Tank Crew Skills in War Thunder Explained - REMANNED | War Thunder Crew Skills Guide

REMAN: to man again or anew.
Crew skills are a crucial aspect in Ground battles. Although often overlooked, these skills can increase your tank's performance by a significant amount. Today, I explain every single tank crew skill with visual guides. This is a remake of one of my first videos, and I've corrected several mistakes, given it a fresh new voice-over and visuals and made it much more accurate. It's also a remake of a remake, which somehow managed to be worse than its original video lol. This time, I actually did research and tested how the skills work in-game, and the voice-over doesn't sound like I'm rapping.
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📘 0:00 Intro
0:15 How crew skills work
📘 2:48 Generic skills
3:19 Keen Vision
5:55 Field Repair
6:25 Agility
6:44 Vitality
📘 7:21 Unique skills
7:29 Tank driving
8:48 Targeting
9:44 Rangefinding
10:23 Leadership
10:45 Weapon reloading
11:24 Artillery targeting accuracy
11:47 Artillery strike calling time
12:11 Radio communication
12:32 Repair speed
📘 13:28 Conclusion: what to upgrade first, etc.
📘 16:08 Outro
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• Discord: discordapp.com/invite/d9QGse4Mzy
• Song used: Joakim Karud - Dreams ( • Dreams )
Special thanks to Niels for helping out with the testing

[@skDoger]

💠 CORRECTION: A wounded gunner and loader perform worse than their normal counterparts. So, your turret traverse and reload rate will be slower if those crew members are injured. ❤ HEALING: Gaijin has indeed added a healing mechanic, read more about it here: warthunder.com/en/news/8960-roadmap-following-the-roadmap-additions-in-the-second-major-update-of-2024-en It's time for a remake of a remake, this time with actual research and 500% slower talking 😎 Next vid will be an original one don't worry

[@bensundermann6553]

My one question is: Is there a cap to crew levels, or can everything get maxed out eventually?

[@sya_7489]

plane crew skill explained when?

[@skDoger]

​@@bensundermann6553You can max out all your crew levels with enough points

[@skDoger]

@@sya_7489 Planned for the future

[@vincenzoimbragulia8152]

Please test the damaged crew members operating hand crank turrets. I believe this needs to be corrected in this guide.

[@sya_7489]

only OGs remember the original was made 4 years ago and was this channel's first video

[@Led00t-du9rj]

And after this I’m still shit at tanks 💀💀💀

[@DerDrecksack87]

And thats perfectly ok, we can still have fun at different skill levels, tbh it would suck sooo much if only sweaty tryhards would be playing.

[@hiekixd5751]

POV you played Soviet tanks at Rank 3

[@berniegran5391]

Stop holding W , hide behind a hill and use your binos , when you see a enemy pop out your turret shoot the enemy and reverse regardless of the damage , rinse and repeat

[@devlintaylor9520]

Tbh my one tip is to watch war thunder youtubers lol. You get less burnt out by the game, and i feel like i got subconsciously better at the game by watching others gameplay

[@LastGoatKnight]

That's crew skill, not you skill sadly. It takes time to hone your skills in the game and believe me, it gets worse on higher ranks especially if you don't pay your way there

[@g.williams2047]

I always speedrun Reload, Gun traverse and Leadership. They’re so much better than anything else (field repair takes way too long to get for a noticeable effect) that missing out on expert crew till later is worth it.

[@skDoger]

Fair point, but in my opinion it's best to get field repair up to at least 2-3 levels in case of emergencies. I've died countless times because of a couple of seconds left on a barrel repair

[@badluck-cp8bv]

​@@skDoger i can relate to that... A lot, to the point of emberishment

[@Screwypone]

But sometimes getting the minimum for the expert crew is much better. That's 3 whole bars worth of skills which isn't really cheap normally and can surpass your 5 bars of skill. Not to mention that it gives you other boost in skills too like the very important field repair.

[@g.williams2047]

@@skDoger I've died plenty of times because of my stupid reload being .2 seconds slower than it would be at the next level, so I got fed up with it lol.

[@tomppeli.]

