Armored Warfare News

Commanders!

The Northern Wind themed contest series continues and, once again, you have the opportunity to earn a copious amount of Battle Coins!



In this contest, we’ll be asking you to deal as much damage as possible while driving the CV90 Mk.IV Armored Fighting Vehicle. However, please note that only damage dealt by your Mechanized Infantry 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 25, 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

And don’t forget that we’re still 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
• Once submitted, the result must not be removed or edited in any way. Doing so will lead to instant disqualification
• Armored Warfare staff reserves the right to settle any potential result disputes as they see fit and their decisions are final
• 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 a series of Battle-Hardened bundles for five Russian progression vehicles, including the T-15 Armata. 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:

• T-15 Armata Tier 10 TD (50% discount)
• BMPT-72 Tier 9 TD (45% discount)
• T-90MS Tagil Tier 9 MBT (45% discount)
• Sprut-SD Tier 8 TD (35% discount)
• Ramka-99 Tier 8 TD (35% 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!

One of the most common requests from your side always has been to be to add more standard PvE missions to the rotation. As we briefly mentioned before, we are planning to add five separate PvE missions to the game and today, we’ll tell you more about them.



All five missions will be taking place in the desert, specifically on modified versions of the Desert Crossing map. Timeline-wise, they’ll take place during the “golden era” of mercenary operations – same as the other standard PvE missions. These assignments will be handed out by Fedor Volkov of the ISD.



You’ll be fighting old and familiar foes such as the NPAA or the PLM. The mechanics of these missions will be fairly simple and the missions will not require the same skill level as Special Operations, with their difficulty being roughly on par with the PvE missions of old.

The following missions will be available:

Desert Path (April 29, 2038): An allied convoy needs to pass near a port occupied by the PLM forces. Your task is to clear the way and secure the route.



Desert Fox (August 11, 2038): The ISD ordered you to infiltrate a Cartel-occupied port and eliminate three high-ranking commanders.



Desert Saber (September 5, 2036): The Lions of Nequiel captured several villages surrounding a local port. You must liberate them as soon as possible.



Desert Strike (June 11, 2039): The NPAA is reportedly preparing air strikes against cities and other civillian targets. The ISD ordered you to assault the enemy airbase and destroy their airplanes.



Desert Viper (September 22, 2035): The NPAA captured a moored aircraft carrier. The ISD sent you to scuttle the ship before it leaves for the open sea.



All these missions will offer standard rewards and will be available as a part of the daily PvE rotation.

We hope that you’ll enjoy them and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

Last week, we’ve unveiled the Croatian camouflage that will be a part of the upcoming Merc on Vacation event and today, we’d like to tell you about another prize of it – the Spanish camouflage.



The Kingdom of Spain is, of course, far more than a popular holiday destination. It has been a powerful player on the world stage for centuries, also thanks to the power of its armies. The 20th century had been a turbulent one for the country occupying much of the Iberian Peninsula with a major civil war leading to many decades of dictatorship and democracy returning to Spain only in the late 1970s.



Spain was neutral during the Second World War, although a Spanish volunteer force called the Blue Division fought alongside Germany in Russia. As the tides of war turned, the Spanish support for the Nazis gradually diminished, leaving Spain to focus on its colonies. After the war, Spain would gradually lose the hold over its colonies and normalize the relationship with the rest of Europe and the United States of America, becoming even marginally involved in the Vietnam War. In 1982, Spain entered the NATO and would subsequently participate in several wars and peacekeeping operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan operations.



The state of the Spanish armored forces reflected this history. During the war, Spain was armed primarily with German equipment, switching to American vehicles after the conflict and receiving almost 400 M47 Patton tanks in the 1950s and a number of M48 tanks in the 1960s. But American equipment often comes with a lot of strings attached and the Spanish learned this the hard way when the Americans forbade them to use their vehicles during the 1950s colonial wars. This led to a procurement wave of the French AMX-30 tanks and, eventually, the Leopard MBTs, which form the backbone of the Spanish armor to this day.



The camouflage we are presenting today is based on a pattern seen on a Leopard 2A4 MBT belonging to Cavalry Regiment "Montesa" No.3 in 2020. This regiment has a long and glorious history that goes back all the way to 1706 and the War of Spanish Succession. Under different names, the unit participated in dozens of wars. Its recent history, however, started in 1965, when the unit was moved to the city of Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish enclave in North Africa, where it is located to this day.



