Tips and Tricks

Commands and Command Priority

In general, you may find you are the most successful when you order an attack and THEN a move (in that sequence).

Commands of each individual unit obey these rules:

Ordering a vehicle to attack an enemy makes that enemy the vehicles top priority until it is dead, moves out of firing range, or a new fire order is received.

Ordering a vehicle to move will NOT clear its attack command, the vehicle will move and continue to try to destroy the indicated target.

Ordering a vehicle to attack WILL clear its move command. The vehicle will abandon its move order to prioritize the attack, even if this means stopping in place right where they are to fire.

Vehicles will shoot / defend themselves automatically until given an order to explicitly fire at an indicated enemy

Friendly vehicles will maneuver a bit within a small range of their current position if no move order is in play. This is so they can seek nearby cover, seek line of sight on a target, or angle their armor to try to defend themselves.

Line of Sight Indicator

A line of sight indicator was added to show the sight lines of selected tanks. Hopefully this will help communicate geometry blocking tanks.

Selected and Non-selected Units

Selected Units have a green ring surrounding them, while non-selected Units do not.

Move To Command and Waypoints

Issuing a Move To Command with a selected Unit (or multiple selected Units) places a flag in the world. The flag represents the position the Unit(s) will move towards, and ultimately, directly on top of. The flag remains in-world until the Unit(s) reaches the destination, a new Command is issued, or the Unit is deselected. Don't worry if the flag disappears when you de-select a unit, the vehicle is still obeying your move order. You only see the relevant flag for selected vehicles.

Issuing Waypoint Commands allow you to place multiple Move To points in the world. The selected Unit will move to each Waypoint in succession, starting with the first one placed down and ending at the last one placed down. This tactic is very useful for maneuvering Light and Medium tanks across the map!

Lines are drawn on the mini -map to represent the Tank's path

Unit Reload Indicator

When looking closely at the UI above each Unit, you will be able to view the Reload Indicator. This circular indicator accurately shows when the Unit will fire its next shot! You will also see this reload indicator over the vehicle's icon on the bottom of the screen when the vehicle is selected.

Targeted Enemy Units

Targeted Enemy Units feature two UI elements indicating a friendly Unit is attacking it. First, a red ring surrounds the enemy Unit. Second, a red target icon appears below the health bar. Both elements will remain visible until the enemy Unit is destroyed, a new Command is issued, or the friendly Unit is deselected.

Company Health Bars

At the top of HUD you can easily see the total health remaining for each Company of Units. Utilize this information to press the attack or retreat!

Contextual Legend and D-pad indicators

Be sure to keep an eye on the bottom left corner of the HUD. The new Contextual Legend provides information to you at nearly all times. If you've forgotten how to issue a Command or are not sure what you can do, look to see what the Legend says!

Right below the Contextual Legend you'll find an updated D-pad icon, representing new functionality aimed at providing quicker Unit selection. Pressing Up on the D-pad instantly selects all Light tanks available. Right on the D-pad instantly selects all Medium tanks available. Down on the D-pad instantly selects all Tank Destroyers available. Left on the D-pad instantly selects all Heavy tanks available. Double press any direction to instantly select all tanks of that type and also snap your camera to the closest tank!

While holding RT/R2 you'll notice the D-pad indicator changes to represent a variety of numbers. With a few Units selected, you can continue holding RT/R2 and hold any direction on the D-pad to great a Group of Units! To access this new grouping, simply hold RT/R2 once more and tap the associated direction on the D-pad to select or snap your camera to the Units.

Marquee Selection Tool

Holding down 'A' on Xbox controllers or 'X' on PS4 controllers will bring up the Marquee Selection Tool! Utilize this new feature to paint over Units to quickly select them.

Unit Spawning

Units will spawn into the match in a pre-determined formation, making it easier to group select specific tank types and send them into battle together!

Advanced Controls, Grouping, and Class Selection

Utilize Advanced Controls and Class Selection to further increase strategic control over your Units!

Xbox One and 360: Hld 'RT' and select multiple Units with 'A' to create a temporary group! Hld 'RT' and press and hold any direction on the D-pad with multiple Units selected to create a permanent group of Units. Access this new group by holding down 'RT' once more and press the direction you assigned on the D-pad to instantly select the group. Duble tap 'A' over a single Unit to quickly select ALL available tanks of that type Single tap 'RB' t select all Units visible on screen Duble tap 'RB' to select ALL Units in the match

PlayStation 4 Hld 'R2' and select multiple Units with 'X' to create a temporary group! Hld 'R2' and press and hold any direction on the D-pad with multiple Units selected to create a permanent group of Units. Access this new group by holding down 'R2' once more and press the direction you assigned on the D-pad to instantly select the group. Duble tap 'X' over a single Unit to quickly select ALL available tanks of that type Single tap 'R1' t select all Units visible on screen Duble tap 'R1' to select ALL Units in the match



Utilize the Secondary Camera mode for cinematic views!

Clicking the Right Analog Stick in (on any platform) will immediately change the camera into the 'On the Ground' view. From this new vantage point, Commanders can get significantly closer to the action!

As a bonus tip, utilize this camera view to check terrain shape, Unit placement, and more!

Tank Formation

Clicking the Left Analog Stick(Controllers) or pressing F (Keyboard&Mouse) allows the Commander to change the formation of their tanks

There are a total of 5 tank formations to choose from:

BOX

ROW

COLUMN

WEDGE FWD

WEDGE BWD