@@skDoger I feel like improving repair is like a band-aid fix. As in, you fucked up at one point and you're now band-aiding that with the repair skill

[@Rey-vm9it]

WTF, ive been playing this game for years and didnt know that keen vision actually does something in realistic battles. ive always thought the tanks popping in and out of my screen was a bug. xD

[@HappyGM-R]

The initial reason they added that stupid mechanics was to prevent and catch hackers. The idea was even if your wall hacking if the enemy isn’t rendered you can’t shoot them, or if you can it is blatant cheating thus easier to spot.

[@Rey-vm9it]

@@HappyGM-R that is actually a pretty smart idea... funny enough i encountered a cheater a second time a few hours ago and it didnt make a differents. it was on "felder der normandie", round barely startet and i was shot through multiple bushes/trees behind a slight downhill. first i thought ive somehow been seen with TVD, tho when i saw the killfeed and heard the nucler siren after such a short while i was like... yea ok buddy.

[@skartimusprime4779]

Also didn't know this, man I've been neglecting that on my newer crews lol. On the first nations I started with on arcade I boosted this for obvious reasons but any nations I did after moving to realistic (which is most) it's at zero 😂

[@Zorro9129]

I didn't know render distance in realistic was affected. That's very useful information!

[@_sEo_02_]

I'm pretty sure if a crew member is severely wounded (orange or red) it does affect stuff like turret rotation speed

[@puffinz4lifeee]

thats what i was thinking. Wounded driver also turns and changes gears very slowly.

[@elnewbie2611]

Yes it does, but again, it's only once they start to go to the red side.

[@skDoger]

You're right, I forgot to mention that. Thanks for the correction

[@AlphaHorst]

​@@elnewbie2611nope orange as well. only yellow is free. Its the same as with modules(if you can repair it there is a penality to performance, except for the transmission, that sucker uses 20% performance from being yellow). They should also use the same percentage of penality as modules unless gaijin changed that.

[@thomaslinville1508]

Driver too. You can feel your vehicle being sluggish when the driver is red.

[@unknowy_0]

One small issue: qualification costs a lot, and after tier 4, you barely have enough sl for next vehicle

[@skDoger]

That is true, maybe I oughta make an SL grinding guide

[@lalad0]

​@@skDogerif you do I have one tip I never saw on KZbin : if you activate best squad wager but don't play everyday with your friends, you can deactivate join random squad mate and it will only check for best squads when you play specifically with a squad mate, meaning you can keep it active until your friends get back online, and don't have to waste it on maybe a random squad mate who'll leave outright and make you lose that stage

[@spaghettinoodles7913]

Another one is 10 kill wagers. In rb you only need 5 kills, and you can use cas. I did Germany 6.7 with the do335b2 and I haven't failed at getting the max reward once. There were close calls bc I suck sometimes but it works really well.

[@skDoger]

I'll definitely keep those in mind, thanks guys

[@Gunstrike]

@@skDoger yes please, I now stuck on tier 4, and just only 1 tank on tier 5 and the SL grind is really long for sure

[@prizrak-br3332]

3:24 almost 5000h and I didn't know this was a thing... I always though it was just the game being broken and not rendering the enemy since that also happens and graphics quality absolutely affects that.

[@GHOST_CROATIA]

Yeah. Its such a stupid mechanic. So your enemies are invisible if you dont pay enough money. This is worth another boycot

[@kajmak64bit76]

​@@GHOST_CROATIAwhat thr fkc do you mean PAY MONEY JUST GRIND THE CREW POINTS OUT FOR FREE JESUS CHRIST

[@GHOST_CROATIA]

@@kajmak64bit76 Are you stupid? Paying money gives you a gameplay advantage. Yes you can grind your entire life but that does not negate my point.

[@GHOST_CROATIA]

​@@kajmak64bit76 You can shorten the time to become statistically stronger. This is pay to win.

[@GHOST_CROATIA]

@@kajmak64bit76 Apparently you dont understand what pay to win means

[@prizrak-br3332]

2:34 I guarantee you a wounded crew member does not perform the same as a full heath crew member, I'm not sure about the multiplier but if you doubt me just get a red gunner and see what happens to your turret traverse.

[@skDoger]

Correct, I didn't mention that. It's on the pinned comment now, thanks

[@Wasssh]

@@skDoger That would be a great video, if made ill be there for it :)

[@berser4ina]

For loaders the reload multiplier ranges from 1 to 1.25 depending on the damage received

[@burntbybrighteyes]

That was a very helpful video! I also appreciated that you got to the point without endless rambling. Thanks!

