[Special] It’s War Thunder’s 12th Birthday. Join the Celebrations!

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War Thunder celebrates its 12th birthday on November 1st. It was on this day in 2012 that the game entered open testing. Since then, it has become larger and has grown incredibly in scale and ambition, winning the love of millions of players around the world.

We started the celebrations a week ago with in-game discounts and continued with discounts in the Gaijin.net Store, which is still ongoing. Now it’s time for the last stage of the celebration! Earn the premium KV-7 in the Dreams Come True event, get some awesome Esports camouflages from Twitch Drops, as well as a cinematic trailer for Dancing on the Edge with the opportunity to get unique decals, decorate your vehicles with an anniversary decal, and of course, the much-loved Maus temporarily returns to be researched, typical to our anniversary event.

Dreams Come True: KV-7

When: From November 1st (11:00 GMT) until November 13th (11:00 GMT).

Take part in the Dreams Come True event to get two decals, a decoration and the KV-7 Soviet experimental premium tank destroyer.

This vehicle first appeared in 1941 and combines the well-protected KV-1 heavy tank chassis with powerful APHE shells from the T-34-76 series of tanks. The KV-7 has three guns — one 76 mm and two 45 mm.

Learn more about the KV-7 event here

Twitch Drops and “Chasing the Older Brother” Event with a Chance to Win the IS-7!

When: From November 15th (11:00 GMT) until November 18th (11:00 GMT) for the event and Twitch Drops from November 22nd.

We wanted to spice it up a bit for you! We’re hosting KV-7 vs KV-7 battles during the “Chasing the Older Brother” event, where you can earn tickets for mission points. Those tickets will go into a draw, and 12 lucky winners will be drawn live on our anniversary stream, with each winning the IS-7, added directly to their account. During the anniversary stream there will also be Twitch Drops to earn some goodies.

Learn more about this event here

12th Anniversary Decal!

When: From November 1st (11:00 GMT) until November 6th (11:00 GMT).

Get War Thunder’s 12th anniversary commemorative decal for playing one battle.

Task: Play 1 battle with any vehicle at rank III or higher in any game mode to get the “War Thunder 12 years” decal.

“War Thunder 12 Years” decal “War Thunder 12 years” decal.

The Maus Returns!

When: From November 1st (11:00 GMT) until November 6th (11:00 GMT).

According to the glorious tradition, a giant has dropped by to pay us a visit: say hello to the legendary Maus tank. If you don’t yet have this tank, you’ll be able to research and purchase it for Silver Lions between the specified dates.

  • To start researching the Maus, you need to have rank V of the German ground forces tree unlocked.
  • Assign your Research Points from battles or convert research points into the Maus within the specified event time period! If you gained any research, the researchable Maus will not disappear after the event ends, meaning you’ll be able to finish researching it any time later.

Gaijin.Net Sales!

When: From October 29th (11:00 GMT) until November 4th (11:00 GMT).

Up to 50% off in the Gaijin.Net Store.

BIRTHDAY SALE

A series of festive tournaments for the anniversary of War Thunder!

Take part in tournaments dedicated to War Thunder’s birthday, or watch livestreams on Twitch and get valuable rewards from Twitch Drops!

Air Superiority 2024

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Woooooo maus hausn guys its time

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Quite a different anniversary decal this time… I like it!

minor typo

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What if IS-7 already on the account? They merge together into IS7-mobile!?

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Fixed, thanks.

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Hey there! We’ve got a news article being published soon that should answer every question you have. Please keep an eye on it, it’s not too far away now.

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Now it all sums up! Maus 7.7 vs IS-7 8.3, time to feel the pain you waited for 😈

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@OrsonES
2 years ago there was a rare sale, where I was lucky and quick enough to grab my Hermann the German Sherman. Any chance for a rerun of something similiar?

Screenshot 2024-11-01 at 13-05-25 German Sherman and T-34 Prototype FOR SALE Limited to 2 000 units r_Warthunder

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Maybe in 3 years (for the 15th anniversary).

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Sheesh only 2000 reminds me of WoT gold auctions

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You can waste money on upcoming coughing German premium bomber if you miss these “limited sales”

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Noooooo :‘( I have my finals in mathematical analysis on the 7’th. whyyyyyyy… :’(
bye bye sleep i guess XD

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I already have all German planes (except the ICE) spaded and I am really not looking for a 3rd Su-22 to be honest.

IMO the F-20 should have been a German premium and the US one should have been in the US TT.
F-20

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You only need 1RP though? and maus won’t go away but the exam will

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F-20 is overhyped and killed by balancer, let’s hope for German TT variant then

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Oh, yeah, i was to fast on the trigger. I completely missed this part:

Thx for the heads up ^^

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Germany only evaluated it but never purchased. It will never go into the TT. The only chance was via premium. Gaijin squandered the chance to make billions. :D

Instead they opted into bomber copy pasta, because we can’t ask players to do more than press a spacebar nowadays… aaanway moving on. This ain’t the thread to discuss this.

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As per usual, would be really nice if you included all the removed vehicles with this, the fake ones, the Italian planes in the German tree, the Israeli premiums in the other trees, the british Gladiators, the Yer-2’s and the rest.

What an awful way of doing this. Not only are there only 12 people going to be able to get this out of the hundreds of thousands who play the game, it is pure chance, assuming the more tickets you have the higher chance you have of winning, there will almost certainly be people trying to abuse the matchmaking to get into games with squadronmates/friends to farm score. If you want to make an event out of this, don’t lock it behind a single special gamemode where all you have to do is get score, then make it a random minute chance you get the vehicle no matter how much grinding you do. The best way to run something like this would be to have tasks that have specific requirements, like the battle pass challenges or special tasks, but that have much more restrictive time limits. This way you cannot simply abuse gamemodes like sim or abuse the matchmaker to get lobbies with friends to farm score, the vehicle is guarenteed if you actually do all the tasks and put the time and effort in, and the tasks will require people to have different parts of the game played, of different nations and at different ranks like some of the battle pass tasks require. You can then add playing the special gamemode into the mix by making it part of some of the tasks.

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Will the Maus be discounted during Christmas sale?

EDIT: Also, how many tanks in 4th rank do you need to buy to unlock 5th rank in Germany?

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Yeah, I have not been able to get one for 3 - 4 years now because I live in North America and by the time we get up, the meager 2000(should be NO limit at all) are already gone . . . . seems very discriminative . . and I don’t understand why . . just leaving money on the table