War Thunder is known to be P2W and is known to be unique enough to not have to care about it as it will keep enough players anyways.
Mortar squad that would be useless on indoor maps
Sniper squad that would be useless on small maps
AT squad that would be useless without tanks
All of these can safely be brought into battle with the extra infantry squad without risk of having a “dead squad” in your lineup due to local battle conditions, so I’d argue it is a bigger issue than you might think.
Even in peak tryharding mode, you can bring 2 SMG and 2 LMG squads to better adapt to the ranges the combat takes place in, in addition to always having at least 1 engineer available for use if you need it and swap between the premium SMG/LMG squads + 3rd squad.
At least vehicles are still locked behind a limited amount of vehicle active at the same time, but for infantry, such limit does not exist.
I think this is not a big problem. I ran out of my reserve a long time ago, but at some point you can just afford to send all unused soldiers to reserve. For me they were pilots in Moscow, every I tier soldiers, mortarmen, AT soldiers. So it can irritate, but it is thanks to RNG based logistics and new waves of I lvl soldiers.
No, I mean, you need so many soldiers, at some point you cannot fit that last level 1 soldier in your reserve that you need to get a level 2, which you would need to get the level 3, and so on. You would have to rely on random chance to get a higher level soldier in those last slots.
I’m just giving my point of view as a F2P player who ran out from reserve
I personally see it as more of a quality of life improvement and not something that could be considered as an unfair advantage. As I described, when it really happens most of your forces consist of III or couple IV lvl soldiers and you can go into quality over quantity. There are options to fill unused squads full with low level soldiers, sending unwanted ones to reserve… Couple of ways to deal with filled up reserves.
True, I’m just expressing my concerns for if it turns out to be impossible to get each squad filled up with only max level soldiers without having to swap out without buying premium time. That said, if that is the case, I don’t see a need to remove that feature from the premium time. It would only require an increase of reserve slots to make sure you have enough space for it to be possible
You can choose to pay a monthly fee and get the 2+ squads. A player has also the option to buy +1 squad in battle with premium currency.
Buy one slot and together with a premium account;
You can take 7 squads into the battle.
You can’t take more than 5 infantry squads or 3 squads with vehicle.
The extra squads through the premium account and the purchase of extra squad slot(s) gives the player a lot more options/counters.
The premium squad is not always available and does not add to the limit of squads you can bring. You can take up to 4 infantry squads and 2 vehicle squads with this premium system.
Or are you saying you have access to the monetization CBT?
a one time purchase might be a cheaper option for players.
Buy +1 squad in battle and together with a premium account you can take 7 squads into battle
Buy +2 squads in battle and then:
You can take 8 squads into the battle.
You can’t take more than 6 infantry squads or 4 squads with vehicle.
