Deadline Today: The Crew Strategy WG Didn't Tell You For 1.24.1 Update!

[@infinity-vm4ul]

Can I get an F in chat for my hommie who’s been playing the game since 2012 and decided to clean his barracks for the first time TWO DAYS before this patch was announced.

[@sorinmiliescu]

I did the same 8 days before announcement

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

Oh shit mate that's brutal. I did same but did it a while back

[@thereasonablegamemaster2737]

He can at least get all 100 percent crew member replacements, I did the same as well

[@metalbeast99]

Thats what happens when you don't keep up with news about the game. They announced this TWICE since the new year.

[@addissar]

Same here pal, F.

[@brandonean]

Don't forget! For a limited time you can overflow your barracks (you are not limited by barracks space) with bad crews when doing the barracks clean up and get rid of all of them!

[@marekjirmasek5330]

Exactly. That means that now before the patch once you're barracks are filled, you should also fill all of your tanks in the garage with these crews as well, irrelevant on for which tank they are trained. Then after the patch drops, there's going to be unlimited space in the barracks for a while, so just move all of these crews from these tanks to the barracks and only then press the crew cleanup button. Or at least that is how I understand this will work and that is how I am going to do it.

[@brandonean]

@@marekjirmasek5330 exactly

[@leosalonen1564]

this would be amazing! I only have 60 bunks but loads of tanks to store crew in

[@brandonean]

@@leosalonen1564 same, I am on NA and it worked for me so it will likely work for you as well

[@petern1938]

This is more informative than the video, lol.

[@runmarkrunheinrich]

I am kicking myself for dumping about 200+ 100%/no skills crew this winter - all those promotional rentals over the years. I understand from test those crews have had their free to 100% XP put on their first skill ~83%) and they would give books.

[@menfaaanda]

Rental crews are transformed into regular crews for the tank they were in. I'm getting so many millions in XP worth of crew books I wont even tell you x)

[@v8renner853]

me too.... spending hours cleaning up all this useless crewmembers, and now.... they where important. thx wg after 2 years announcement crew rework.

[@velminik]

Dude im Beta player and i did that just around new year, what a shame...

[@menfaaanda]

I saw a screenshot on discord from a guy that got compensation for 1.6K! crew members. He got books for 35 Million XP.

[@chogan1317]

„The accumulated experience will be automatically compensated based on Crew XP divided by the number of crew members in the trained vehicle.“ citation from the Crew Rework article published 2/4/24 So take tanks with few crew members like manti.

[@gabrielionita9512]

So... you should get 75% crew members on the tanks with 2 members. After the patch come, you put the good crew back on the tank (let's say with 6-7 skills) and the previous 75% crew members now have full, with a % of the first skill and sending them to barracks you can convert them to crew books?

[@yeezus7]

@@gabrielionita9512 yup, pretty much

[@proexservis]

You dont need to, after patch you are able to retrain and change specialization for free, so you can make your 5-6 crew tank to 2-3x 2 crew tank for free (if that crew has 0 completed perks)

[@Sir_Freud]

I would have appreciated this video yesterday, the patch is already deployed on NA... 😥

[@martinma9724]

New patch already done in asia as well😂

[@chadthomas5569]

Ahhh hell I’m in North Carolina skill is behind on time lol

[@swrsak]

you have 90 days so you can do all your prep before changing

[@Bikaz]

Well it's been discussed on reddit and other places basically for the last 2 weeks

[@boulx]

same in asia i ddint know anything

[@user-yl3vr7xg8r]

Idk why skill didnt do this Monday. Would have really helped us NA and ASIA players.

[@skill4ltu]

Sorry mate, we weren't aware of this either, until people reported from actual servers (not common test servers)

[@swrsak]

I thought I read when I signed in that we have 90 days to convert.

[@jack-xf6il]

@@swrsak Yes, 90 days to convert, so no hurry to work out what to do. Maybe wait to find out what pitfalls are discovered by early converters...

[@reptilespantoso]

He didn't know, until someone told him.

[@francisli7620]

oh my gosh, I also converted the crews already before I watched this. Anyway, thanks Skill for this, hope this helps others still.

[@sartosfera]

6:00 It is extremely important - use only tanks with 2-crew members. The difference in books income will be huge, like few times more than for example for 6-crew vehicles.