[@tywipf9835]

thanks for the explanation, after 1 year of War Thunder I finally know what's useful

[@stupidweasels1575]

Thanks SkDoger, very helpful:) I've been playing this game for years and a lot of this was still new to me lol

[@GhostGOne32]

Funny thing is I was looking at the old vid then saw this.Thanks for the update it help and it's more detailed.

[@zinnsoldat6493]

This system is so scummy

[@jeffneinenstein5923]

Agreed. It can take a long time to upgrade crew skills through normal gameplay, and it’s clear that Gaijin is trying to “encourage” you to spend money. It’s a blatant P2W mechanic, and it should frankly be removed from the game.

[@republic0_032]

Yea crew qualification costs as much as the tank itself in SL 😂 the entire model this game runs on is scummy

[@PeekCandy]

​@@republic0_032and yet here we are

[@republic0_032]

@@PeekCandy i occasionally play with my squadron now, no more grinding for me. I also don't expert any crew or buy any premium.

[@bobbyanderson951]

Love your videos keep up the good work

[@WTplayer_no1]

A remake again 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@charlzgormanov8430]

Excellent video as always...very good...

[@user-eb6iq4wd5e]

That was the most helpful video I've had today 😮😋

[@cynthiahatterene6739]

Definetly nice to watch the remastered explanations. And im hoping well eventually get a remastered series for the ground nations given the plethora of changes it had for vecicles. Plus i think israel wasnt even in it the last time. Or maybe well get naval next? Either way i always look forward to more of these videos as im always learning new things from them despite playing the game for several years already. So keep up the excellent work. Also nice to see you improving so much with the video editing as i think it looks really good compared to 2 -3 years ago

[@skDoger]

Both of those are planned for the future, stay tuned :)

[@drumofd]

2:34 you can close that video wounded crew member affects everything, wounded driver - delay in driving inputs, gunner - slower aiming, loader - slower loading

[@jarodwingert5517]

-Targeting Quality also increases accuracy. That's why a "Reference" vehicle in test range feels so inaccurate. -Each repair time varies by caliber: Small caliber guns (20mm and such) have the fastest field repair time, then mid caliber (up to about 120mm), then vehicles with larger guns (above 150mm it seems) have the longest repair times. An expert large-caliber crew repairs at the same rate as a stock small-caliber crew.

[@thatguy7612]

The small red arrows from keen vision are so helpful. Somtimes it'll just spot enemie tanks around a corner

[@StarWarsExpert_]

15:51 that misses one important factor though. You get less research points overall in Arcade mode than in realistic mode. So, in the end it might be more worth to play Realistic mode, aka RB.

[@skDoger]

Fair point

[@nightcrawler_1177]

Radio Communication in Simulator battles affects how quickly you get a callback for the "checking for allies at location" when using your rangefinder on another vehicle. From memory, if you upgrade Rangefinding & Radio Communication in unison, finding the range will always be faster than the allied vehicle callback.

[@skDoger]

Very true, I forgot to mention that

[@BlackThanator]

I swear the tank driving skills improves the steering wheel turn time on wheeled vehicles. I could feel a significant difference between driving a Puma on a stock crew and an expert max lvl crew.

[@farmcat9873]

@skDoger Nice little video on crew skills that can help pretty much any player out if they watch this. Good Work 👍

[@topmonkeyvr]

Your vids are the best

[@pappnasehd9713]

Time to level up my L3/33 for the Top Tier Nuke Challenge. Your Guide helps me a Lot.

[@TheCoreypark]

Tank driving is really helpful for really slow tanks like tortoise and t95. They almost completely stop when turning with no skill, where you can do several small turns and keep momentum with the skill up

[@berser4ina]

2:25 according to their statement on the roadmap suggestion, for vehicles with multiple loaders the reload times is decreased depending on the number of remaining loaders

[@saittosun4514]

Great thanks bro

[@GUSTJUSTFUST]

Bro I just watched the old video 4 days ago now I have to do it all over again

[@thatjustify]

i just watched your original video yesterday lol

[@hunlepto2239]

I would personally argue that instead of 3 main stats you should focus on, Targeting should be considered a 4th main stat. Targeting is INCREDIBLY important in ground RB where your reflexes and time to aim at other tanks can oftentimes decide who lives and dies. And even if one uses a casemate, they'll never have a constant line-up of casemates where forever. Targeting is more important of an upgrade than weapon reloading, especially considering that it costs 3x less than it aswell.

