Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

This month, we’re launching another series of special Loot Crates in MY.GAMES Market that offer you a chance to win some of the most coveted vehicles in the game.



These crates are:

• Asian-themed (with Type 99A2-140)
• Russian-themed (with Object 490)
• NATO-themed (with Altay)

We’re implementing a new mechanic to the MY.GAMES Market Loot Crates. The mechanic is simple – instead of purchasing the Loot Crates, you purchase keys to them, which you then use to unlock them. Please note:

• Discounts do not apply to Loot Crates, but rather to Keys
• It is possible to buy multiple keys for a single chest type
• Keys belong to individual Loot Crates (that is, a key to a Commander Loot Crate purchased now is not guaranteed to work on a Commander Loot Crate a month down the line)
• Keys can be found in a separate Market section

 


We hope that you will enjoy the offer and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

The Halloween celebrations are not just about scary things like Loot Crates, but also about dressing up. This year’s costumes, we’ve chosen a particular theme – dragons, or, specifically, their destruction. We’ll be dressing up as dragonslayers, the mighty vanquishers of titanic flying foes that sow death and destruction across the land.



Between October 29 and November 4, 2021 (15:00 CET), apart from a 50% Crew XP income bonus, a free bundle will be available on MY.GAMES Market, containing:

• Dragon player avatar
• Player title “Dragonslayer”
• 5 Gold Loot Crates
• 5 Gold Battlefield Glory 12-hour boost tokens

Additionally, we’ve prepared an offer for you, featuring a special bundle with the Dragonslayer skin for the T-15 Tier 10 Tank Destroyer, turning your Armata HIFV into a proper steed for a rugged band of dragon hunters. Dark blue scales and a dragon skull with its eye sockets alight with baleful glow, what’s not to like?



The bundle contains the following items:

• Dragonslayer skin for T-15 Armata
• Battle-hardened status for T-15 Armata
• 30 days of Premium Time

 


We hope that you will enjoy this Halloween even with what’s still going on in the world and wish you safe and pleasant holidays.

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

In addition to the Berberys skin, we’ve prepared a special camouflage for this year’s Independence Day of Poland celebrations – one we call Ryś after the vehicle it was photographed on.



The camouflage itself is fairly basic as it consists of vertical green, black, brown and light beige stripes. The vehicle, however, is an interesting one. Since the 1960s until the late 1980s, the Polish army had been using the OT-64 SKOT as its principal APC. The vehicle had been really good for its era but two decades later, it was simply obsolete, which is why it why it was almost completely phased out by 1995.



This left Poland not only without a proper APC (this was remedied by the adoption of KTO Rosomak in 2002), but also with a large number of mothballed OT-64s. In 2002, a prototype of a modernized OT-64 appeared at the MSPO expo in Kielce under the name Ryś (Lynx). The vehicle got a different engine by IVECO and a host of other upgrades with multiple versions envisaged by Wojskowe Zakłady Motoryzacyjne S.A., the producer.



The camouflage belonged to a variant called E8, intended for the Polish Airborne forces. It was armed with 30mm cannon installed in an E8 turret by Rheinmetall (hence the designation) and unveiled during the MSPO expo in 2003.



In the end, the project was a minor success. It stayed around for a couple of years and a few more variants were shown to the public, but the only contract closed was the one for five armored ambulance vehicles (KTO Ryś MED), which were then also deployed in Afghanistan. The platform continued being offered until roughly 2010 when it quietly disappeared from the catalogues.



In Armored Warfare, the camouflage fits everyone’s favorite AFV, the OT-64 COBRA, or the Rosomak series of vehicles. In addition to it, two more assets will become available – a red base paint based on the shade of red used on the Polish flag as well as a special player title, “Pancerniak” (a Polish slang term for armor crews).



We hope you’ll enjoy all of these and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

Today we’ve prepared the following items for you:

• Challenger 2 Streetfighter II Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank
• M60T skin for the Sabra Mk.2 Main Battle Tank
• Merkava Mk.2D and Israeli bundle (with an Israeli camouflage and base paint)
• Syrian camouflage bundle
• Altay Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Magach 7A Tier 6 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Sabre Tier 6 Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle
• Challenger 1 Falcon Tier 8 Premium Main Battle Tank
• Pile of Gold Loot Crate (with new Key mechanics)

Between October 28 and November 4, 2021, the following items will be available:


[h2]Challenger 2 Streetfighter II[/h2]


The Streetfighter II is an upgrade program to overhaul the venerable Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank for the conditions of modern battlefields, especially urban combat. It features a number of improvements and extra components, most notably a dozer blade, a Brimstone ATGM twin launcher and an advanced camera system by Elbit. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.