[@robbert89]

I also thought that. But lets see Manti vs. E100. You get the same amount of Crew-XP, but on Manti it is divided by 2 (2 crew members) and on E100 it is divided by 6 (6 crew members). But: you only trade 2 crew members on Manti and you can trade 6 crew members on E100. At the end, the amount of crew-books should be the same - or am i thinking not straight here? EDIT: for example we have 120k crew-XP on each crew member. On Manti that would be 2x 60k worth of crew-books and on E100 that would be 6x 20k worth of crew books. In both cases we should receive 120K worth of crew books.

[@sartosfera]

@@robbert89 There are 65 Manticore commanders in my barracks right now :D I've done the math, then i checked that. For example: 8 Manti commanders will give you 5 training booklets, 8 E100 commanders only 2. This whole process is very profitable. It's like buying training manuals for less than 25% of actual price.

[@robbert89]

@@sartosfera now i get your point. I was thinking of existing full crews. But if you count the credit expenses you are completely right. Maybe you can increase the XP Outcome if you train your full E100 crew with an existing crew book and then retrain them to three Panzer 1C Crews before converting them to crew books. Patchday will be fun this time!

[@mishkinita7814]

@@robbert89 i suck in math so i can only read and try to understand...i have read this 3 times from different people and it sounds smart and hopefully corrrect...i will try the same in the next days...leveraging books....i have just to understand where is the point where we must stop feeding our big crew with booklets before converting it to multiple small tank crews....somoene wrote 99% but i need confirmations

[@robbert89]

@@mishkinita7814 the first skill/perk must not reach 100%. The game will show you the result of the used crew books before you click "confirm". Try it yourself but if you are not sure about it, wait a few days. The community will create a how-to.

[@DaLuniz]

I didn`t understand anything from this video! Honest to God!

[@knallpistolen]

Fill your barracks with 75% trained crews, you can convert them into crew books when the update goes live

[@12mindhunter]

@@knallpistolen it work only for 75% or we can recruit 50% for free?

[@andrewscherzinger6585]

50% crews will give you no crew books since that was previously considered "zero xp". But you can use credits to train to 75% and effectively buy crew books

[@Guildforsucks]

if you have useless crews in the garage who has 100 % and more who you will never use you should fire them.

[@kkmik5933]

Same here

[@brandonhindmarsh4353]

I wish I knew this B4 I had dismissed crews without a perk to save barracks. Side note: barracks and garage slot limits are bogus shite

[@kkmik5933]

Wargamming has confused the hell out of how crews are handled....

[@maritimezhang]

Nothing to be confused. Moving old crew in new tank gives you 100% crew. But only the perks are punished. You can keep playing to increase it back or pay the gold to have all the perks at the original level. You are not getting away with not paying gold for 100% perks and crew. But at least you are not driving 90% crew.

[@mike82y]

@@maritimezhang if I retrain a t9 crew to t10 with 90%, what will happened after the patch?

[@artbobik3516]

@@maritimezhang you mean the perks we had to grind our ass off for?

[@jimmyc00l]

@@artbobik3516 The perks you got for playing the game yes, if just playing the game is such a chore stop wasting your time on it.

[@artbobik3516]

@@mike82y you will get screwed as I just did

[@jlangerrr6240]

Tested on NA server, even if your barracks is full, you can still send unneeded crews to the barracks to do the conversion.

[@darkninja___]

If you do not have bunk space, then stuff all your crews into all your tanks without crew members including rentals. You can also buy all the tier 1s and 2s to help fit crews in vehicles. Then fill the rest of your barracks with 75% crews from 2 crew member tanks (manticore or low tiers). After the patch you will have temporary unlimited bunks in barracks for 3 months so you can move all the shitter crews out of your tanks and into the barrracks. Only downside of having unlimited bunks is you cannot recruit any new crew members after the patch until after you have converted your shitter crews to crew books, but that shouldn’t be a big deal.

[@OTOss8]

Just a question, since the patch is live already on NA, can we still take advantage of this?

[@darkninja___]

@@OTOss8 Not really, but what you should do is make sure to check through all your tanks (rentals as well) and put all the crews with less than 1 perk in your barracks before converting.

[@OTOss8]

@@darkninja___ Thanks man, I appreciate it. You always have good advice. Cheers.

[@NanaMadHouse]

Thank you so much for the update and all your love and work for us. Especially for those like me that at this moment are pretty much disconnected from the game and playing a couple of games per week. You save us of a lot of troubles and make those tiny moments of play a better ones. Love you

[@lncoming]

They let you overflow the barracks as much as you want when the new patch comes. Source: NA player, I just did it three-dozen times while clearing out my barracks.