[@BCase56]

Did not know about the arcade crew XP gain. Played RB for the better tech tree progress but will check it out.

[@KomradeDoge]

Arcade used to also be better for silver lion payout, or at least its repair costs are less so its definitely worth venturing there for those 2 grinds.

[@o-hogameplay185]

targeting also affects the accuracy. also there are other issues others have pointed out. as for skill order, go for this: 1, targeting. low tier guns are already horribly inaccurate, but you need the accuracy later too. faster aim is also important. hitting the target more reliably (and aiming at it faster) is the most important thing. you can have the fastest reload, it wont matter if your gun can't hit anything, let alone weak spots, and important areas 2, reload. upgrade it to ~80% ASAP, then you can go to the others. you can return later to this 3, agility. distribute it evenly on the crew members 4, repair. same as agility 5, leadership 6, vitality. in this order: gunner, driver, commander, loader, radio operator after this, whatever you want.

[@johncheng1204]

Honey, skDodger uploaded!

[@Lil_Schlonky213]

Ive been playing war thunder for 4+ years and i never knew what keen vision did

[@Orodreth888]

I injured driver is also slower to react to input, making the tank sluggish.

[@misterperson3469]

One small note about sharing xp between gamemodes: the mechanics skills are also valid in all gamemodes. I really second the advice to play air for crew xp btw. If a slot is lagging behind playing some Air RB with that slot can really help catch it up since that gets all your xp into a single slot.

[@skDoger]

Good catch! Forgot to mention that in the video

[@Screwypone]

For lower tiers, I would try to get as much levels as possible up, at least up to the next tier cap, so that when I reach that tier, I can buy the expert crew straight away. So my loadout would usually look like half a bar in all skills. Getting expert crew essentially gives the bare minimum for repairs, which feels decent for now. After that? Targeting, to the max, always. Since I tend to end up in close quarters, this skill have saved countless games and got me to the top of the leaderboard often. Sometimes it even lets me survive an outnumbered situation, which usually just sends me to the top of the board. After that, it is all personal preferences. I like to be able to respond faster, and since the tank driving skill is cheap, that would be the next to max out. Otherwise, tank reloading and leadership is the next to max out. Once these three main skills are maxed, I would rush for field repairs. This skill has also saved a couple of matches because they weren't expecting me to counter attack so quickly. Also, I could run away earlier. And because nobody likes to sit duck for so long.

[@jevry4307]

if 12:24 is true, that is a huge bit of info for me. that makes it actually a usefull skill for german mains (like me) also you forgot to mention rp into crew xp conversion rates for sim, you only mentioned the 100>1 and 100>3 ratio for ab and rb

[@skDoger]

RB and sim are roughly the same, in RB it's 100 > 1.15 XP, and for sim it's 100 > 0.9 XP

[@badluck-cp8bv]

15:52 Oooooohhhh... simulated learning ! :)

[@Albinisiert]

I kind of expected RB to give more Crew XP Points since it is the "Harder" Gamemode and not AB. Well now i should probably play more AB to get my crew leveled up more.

[@Lostenoch]

Ah i was lvling each of my crews the same and moving from around without thinking. Making a crew good at long range is a good idea tyty

[@imjustahumanbro]

you made me to hop on warthunder to grind crew exp lol

[@Hold_Onz]

bro I just rewatched the old one like 5 hours ago😂😂

[@kenken8241]

I never knew that Radio communications being tied to the red arrows.

[@_GreenSMILEy]

Repair Rank Has an Inpact on how fast you can repair a hightier vehicle. (I don't really know but it takes 50% longer to repair a higher tier vehicle if you didn't skilled the repair rank to the vehicle you use)

[@LettuceGayming]

7:28 i wanna say the vehicle they’re in is either the Lancia 3RO or the AS 42, but i could be wrong. I think that is the italian crew model tho

[@Frost_x_NB]

Can you do an updated tank nation guide. Lots of things have changed since the other one you did.

