The crew is the key element linking a player and a vehicle. Each crew member has their own qualification: Commander, Driver, Gunner, Loader, or Radio Operator. Mastery in controlling a vehicle, as well as additional skills and perks, significantly improves the battle performance of a vehicle.
Major Qualification
The major qualification level determines a vehicle’s performance characteristics. After training your crew to 100% in their major qualification, perks and skills become available to gain additional superiority in battles.
Commander training is of critical importance. Every 10% of the Сommander’s combat skills gives a 1% bonus to the whole crew. For example, if your Сommander is trained to 50%, then the crew receives an additional 5% bonus to the level of major qualification. If your Сommander is trained to 100%, then the crew will receive 10%. The Commander's bonus is not applicable to the Сommander.
Effective major qualification mastery is determined by two factors:
- Qualification level. The level of major qualification of a tanker.
- Vehicle control mastery. Crew members can use their skills to the fullest only on the vehicle for which they are currently trained, or on Premium vehicles of the same type and nation.
The most common way to raise crew mastery to 100% is to gain experience in battles. Every tanker receives the same amount of experience for each battle as the vehicle. The more effective they are in battle, the faster the crew is trained.
Training a tanker to 100% by gaining combat experience only can be quite a long journey, however. To accelerate qualification training, you can:
- Train the recruited tanker in the Regimental School or Tank Academy for game currency.
- Use Personal Reserves to gain additional crew experience.
- Activate the Accelerate Crew Training option on Elite vehicles.
Accelerating training for in-game currency
If you already have tankers trained to less than 75%, you can send them to Regimental School or Tank Academy at any time. To train your crew member:
- Select the vehicle in the Garage and the tanker whose level you want to increase.
- Select Personal File from the menu. On the Training tab, select Tank Academy or Regimental School.
You can also train all crew members at once. Click 
(Crew Operations), and in the Crew Retraining section click Retrain. Choose the training level (Regimental School or Tank Academy) in the Crew Retraining window and click Retrain. Only those crew tankers whose qualification level is less than 75% will be retrained.
Accelerating crew training on Elite vehicles
The Accelerate Crew Training option is available on Elite vehicles. By activating it, all experience earned on this vehicle is spent on crew training. The least experienced crew member is trained twice as fast and is marked with 
.
Elite vehicles include researchable vehicles that have all modules and following vehicles upgraded, as well as Premium and reward vehicles.
- Common Perks and Skills
- Commander
- Driver
- Gunner
- Loader
- Radio Operator
Perks and Skills Training
Perk or skill training starts from 0%. The training level increases by gaining Combat Experience.
The level of perk or skill being trained can be increased at any time. There are several ways you can accelerate perk or skill training:
- Training for Free Experience. After each battle, 5% of Combat Experience is converted into Free Experience. You can also gain Free Experience by converting Combat Experience from Elite vehicles for gold.
- The Accelerate Crew Training option on Elite vehicles.
- Study Crew Books.
- Activate Personal Reserves.
- Earn more both Combat and Crew XP when playing with WoT Premium Account or in Premium vehicles.
- Training Booklet
- Training Guide
- Training Manual
- Personal Training Manual
- Universal Manual
Purchasing Training Manuals
To purchase Training Manuals:
- In the Garage, select the vehicle of the nation for which you want to purchase Training Manuals.
- Click
(Crew Operations) above the Crew Panel and click Open in the Crew Books section. - In the CREW BOOKS window, select Training Manual and click Purchase.
- In the confirmation window, set the number of Training Manuals and click Purchase. A Training Manual costs 2,000,000. When studied, the manual provides each crew member with 250,000 experience.
To apply Crew Books:
- In the Garage, select the vehicle of the crew or crew member you want to train.
- Click (Crew Operations) above the Crew Panel and click Open in the Crew Books section.
- In the CREW BOOKS window, select a Crew Book type and click Apply.
- In the confirmation window, click Study. The Crew Book will be spent, and each or a selected crew member will receive experience depending on the studied Crew Book type.
To view your Crew Books:
- Go to the DEPOT tab under the Battle! button in your Garage.
- Click
(Stock) to the left of the screen. - Go to the Crew Books tab. Available Crew Books are displayed here. Use filters to search for the Crew Books you need.
