Holiday Operations 2020
I hope there’s no need to introduce myself! I'm the one who brings your Christmas gifts, fills your heart with festive joy and turns your Garage into a snow-swept winter yard every year. The Snow Maidens, my trustworthy helpers, and I will be your guides in the most magnificent event in World of Tanks!
Essentials and Large Decorations
When you open your Garage on December 13, you will find special gifts from me and the Snow Maidens:
- Three Small boxes upon login
- A rare Tier II French Premium light tank, the AMR 35, with a 100% crew and Garage slot
- One Charge—a special event item (read below for details).
You will also notice a traditional festive set, featuring an interactive Christmas tree, Feast, Installation, and Yard. It looks charming indeed, but lacks adornments, so you can decorate just about anything you see.
Everything is like before:
- Complete battle missions to earn boxes with decorations and valuable in-game goods;
- Put decorations up!
In addition to classic holiday decorations, you can outfit your Garage with magical Large Decorations. You will have the opportunity to receive four Large Decorations, and each of them must be placed in its specific slot on an interactive element (the Christmas tree, the field kitchen, etc.). You can either get Large Decorations in decoration boxes, or craft them in the Large Holidron Decorider—more on that below.
Each Large Decoration will help you earn 2.5% more credits in Random Battles. This bonus will become active as soon as the Large Decoration is placed into its slot.
Invite the Snow Maidens Into Your Garage
Level up the Festive Atmosphere, and you'll be able to invite us to your Garage! After that, we'll immediately be ready to become your crew members for good. Each of us will visit your Garage once you reach a certain level of Festive Atmosphere.
On the topic of Festive Atmosphere, we’re giving you a helping hand. Just like an advent calendar, each day you can get a reward; log in every day to get a random decoration of a specific collection and personal missions for 5x XP.
Decorating
You can decorate just about anything you see in the Garage’s Camp: the Feast, Yard, the tree (of course!). Hover over elements that can be decorated, or click individual elements for a close-up view. Use the panel to the left, in the close-up view, to navigate between interactive elements.
Remember, Commander: you can’t decorate randomly! Interactive elements have designated slots for each type of item. To begin, click the Garage element you want to embellish. Then click a slot that can be decorated to open a window containing all suitable decorations, and choose one to apply.
Festive Atmosphere
Along with the joy the process brings, decorations define your Festive Atmosphere level: the merrier and brighter your Garage looks, the higher the level of Festive Atmosphere.
Work your way up from there and enjoy even more rewards! Improving your Garage’s Atmosphere level will earn you a crate with all kinds of goodies: directives, credits, consumables, etc. Having reached certain levels of Festive Atmosphere, you can also invite one of us to visit you. Check out the complete list of rewards in the table below:
- Festive Atmosphere 1.
- Festive Atmosphere 2.
- Festive Atmosphere 3.
- Festive Atmosphere 4.
- Festive Atmosphere 5.
- Festive Atmosphere 6.
- Festive Atmosphere 7.
- Festive Atmosphere 8.
- Festive Atmosphere 9.
- Festive Atmosphere 10.
- French Tier II vehicle AMR 35 + 100% crew
- Garage Slot
- 3× Small Box
- 1x
Antiduplicator Charge
Sleighed It, Class III medal
Antiduplicator Charge Antiduplicator Charge Antiduplicator Charge Antiduplicator Charge
Sleighed It, Class II medal
Antiduplicator Charge
2x Antiduplicator Charge
2x Antiduplicator Charge
3x Antiduplicator Charge
Sleighed It, Class I medal
General Snow badge
4x Antiduplicator Charge
Holiday Ops 2020 Bonuses
If you took part in Holiday Ops 2019, you may remember that bonuses to credits, Free XP, Combat XP, and Crew XP were tied to one of the collections.
After looking through your feedback, we realized that there was room for improvement. You had to choose a collection based on the bonus that it brought, not your preferences. As a result, the collection that gave a bonus to credits had become the most popular, while the remaining three were less in demand and brought you less benefit.
This festive season, we decided to separate "the credit bonus" and all other bonuses. The credit bonus will remain rooted to collections, we'll dig into the details a bit later. We're now introducing a brand-new mechanic, the Holiday Ops Vehicles for Free XP, Combat XP, and Crew XP.
Holiday Ops Vehicles
During Holiday Ops 2020, you will have the opportunity to build your own Holiday Ops Vehicles consisting of up to 6 vehicles, from Tier V to X. Only researchable or reward tanks can be placed in the free slots of the branch, and these machines will receive a special bonus to the Free XP, Combat XP, or Crew XP you earn in Random Battles. The type of bonus depends on the type of vehicle!
Remember: the amount of experience bonus has a maximum and is fixed, regardless of whether you have completed your collections or not. Just place the tank in a free slot and earn more XP in each battle!
You receive slots for your Holiday Ops Vehicles for achieving Festive Atmosphere levels. In total, there are six slots for six tiers of vehicles. You receive your first slot when you reach level V of Festive Atmosphere; subsequently, for each new level achieved, you will get an additional slot.
You can change the tanks in the festive branch every 30 minutes. If, after assigning a tank to a slot, you sell it or remove it from your Garage, the slot will be freed automatically, but still frozen.
Build Collections and Get a Credit Bonus!
All the decorations you can earn are arranged into four design Collections:
- Christmas
- Magic New Year
- New Year
- Lunar New Year
Building each Collection gives you a credit bonus. The credit bonus you receive will increase incrementally as you reach certain set milestones of unique decorations collected.