[@skDoger]

It's planned for the future

[@breadedbread6909]

New vidd lets gooo

[@benbased7740]

Reminder you don't need to upgrade the vitality of the MG/radio operator if you mostly play high tier, and maybe even the loader if you have a nation with many autoloader tanks.

[@zalanpeleskei5641]

I would advise everyone to upgrade vitality on the SPAA gunner, cause you better believe that the first thing the planes destroy in AA is the gunner.

[@charlesleonitol.iringaniv8320]

ok i originally thought that Reload skill doesn't affect 1st stage replenishment after many rounds of using autoloader xm803/mbt70's. I keep kinda noticed my 1st stage replenishment being slower when my loader was down then up to speed again when I replaced the crew on the original abrams

[@theproceedings4050]

Important note, don't upgrade weapon reloading in an autoloading tank, weapon handling is what you should do instead, particularly if you have french tanks with oscillating turrets...

[@jailbreaker1214]

Repair speed is total dogshit at higher tiers. Gaijin actually thinks having a several day free repair time is somehow worth upgrading the skill

[@emsione]

Lol never upgraded keen vision as I thought it only affects arcade. All these years

[@farmcat9873]

Fast way to get crew to max and Easy is play Heli PvE and learn how it is and what to do and once you do stack a bunch of boosters but remember 1 booster only lasts for 30 minutes so best thing to do in PvE is use a 5 pack of booster or 10 pack and if you are playing top tier Heli a 3 pack booster is good because top tier match last no more than 1 hour and most the time its a tiny bit over a half hour. This mode cranks up crew points specially with booster because the crew points are gained by XP and the more XP you receive in that mode the more crew points you get. Now for me I receive over 2k crew points a game and it actualy use to be a hell of a lot more but Gaijin realized that players took advantage of it BIG time. On average if you have premium time and a premium heli of top tier you can make usually a little bit over 1k. Still, now if you own the first rank of helicopters and premium one like the Mi-24D any rank 5 Heli gets you bank in XP(crew points) only because the matches last an hour and a half to even 3 hours if a most the team drops out and that right there makes CRAZY amounts of XP(crew points). I use to walk out of a PvE match when the mode started with no less than 3800 to 4200 crew points but now Gaijin toned it down and its more like 2800 max give or take. No lie this mode got me maxed out crews the fastest once I learned the PvE mode and that really doesn't take to much time. Even though it can be boring and thats if you are one of the people that just go and bomb bases when they show up in which return you usually don't die anymore because they don't spawn Spaa on the bases anymore like they use to and those Spaa use to max up the points for bombing/killing a base but nope not anymore because Gaijin took them away. Anyways its probably the fastest way to gain crew xp and no lie its probably the cheapest and easiest way but just time consuming but its faster than pretty much any other way.

[@aaronho1914]

Wait I didnt know that keen vision affected render distance. That explains why sometimes i die to invisiable sniper tanks on thebother side of the map 💀

[@mbergquist6855]

Still confused about keen vision. I keep upgrading keen vision on the gunner and commander thinking they would spot a tank quicker and engage faster. Am I doing what's best for quickly seeing the opposition? Thanks for the tutorial. Coming from WOT...what a learning curve.

[@skDoger]

War Thunder's spotting mechanics aren't like WoT's. You can see most tanks up to a certain distance, with or without keen vision. In arcade mode though, it lets you see the red markers on top of enemy vehicles at a longer distance. This can definitely help you engage them faster, but only in arcade mode. Also, you don't need to upgrade it on only the gunner and commander, the keen vision skill is shared across all the crew members. It's best to spread out your points to all your crew for generic skills like those.

[@borris542]

This is easily one of the modt p2w mechanics in the game in regards to diversification of skill points if you are gonna spend ge to get ace then jd say its worthwhile but if you are not stick to certain skills

[@thecodfather923]

5,500 hours and I did not know most of these. I still spaded my crews, just didnt know. The keen vision thing is kinda silly IMO...

[@LuigianoMariano]

You forgot to mention the Talisman Bonus.

[@Merilol666]

There's render distance?! All the years i thought I'm freaking blind...

[@SoIutl0n]

Finally there is a reason people to play AB

[@SebiGamer_16]

The thing is that you get 3 times less rp in arcade than in realistic

[@ZAKXOXOXO]

i think autoloader tank can benefit from reloading skill via republishing the ready racks/ammo racks

[@skDoger]

Yes, that's what I meant by the stowage time

[@MackeyHDGaming]

Oh damn didnt know arcade was 3x points

[@manhvo242]

now I know why I have almost no crew xp after every RB matches...