The camouflage is a standard 1986 NATO pattern, but with an interesting twist. It seems that African dust accumulated around the edges of the pattern, creating distinctive sand-colored lines. Perhaps the soldier themselves helped to achieve this effect by coating the camouflage edges with something. Alternatively, the camouflage was applied on a sand-painted vehicle and eventually wore off. Regardless of the reason, the result is spectacular and fairly unique.



Additionally, we’re adding a special historical unit crest as a decal. This crest was seen on many Spanish tank photographs, including those of the Leopard 2E MBT. The crest belonged to the 1st Armored Division (División Acorazada No.1, hence the D. A.), an old Spanish elite armored unit with long history. The unit itself was deactivated in 2006, but its former battalions still exist under different divisions. In combination with a standard NATO pattern or a simple green base paint, you can make your Leopard 2s look like proper Spanish machines.



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

See you on the battlefield!

Commanders!

Today we’ve prepared the following items for you:

• Nakidka skin for T-90MS
• Object 640 Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank
• BMPT Mod.2000 Tier 8 Premium Tank Destroyer
• Battle Coins

Between July 15 and 22, 2021, the following items will be available:


[h2]Nakidka Skin[/h2]


Nakidka is a special system, developed in the early 2000s in Russia by the “NII Stali” military research institute in Moscow. In its core, it’s a camouflage made of an undisclosed radio-absorbing and IR-dampening material, intended to make large vehicles such as tanks easy to conceal on the battlefield, even from radars and thermal imagers. The model we have decided to implement in Armored Warfare comes from 2012, when an upgraded Nakidka system was demonstrated on a T-90MS MBT intended for export. You can read more in our dedicated article.



The skin is available as a part of the Nakidka Bundle, which contains the following items:

• Nakidka skin for T-90MS
• 5 Platinum Loot Crates
• 1.000 Gold

[h2]Object 640[/h2]


The Object 640 is one of the last Soviet era “super tank” monsters, designed to surpass anything the west could field on the battlefield. It featured extremely advanced armor, making it highly resistant to hits while keeping its weight low. The design was truly revolutionary for the late 1980s, but, like with many other Soviet projects of the era, it was discontinued due to the lack of funding. You can learn more about it in a dedicated article.

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In Armored Warfare, the Object 640 “Black Eagle” is a Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank. It is a fast, agile and well-protected vehicle that plays in a typical Russian-style MBT fashion – ideal for players who want to take things up close and personal. This version of the tank does not feature any camouflage and is ready to be customized as you see fit.

The Object 640 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]BMPT Mod.2000[/h2]


The BMPT Mod.2000 is, as its name suggests, one of the earliest models of the famous Russian BMPT series, also known under the name “Terminator.” The word BMPT stands for “tank support combat vehicle,” which is exactly what the machine was designed for – to accompany tanks to battle and support them (predominantly in urban environments) against enemy infantry. It consists of a MBT-class hull (a modified T-90 one) and an unmanned turret, armed with a single 30mm automatic cannon and a single four-tube launcher for Kornet-E ATGMs. This particular model was shown to general public in 2000, but didn’t get much attention. It was overhauled almost immediately to the iconic twin-autocannon configuration that’s being used to this day.

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In Armored Warfare, the BMPT Mod.2000 is a Tier 8 Premium Tank Destroyer. It’s a heavy duty vehicle with its hull offering excellent protection for its class. The turret, albeit lightly armored, only takes reduced damage. Even though this vehicle only features a single 30mm autocannon (unlike all the other BMPT series vehicles in the game), this is compensated by the presence of powerful ATGMs that make the BMPT Mod.2000 an extremely potent tank killer.

This vehicle is now available on MY.GAMES Market directly in three different variants:

• BMPT Mod.2000 without any camouflage
• BMPT Mod.2000 Reaper with a scary black grim-reaper-themed camouflage
• BMPT Mod.2000 Sapphire with its hull covered in blue flames

Please note that the latter two camouflages are permanent and cannot be removed from the vehicle if you purchase them.






[h2]Battle Coins[/h2]


This week, we are offering you an opportunity to boost your Battle Path progress and get that main prize you know you want – the Stridsvagn 2000 Tier 10 Premium Main Battle Tank!



The following Battle Coin bundles are available:

• 1.000 Battle Coins (10% off)
• 5.000 Battle Coins (15% off)
• 10.000 Battle Coins (25% off)
• 25.000 Battle Coins (35% off)
• 50.000 Battle Coins (45% off)

Battle Coins can be used for a number of things, including:

• Force-completing Battle Path missions
• Progressing through Battle Path levels
• Purchasing the CV90120 Ghost blueprints from the Shop

Please note: In order to use Battle Coins, you need to obtain the access to the Northern Wind Battle Path.





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

See you on the battlefield!