A lot, they will function at 75% of their real skill level and will gain experience a lot more slowly. If you retrain them for free, then they go to 80% of their T29 skill level, if you do it for £20k per man it goes to 90% of the previous skill level, if you do it for 300 gold each then they don't drop at all. Any perks or skills they have are unaffected, it only drops the main training level.

I always do it to 90% - not worth spending a lot of gold on IMO, but definitely worth £100k a tank to make sure they don't drop too much!

They don't usually release patch dates, just keep your eye on the news for the end of all the supertests and any server downtime - that'll usually be it!

In other news, I am now a member of DUDS, thank you very much to bugeye

Think I need to get myself a credit earner to sit alongside my Type 59.

So...

Lowe or KV-5?

Or does anyone know what level the Matilda Black Prince will be?

The type 59 is probably my best money making premium anyway. I have a T34 and had a Lowe but the Type is more fun to play and makes "me" way more credits. I wouldn't bother spending money on another premium personally.

Thanks very much, it's down to you!

Now, where are you getting that efficiency-per-battle information from?


Re. KV-5 vs T34, the KV-5 is only a problem to dispatch if you're carrying less than a tier 7 gun. The T34 is a considerably better tank, but it also has matchmaking two tiers higher.

For reference, the KV-5 goes into battle tiers 9 and 10, the Löwe 9-11, and the T34 9-12.

All of it, which usually means their rate of training is doubled. If you right-click on the crew member and open their details it'll tell you how much XP they need to the next level, but bear in mind that accelerated training gives all the XP to the lowest-trained crew member.

Ah, I just read it again in the Wiki and from what I can see it means that your weakest crew member earns double, and the others earn at the usual rate. I'll check, but if so, it's only moderately useful.

ETA - Just tested it with my PzIV and that's correct. With accelerated turned on, all crew earn at the usual rate, except for the least skilled crew member who earns double. You still get your 5% free XP.

I'm working down the German tech tree and I've got as far as the PzIII/IV and now the xp needed to progress is getting a bit tougher. I'm considering three options:

E50
E75 -> E100
or go back and work towards the Maus.

I don't mind heavy tanks, I also don't mind mediums. Are there any howlers in there, anything to avoid? Is there a best way to proceed?

Don't think the E-100 is much cop from what I have read. I have an E-75 but really have no interest in going for the E-100....I am not a fan of slow tanks!

Looks like my original plan of sitting in an elite vehicle to train my crew up before transferring them to the next level may be a waste of time then and I'm better off just going straight to the next tier. Wonder if I've got enough cash for a tier 4 TD?

Getting closer to the E-75 now nearly 2 mil credits in the bank, with the tank being worth around 1.2 mil after the transferrable parts and mods are taken off (rammer, spall liner, repair kit).

Though my banked amx12t will net me its original buy price when they get up tiered as will the sale of the new french Tier 5. So in a couple of weeks I will have the E-75... I hope it is a good vehicle (from its specs it looks like an up armoured Tiger II).

Using Free Xp and thankfully stuff already transferring accross from the Tiger II I only need to train the XP for the top gun, and the top engine before the long grind to the E-100, that said it is 50k XP for the engine (another 280hp) and 68k XP for the gun! so it won't be that quick.

Had a great match in the Pershing last night, on the airfield map, out team won 15:0 couple of us were down to less than half hp left but still, I did accidentally damage a Lorrane 40T that I shot by accident as he moved infront of me when I fired - oops.