[@pa5287]

i was thinking that if you dont have the room in barracks not everone has space .

[@valeman3]

@@pa5287 They want to catch people want to get it done fast

[@rpsmason]

Everyone seems to be missing the key advantage to this - which is to leverage existing crew books into a multiplication on the conversion - and then using the free training to export them back to 2 crew tanks because a 6 person crew moved into 3x 2 person crews gets 3 time the XP in books.. IE Convert ALL your crew into 2 person vehicles in the barracks 1) Pre 1.24.1 Make sure you have lots of avail crew under the 100base / 75% (ish) 1perk to correspond to existing crew book stocks. Buy crew if you need. Cheapest at the 2 crew tanks, but works with more. ie, 40K credits = the cost at the 2 crew, but you can leverage at higher crew/tank. buy FREE crew if you have a lot of books 2) After 1.24.1 - move and retrain crew onto a 6 crew tank. its free... 3) use existing books to retrain the 6 crew tank by putting books up to the max without going over. ie, 100base, 98%ish max. 4) Move the crew into a 2 crew tank, and retrain them (for free). This gives you 3 separate crews at 2 crew each. Then put them in barracks. 3tanks of 2 crew members each = the same after conversion of 1tank of 6 crew members - but you get 3x the # of books after the conversion. So you are effectively tripling the # of books per crew. rinse and repeat. Using your existing books (#3) leverages the conversion, but can also be done without maximizing the benefit. And because math is hard: From the common test: AT8 crew: at 6 crew (100% base / 98/44% towards 1 perk) = 6/12/38 (my existing barracks crew + the AT8 crew put in barracks) (ie, 250K*6=1.5M, 100K*12=1.2M, 20K*38=760K) = 3460000 XP in new books Converted the 6x AT8 crew into 3x Manticore crews: = 8/11/37 = 3840000 XP in new books. Thus 380K extra in books XP by converting 6:2 under the max perk

[@QTL6719]

i'm too stupid to understand this

[@mishkinita7814]

@@QTL6719 anyway thx to him for trusting us :-) (gonna read it again cause it sounds correct)

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

Thanks alot for this

[@TheFestens]

Thanks, but your crew have to be at least 100% before patch to use books:/

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

@@TheFestens he said to use books after the patch

[@4L3X4ND3R19K]

So WG replied we only get one chance to convert the crews with a link to their video which did not say we only get to press the button once. I just got the 698 crew men out of my tanks spent 4000 gold to make up the odd crews that werent fully manned that remained in the tanks and I saw the message. Skill i spent all day going through my 720 tanks, now I have to put those 698 crewmen back which will take ??? ah no i am not. Since crew 2.0 update was announced I revamped my crews 4 times with each change they made, i got 1 crew for 3 tanks set up etc and now this .... They said they cant help, how difficult would it be to be able to allow the players to press the button again ? another micro update which does the same as update 1.24.1 just press the repeat button no ? No they wont we had our chance. Im not gonna sit here again for 5 hrs put 698 crewmen back in the tanks, its supposed to be a game to have fun not a shore !

[@MrJamesDoz]

Before the patch hits, recruit 75% Crew for two man tanks, Tanks with two crew members works best, also adding 5 exp to 100% crew with no perks yet, just add 5 exp to one of the rental crew members and it will give an extra crew book worth 20k exp when you convert them all.

[@sofazen]

Thanks for your tips. How to increase that 5% in one of the rental crew members? Playing with it or using free experience? I don't understand this point, could you please elaborate a bit? Appreciate

[@ruriksukhoi8514]

Thanks, but why does "two crew members works best"? Isn't it just the number of 75% crew that counts to getting training booklets?

[@peka2478]

why not recruit 50% crews?

[@rankow2010]

@@peka2478cuz you wont get any books then and theyre considered 0xp crew

[@1337Maju]

Do you simply have to add 5 xp or train a skill for 1% or smth?

[@jack-xf6il]

Thanks Skill. Also note that you can dismiss crew from tanks to barracks even if you don't have barrack slots left, so I don't think you need to buy any more bunks for your barracks. I think these count as temporary slots and will disappear after the crew are converted. I don't know how long this has been around, or if it is standard behaviour, but I tried it out on the common test and was able to send multiple unwanted crews from tanks to barracks even though the bunks were already full, then the conversion removed them. After the conversion you're likely to have lots of space anyway in the barracks, so no point in buying new slots.

