Achievements
Achievements are awarded to players for exceptional performance in battle. Medals and titles are attached to the player's own statistics as well as individually for tanks and crew members. To see your own achievements simply go to the statistics in game and the top bar will show all, if any, medals and titles you have been awarded. In the statistics page you can click on one of t\your tanks to show its own statistics as well as the achievements attached to it. Right clicking on a crew member and going to his "history" will show that members medals that he received through his history of tank actions. To see another player's medals you can right click on their name and "statistics" and it will show the medals that that player has earned.
Achievements come in four groups:
- Battle Achievements - Those awarded for individual battles if all the requirements are met.
- Major Achievements - Those awarded in four classes, fourth being the easiest to achieve, and first being the hardest. The requirements for these achievements accumulate through the player's entire history, battle after battle.
- Epic Achievements - The hardest medals to earn, awarded for individual battles, the player must prove himself to be extraordinarily skilled to earn one.
- Special Achievements - Those titles are earned for exceptional performance across battles, and list the players best achievement in them.
Battle Achievements
If two or more players have destroyed equal amount vehicles, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP for the battle, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
If two or more players have equal hit ratio, the achievement is granted to the player with the highest potential damage. If two or more players have equal amount of potential damage, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
If two or more players have reduced equal amount of capture points, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP in the battle (including additional XP provided to Premium account users). If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not awarded.
If two or more players have equal amount of hits, the achievement is granted to the player with the highest potential damage. If two or more players have equal amount of potential damage, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
If two or more players have equal amount of hits, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP for the battle, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
If two or more players have detected equal number of enemy vehicles, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.
Major Achievements (medals)
Douglas Kay, a British Army sergeant, and gunner on a Sherman Firefly, participated in the Allied landing in Normandy and was famous for the popularization of the history of tank warfare.
Otto Carius was one of the most efficient tank aces of WWII. He commanded the PzKpfw 38(t), the PzKpfw VI Tiger and the Jagdtiger Tank Destroyer during his impressive career.
Kurt Knispel, a German tank ace during WWII, participated in battles on both the Western and Eastern Fronts fighting on PzKpfw II, PzKpfw III, PzKpfw IV, PzKpfw VI Tiger, and PzKpfw VI Ausf. B Tiger II.
Lieutenant General of Tank Forces, Nikolay Popel, a Soviet military leader and political worker, organized a raid against the enemy rear using captured vehicles during the battle of Dubno in the Summer of 1941.
General Creighton Abrams commanded US armored forces during WWII and the Vietnam War, earning a reputation as an aggressive and successful commander.
Philippe Leclerc was a General of the Free French Forces during WWII and one of the leaders of the Paris liberation operation.
Dmitry Lavrinenko, a Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Lieutenant, and tank ace was recognized as the most efficient Soviet tanker, destroying 52 tanks in 28 battles over the course of just two months.
Joe Ekins was a private in the Northamptonshire Division of the British Territorial Army. A number of sources confirm Ekins as the final nemesis of famous German tank ace Michael Wittmann.
Epic Achievements (medals)
(to be fully implemented later)
Michael Wittmann was one of the most successful German tank aces of WWII. He participated in operations in the invasions of Poland, France, Greece, and the Soviet Union, and the defense of France.
Roman Edmund Orlik, a Polish Army sergeant, was a tank ace who knocked out 13 German tanks with his light TKS tankette in September, 1939.
Alexander Oskin, a Hero of the Soviet Union, was a tank commander who destroyed three King Tigers with his T-34 during a reconnaissance operation near Oglenduv on August 11, 1944.
Erkki Halonen, a sergeant in the Finnish Army and a tank ace, destroyed three T-34, two KV-1, and two ISU-152 with his StuG III in battles during June and July, 1944.
Guards Colonel Alexander Burda was a Soviet tank ace and a Hero of the Soviet Union. On October 4, 1941, Burda organized an ambush and destroyed an enemy armored column, including 10 medium and light tanks, 2 trucks with antitank guns and 5 infantry vehicles.
Pierre Billotte was a captain in the French Army who destroyed 2 PzKpfw IV, 11 PzKpfw III and 2 guns with his Char B1bis on May 16, 1940.
Colonel Zinoviy Kolobanov was a Soviet tank ace who destroyed 22 German tanks, 2 guns and 2 halftracks with his KV-1 in battle on August 19, 1941.
A hero of the Soviet Union, Alexander Fadin was a T-34 commander. Supported by one infantry platoon, Fadin managed to capture and hold the Dashukovka village for 5 hours with one tank, and destroyed 3 tanks, 1 halftrack, 2 mortars and 12 machinegun nests. His crew also shot down an enemy plane with his tank's coaxial machinegun.