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In Armored Warfare, the Challenger 2 Streetfighter is a Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank. Its main advantages include excellent frontal armor (enhanced by the presence of its dozer blade covering its lower frontal plate), increased ramming damage and long range lethality, courtesy of a powerful ATGM launcher. Whether you desire to bring the fighting up close or support other MBTs at distance, the Streetfighter’s got your back.

The Challenger 2 Streetfighter II Tier 10 Premium MBT is available in our Web Shop via Loot Crates. Collect 100 blueprint pieces from these crates to obtain the vehicle.






[h2]M60T skin for Sabra[/h2]


This skin for the Sabra Mk.2 Tier 7 Premium Main Battle Tank is based on the Sabra MBTs that participated in the Turkish incursion into Syria in October 2019 (Operation Peace Spring). It combines a number of real-life elements, turning your Sabra into a Turkish service MBT. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



The skin is available either as a standalone item or as a part of the M60T bundle, which contains the following items:

• M60T skin for the Sabra Mk.2 MBT
• Sabra Mk.2 Tier 7 Premium MBT
• 500 Gold

That way, you can get this amazing vehicle together with the skin. Alternatively, the Sabra is also available in other bundles without the skin.






[h2]Merkava Mk.2D and Israeli Bundle[/h2]


The Merkava IID (also known as Mk.2D) is an advanced version of the standard Mk.2 Merkava, upgraded with a modular “Dor-Dalet” composite armor kit. It’s a tough and unyielding vehicle, featuring a number of battle-proven components such as its 105mm rifled cannon. The first version of the Merkava Mk.2 entered service in 1983 and the last vehicles were phased out in 2016 after thirty long years.



In Armored Warfare, the Merkava IID is a Tier 7 Premium Main Battle Tank. It is not equipped with an explosive reactive armor kit, but is, nevertheless, a very tough customer due to the introduction of the applique armor, allowing it to take a lot of damage. Additionally, the tank is equipped with a Ready Rack mechanism, significantly increasing the rate of fire for the first four shots.



This vehicle is also available as a part of the Israeli bundle, which contains the following items:

• Merkava Mk.2D Tier 7 Premium MBT
• Sinai Grey base paint
• Israeli Experimental camouflage
• Israeli Flag decal (free bonus)
• Israeli Flag banner (free bonus)

The Sinai Grey base paint is based on the color commonly used by the Israeli vehicles. You can now apply it to all your Merkava MBTs for maximum realism. The camouflage, on the other hand, is an experimental one and not used in active service. It was developed in the 1980s for a series of trials, but Israel ultimately decided not to adopt it. Still, it’s a piece of history and will fit your Merkava Mk.2 MBT really well. You can read more about both in our dedicated article.






[h2]Syrian Bundle[/h2]


This gorgeous Syrian camouflage was seen in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War on a captured Syrian BMP-1 IFV and consists of sand, green and grey stripes. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



It is available as a part of the Syrian Camouflage bundle, which contains the following items:

• Syrian camouflage
• 14 days of Premium Time
• 2.000 Gold
• Syrian Flag decal (free bonus)
• Syrian Flag banner (free bonus)

This camouflage can be installed on any vehicle that has the camouflage customization feature available and can be used in all three environments.






[h2]Altay[/h2]


The Altay is the result of a Turkish program to build a true indigenous MBT. After a decade of development with hundreds of millions of dollars spent, Turkey finally achieved its goal and built a tank that is roughly on par in performance with decades-old Leopard 2 variants while it still uses many foreign components, including some of its most critical systems. Nevertheless, future Altay variants are expected to feature some cutting edge components.

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In Armored Warfare, the Altay is a Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank based on the current prototypes, but also upgraded by various hypothetical aftermarket components of the future to surpass its current capabilities and to match its assigned Tier in power. The basic tank is – gameplay-wise – a mobile sniper, much like the Leopard 2 series, relying on its mobility and the penetration of its shells rather than on its armor. There are two key features to this tank: Adjustable Suspension (tilting forward and to the side) and Hybrid Engine with its distinctive electric sound, giving the vehicle excellent mobility and agility.