[@distantthunder12ck55]

I wish Wargaming had made this more clear since I did buy more barracks slots in preparation for this.

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

It would be beneficial to buy bunks before the update though to get more crew available? The unlimited slots are only after the patch goes live right?

[@jenskohler7494]

you can free up some space in your barracks today, by assigning all unused bad crew to free places (in unused tank or by deactivating auto-crew-return in mods and put in bad crew just for one day), that way you have maximum free beds in the barracks and can fill them with 75% crew. after patch you move all the bad crew back to barracks (overflow allowed). BTW: I think you get the most XP out of your 20K creds for small crew vehicles, like that tier1 czech tank (koushenka?).

[@frederikfred2142]

@skill the 1 crew for 3 tanks got cancelled. I asked Eekeeboo on stream several weeks ago and he said it's no longer a planned feature

[@yeoldeaxe]

I got the same answer when I asked WG on Discord. :-(

[@skill4ltu]

give it more time!

[@nephalos666]

Yeah. As an NA player, not getting this video or this information from any CC or content creator until after the patch is already live really blows. We cant benefit from the trick for crew books for Czech light tanks because none of the new crew members we buy now will convert to books.

[@derminatore3120]

After the patch, you can send ALL crew members to barracks independent how many beds you have in barracks. Yes, you can overbook the beds. No need to keep any you do not need. There will be an error message when you do (like barracks are full) but still, crew members will be sent to barracks. Go through all the tanks you have and send anyone you do not need. AFTERWARDS transfer them all (you even can check which crew members will be transfered, there is a button to see the list).

[@EscapeTheMatrixRightNow]

I watched the video. I was logged in to the game. I was just about to do all this. When I return to the game the servers became unavailable :(

[@rillucrocodilu5117]

I wonder if the value of 75% crew that you buy is higher than crew books that you can buy with credits, thats the big ecuation.

[@darkninja___]

They are more efficient because the 100k and 20k crew books you get apply to the whole crew. They are even more efficient if you apply them to 4+ member crews. They are less efficient for tanks such as the manticore. Also make sure the 75% crews you buy are from 2-3 crew member tanks as it is more efficient

[@rubenzs3161]

@@darkninja___ thanks darkninja! love your content

[@wildonemeister]

@@darkninja___ The training manual you can buy for 2 000 000 credits will give you 250 000 xp for the whole crew. What we need to know is if it still is better to buy crew and train them in comparion to just buying the crew books directly. Personally my biggest problem is always credits (no prem acc).

[@martinbenicek3465]

@@darkninja___ do they have to be bought for 20000 credits or I can hold on like 83-85 percent crew without any skill trained and they will get the first skill also?

[@darkninja___]

@@wildonemeister I used a calculator and it says it is 22940 exp from 50-75% for primary skill. A 2 crew member crew gets that amount divided by 2, so 11470 exp which is rounded to 1 x 20k crew book I believe. Not entirely sure how it works but that is prob the lowest estimate. So then 12 75% crews will give you 240k crew exp that you can train to a whole crew, which costs 480k credits, cheaper than 2 million. Even if it is not rounded it gives you 11470/20000 of a crew book per 75% crew in manti. Which means you spend 880,000 for 250,000 crew exp from books, still cheaper but not necessarily a great deal. Idk how it works exactly but it will at minimum be 56% off in price. I have heard other people give bigger numbers that is just my own math. Personally I’m more interested because I have so many shit crews I can convert. But yeah if someone could confirm exactly how the math works out that’d be great. I think it’s slightly overblown because crew books are a terrible price already so having a comparatively good price doesn’t say much. I’ll see if I can find an answer that was done through testing.

[@tx604]

For players who don't want to spend too much time on this stuff: Before the update: Recruit 75% crew members on tanks that has 6 crews members After the update: 1. Feed those crews with EXP books up to 99% of their first skill. 2. Retrain those crew members to tanks that has only 2 crews members such as Manticore and send them to the barracks (retraining crews below 1 skill is free after the update).

[@Cisco568]

Sorry I didn’t understand the part after the update

[@mikhailsasnavik5691]

you can't use xp books on 75% crew. they have to be 100% first

[@jannekoskinen2050]

@@mikhailsasnavik5691 You do that after the patch when all crews below 100% base skill will be 100% because they are removing the base skill.