[@LokirofRoriksted]

14:35 I think you made a mistake. To upgrade to expert you need lvl 5 crew for rank 2 vehicles, lvl 15 crew for rank 3 vehicles and lvl 25 for rank 4 vehicles. Also, for ACE you only need that level to get it from golden eagles. You can grind the vehicle before that. I got 2 aced crews on lvl 29 on 2 rank 3 vehicles, while the game was saying I needed lvl 50 to buy ace with golden eagles

[@skDoger]

Good catch

[@UnhingedCanadian]

Pretty sure the invisible tanks is a bug. I’ve seen tanks well past 1000m with no keen vision upgrades and I’ve had tanks pop in and out at less then 500m. Keen vision has nothing to do with render distance that is a mistake. I know for a fact I’ve seen tanks render in at 1500-2000m with lvl 1 keen vision in 3rd person. I’ve had them disappear inside 500m as well

[@zupnanazwa]

Tbf It could be because of "visibility" of tanks. Meaning that Maus has 200% while a t 34 has like 80% maybe it has something to do with this. Although I think I also never really had problems with invisible tanks

[@wyghtor7462]

Is there some way to make the detection arrow (4:00) more in the center of the screen or larger? Because it is almost invisible and out of sight on a large monitor.

[@skDoger]

Not that I know of, but maybe if you change the UI scale in the settings, it might make it bigger

[@AlphaHorst]

ah yes WTs biggest P2W feature which gets even more agressive next patch when you will face 2 minutes of repair with an untrained crew. or simply spend 30 bucks per crew to get them to a decent level....or play 300h for the same effect(if you are decent enough of a player) also at 2:40. A wounded crew member DOES NOT perform the same as a non wounded crew member. A red gunner will slow your turret traverse as well as gun traverse significantly while a wounded loader will reduce your reload rate. For example an Expert full reload KV 2 has 32s of reload, with a red loader it has 46s reload. with a dead loader it has 62s reload (reload penality is twice your reload time because obviously your tanks commander or any other crew member has never in their life even touched a gun and can therefore not be expected to perform just as good as a fucking first day green loader would) also for the Exp grind. Only base RP count. (The number which pops up when you actually do sth in a match).If you have a good 10 minute game in your T72 and earn 10k RP you will not earn 100exp. You will have eraned around 50. Because booster bonus, activity bonus and skill bonus RP do not count!

[@TheSlimeHunter]

Regarding arty accuracy do the shells all fall randomly within the range or do the shells fall concentrated into a random spot of the arty targeting?

[@skDoger]

They fall randomly within the range

[@anter176]

Is Arcade really better for getting crew skill? I thought you got less RP in arcade battles

[@KusaGrn]

There are some tanks with fewer crew members though (example no loader is French ELC) does the loader/ radio operator skills still apply (like field repair and keen vision, etc.)

[@skDoger]

Yes, I addressed that in the intro. Even if your tank doesn't have all 5 crew members, you'll still get the benefits of their skills

[@KusaGrn]

@@skDoger oh okay thanks man, it was so brief I didn’t notice ToT

[@turgeon1235]

Doesn’t injured(not dead) crew slow down turret rotation speed, gear changing speed, loading speed and repair speed? I swear it’s like that but that’s just from battles. Haven’t tested anything with anyone yet.

[@boombewm5828]

I am not sure where I heard from, but I heard Tank Driving is better for slower tanks like Centurions. Is this true?

[@3Rzeczpospolita]

Even if my tank crew in the battle will have some skills I still don't have any💀

[@jacobbellamy7640]

Sorry, I'm still really confused about what happens when you have missing crew roles and what happens when you have double up on roles. You said you still get the skills applied even if crew are missing. Is that because another crew member takes on two jobs like commmander + gunner, and if they get taken out you lose both? Or do you only lose the skill bonuses for their primary job? You said that if a crew member dies, someone moves to cover their role, and the skill bonus towards their previous job is lost. But someone still has to be doing that job don't they? If you have a gunner, driver, and loader, and then the driver dies, you can still shoot drive and reload after a crew member has swapped over. In the case of two crew of the same job, like having two loaders, I know you said that reload rate isn't affected but what about the general skills like repair speed? If losing crew always reduces the value of the general skills, does that mean the reported value for the agility skill is always wrong because it requires you to lose a crew member for it to take effect?

