Even asked if i can upload videos my reply is "haha someday maybe" Anyway, thanks for letting me know!!!!!!

[@rodrigobatista1167]

Can you do a video off tips for air RB please. Im a little bit noob on air Rb 😅

[@Cons_studios]

Wdym?

[@airborne719]

Trying to find a decend squadron is a pain. If you start one, Id join up

[@DawgIVLife]

Started one yesterday and its already full, But each month I will be getting rid of inactive players so others can join in.

[@MateBarnabasDorka]

​@@DawgIVLifeare there any requirements for the squadron?

[@DawgIVLife]

@@MateBarnabasDorka none other than be the first to join once I remove the inactive players each month

[@JorvikBerserkir]

I'd join your Squad as long as it is used to unlock SQ vehicles. Wouldnt't join any otherwise

[@DawgIVLife]

That would be the point of it basically it would be a first come first server and each month if you have zero score for the squadron you get booted for someone else to join

[@JorvikBerserkir]

@@DawgIVLife sounds like the squad im in. id definitely join you mate if there is space. my username is "J A U F F R E" but if you have a full SQ its cool

[@drago6568]

this is very helpful to me at 6.7 : (

[@enderrus8861]

Which Munition do i Need for spaa to kill a Tank for all rank

[@orionsalt8288]

Hvap or armor piercing rounds.

[@enderrus8861]

@@orionsalt8288 thx you

[@bruhhhhmoment4848]

It’s kinda hard when the fire rate is slow

[@adamd8411]

Did you setup a squad?

[@DawgIVLife]

Yes it’s currently 128/128

[@andrewjack5755]

I’m the king of 5.7, I’ve had my fair share of 20+ kill games not many people better than me at at ground RB and I’m often the top player the biggest tip is maximize your kills by getting rid of most likely to become aware of you and always set up ambushes. Know where enemies can come from, and never stay in one place

[@Wt.__.Player]

Im good at mid ranks-tiers too

[@28FBI]

Apart from the tips nobody gives a fuck.

[@Klonnno]

This is how I feel playing top tier ARB lol. Now that I have 4 nations fully unlocked I’m working on tanks 😊 No idea what I’m doing 😂

[@sponkbruh]

im the king of 5.7🤓

[@meferswift]

8.0 is not low tier. i feel like low tier is early ww2 or similar. Like 6.0 below is low tier. 6-8.0 is medium and anything high

[@D0P1C3]

M42 is menace 8 air kills one game my personal record no respawn :D i would give a try to your squadron why not

[@DawgIVLife]

Even though the duster isn't the best SPAA its been lowered in BR so much it turned it into a TD while still being able to shoot down planes

[@D0P1C3]

@@DawgIVLife i forgot duster is also M42 yea its TD i have it in most of my lineups for usa as 3-4 spawn to clean up lightly armored respawns :D but i meant M42 contraereo

[@RuskThunder]

-me who is in top tier in two different nations- hmmm... interesting

[@michaelcilia390]

I would join the squad

[@Adalwolf17]

8.0 is low tier?

[@ZacThaBarber]

What’s an spa that’s how much of a noob I am ahaha

[@yimpax1222]

idk if you’ll see this still but it’s self propelled anti air (the game calls them spaa)

[@mattporter383]

Only problem is the amount of times you take a barrel out and yet they still destroy you...war thunder has more bugs than a tramps undies.

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

military training.... tracers work BOTH WAYS

[@awesometurtle2887]

Best thing you can do is just play the game.

[@APOLON-bm7ym]

There are no really advices to be better OTHER THAN PRAY TO THE SNAIL (PLAY PLAY PLAY).

[@Glowbox3D]

This game is confuzling.

[@tschysas]

maybe make a video that explain the many words you use a normie doesnt understand

[@WARRHU_R]

I’m just blind idk

[@derekperry8896]

Yar

Can you slow down and stop mumbling?

[@platyntv1792]

8.0 is low tier?.............

[@michaeljava8736]

4:40 CBT, Cock and Ball Torture. In war thunder it is Cannon and Barrel Torture 😊