Ho ho ho, Commanders!
I hope there’s no need to introduce myself! I'm the one who brings your Christmas gifts, fills your heart with festive joy, and turns your Garage into a snow-swept winter yard every year. My trustworthy helpers – the Snow Maidens – and I will be your guides in the most magnificent event in World of Tanks.
Holiday Ops 2020
13 December 2019, 12:00 UTC +8 – 14 January 2020, 12:00 UTC +8
I hope you have been well-behaved this year, because we have plenty of nice presents under the tree for all of you. Let’s celebrate together!
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Essentials and Large Decorations
When you open your Garage on December 13, you will find special gifts from me and the Snow Maidens:
- Three Small Boxes
- A rare Tier II French Premium light tank, the AMR 35, with a 100% crew and Garage slot
- One Charge — a special event item (read below for details)
You will also notice a traditional festive set, featuring an interactive Christmas tree, Feast, Installation, and Yard. It looks charming indeed, but lacks adornments — it's up to you to decorate it!
Just as in previous Holiday Ops events, you can:
- Complete battle missions to earn Boxes containing decorations and valuable in-game goods;
- Put decorations up!
In addition to classic holiday decorations, you can outfit your Garage with magical Large Decorations. You will have the opportunity to receive four Large Decorations, and each of them must be placed in its specific slot on an interactive element (the Christmas tree, the field kitchen, etc.). You can either get Large Decorations in Holiday Ops Boxes, or craft them in the Large Holidron Decorider — more on that below.
During Holiday Ops 2020, you will meet my four hardworking helpers, the Snow Maidens, without whom I couldn’t have made it all happen this year.
I shall now yield the floor to my assistants and let them tell you more about the event.
Greetings, fellow Commanders!
We'll be your guiding lights during Holiday Ops 2020.
Invite the Snow Maidens into Your Garage
Level up the Festive Atmosphere, and you'll be able to invite us to your Garage! After that, we'll immediately be ready to become your crew members for good. Each of us will visit your Garage once you reach a certain level of Festive Atmosphere.
On the topic of Festive Atmosphere, we’re giving you a helping hand. Just like an advent calendar, each day you can get a reward; log in every day to get a random decoration of a specific collection and personal missions for 5x XP.
Now let's talk about the event in more detail.
Decorating
You can decorate just about anything you see in the Garage’s Camp: the Feast, Yard, the tree (of course!). Hover over elements that can be decorated, or click individual elements for a close-up view. Use the panel to the left, in the close-up view, to navigate between interactive elements.
Festive Atmosphere
Along with the joy the process brings, decorations define your Festive Atmosphere level: the merrier and brighter your Garage looks, the higher the level of Festive Atmosphere.
Work your way up from there and enjoy even more rewards! Improving your Garage’s Atmosphere level will earn you a Box with all kinds of goodies: directives, consumables, credits, etc. Having reached certain levels of Festive Atmosphere, you can also invite one of us to visit you. Check out the complete list of rewards in the table below:
I hope I helped you sort this out! Now, I give the floor to my teammate who also has something important to tell you!
Cheers, fellow Commanders!
I'm taking the baton from my sister and will go into more detail about the sweet bonuses you can obtain in addition to rewards for reaching levels of Festive Atmosphere.
Holiday Ops Bonuses
If you took part in Holiday Ops 2019, you may remember that bonuses to credits, Free XP, Combat XP, and Crew XP were tied to one of the collections.
After looking through your feedback, we realized that there was room for improvement. You had to choose a collection based on the bonus that it brought, not your preferences. As a result, the collection that gave a bonus to credits had become the most popular, while the remaining three were less in demand and brought you less benefit.
This festive season, we decided to separate "the credit bonus" and all other bonuses. The credit bonus will remain tied to collections; we'll dig into the details a bit later. We're now introducing a brand-new mechanic, the Holiday Ops Vehicles for Free XP, Combat XP, and Crew XP. Let’s take a closer look!
Holiday Ops Vehicles
During Holiday Ops 2020, you will have the opportunity to build your own Holiday Ops Vehicles consisting of up to 6 vehicles, from Tier V to X. Only researchable or reward tanks can be placed in the free slots of the branch, and these machines will receive a special bonus to the Free XP, Combat XP, or Crew XP you earn in Random Battles. The type of bonus depends on the type of vehicle!
You receive slots for your Holiday Ops Vehicles for achieving Festive Atmosphere levels. In total, there are six slots for six tiers of vehicles. You receive your first slot when you reach Level V of Festive Atmosphere; subsequently, for each new level achieved, you will get an additional slot.
You can change the tanks in the festive branch every 30 minutes. If, after assigning a tank to a slot, you sell it or remove it from your Garage, the slot will be freed automatically, but still frozen.
Now it's time to talk about the festive Collections, so let's meet the next Snow Maiden!
Challenge yourself to complete all four Collections to get all the bonuses, Commanders!
Build Collections and Get a Credit Bonus!
All the decorations you can earn are arranged into four design Collections:
- Christmas Collection
- Magic Collection
- New Year Collection
- Lunar Collection
Building each Collection gives you a credit bonus. The credit bonus you receive will increase incrementally as you reach certain set milestones of unique decorations collected.
Raising Festive Atmosphere further increases this bonus thanks to a special multiplier that is applied automatically. As a result, you can get a credit bonus of up to 40%. Also, don't forget that each Large Decoration gives you another 2.5% to credits earned. Thus, your total credit bonus when playing in all Random Battles can reach up to 50%.