[@skDoger]

Think of the skills and the crew members as separate things. When you upgrade skills, you're giving your tank benefits, not your crew. If a tank doesn't have a commander for example, nobody in there takes his job, and the commander's skills are permanently applied to the vehicle. Also for the double loaders, both of them need to die in order to lose their skills. For your last question about agility, I never really thought about that, so I'll have to look into it further.

[@szymon_sowa]

Do navy next

[@skDoger]

Planned for the future

[@szymon_sowa]

@@skDoger thanks since I'm like one of the only people to actually play navy

[@emancrusher1221]

Need to send this to Niels so he shuts up about targeting being useless

[@AllKindzzzz]

D point worthy content.

[@scorpionarthur]

If I train a crew on an aircraft but then assign a tank to the slot, will the upgrades be reset for ground vehicles?

[@skDoger]

Yes, the different forces have different crews, so they don't apply to each other

[@shadowbonbon3]

I can’t believe tank players have to upgrade there crew individually I’m happy I play planes 90% of the time

[@mynt253]

I have never noticed any red arrows in RB. Weird.

[@brunos6599]

Me, with the ju288: Every crew to 75 ASAP.

[@Better_Bread]

11:21 does weapon reloading effect the ammo replacement time on a cap?

[@skDoger]

Nope, it's the same for a stock and an ace crew.

[@Destroyerext]

2:10 does this apply to planes? Like does my pilot get extra G force reduction if I have max G force skill on a non-pilot skill if I only have a pilot?

[@skDoger]

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't; on planes the upgrades are for the selected crew member only

[@AstroGamer_da_real]

What Happens when you replenish your crew on the D point?

[@skDoger]

You unlock a secret 6th crew member

[@FirefoxEzo]

Helpful for someone who is bad and only plays arcade

[@Pilloot.]

I play air, I don’t know why I’m here…

[@Blebba01]

Can you also make a video like this for planes??

[@skDoger]

Planned for the future

[@jevry4307]

@@skDoger i cant find any information about keen vision for planes so if you especially present some good information about keen vision i would highly appreciate it. im mainly curious about the ~exact shape of the vision cones (if they even are cone-shaped) of the pilots. (same for this video, most crew skill vids i've seen before just rehash the tooltips so learning what the skills do beyond the tooltips has been hugely usefull)

[@skDoger]

@@jevry4307 I'll do my best!

[@el_shmuel]

I have a question: if you use aircraft and tanks on the same crew spot, can you spend the points gained by an aircraft for tank crew levels? Also, I think that if you have level 68 crew with an aircraft you do not have the same level cre with tanks.

[@skDoger]

For your first question, yes, you can use XP earned with planes to upgrade tank skills. And no, plane skills don't carry over to tank skills

[@el_shmuel]

@@skDoger Yeah, I realized you covered that first question on the video. Thank you for answering!

[@AlphaJnx]

So u get more Crew Xp points on arcade than realism... Good to know good to know.

[@lalad0]

I have a question that's been annoying me for a long time : to make my driver come back faster, do i need to upgrade agility on my driver or on the crew member that will replace it ?

[@skDoger]

It doesn't matter, agility is shared across all your crew members, so whichever one you upgrade, everyone gets the benefits

[@lalad0]

@@skDoger ahhh right I forgot about that part. Thanks for the clarification

[@Bingus__Khan]

Does anyone know if the average crew skill level of all 5 crew members count, even when the tank has less than 5 crew members? For example, does a tank that only has the driver, the gunner and the commander, benefit from upgrading field repair and agility of the loader and the radio operator?

[@skDoger]

Yes, like I said in the intro, even if your tank has less than 5 crew members, you'll still get the benefits from their upgrades

[@jaspersiron1041]

Do i still need to upgrade the loader’s generic skills when im using a russian mbt (3 crew)?

[@skDoger]

Yes, even if a tank doesn't have all 5 crew members, you'll still get the bonuses from their skills

[@felixantonioblancodepedro5981]

little resume of what to upgrade?