Sempre Avanti Italia! Today, we’re pleased to finally welcome the Italian Tech Tree to World of Tanks: Mercenaries! Italy is the twelfth nation to be added to the game, with this European country’s unique brand of tank engineering taking a lot of inspiration from French and British war machines of the twentieth century. For the first time in the game, certain Italian vehicles also feature auto-reloading guns.

Read on for details about how to begin earning Italian vehicles, the research and purchase costs of each vehicle, a guide to the new auto-reloader feature, and a new dev diary dedicated to the Italian Tech Tree! You can also check out a new article where we explain how we make changes to new vehicles and lines brought over from World of Tanks PC.

New Op: Italian Power

From March 26 through April 1, get an extra 25% XP when you destroy five or more vehicles using Italian vehicles from Tiers III to X during Multiplayer battles!

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How to Earn Vehicles from the Italian Tech Tree

To begin earning Italian tanks, head to the ‘Tanks’ tab in your Garage, and navigate up and down through the different flags until you arrive at the green, white, and red colors of Italy.

You can get a Tier I Light Tank, the Fiat 3000, without spending any XP or Silver on researching or purchasing it, but you will need to have a spare Garage Slot in order to add it to your collection. From there, you can continue using XP and Silver to progress through all Tiers of the Italian Tech Tree to your heart’s content!

Italian Tech Tree Vehicles: Research and Purchase Costs

For more details and images of tanks featured in the Italian Tech Tree, check out our dedicated articles for Tier I-VII Italian vehicles and Tier VIII-X Italian vehicles.

Tier I Vehicles

Fiat 3000 (Light Tank) Research Cost: 0 XP Purchase Cost: 0 Silver

(Light Tank)

Tier II Vehicles

L6/40 (Light Tank) Research Cost: 270 XP Purchase Cost: 3,800 Silver

(Light Tank) M14/41 (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 270 XP Purchase Cost: 4,100 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier III Vehicles

M15/42 (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 1,275 XP Purchase Cost: 45,400 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier IV Vehicles

P26/40 (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 4,160 XP Purchase Cost: 148,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier V Vehicles

P.43 (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 11,850 XP Purchase Cost: 375,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier VI Vehicles

P.43 BIS (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 25,510 XP Purchase Cost: 905,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier VII Vehicles

P.43 TER (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 58,370 XP Purchase Cost: 1,440,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier VIII Vehicles

P.44 Pantera (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 100,750 XP Purchase Cost: 2,530,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier IX Vehicles

Prototipo Standard B (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 149,200 XP Purchase Cost: 3,500,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Tier X Vehicles

Progetto M40 mod. 65 (Medium Tank) Research Cost: 197,000 XP Purchase Cost: 6,100,000 Silver

(Medium Tank)

Auto-Reloading Feature

The Italian tanks are unique in that they introduce a brand-new tank feature to the game: auto-reloading weapons. Currently only available in Italian vehicles from Tiers VIII to X, auto-reloading guns can hold multiple shells that reload automatically. Unlike existing auto-loaders, once a shell is loaded, it can be fired without needing to wait for all rounds in the clip to be loaded! This allows for single fire or burst fire, and flexible firepower depending on what the combat situation calls for.

Here's the basic flow of how the auto-reloader feature works: