They're your comrades, your compatriots, your brothers-in-arms. When the tanks
start rolling and the guns start roaring, you want only the best, the brightest, and
the most skilled crew driving your tank to victory.
Crews are essential to success in World of Tanks. Every tank needs a crew to
operate it or will not be able to roll out to battle. Each time you purchase a
new tank, you will be prompted to assign a crew to that tank. You'll be able to
see the crew's mastery in their respective tank above the commander's
picture. Though you are free to select any crew that is from a valid nation that
you wish, your best option will be highlighted for you.
Reassigning a crew from one of your existing tanks requires retraining,
unless you are sending a crew to a premium tank. Crews can be reassigned into
premium tanks for free. Sending your crew to Tank Academy for gold will train them
to 100% mastery. Reassigning a crew to a tank class that they have not been
trained in will be more expensive than keeping them in their current class of
training and reassigning a crew into a higher tier will be more expensive than
reassigning them to a tank of the same tier. When you reassign a crew to a tank,
the existing crew in that tank will be kicked out. Crews belonging to a
particular country can only be reassigned to tanks from their own
country. Should you choose to hire a new crew for free, they too will have to be
trained. Because this crew is inexperienced, you will have a third option
for their training: Rapid Courses. Though it costs nothing to put a crew through
Rapid Courses they will only be trained to fifty percent mastery, leaving you to
make up the rest on the battlefield. You may find it is much more advantageous to
transfer a more experienced crew that is already in your roster.
Each time you take a crew out to battle, it will become more proficient in their
particular tank. When you select a skill for your crew, they will begin training
on it, much in the same way they did when training on their tank.
As your crew's mastery with a particular skill increases, the skills
effectiveness in battle will increase. The camouflage skill at seventy-five
percent mastery, for example, will do a better job at concealing your tank from
prying eyes than it would at twenty percent mastery. Once the skill reaches
100 percent, you will be able to train your crew in a second skill. You can
continue to train your crew and skills, one at a time, until they have up to 25
different skills.
Be sure to read the descriptions for each skill and select the best skills
for your play style. Perks, much like skills, are a goal for your crew to work
towards by earning XP in battle.
Unlike skills, a perk does not activate at all until it reaches 100 percent
mastery. Once it does activate, you will immediately be able to reap the rewards.
As with skills,
be sure to read the descriptions of each perk and decide which are best for your
play style. If you reassigned a crew that has a set of active perks and skills, but
opted not to send them to Tank Academy in their new tank, the crew will not lose
their skills and perks. Their skills and perks will just be deactivated until
they reach 100 percent mastery in the new tank. Of course, if you opt to train your
crew via Tank Academy, you will have access to those skills and perks
immediately. While reassigning a crew to a regular tank will cost either gold or
silver, it will cost you nothing to reassign a crew into or out of a premium
tank. Any crew reassigned to a premium tank will also enjoy the tank's benefits of
accelerated training. Once your crew has utilized those accelerated training
benefits, you can reassign them back into the tank they came from for free as well.
However, if you want to transfer the crew out of the premium tank and into a new
tank you will have to retrain them. Your tank can't function without a crew.
Take the time to properly train your crews and assign them the best perks
and skills for battle and you will have the advantage over your adversaries!