[@mikhailsasnavik5691]

@@jannekoskinen2050 thanks, I realized the same after I posted my comment

[@Lennji]

How many XP books do you get per one 75% Pz.1.c commander?

[@lunercruz5588]

Its a bit too late already clean the barracks :(

[@Silver_Crow2295]

So in short i need to fill my baracks full whit 75% crews

[@casuscnactus4864]

Can't I retrain the crews for free? Why pay credits when the crew gets 100% anyway?

[@MrJamesDoz]

This is before the patch hits, Crew for two man tanks is the best, also adding 5 exp to 100% crew with no perks yet, just add 5 exp to one of the rental crew members and it will give an extra crew book worth 20k exp when you convert them all.

[@ossiosric6283]

yeah and if I understand it correctly, you have to do it before the patch - because after, there are only 100% available

[@casuscnactus4864]

@@MrJamesDoz ah ok, so i want to retrain for credits because they have more xp in total that way which means they yield more crew books.

[@MrJamesDoz]

@@casuscnactus4864 Because after the patch you can trade in the 75% crews for crew books, also if you want to keep them you will have a 100% crew with 51% of the first perk trained but most are doing it to get as many free crew books as possible. Technically it isn't free, 75k per crew but this worth it.

[@gabanjoman]

I did this,got rid of over 500 useless crew members,and got a metric tone of crew books 💯💯

[@wotcastforfree]

Also Important: the calculation for the crew books depends on the amount of XP divided by the number of crewmembers per tank. So i reccomend to retrain your spare crews to tanks with the lowest amount of crewmembers to get the most out of the XP! Best would be Tier 1 tanks with 2 crew-members!

[@mosayyeed]

The best thing about this is that you can convert a crew from one qualification to another. Two of my turtles with good perks were sitting uselessly in the barrack because after I grind up the next tank have no need for them and I was feeling feeling dejected about it. But now they will find a new purpose. If only you can transfer crew from nation to nation though, let it be like they are defectors, or traitors.

[@Lauvinsh]

Thanks for advice braļukas! Greetings from Latvia!

[@gorans9756]

The only problem here is that most of the people have a lot of crew members but not enough space in the barracks

[@darkninja___]

Stuff your crews into all your tanks without crew members including rentals. Then fill the rest of your barracks with 75% crews from 2 crew member tanks (manticore or low tiers). After the patch you will have temporary unlimited bunks in barracks for 3 months so you can move all the shitter crews out of your tanks and into the barrracks.

[@gorans9756]

@darkninja___ All my tanks are full of crew members 😂 every single one. 90% of them are like this(i mean i have alot good crews but if i have 50 good crews, i have 450 bad ones)

[@darkninja___]

@@gorans9756 If you have any crews that are 100% and less than 87% first skill those will still be convertible to crew books since after giving them exp from the patch they will still be less than 1 full trained perk (which is the cutoff for which crews get converted). Not sure about rental or onslaught crews if they work though.

[@schlas2]

you can fill up empty tanks with crews today and then tomorrow you can move the crews into your barracks. You can do this even if the number of crews exceeds your barack space. no need to purchase more bunks. This way you can have the maximum amount of crews to convert after the patch arrives.

[@maotzedun26]

does it have to be 75% or and or 50% or just 75%

[@Nuklearpirat]

50% does not work since you always start every crew with 50%. The earned xp on the crew will be converted into crew books so everything >50% should be converted.

[@skill4ltu]

It has to be more than 50%, otherwise you will just get a 100% crew member without any extra experience after the update. 75% is the most convenient option since you're only paying credits.

[@mitch40aw]

@@skill4ltudamn, I’ve been filling my empty tanks with 50% crews over the last 2 nights 😢

[@qwqmartin9162]

There is a huge trick or hack that you can do after the patch to simply multiply your books. Use the British line as example. 1.Recruit 6 100%members for your conquer GC(this will be free for post patch) 2.Feed them with 200k exp to get the 98% or 99% for the first skill (it is important to do so on a tank with large crew capacity to maximise the xp value) 3.transfer them two as a group into your manticore, the retraining will also be free. 4.after this whole process you should have 3 pairs of manti crews that have 98%-99% first skill, then send them back to your barrack. 5. Check the training books you get now(do take done note about the previous number), you will find yourself getting extra books for at least the value of 590k xp. Therefore, by inputting 200k you are getting 390k in return, nearly twice the value for literally free.

