Battle Pass: First Season of 2026

The next Battle Pass season that bids farewell to this year and kicks off 2026 is just around the corner, it starts on December 24th, but today we’re going to show you its rewards!

Main rewards of the season

Browning .303 (БР IV, Япония)

Browning .303 (BR IV, Japan)

Extremely high rate of fire and a 100-round belt are the main features of this machine gun, which was mainly used on aircraft. However this did not mean that it could not be used by the infantry, but as the gun was no longer mounted, in order to control its recoil it was fitted with an improvised bipod, which allowed it to be fired from a prone position.

In the Elite Battle Pass, you will also find a unique Me 262 A-1a/Jabo and a unique camouflage for the Ho-Ri Production.

Me 262 A-1a/Jabo «Gray 6» (Германия)

Me 262 A-1a/Jabo “Gray 6” (Germany)

Камуфляж для Ho-Ri Production «Ржавчина»

Ho-Ri Production - “Rust”

In this Battle Pass, you will receive an aircraft that can be assigned to its respective Fighter pilot squad and a camouflage that you can apply through the “Customization” menu of the respective tank.

And of course unique soldiers for Germany and Japan:

Hermann Bix — Танкист III (Германия)

Hermann Bix - Tanker III (Germany)

Hiroshi Funasaka — Штурмовик III (Япония) — только в элитном БП

Hiroshi Funasaka - Assaulter III (Japan) - requires Elite BP

As a reminder, Elite BP owners receive four unique weapons, two unique soldiers, one unique tank camouflage and one aircraft with unique camouflage by progressing in the Battle Pass. Meanwhile, players with basic BP receive one weapon and one unique soldier of the season.

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I would love to see the upcoming BP guns as well :smiling_face_with_tear:

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This weapon should be TT, what do the devs have against adding new MG to the Japan TT? KE7 50 and now this.

AHHHHHHHHH why?

Everything is just for the factions I play LoL

At least one good thing

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Has to be the most Axis BattlePass I have seen so far and the best rewards out of any BP since the new format.
Tank crew III and Assaulter III are always most welcome.
The skins are interesting and the gun is intriguing.

I really hope the quality is maintained for all of 2026.

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I think guns like this should at least have the ability to be fired in hipfire, to make them less complicated, but good BP in the end

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u must be joking.

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Inferior tea-sniffin box of 100 7mm rounds, dropped once never fired.

200

Superior box of 200 7mm rounds of liberty

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The trigger is all the way back with the wooden handles, how do you hipfire this thing…?

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The names are not censored, very good Df

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/2256/Bix-Hermann.htm
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Hermann_Bix

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Nice. A real person. I’ll give credit when credit is due. Good job enlisted devs. I love seeing you guys represent real people in the game :+1: However I will not be buying this battle pass as I refuse to spend money on this game from now on.

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/2256/Bix-Hermann.htm

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I don’t know and i don’t care, it’s an inconvenient mechanic

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Browning .303 (BR IV, Japan)

Extremely high rate of fire and a 100-round belt are the main features of this machine gun, which was mainly used on aircraft. However this did not mean that it could not be used by the infantry, but as the gun was no longer mounted, in order to control its recoil it was fitted with an improvised bipod, which allowed it to be fired from a prone position.

Why do the Japanese need a American mg don’t they have their own?

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At first I just assumed that Japan had purchased some, but I don’t see any immediate evidence for it.

In any event, I don’t think this gun would fit in with the Commonwealth either, I am unaware of this thing being adapted for ground use by them though.

Real strange inclusion with just all this in mind.

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Because they captured
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British soldiers with .303 Browning machine guns recovered from the Japanese in Mandalay, March 1945.

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There we go, that’s what I was looking for!

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Preliminary gun stats
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Well, it looks good generally, but because of this I don’t think I’ll really use it over the Te-4 despite the high RoF and capacity. The forced bipod mechanic doesn’t fit with the faster pace of the game, and is in general a pain to use any of the guns with this feature (ie. windows being very inconsistent about letting you mount, grass blocking your view when laying down, ect.)

On the other hand though, the vehicle skins look quite nice, I’m excited to get those and the BP soldiers.

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Japanese AN/М2:


And japanese Browning .303:

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Don’t the developers themselves know how terrible the gun mounting feature of this game is? This kind of machine gun doesn’t even stand a chance to see action.

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Would have love for a TT but that this is good just need to see it stat

wait a minute is this a prone only gun again? if so dam it