Common Knowledge
Points used to unlock new vehicles and upgrades.
What are Research Points?
Tanks designers designed their tanks with this to make penetration less possible.
What is sloped armor?
Pilots often do this to gain speed in a dive and attack enemies quickly, then fly away.
What is boom and zoom?
This common complaint involves Russian aircraft or vehicles performing unfairly, or modeled incorrectly.
What is Russian Bias?
Best Anti Air in the game.
What is trees?
This shows how fast you can unlock new vehicles.
What is research efficiency?
Changing the rotation of your tank to make penetration less possible.
What is armor angling?
Some World War II planes had this device to help their guns stay on target while turning.
What is a gyro gunsight?
In 2018, War Thunder players criticized this change because it altered how rewards for premium vehicles were earned.
What is the modification of the economy / Silver Lions grind?
Dropping a bunch of munitions on a tank to make it fly.
What is napalm glitch?
Using a vehicle outside its proper rank makes this happen to your rewards.
What is reduced research gain?
This type of shell explodes inside a tank after penetration.
What is APHE?
This factor determines how well a plane keeps speed and altitude during tight turns.
What is energy retention?
A good portion of the community was unhappy with the addition of 3 premium packs released last year.
What are Senrai Maidens?
What is Purple Leo?
When you use more than one booster at the same time, this is how their effects work together.
What is reduced stacking?
This massive German mortar needed multiple tracked parts and a crane to load 600 mm shells, firing only a few rounds per day.
What is Karl Gerät III?
In dogfights, this technique uses altitude to maintain speed and avoid losing energy in turns.
What is energy fighting?
War Thunder’s developers faced backlash for this feature, which allowed some nations’ vehicles to outperform others at similar BRs in Air and Ground Battles.
What is BR Imbalance?
These shells can hit more than one plate of armor, sometimes missing small weak spots.
What are volumetric shells?
Tanks used to place these on the turret or hull to make HEAT projectiles less effective.
What is add-on/spaced armour?
When someone sits on an airfield waiting for the enemy to get close, just to J out.
What is airfield camping?