The tank isn’t just a gun, an engine, and armor.
It is also the crew.
The crew mastery increases a vehicle’s effectiveness in a battle.
On a new tank, the crew mastery is 50%.
You can increase it for credits in Regimental School, or for gold in Tank Academy.
You can earn crew experience in battles — the same amount as battle experience.
This experience can be spent on improving the crew mastery.
If this figure is 100%, you can use crew experience to acquire skills.
These can give your vehicles special abilities.
It can aim quicker, maneuver better, or penetrate the enemy more frequently.
There are a lot of skills, and they are all very useful.
They are divided into four categories, depending on the vehicles you play to acquire the skill.
For example, to acquire “Breakthrough”, you can use only the experience earned on light tanks.
To acquire “Close Combat Master”, go into a battle on heavy tanks.
After a skill’s training is complete, it is valid for vehicles of any class.
As an example “Close Combat Master” is valid not only for heavy tanks; use it for medium and light tanks, and even for TDs.
Every skill has 5 levels.
Every level has more of an effect than the previous one.
The last level has five times more of an effect than the first one.
To activate the skill, you will need 100% of mastery required to gain a level.
So, if you have a level 3 skill, plus a bit more, the effect will be at level 3.
If you haven’t reached level 1 yet, the skill will have no effect at all.
To start training a skill, you should select it.
You can train one skill per category at the same time.
If you acquire a certain skill level, this experience cannot be cancelled, or redistributed.
But you can do this easily if you are still in progress.
If you do not want to train “Penetration Boost” anymore, you can relocate the experience to other skills within the same category.
But be alert!
You will need much more experience at higher levels.
Thus, if you transfer the experience for level 4 of “Penetration Boost” to some level 1 skill, it will gain several full levels at once.
You cannot reverse this.
You will be able to relocate only what is left after completing the levels.
You can train skills not only using crew experience, but with free experience as well.
You can earn free experience in battles; this totals 5% of the combat experience.
You can also convert it for gold from elite vehicles.
A vehicle is elite if all modules are unlocked and the next vehicle is researched.
The Premium tanks are elite from the very beginning.
The crew skills were introduced in the 1.5 Update.
All the experience earned before this date has been retroactively stored.
You can now allocate it.
Do that for every skill category.
Otherwise, the skills won’t work.
If you see the message as shown here, the process is not completed yet.
If you haven’t played World of Tanks Blitz before Update 1.5 was released, just select the skills you need, and go!
Good luck in battles!