The Altay Tier 10 Premium MBT is available in our Web Shop via Loot Crates. Collect 100 blueprint pieces from these crates to obtain the vehicle.






[h2]Magach 7A[/h2]


The Magach 7A is an early M60 series American tank, upgraded by the Israelis to meet the requirements of the 1990s battlefield, especially to combat the threat of anti-tank guided missiles that had started to find their way into the hands of various terrorist groups in the late 1980s. The most distinctive upgrade is its box-shaped extra turret armor. While well-protected, the tank was quite lethargic when it came to its mobility due to the use of its old engine, a shortcoming that was only corrected in the final evolution step of the Magach series, the Magach 7C. You can read more about it in a dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Magach 7A is a Tier 6 Premium Main Battle Tank. With its excellent gun accuracy and aiming time values, the Magach 7A is a good sniper for its class and is perfectly suitable for those players, who want to experience long-range combat but who also want to keep some level of protection and survivability instead of completely relying on mobility and camouflage. It’s a rather sluggish vehicle, but more than a match for anything that it encounters on the battlefield.






[h2]Sabre[/h2]


The Sabre is an interesting British recon vehicle, assembled together from older Scorpion hulls and Fox turrets after both parts were brought to zero hour state (completely overhauled) by a company called Alvis. The resulting vehicle from the early 1990s was called Sabre and, considering it was made of decades old components, it worked fairly well as a scouting vehicle, participating in the Iraq War as well as in several peacekeeping missions. You can read more about it in our dedicated article.



In Armored Warfare, the Tier 6 Sabre Premium Armored Fighting Vehicle is one of the deadliest vehicles on the battlefield thanks to its rather unique upward-aimed Swingfire missile launcher that allows it to fire over obstacles or while hidden, for example behind uneven terrain. While being quite difficult to master, this ability makes it a potent ambusher, especially in skilled hands.






[h2]Challenger 1 Falcon[/h2]


The Falcon is an experimental turret developed in the early 2000s in Jordan as an upgrade to the Jordanian Al-Hussein (Challenger 1) Main Battle Tanks. It's a low profile turret, armed with an automatically loaded Swiss 120mm L/50 RUAG smoothbore gun, capable of firing standard NATO ammunition. The operator controls the turret from inside the vehicle's hull, significantly improving crew protection. A prototype was built and tested, but the design was never mass-produced.



In Armored Warfare, the Challenger 1 Falcon is a Tier 8 Premium Main Battle Tank. The best word to characterize this lumbering behemoth in the game is “tough” – its excellent hull armor shrugs off most shells while the damage its low profile turret takes when it is reduced by 90% thanks to the fact the crew is not located directly in it. Despite being generally very slow and sluggish, the Challenger 1 Falcon can take tremendous punishment and is ideal for the players who prefer the British Main Battle Tank play style.






[h2]Pile of Gold[/h2]


This Loot Crate contains copious amounts of Gold for you to win.



This Loot Crate includes:

• 250.000 Gold
• 100.000 Gold
• 50.000 Gold
• 10.000 Gold
• 5.000 Gold
• 1.000 Gold
• 500 Gold
• 100 Gold

We’re implementing a new mechanic to the MY.GAMES Market Loot Crates (no worries – the in-game crates will remain the same). The mechanic is simple – instead of purchasing the Loot Crates, you purchase keys to them, which you then use to unlock them.

However, please note:

• Discounts do not apply to Loot Crates, but rather to Keys
• It is possible to buy multiple keys for a single chest type
• Keys belong to individual Loot Crates (that is, a key to a Commander Loot Crate purchased now is not guaranteed to work on a Commander Loot Crate a month down the line)
• Keys can be found in a separate Market section

We hope that you will enjoy the offer and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

The Vanguard Raid is now available. From the yellow wastes of Venus to Saturn’s icy moons, the Vanguard stands ready to deploy against all threats alien. The Russians once claimed the Armata to be capable of fighting on Mars. But what would tanks look like, were they really required to do so? Take a peek into an alternate reality to find out. You can read more about this Raid in our earlier preview.

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This 49-day-long event will put you into the role of a raider, conquering the territory represented by a map.