Raising Festive Atmosphere further increases this bonus thanks to a special multiplier that is applied automatically. As a result, you can get a credit bonus of up to 40%. Also, don't forget that each Large Decoration gives you another 2.5% to credits earned. Thus, your total credit bonus when playing in all Random Battles can reach up to 50%.
But the credit bonus is not all that the Collections bring you! Assembling a full Collection nets you an exclusive 2D-style and a unique decal. And no one said you could have only one Collection! Complete four sets to earn all four of the great 2D-styles and decals available during Holiday Ops 2020!
All acquired decorations are listed in special albums. From Christmas toys, ornaments, and garlands to tree toppers and twinkling fairy lights, there's a little bit for everyone's aesthetic this year! Decorations come in all shapes and sizes and are arranged in five groups by rarity.
Level one items are the easiest to get, and level five decorations are really hard to come by. The rarer the decorations you use, the more points they add to your Festive Atmosphere, and the faster you level up.
Earning Decorations
You can obtain decorations in the following ways:
- Completing missions in Random Battles and earning decoration boxes
- Crafting in the Large Holidron Decorider
- Receiving them as gifts from the Snow Maidens once a day
- Purchasing Large Gift Boxes
Crafting Decorations
You can break decorations you don’t feel like using, and craft garlands, baubles, or other missing items for your Collections. Let me explain how it all works.
- Break decorations you don’t need and put the shards into the Large Holidron Decorider to get the ones your Collections lack.
- Set the parameters (level, type, and collection) for a decoration you really want.
- Check if there are enough shards and push the Craft button.
Don’t have anything in particular on your wish list? Let the Decorider surprise you—pick “Random Collection” and get right to crafting. It will cost you fewer shards compared to crafting a specific decoration.
Antiduplicator
If you want to get a decoration that you don't have in your collection with a 100% probability, use Charges. This is a new type of event currency that you can only receive as a reward for reaching new levels of Festive Atmosphere.
Since Charges are the most reliable way to get missing decorations, it's better to hold them until the end of the event and use them to fill the gaps in your Collections. Remember that the number of Charges is limited, so use them wisely to craft only the most necessary and rare decorations.
You can also craft Large Decorations, but you’ll need to keep two things in mind:
- Large Decorations will always be unique—you cannot craft one you already have.
- Crafting your first Large Decoration will cost less than all subsequent ones. This will allow you to get a good credit bonus from the start of the event, while using fewer shards.
Receiving Decorations as Gifts From the Snow Maidens
Another way to get decorations is to simply talk to us! Each Snow Maiden is responsible for a particular Collection, so simply click on one of us, and we will give you one random decoration from our respective Collections. But remember that we can help you with gathering decorations only once a day.
In addition, don't forget that we provide you with daily missions for x5 XP. Click on us to get your daily random decoration, and you will instantly receive as many x5 missions as there are Snow Maidens in your Garage.
Tanks, Styles...
Tanks
Progetto 46, Italian MT, Tier VIII, a legend that needs no introduction, is one of the most popular and desired vehicles in the game, thanks to its effective mix of high mobility and the Italian-exclusive autoreloader.
703 II (122), U.S.S.R. HT, Tier VIII, the first-ever Tier VIII Premium double-barreled vehicle in World of Tanks, is now available! Whether you're a novice or experienced commander, the Object 703 Version II is as sweet as apple pie.
E 75 TS, German HT, Tier VIII, also available for the first time in the game, is a menacing German heavy tank which boasts incredible top speed and excellent maneuverability, using its tough hull to bounce enemy shells.
SU-130PM, U.S.S.R. TD, Tier VIII, a natural-born hunter and master of stealth, boasts alpha damage that is one of the highest of its tier, while its great concealment means you can hit hard and they'll never see it coming!
AM 39 Gendron-Somua, a French Tier II wheeled vehicle. Bet you’re incredibly surprised to see a wheeled scout at this tier! This is its first time being on the battlefield, so don't miss the chance to tame this tiny warrior and hone your wheeled skills!
Sexton I, British SPG, Tier III, designed in Canada, on the chassis of the fabulous Canadian RAM II tank, it’s one of two Premium artys in World of Tanks!
Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. K, a versatile German Tier V medium tank boasting a menacing fast-firing gun, is a modification of the glorious German tank, featuring a turret from the senior Pz IV and a 75 mm gun.
Bretagne Panther, a French Tier VI medium tank, is a legendary Panther, captured by the French army and preserved to this day in a museum, to be recreated in the game with stunning accuracy.
Sherman VC Firefly, a British Tier VI medium tank, is the tank of the legendary British Ace, Joe Ekins, replicated down to the smallest detail. The Sherman VC Firefly and other vehicles destroyed Michael Wittmann's tank, the German “Panzer Ace”, during World War II.
3D styles
T110E4 - Style „Major Ram“
E100 - Style „Klarer Himmel“
Object 140 - Style „Sekhmet“
AMX 13 105 - Style „Vipère Noire“
Jagdpanzer E 100 - Style „Panzerschiff“
Object 430U - Style „Kelevra“
Camouflage that you can get from individual collections
Christmas collection - "Gingerbread Armor"
Magic New Year collection - "Tangerhino"
Lunar New Year collection - "Sakura Blossom"
New Year collection - "Carpet Diem"
