Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

The Northern Wind campaign is now available and we have prepared another way of obtaining a large number of bonus Battle Coins as well as other epic prizes for you!



In this contest, we’ll be asking you to deal as much damage as possible while driving the CV90105 TML Light Tank. However, please note that only damage from up to 150m counts.

You can compete in three categories, separated by mode:

• PvP (Random Battles)
• GLOPS (Global Operations)
• PvE (excluding Heroic Special Operations, War Games)

Post the screenshot of your result (both the detailed and regular tab) in the dedicated contest channel along with your name, category and result number. We also reserve the right to ask for a replay, so make sure you record your battle. The submission template is as such:

• Category / Result / Ingame nickname

Attention – as we will be using a program to collect your results, please make absolutely sure you submit them with the template above. Submissions without this template will be ignored.

As an example, “PvP / 50000 / Johndoe” is correct, while “PvP/50 000/Johndoe” is not due to the incorrectly placed spaces.

The contest ends on July 18, 2021 (23:59 CEST) and all entries must be submitted by then.

The prizes are as follows:

The winners of each category will receive:

• 10.000 Battle Coins for the Northern Wind Battle Path
• 2.500 Gold
• Scandinavian Winter camouflage
• Scandinavian base paint

We’ll also be offering another very special prize. We are planning several of these contests in advance. The player who wins most of them (realistically, likely the player who wins more than one) will also receive the CV90120 Ghost Premium Light Tank (or 20.000 Battle Coins if he or she has it already).

Please note:

• One player can only submit one result, period
• All submitted results must be from the battles that take place during the event
• Platoons are not allowed
• The winners will be announced and the prizes will be distributed after the end of the event

Good luck and see you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

For today’s offer, we’ve prepared two Battle-Hardened bundles for French progression MBTs. These discounted bundles contain Gold as well as the Battle-Hardened status, which will turn your Progression vehicle into a semi-Premium one by increasing its Credit income, Experience income, and by improving its matchmaking quality so that you meet lower Tier opponents in battle than usual, much like Premium vehicles do.



The discounted Battle-Hardened bundles are available for the following vehicles:

• Leclerc T4 Tier 10 MBT (50% discount)
• Leclerc Tier 9 MBT (45% discount)

Please note that if you do not own the vehicle in question, you will receive the Battle Hardened status price in Gold instead.



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

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

July 14 is celebrated in France as the National Celebration (La fête nationale), but it is more commonly known in the English-speaking countries as the Bastille Day. The name signifies one of the most important episodes of the French Revolution, the storming of the Bastille prison-fortress on the 14th of July 1789. The fortress was considered a symbol of royal power and its fall was a significant blow to the authority of the king.



For the celebrations, we’ve prepared the following bonus for you:

• 400% XP bonus for the first victory of the day in Global Operations

Additionally, a Bastille Day gift is also available at MY.GAMES Market until July 16. It contains:

• French FORAD camouflage (read more)
• Player title “Master of the Citadel”
• 3 days of Premium Time

We hope you will enjoy this gift and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

The Storyline Campaign Prologue is over and it’s time to review your choices and announce the winners.

• June 2028, Chicago

“Explain your choice.”

I took a deep breath and smiled.

“When you think about it, it makes the most sense, really. They’re modern and we’re gonna need all the edge we can get. But they’re also the most affordable of the bunch. You get a couple of T’s, a couple of Terminators... and you’re ready for whatever the world throws at you.”

Learn more

Commanders!

One of the things we’re working on for this summer is a brand-new event called Merc on Vacation, which will work the same way as another, earlier event called Lilac and Steel. As you can probably already guess from its name, the topics of this event will be summer and holidays. And what could be a better start than a historical camouflage from one of the most popular European vacation destinations – Croatia.



The word “holidays” usually invokes the feeling of relaxation and happiness, but the history behind this particular camouflage is neither. It comes from a dark period of Croatian history – the Croatian War of Independence, in which the clashes between Croats and federal Yugoslavian (and later Serbian) troops left thousands dead or missing with further hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes. The war took place between 1991 and 1995, lasting almost five years and including several major battles. Armor was used extensively during the conflict with former Yugoslavian vehicles (including T-55 and T-72 series tanks) fighting on both sides of the conflict.

But not all armor during the conflict was based on old Soviet tech. Irregular forces allied with both sides of the conflict used a number of improvised armored vehicles. The camouflage we are introducing is based on one such vehicle, a Croatian armored tractor called M-91 Straško (“Terrible”).



Despite its looks, the M-91 was actually a mass-produced vehicle. As the war began in 1991, the Croats did not have all that many armored vehicles at their disposal. That’s why the Torpedo factory in Rijeka started converting existing Torpedo GTR 75A tractors into sort-of APCs by welding armored plates all over the vehicle chassis. The vehicle even received an official designation “M-91 Straško”. The number was, of course, based on the year of introduction while the name apparently came from a Croatian translation of a name of one character from the He-Man cartoon from the 1980s. The factory also referred to the vehicle as “HIAV”, which stands for “Croatian Engineering Anti-Terrorist Vehicle”.



The vehicle was powered by a 70hp diesel engine (allegedly licensed from Italy) and was covered with angled 12mm to 15mm steel plates, which protected its crew against small arms (up to 7.92mm Mauser caliber, which was still common at that time in former Yugoslavia). The frontal dozer blade served not only as extra armor, but also to remove enemy barricades during street fighting. Interestingly enough, the vehicle retained its weight of 9.2 tons compared to the original tractor, as, apart from the original chassis, many other internal components were removed. Its maximum speed was roughly 40 km/h.



There was no unified armament – an early prototype was armed with a Yugoslavian 20mm cannon but most of the others got whatever was left at hand, including the Zastava M53 machinegun (a Yugoslavian copy of the German MG42), or an old American .50cal Browning.

In total, 15 combat vehicles, one prototype and one police vehicle were built. They were distributed to various units on individual basis and pretty much every one of them was unique, especially when it came to camouflage. They mostly survived the war and at least three of them currently exist in various museums in Croatia.



The camouflage in question is based on one specific vehicle that can be seen in the Museum of Homeland War in Turanj. It’s likely not an original combat camouflage, but we thought that it was incredibly interesting and decided to introduce it to the game.



The camouflage consists of a brown base paint with green and yellow spray-painted stripes. We will be introducing it with another Croatian-themed asset that will go with it nicely, the Croatian crest in the form of a decal.



We hope that you will enjoy these additions to Armored Warfare and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!