You can access the event by:

• Completing 10 Contract Missions
• Purchasing access for 499 Gold (click on the Raid icon in your Garage)

Four main rewards in the form of epic skins and camouflages await you:

Vanguard prizes



































Apart from the abovementioned rewards, there will be a lot more to earn, including Boosters, Battle Coins for the next Battle Path, Premium Time, Credits and more.

For more pieces of information, please see the Frequently Asked Questions below.

Frequently Asked Questions about Raid

What is the Raid event?

The Raid is a 49-day-long event, in which you, as a Raider, conquer certain territory by moving along the lines representing roads and other paths and forming a grid. Each grid intersection has a point that is either a mission that you must complete (Mission Points), or a reward that you may claim (Reward Points). Completing the mission or claiming the reward unlocks another portion of the grid. The main prizes await you in each of the territory map’s corners. Players who complete all missions and claim all rewards receive a special reward.

Once the map is available to you (either by purchasing access or completing 10 Contract Missions), start from the center by clicking on one of the dots that show the initial direction of your advance.

What rewards are there available?

Standard Reward Points that can be found around the grid will reward you with various items such as Reputation, Boosters or even Battle Coins for an upcoming Battle Path. The top rewards that are waiting for you in each of the map’s corners are the four epic skins listed above.

Please note that these skins do not come with the vehicles themselves. The skins also work with multiple vehicle upgrades where applicable. Finally, completing all missions and claiming all rewards will unlock the top reward, the Mist camouflage.

What missions appear in Raid?

There are four categories of missions available:

• PvP missions (which require you to play either Random Battles or Global Operations)
• PvE missions (which require you to play either standard PvE or Special Operations)
• General missions (which can be completed in both PvP and PvE)
• Elite missions (which require you to complete a very difficult objective in order to access major rewards such as the abovementioned skins)

General, PvE and PvP missions have randomized requirements that may include the use of vehicles from specific dealers, or playing specific Tiers. Elite missions are not randomized.

Can I obtain the rewards only by playing my favorite mode? For example, I do not want to play PvP or PvE.

Yes.

Some missions require me to do things I do not understand, like Kill or Eliminate. Can you explain?

There are several goal categories included:

• Kill/Destroy
• Assist
• Eliminate
• Performance requirement

Kill (or Destroy, which is the same thing) simply means you have to be the player who deals the finishing blow to the target.

Assist means that you have to be the player who deals the most damage to the target (save for killing it). There is no threshold – if player A deals 40 percent of all the damage to the target, player B deals 30 percent of all the damage done to the target and then player C deals the remaining 30 percent and kills it, player A will get the “assist”. Kill or assist requirements often come together, so you can either achieve a kill, or an assist and both will count towards your mission progress.

Eliminate means that you have to destroy the target AND, at the same time, be the player dealing the most damage to it. What that means is that, in the case described above, no player would achieve elimination. However, if two players dealt 30 percent of damage each and then another player dealt 40 percent of damage and killed the target, that player would achieve elimination.

Performance is the percentage of hits that hit your target while dealing main hitpoint damage. In other words, a mission with 80 percent performance requirement requires 80 percent of all your shells to hit your target and deal hitpoint damage to it. What this means is that:

• Shells that hit and deal damage (even without penetration, like HE explosions) will count
• Shells that don’t hit but still deal damage (HE splash) don’t count
• Shells that hit but don’t deal damage (non-penetrations, ricochets) don’t count
• Shells that hit but only deal module damage (hitting enemy ERA, tracks or gun) don’t count

Is it possible to change missions if I do not like the conditions?

Yes. You may obtain a Reroll Token from a Reward Point. Using it changes the conditions of a single mission. Please note that PvP missions cannot be rerolled into PvE ones and vice versa, the main mode requirement will always remain the same. Elite missions cannot be rerolled. Reroll Tokens can also be purchased for Gold.

Is it possible to skip missions?

Yes. You may obtain a Raider Token from a Reward Point. Using it will instantly complete the mission you have selected. However, please note that these items are rare and you best save yours for a rainy day. Please also note that completing Elite missions this way will cost you five Raider Tokens. Raider Tokens can also be purchased for Gold.

What are the time limits on this event?

The Raid missions have no timers and, if you wish, the entire event can be completed even on Day 1. The only timer that is present is the 49-day deadline that starts at the event’s launch and is therefore the same for everybody. You can see the time left to complete the event in the upper right corner of the Raid window.

Good luck on the battlefield, commanders!