[@qwqmartin9162]

The craziest thing is that, as long as you have enough cheap books or credits you can do this for 90days, with the daily 20 free recruit limits, just imagine guys…

[@shred3005]

I’m on the Asian server so we went first before Europe and NA. I wish I had known this one time only thing before converting my crews on 3 accounts. It’s late now - I did it yesterday

[@marklocker8042]

Thanks Skill, Thats BS. How about all the players on the servers that didn't get any notice???!!!! More BS from WG, we got screwed.

[@tomasm9369]

Tips: 1. all usefull crews with more than 1 skill, move it to any tank (rental, low tier low cost tank) 2. all low train crews send to barrack. 3. if u have crew and waiting for tank discount, retrain it now for 20k, but before u do it, spend all XP on skill 4. free bunks fill with Tier 1/2 commander of each nations 5. recruit crew for future now, i.e. If u will be needed second loader on Tier 8, but u are on tier 7 yet etc.

[@LeonardoCavanha]

Communication was pretty terrible: 1 - there was no link to the video on the client or the site, 2 - the client doesn't say the conversion button works only once, 3 - the page is not clear on whether the button disappears once used, and doesn't explain that crews in tanks are not converted. I read the text and clicked the conversion, now I'm stuck with dozens upon dozens of crewmembers that were in tanks and not in the barracks. The conversion is great, but communication was pretty terrible if you ask me.

[@ono1113]

So to get this straight, I shall fill all my crews from bunks to any random unfilled tank to makes space, then put there as many 75% crews from the low tier I wanna have crewbooks and they can repeat and ideally that low tier has 2 member crew right?

[@nismogtrlm]

The update rolled out in NA and all I can say is: The perk efficiency is a SCAM from wargaming! There is no way to retrain your crew for a new tank with 100% perk efficiency without paying in gold! In the old system, you lost 10% crew efficiency for retraining for credits, but you kept your perks, and then you could reset the perks for credits to gain 100% crew efficiency losing a fair percentage of efficiency in the current trained perk. Now you lose 40% of ALL the perks if you retrain for credits, and there is no way to reach 100% without paying 200 gold for crew member (you cannot even use books or free exp WTF!), or being forced to play several games in a shit crew to acumulate the required exp to reach 100%. Good luck going up in a light tank tech tree retraining your crew for credits only to be forced to play a light tank in a upper tier with only 60% of your cammo and view range perks. And oh top of this they cancel the 3 tanks per crew that has been announced for years? I am fucking done with this game! Fuck Wargaming. Stop giving money to these scumbags!

[@goomStar]

Wow... the "only once" screwed me over totally... I was going to do it step by step as my baracks "only" have 150 slots.. now I have my first wave done and can't do the second one. GG WG

[@alighobadi2975]

6:40 should we recruit a 75% crew member? does the free crew(50%) work the same?

[@menfaaanda]

Crew members who are on 87% on their first perk now will be buffed to 99% when the patch hits. This is because their XP earned from 75 to 100% on main qualification will be added to the first perk. So if they are on 88% they will reach the second perk and no compensation.

[@proexservis]

You can retrain them (reset skill) to get them under 100% 1st skill

[@menfaaanda]

@@proexservis yup, true. under second perk is better though :p

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

​@@proexservis is this after the patch we can reset skills and use them for books?

[@proexservis]

@@Geeza-rc9kz yes, you can reset for free and dont forget to retrain all crews to 2-3 crew tanks (you can change specialization and tank with non-completed 1st perk for free)… it will give more books

[@amirarbobov7878]

What I also did after running out of crew spots in barracks and tanks is I bought as many cheap/free tier 1 tanks as possible to get more compensation ^_^

[@kristianrobuschi9959]

I've tried to contact wargaming about this, but I don't understand how you can report an in game bug from the site (there's not an option for it). The gun marker "A-shaped (with armor penetration indicator)" is bugged and doesn't show at all.

[@offhamsterwheel2789]

noe im confussed

[@jforden78]

Thank you for the heads up, Skill!

[@nicksvor7518]

thank you skill that was very importand and wargaming sould mention you can do this only 1 time

[@seanduncan8656]

Thanks for your tip! Great work!

[@Tilly042Tilford-zo7zt]

WG consistently introduces changes very few if any people ask for whilst completely ignoring things that we do ask for! I'd love to see new maps but there hasn't been one for a while.

[@v8renner853]

dont need new maps. most players are already overwhelmed by the existing maps.

