The “Floats” Event is Back, Now with the Spitfire Mk Vb (Float)!

Summer skies, cool sea breeze and the roar of engines over the surface of the water. The Floats event is back!

When: From June 12th (09:00 GMT) until June 16th (09:00 GMT), capture points on the surface of the water while controlling seaplanes and flying boats!

This time around, you’ll be able to use the new Spitfire Mk Vb (Float) plane when it becomes available with Task 6 in the Wings Over Water event on June 13th. The Floats event will run for one day more after the Wings Over Water ends, so you’ll be able to take your newly obtained float plane and have some fun in it!

To play in this event, find it in the “Events & Tournaments” tab from the in-game hangar.

This unique legendary British Spitfire has floats instead of wheels, allowing it to take off and land on water. It can be obtained in the Wings Over Water event that ends on June 15th and makes its first appearance in the Floats event once it becomes available!

Vehicles that can be used in the event (new vehicles in bold):

  • OS2U-1, OS2U-3, PBY-5, PBY-5A, PBM-1, PBM-3, PBM-5A “Mariner”, He 51B-2/H, He 115 C-1, A6M2-N, Arado 196A-3, BV 138C-1, Po-2M, MBR-2, PBY-5A (USSR), Catalina Mk IIIa (Britain), Spitfire Mk Vb (Float), Sunderland Mk IIIa, Sunderland Mk V, F1M2, H6K4, H8K2, H8K3, Ro.44, PBY-5A Late (France), Late 298D, S17BS, T 2, Arado 196A-5 (Sweden).

See you on the waves folks!

13 Likes

The float event? Never heard, must be fun.

2 Likes

Damn, finally a dedicated Floatie event. The Zero, spitfire and arado will be very strong. I reckon…

4 Likes

Still sad that the BV 238 isnt allowed :(

6 Likes

Thats got to be the best event in long time !

ZLvE7W

Would be fun to make something simmlar with ww2 amphibious tanks. Such as
All the LVT types
Vs
Stuff like Ka-mi Ka-chi (even for the ppl that dont have Ka-chi to enjoy it)
image
Even better with addition of certain… amphibious tank (To-ku)… Yk you want it gaijin ¬‿¬

And perhaps other stuff.

Spoiler

image
image
image

2 Likes

Why do i feel like i have seen this before??

1 Like

Same for the N1K1 & E, Be-6/Qing-6. E2, guess the BV 238 & N1K1 are there afterall, hmm I wonder how the spitfire will do against the rest given it’s a higher BR than most opposition.

Back in my day…
Happy to see it make a return ☺️

3 Likes


About that

Great… so there list isnt even complete

Gosh I’ve missed this!

2 Likes

Gaijin. fix bomber damage models for the love of anything that you all hold as holy!

Its tragic that the biggest hydroplane-bombers disintegrate like a pile of stick under seconds from a single biplane’s damage output.

4 Likes

When will Germany get the A-5? Could we get that in our TT since most of us can’t get the A-3?

are there any rewards listed in-game? there seems to be some information missing in the announcement?

There are no rewards in this event.

strange - no title, profile pic or decal… is there at least a counter on how many caps one tooks by a floatplane?

1 Like

And why?
Its just a Mode to play something else, they are no extra rewards, just fun

1 Like

I don’t really get why the N1K1 is back after last time this event ran, it kicks the teeth in of every bomber it faces other than the BV238 (which also is a problem of its own) and I only died because I thought it’d be a good idea to try to cap at 190mph
image

2 Likes

the last one was in 2024 - but I didn’t remember either

Just realized the us is really outmatched with this even considering all our floatplanes are either basically unarmed or bombers