Crew Training

The crew is a key element that connects a player to a vehicle. Each crew member—Commander, Driver, Gunner, Loader, and Radio Operator—has their own major qualification. By improving a crew member's major qualification and training additional perks, they become more effective, which significantly improves the battle performance of the vehicle.

Major Qualification

After training your crew member to 100% in their major qualification, perks become available, which increase your battle capabilities.

Commander training is of critical importance. Every 10% of the Сommander’s combat skills gives a 1% bonus to the whole crew. For example, if your Сommander is trained to 50%, then the crew receives an additional 5% bonus to the level of major qualification. If your Сommander is trained to 100%, then the crew will receive a 10% bonus. Note that the Commander's bonus is not applicable to the Сommander.

Effective major qualification mastery is determined by the following two factors:

• Qualification level: The level of major qualification of a tanker.
• Vehicle control mastery: Crew members can use their skills to the fullest either on the vehicle for which they are currently trained or on Premium vehicles of the same type and nation.

Major Qualification Training

When recruiting a crew member, you can choose one of the following three major qualification levels:

1. Rapid Courses: These courses are free, but a tanker is only trained to 50%. This training level is set by default when recruiting a crew member.
2. Regimental School: A tanker is trained to 75% for 20,000.
3. Tank Academy: A crew member is trained to 100% for 200.

The most common way to raise crew mastery to 100% is to gain experience in battles. Every tanker receives the same amount of XP for each battle as the vehicle. The more effective they are in battle, the faster the crew is trained.

However, training a tanker to 100% only by gaining Combat XP can take a long time.
Here's how you can accelerate qualification training:

• Train an already-recruited tanker in Regimental School or Tank Academy for in-game currency.
• Use Personal Reserves to gain additional Free and Crew XP.
• Activate the Accelerate Crew Training option on Elite vehicles.
• Purchase WoT Premium Account to get 50% more Crew XP per battle.

Accelerating Training for In-Game Currency

If you already have tankers trained to less than 75%, you can send them to Regimental School or Tank Academy at any time. Here's how:

1. Select the vehicle in the Garage as well as the tanker whose qualification level you want to increase.
2. Select Retrain from the menu. In the new window, select Tank Academy or Regimental School.

You can also train all crew members at once. Click (Crew Operations), and under the Crew Retraining section, click Retrain. Select the training level (Regimental School or Tank Academy) in the Crew Retraining window and click Retrain. Only those crew tankers whose qualification level is under 75% will be retrained.

Accelerating Crew Training on Elite Vehicles

The Accelerate Crew Training option is available on Elite vehicles. By activating it, all experience earned on this vehicle is spent on crew training. The least experienced crew member is trained twice as fast and is marked with .

Elite vehicles include researchable vehicles that have all modules and following vehicles upgraded, as well as Premium and reward vehicles.

To accelerate crew training on Elite vehicles, here's what you do:

1. Select the vehicle in the Garage.
2. Click the Accelerate Crew Training icon above the crew members panel in the upper-left corner of your Garage.
3. Confirm your choice by clicking the ON button.

Crew Perks

After training your crew member’s major qualification to 100%, additional perks become available.

There are both group and individual perks. Group perks are available for all crew members, while individual perks are only for certain qualifications. If a tanker has several qualifications, they can train all perks available for each one.

Sixth Sense: A Special Commander Feature

Please note that all Commanders have a special feature that allows them to identify whether their vehicle has been spotted by the enemy.

The main features of perks are as follows:

• Perks come to effect when trained to at least 1% and grow more effective with further training.
• Some perks have a situational effect that is triggered in certain battle conditions, while others have a permanent effect that remains active throughout the battle.
• For group perks, the average training level among all crew members is applied.
• Each percent above 100% of major qualification training amplifies the effect of all perks (except for Brothers in Arms).

After training an additional perk to 100%, tankers can start training the next one. To train the next perk, the tanker will need twice as much experience as for the previous one.

Perk Training

Perk training starts at 0% and increases by gaining Combat XP.

A zero perk is a special type of perk that is available to a crew member by default. It is fully trained, does not require any experience, and cannot be changed by the player. Crew members with zero perks can be acquired as a reward or during events such as Holiday Ops. Zero perks significantly reduce the amount of experience needed for further crew training.

Perk training can be increased at any time. Here are several ways to do this:

• Train for Free XP. After each battle, 5% of Combat XP is converted into Free XP. You can also gain Free XP by converting Combat XP from Elite vehicles for gold.
• Use the Accelerate Crew Training option on Elite vehicles.
• Study Crew Books.
• Activate Personal Reserves.
• Earn more Combat and Crew XP when playing with WoT Premium Account or in Premium vehicles.

Here's how to accelerate perk training for Free XP:

1. Select the vehicle in the Garage as well as the tanker whose qualification level you want to increase.
2. Select Profile in the menu, and
3. then click Increase.
4. Choose Free Experience in the Quick Training window and finalize the training process.

You can also reset your tanker's existing perks at any time by clicking the Reset button and choosing one of the following four options:

• Rapid Courses: Free of charge, but the major qualification level is reduced to 80%.
• Regimental School: Costs 20,000, and the major qualification level is reduced to 90%.
• Tank Academy: Costs 200 and does not change the major qualification level.
• Retraining: Requires a Retraining Order but leaves the major qualification level unchanged.

Crew Books

Crew Books allow you to speed up training of one or all crew members by adding a certain amount of Crew XP.

Crew Books differ by type and value. The higher the value, the more XP a crew member will receive when the Crew Book is studied. There are seven types of Crew Books that differ in their acquisition method and conditions of use.

Purchasing and Using Training Manuals

To purchase Training Manuals, do the following:

1. In the Garage, select the vehicle of the nation for which you want to purchase Training Manuals.
2. Right-click the image of a crew member you would like to train, and then
3. click Quick Training.
4. In the new window, select the Training Manual, and then click Purchase.
5. In the confirmation window, set the number of Training Manuals and click Purchase. A Training Manual costs 2,000,000. When studied, it provides each crew member with 250,000 XP.

In the same menu, you can train specific crew members for Free XP. This is where all types of Crew Books are stored, ready for immediate use. Select the crew members you want to train and use the available consumables.

Here's how to view your Crew Books:

1. Go to the Depot tab under the Battle! button in your Garage.
2. Click (Stock) on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Go to the Crew Books tab. Available Crew Books are displayed here. Use filters to search for the Crew Books you need.