[@wileecoyote796]

Yikes. I'm confused. I'd like to see a few static graphics saying what's happening. Poorly trained crew will become crew books? For the same country or select-able? Are their XPs summed into a few books, or rounded up into more books, or...?

[@_kolikko7769]

Feel like a stalker being this early

[@theaemulator]

... are you? 🙄

[@MrScorp45]

I have 21 rental tanks complete with crews,will i be able to send them to barracks (barracks are currently full) as WG said you can overfill your barracks when patch hits?

[@OskoIoko]

Yes you can, I had like 65 empty bunks but passed that limit with more than 100 crew

[@jacquesengelbrecht9962]

Step 1 - fill up barracks with < 1 skill crews. (Buy new or send to barracks) Step 2 - fill all empty tanks with new crew (All will be moved to 100% and no limit when the patch hits on barracks spots so you can move them also out)???

[@edelmann4388]

Great Information @Skill4LTU. I already moved as Many unused crews to barracks, mostly from BP-Reward-Tanks and other Premiums where you get a 100% free crew with. now barracks are full, but i do not extend it for some crews left. What I would have missed without the video is to get one or the other tank in lines I grind to place a free crew in and then have it upgraded for free to 100%. Todays - the day before the patch - i would need 200 gold for each one crew member to see this.

[@darkninja___]

You will be able to recruit a 100% crew after the patch for free as well.

[@bikedoc4145]

You can only recruit a certain amount of crews per day, I started a wk ago

[@illbeback111]

I like the changes to crew, makes it way easier to train good crews.

[@michalbow691]

So correct me if i`am wrong: I buy tier 1 and 2 tanks ( because chip and small crew), I buy 75% crew for those tanks and and empty barracks slots, after patch those crews will be 100% + some % of first perk, I move all those low tier crews to barracks (unlimited after patch), and then clear barrack for crew books. For crews from tanks wit fewer crew mambers you get more crew books

[@darkninja___]

Yes. Just make sure you take all bad crew members out of tanks before you convert. It only converts crews in barracks not vehicles. Also u can before patch store crews (bad or good) in rentals or low tiers or any crew with space so u have more space for 75% crews since barracks are limited before patch

[@michalbow691]

Sure, do you know how much % of first perk you get after new patch from 75% crew ? Is there any minimum % of first perk that crew must have to get crew book for that crewmamber?

[@darkninja___]

@@michalbow691 it goes to about 51-53% for first perk. No idea if there are important benchmarks to reach for crew books or not, because idk if each crew is done individually or if all the exp is added up then made into crew books. Might be a combination of the two, like if u buy a 50% crew and play 1 game in it I think it might round up to 1 crew book for that crew in particular. I’m pretty sure that works but not for sure.

[@michalbow691]

What about 100% and 0% first skill? Do I get crew book from them?

[@darkninja___]

@@michalbow691 Yes, but I’m honestly not sure if it works for rentals and onslaught crews that have been given to you

[@mikadsu]

thanks but got only started with it until servers already went down. Hoped it would have been more of usual ~6am when servers are reset but it was 3:30 eastern europe :(

[@siuprizas]

thaaank you skill

[@Geeza-rc9kz]

Is it any crew under 100% standard experience that will be converted to crew books or any crew under 100% on the first perk that will be converted?

[@michaeljohnston6811]

It is any crew less than 100% on the first perk, not the skill level. So anything above 50% skill and no perks and below 100% skill and 100% first perk. So one crew member of a four man tank with 100% skill and 80,000 xp to the first perk (around 95% of first perk) will generate a tier 1 crew book (20,000 xp). Four crew members with 100% skill and 20,000 the first perk (around 65% of first perk) will generate a tier 1 crew book (20,000 xp). Hope this helps. Note that all the 75% skill level crew will automatically be upgraded to 100% skill crews with some xp towards the first perk with the patch (not sure how much) which is why the recommendation is to recruit lots of 2 man 75% crew for 20k credits. I think it represents about a 75-80% discount on crew book costs.

[@kevinhennessey3189]

So I started crews on tech tree tanks and when they reached tier 10 I would retrian them. When playing on lower tier tanks they would take the 20% hit to crew perks, NOW with the new system they lose all perks, This sucks.

[@TheCrustyCupcake]

I've got a ton of next tier tanks I haven't purchased yet, but I'll be sure to retrain the crews to the tank I plan on purchasing. That way they get trained up to 100% for free.

