I have 13500 golden eagles. I’m not sure what to use them on. What would the best way to use them? I’m sort of new to the game although trying to get into it. Thank you
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Premium time. You just missed the 50% off sale though.
Or crew skills. These make a bigger difference than buying vehicles that you will only play for a while before moving on.
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If you had to chose a premium vehicle?
I would wait until the 50% off sales around Christmas to buy any GE vehicle, and what one you get depends on what nation you want to unlock.
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the sales was last weeks for GE tanks / jets
wait for next sales to see what nation you like and buy it
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Any idea on what nation you’re interested in grinding?
Chinese or British
Imo these are good options.
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As much as I like the Challenger 2 TES I wouldn’t recommend it to a new player who has yet to learn/master what the top battle rating has to offer.
Instead, I would suggest the Khalid. Sits at 9.3, its a great vehicle and has a great lineup to support it.
For the chinese tree, I would recommend the T-69 II G, sits at 9.0, a very strong battle rating for China and once again with a great lineup to accompany it. China really excels at 9.0 due to the amount of vehicles they have at that battle rating in the tech tree. Can’t go wrong here.
I strongly believe you will have a better experience playing either of these over the Challenger 2 or the ZTZ96A (P)
9.0 and 9.3 lineups in my opinion are some of the most fun battle ratings to play and most nations have really good lineups in those ratings. They will teach you about modern tank gameplay, without punishing you as much as the higher rating vehicles would (Challenger 2, ZTZ96A (P), etc).
Once you master 9.0 and 9.3 games (which can still result in uptiers to 10.0 - 10.3) then by all means feel ready to jump to a higher rating premium. But that’s just my thoughts, at the end of the day its your choice :P
As for air, I am not much of an air “expert” so I’ll refrain from giving suggestions.
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How new are you to the game?
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If you’re new, don’t fall into the “shiny vehicle” trap. 13500 Eagles is a lot, but it disappears faster than your tank crew after one CAS run.
Here’s the pro move:
- Premium time first. It pays for itself in a few good games.
- Crew skills next. A trained crew turns even a potato into a killing machine.
- And only then maybe grab a good rank 4–5 premium (USA, Germany, or USSR have solid options).
Think of Golden Eagles like fuel: spend them on what keeps you grinding longer, not on what just looks cool for a week.
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DO NOT BUY EITHER OF THESE 😭
They suck
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They don’t suck but oke.
2 magic 1s are pretty much guaranteed kills, OES is a very solid tank overall and quite appreciated by a decent amount of people that I know have tried it.
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Yeah but even with a good tank, if a player is new to the game like he is then he’s probably gonna struggle at tiers he doesn’t know
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How do you come upon 13500 when starting the game and not know what to do with it?
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I’ll work on my previous argument in a way that can be more understandable to a player without any experience in war thunder. (Keep in mind this is purely my opinion, others may differ from my perspective.)
We need to take into consideration your end goals which we don’t know yet. What vehicles are you looking forward to play? How much experience do you have with the game? Are you interested in ground, air, or a mix of both?
Generally speaking, the best 3 uses for golden eagles should be by this order:
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Premium time
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Premium vehicle
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Talismans
Premium Time:
Premium time is probably the best purchase you can make with Golden Eagles. It boosts your progress by awarding you extra research points and silver lions after each battle. This will save you a lot of the grinding, especially at the lower tiers. This bonus is active for all of the tech trees you play, so you don’t need to worry about playing just a specific nation.
Premium Vehicle:
Premium vehicles have their own % of extra research points and silver lions. You can see those by checking a vehicle’s stat card in game. However, those bonuses you receive are only valid for the nation that vehicle belongs to. You can’t buy a chinese premium vehicle and expect it to help with grinding the british tech tree and the other way around. The bonus % of a premium vehicle will stack with the bonus % of premium time if you own both, resulting in more research and silver lions for you. Premium vehicles will give you said research bonus from rank I to a rank above to what it belongs. So if you own a rank IV premium, your bonus research will be available from rank I to V.
Talismans:
A talisman will give bonus % research points to any vehicle you own. Those are permanent and are only valid for that specific vehicle. You can talisman any vehicle of your choosing to make easier the grind as an alternative for a premium vehicle, however, a talisman will not provide you with the bonus silver lions, only the research points. Keep in mind because its not a premium vehicle, you will have a research penalty if you play more than a tier below your rating, or more than a tier above your rating. What that means is that if your vehicle with a talisman is TIER IV, you will be fine playing in TIER III, IV and V. But not on II, and VI, etc.
There’s a lot of reasons as to why I suggested the Khalid and the T-69II G, but the most obvious are if you have no experience those can be more friendly than jumping into the upper ratings. I would say that 9.0 and 9.3 are already high ratings but a bit slower in pace giving you time to learn and master the environment because its a different pace of what the low and mid ratings are and you don’t rely much on armor anymore. Most vehicles will be using the dart (APFSDS) and that usually goes from a one to two shot kill, rather than the regular “find the weakspot” which is commonly seen in the lower ratings. It still happens in the higher tiers, just not as often.
Another reason would be… because they both sit at 9.0 and 9.3 it means you unlock other vehicles of the same rating way faster than a top tier vehicle for instance. The time that it would take you to get a tech tree vehicle of let’s say 11.7, with a 9.0 or 9.3 premium you will likely have 2 extra if not 3 tech tree variants minimum of that same rating in shorter times.
And in the end, they’re fun :)
(I hope this helps, if this was still confusing, let me know.)
Hopefully, I didn’t mess up any details (could happen).
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A-5C at 10.7 is kinda overtiered, you compete with stuff like F-5C and J-7D (albeit those are insane planes)
OES is absolutely garbage. Ask literally anyone competent.
OES is not garbage. I play GRB and I’ve recently got it and played it. You basically have it all, you only lack good mobility. The tank is good and you’re just making it much worse than it actually is.
The A-5C is quite new-player friendly as it can bomb (offers passive gameplay that let’s a new player get some points even if they don’t know how to play) and has magic 1s to teach quite well how to use IR missiles.
Also, you gotta consider that this fella is asking for GE premiums. If we are to compare these premiums to the available options for actual money or GJN coins, then ofc the J-7D is a much stronger option.
If this player were to buy lower tiered GE premiums for these two nations, then I would just advise to go for something different such as the 2S38 in the USSR TT. I don’t see the point in getting a premium if you’ll eventually stop using it when the TT gets the hardest to farm. Once again the subjective side of the player kicks in. If his objective is to get to top tier as fast as possible, 11.7 is the way since it also teaches him how to play against the threats at that BR. If his objective is to reach early-modern designs and enjoy the linear upgrades that you experience from 9.3 to 12.0 (and higher now), then 9.3 is absolutely the right option.
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The OES is fine will be even better next update
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It’s objectively not. It lacks armor, gun-handling, sustained rate of fire, reaction times, etc.
On top of this you are insanely slow.
It is bad.
Fair.
Bad advice. 2S38 is not good, it’s a fodder vehicle. The UD is a better choice and even then the RU tree is not worth investing in after 9.7.