As usual, here is my Silver Lion grinding guide for the Silver Lion Crate Events:
Do not spend all of your SL’s in the first day! If you do, you will waste piles of SL boosters. You should pace yourself and use those SL boosters over the next month to make MORE SL’s to then burn into more crates. You reduce your crate amount by probably 25% to 50% by burning all of your SL’s in the first day or week.
Best Ways to Increase your SL gains:
- Premium Account
- Premium Vehicles
- Use ALL the SL boosters you get with your favorite premium vehicles. Premium vehicles double the effect of SL boosters. The same 2.0 multiplier to SL’s on Premium Vehicles also double the SL bonus from Premium Time. Premium Vehicles double (almost) every source of SL income that you earn.
- You can also use Wagers (the ones you use in the menu BEFORE a match) and Orders (the ones you use DURING a match) to add a some more SL’s on top of everything else if you like. (If you are really interested in more details, Wagers are NOT affected by Prem Acct, Prem Vehicles, nor SL Boosters. HOWEVER, the Orders used during a match ARE affected by your Prem Acct+Prem Vehicle+SL boosters.)
TL;DR: There is simply no faster way to grind SL’s other than getting Premium Account and then using Premium Vehicles, and ALWAYS using SL boosters with your best/favorite Premium Vehicles.
Long answer:
Here is one of my previous posts going into more detail for advice on how to grind SL’s, especially during these SL Crate events when you can get tons of SL boosters: Winter SL gamble comming soon, share you methode of grinding SL - #13 by SilentTracker
Expand here to see the full post if you don't want to use the link above:
I do have some advice to maximize SL gains once during the SL crate events: SL Gambling chest when - #7 by SilentTracker
Full Copy+Paste so the text colors show up 👇😉
SO! Just in case you did not know yet, premium vehicles DOUBLE the effect of SL boosters! (As well as doubling the SL % boost from Premium Time.) During the SL Crate events I can make as many or MORE SL’s than I did in the previous 2-3 months. If you really really want to push the SL crates, I would highly suggest getting premium time. I just get the 180 days of prem time 2x a year when it goes on sale for 50% off, only $20. $40/year, or $3.33/month. (If you don’t already have prem time, and don’t mind spending a little, you could get like 1 month for the crate event, and then get the 180 day thing off webstore during the Anniversary sale.) It is NOT on sale right now, so $40. But on 50% sale drops to $20: Gaijin.Net Store - Premium account for 180 days
With prem time+prem vehicles+all the SL boosters you get during the crate events, you can easily get twice as many crates (and twice as many chances at vehicles) than if you didn’t have prem time, or use prem vehicles.
Premium Time (Account) + Premium Vehicles + SL Boosters = 🤑
Second advice for those SL boosters, do NOT double up on the SL boosters unless they are going to expire. And do NOT spend all of your SL’s on crates during the first day/week! I only buy more crates when I run out of SL boosters. The RP boosters are like 2x or even 10x more common that the SL boosters, so I will double or even triple up on the RP ones so they don’t expire like crazy. But the biggest boost for me was forcing myself to spread out the crate purchases over the entire month so that I could use up the SL boosters and get MORE crates over the course of the event.
Happy hunting bros!
Full list of all past SL Crate events for anyone interested:
2022.04.01 [Event] April Fool's Event! - News - War Thunder
2022.08.03 [Event] Summer Quest - News - War Thunder
2022.12.16 [Event] Winter Quest - News - War Thunder
2023.03.30 [Special] Lucky Piñata - News - War Thunder
2023.05.05 [Event] Legend of Victory: BM-31-12 “Andryusha” - News - War Thunder
2023.08.04 [Event] Summer Extreme - News - War Thunder
2023.12.13 [Event] Winter Extreme: Earn Yourself Rewards this Festive Season! - News - War Thunder
2024.01.31 [Special] The Dragon Box - News - War Thunder
2024.04.08 The Toolbox! - News - War Thunder
2024.08.08 [Special] The Travel Suitcase! - News - War Thunder
2024.12.18 [Event] The Snow Globe for Silver Lions! - News - War Thunder
2025.01.29 [Special] The Snake Box - News - War Thunder
2025.04.10 [Special] The Infantry Backpack! - News - War Thunder
2025.08.07 [Special] The Explosive Watermelon! - News - War Thunder
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imma end up giving in to the gamba and then get bummed out because i dont get jack crap, except for something ill never use
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Thats the thing.
I’m not gonna start in the first place, cant loose the chance if you never take it :)
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I pulled the elefant and nothing else sad
lots of people getting moderna :o
i love that thing, fits nicely into 11.3 lineup.
Elefant is good though! And is premium, not “just” an event vehicle. I have always wanted the Moderna, but it is “only” an event vehicle 😂 No premium 2.0x SL boost.
I don’t even have a million sl, meanwhile everyone be throwing tons of sl into gamble crates and still stay rich.
This is peak ragebait for me tbh
I’m out of likes right now lol, so here is a heart 4 u:
❤️
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Heya bro, if you really want to make SL’s, now or in the future, check out my SL Grinding post: The Nuclear Football! - #44 by SilentTracker
If you want to set yourself up for the next SL Crate event, get yourself premium account time. Sale is going to happen end of this month/start of May. 50% off premium account time, can get 180 days on the webstore for $20. Most impactful way to increase your SL gains.
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wait, why does it call nuclear football, if its actually a bag?
It holds the nuclear launch codes 😉 Why football name though? Idk lol, maybe to not call it “the nuke button” lmao.
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All i would want is an XM8 or CCVL 🙏
Imagine my confusion, when I was preparing it and trying to understand why someone decided to use word “Football” when all I can see is a “Briefcase”.
PS.
“We need your help. Pulling into the diner about now should be four top-secret agents. One of them is carrying a briefcase. Your mission is to obtain the Object 279 from the briefcase.”
🐌🎶
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