[@SerjogaNa]

i think that video of burst fire is from the other Tanks game that WOT made. if im not mistaken

[@turposaappi8413]

All this good info is irrelevant for me because after some update (I don't remember which one) all my bunks are gone so I can't send crew to barracks

[@SodziausPilietis]

Geras video, aiškiai viskas.

[@steveroberts6302]

I'm too late for this video but all my tanks have decent crew anyway and all the crew in the barracks except for special crew are expendable. However my question is can I put all of the rental vehicle crews into the barracks and convert them to crew books as I never play them?

[@kubamalinowski4195]

you can. why dont you try it yourself? takes 5 seconds

[@markonedeljkovic4876]

is it known whether they will insert the Yugoslav line and what could be expected

[@garryphillips6344]

Love the fact none of this was available or put up on the Asian server, again WG, thank You .

[@jeremymontgomery9354]

Video was posted too late for NA server

[@GreatTazGaming]

This is a Little Late for the NA Server. @Skill4ltu. Remember most of the time the NA/SA server gets their Patch the day before the EU does.!

[@JosephSmith-i6t]

Every year WG makes this game more smoke and mirrors to squeeze the money out of the player base.

[@Valeriu225]

So from what i understand all the crew members which we want to clean up has to be in the barraks no?We cant let it in the tanks and tommorow after update to send it to baraks? i really dont get it and dont want to make a mistake.Thank you

[@johndoezg]

even though i didn't have enough bunks in barracks and it said there is no space, i managed to exchange unused crew from low tier tanks. i don't know if it is a bug or not, but it worked :D

[@IDHPI]

I don’t think we should expect one crew for 3 tanks, wg has done a half ass similar solution in this update

[@jamesknight3070]

In the comments of the Official 1.24.1 video, WG Staff have replied stating that this is just the basic update, with more substantial changes to Crew coming in a few months. What form those changes shall take remains a mystery.....

[@fast_eddie3441]

When does this drop on EU server?

[@grahammarkhorn]

pretty sure the last WG vid said it was being introduced soon....rather than when patch launched. Could be wrong tho.

[@artbobik3516]

I got this update this morning, so I assume it is to late to do anything with the crews without spending a lot of money ?

[@hellvis2025]

you can only recruit a limited amount of crews per day, started yesterday and couldnt recruit more after some tanks.......... what I didn´t understand: why recruit 75% crews for books and not 50% crews?

[@boryachayka9732]

Can you just retrain from 50% to 75%, or do you also need to put them on tank? Thks

[@theQuadTwister]

Is it not nearly the same value like purchase the crewbook for 2mio credits?

[@niemand7212]

Thx for sharing skill. You made my day!❤

[@cattycats4]

So basically TLDR if you have non special crew less than 100% in garage they get deleted and you get a crew book for it?

[@lordhelmchen4645]

thank you Sir!😎 the last 3 hours i prepared my barracks i only deleted 4 wrongly because of stupidity and the lack of reading your comments below the video ;)

[@atomthefirst375]

Good one, very useful tips Skill!

[@fredfirestone363]

Do it worked out?

[@thimohbr9400]

10:05 Sir, you should have your machine gun repaired. Sounds broken

[@andreashajialexandrou7470]

Oh well, the 75% crew didn't give you much (if any) crew books so don't worry about it! If it worked in Asia, it did not work in EU!

[@laumanisvaldis3749]

well well, would have been nice to see this prior patch.. t.t

[@martinbenicek3465]

Does anyone know if I can use crews who are trained for more than 75 but less than 100 for the same outcome to get half of the first skill out of them? Or do I have to recruit new ones with 75 percent? Thanks

[@D4rkM4773r]

Isn’t patch hitting today already? A bit late for some of us who are at work already

[@patrikengstrom6228]

But they do mention that its irreversible? Meaning you can only do it once

[@xavierbarrachina5099]

Goodm! But, what about the beds in the barracks, I bought with gold, and no need anymore?🤔 Any compensation? Can I sell those beds ??😡

[@xFrozenxSnowx]

Cat out of the bag. Theorized and tested this when CT1 just came out.

[@tankthelord1178]

Nice one Skill.

[@stumpythedwarf8712]

Great plan. I'm not doing this though. I'm not turning this game into a job. Where Kitty?

[@alejandrozapataq]

this video came a bit too late and wg already limited how many crews you can train

[@tomasm9369]

can i hide crews with 4+ skills on to Tier 2,3 tanks ? For more space in barrack ?

[@darkninja___]

Yes