But the credit bonus is not all that the Collections bring you! Assembling a full Collection nets you an exclusive 2D-style and a unique decal. And no one said you could have only one Collection! Complete four sets to earn all of the great 2D-styles and decals available during Holiday Ops 2020!
- Christmas
- Magic
- New Year
- Lunar
All acquired decorations are listed in special albums. From Christmas toys, ornaments, and garlands to tree toppers and twinkling fairy lights, there's a little bit for everyone's aesthetic this year! Decorations come in all shapes and sizes and are arranged in five groups by rarity.
Level I items are the easiest to get, and Level V decorations are really hard to come by. The rarer the decorations you use, the more points they add to your Festive Atmosphere, and the faster you level up.
Now, let's talk about earning decorations. I’ll yield the chair to my teammate — she's the only one who knows the ins and outs of the subject!
Greetings, Commanders!
Earning Decorations
You can obtain decorations in the following ways:
- Completing missions in Random Battles and earning Small Boxes
- Crafting in the Large Holidron Decorider
- Receiving them as gifts from the Snow Maidens once a day
- Purchasing Large Gift Boxes
Completing Battle Missions
Completing festive battle missions will earn you Small Boxes containing three random decorations and in-game items (directives, consumables, credits, etc).
If luck’s on your side, you can also find Large Decorations inside these Boxes. The greater the challenge the battle mission poses, the more valuable the rewards!
Plus, win Random or Grand Battles and rank among the Top 10 in your team to get double the XP!
- New Year Bustle 1
- New Year Bustle 2
- New Year Bustle 3
- New Year Bustle 4
- New Year Bustle 5
- New Year Bustle 6
- New Year Bustle 7
- New Year Bustle 8
- New Year Bustle 9
- New Year Bustle 10
- New Year Bustle 11
- x2 EXP for Each Win
Conditions:
- Win a battle
- Cause at least 500 HP of damage to enemy vehicles
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x1
Conditions:
- Destroy at least 2 enemy vehicles in a battle
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x1
Conditions:
- Destroy at least 2 enemy vehicles of different types in a battle
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x2
Conditions:
- Cause at least 1,500 HP of damage to enemy vehicles in a battle
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x2
Conditions:
- Cause damage to at least 4 different enemy vehicles in a battle
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x3
Conditions:
- Block at least 2,500 HP of damage in any number of battles
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x3
Conditions:
- Win 5 battles
- In every winning battle, be among the top 10 players on your team by damage caused
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Once a day
Reward:
x4
Conditions:
- Cause 30,000 HP of damage in any number of battles
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Twice a week
Reward:
x4
Conditions:
- Win 5 battles
- Only victories where you are among the top 5 players on your team by experience earned are counted towards the objective
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Twice a week
Reward:
x5
Conditions:
- Earn 15,000 Combat Experience in any number of battles
- Only victories where you are among the top 10 players on your team by experience earned are counted towards the objective
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Twice a week
Reward:
x6
Conditions:
- In a winning battle, be the top player on your team by experience earned
Restrictions:
- Any Tier IV vehicle or higher
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Twice a week
Reward:
x7
Available from 13 December 2019, 12:00 UTC +8 - 16 December 2019, 12:00 UTC +8
Conditions:
- In a winning battle, be in the top 10 players on your team by experience earned
Restrictions:
- Random Battle, Grand Battle
- Repeatable
Reward:
x2 EXP
It's important to add that this year's Boxes are doing more good than before. Any decoration inside them, whether it's a random toy for your collections or a Large Decoration, will help you increase the credit bonus you get!
Crafting Decorations
You can break decorations you don’t feel like using, and craft garlands, baubles, or other missing items for your Collections. Let me explain how it all works.
- Break decorations you don’t need and put the shards into the Large Holidron Decorider to get the ones your Collections lack.
- Set the parameters (level, type, and collection) for a decoration you really want.
- Check if there are enough shards and push the Craft button.
Don’t have anything in particular on your wish list? Let the Decorider surprise you — pick “Random Collection” and get right to crafting. It will cost you fewer shards compared to crafting a specific decoration.
Antiduplicator
If you want to get a specific decoration that you don't have in your collection with a 100% probability, use Charges. This is a new type of event currency that you can only receive as a reward for reaching new levels of Festive Atmosphere.
You can also craft Large Decorations, but you’ll need to keep two things in mind:
- Large Decorations will always be unique — you cannot craft one you already have.
- Crafting your first Large Decoration will cost less than all subsequent ones. This will allow you to get a good credit bonus from the start of the event, while using fewer shards.
Receiving Decorations as Gifts From the Snow Maidens
Another way to get decorations is to simply talk to us! Each Snow Maiden is responsible for a particular Collection, so simply click on one of us, and we will give you one random decoration from our respective Collections. But remember that we can help you with gathering decorations only once a day.
In addition, don't forget that we provide you with daily missions for x5 XP. Click on us to get your daily random decoration, and you will instantly receive as many x5 missions as there are Snow Maidens in your Garage.
Holiday Ops Large Boxes
No time to collect decorations? No worries! Check out these Large Boxes full to the brim with decorations and valuable in-game items to treat fellow tankers with!
Each Box contains one unique decoration that you don't already own, and 250. It will also include a surprise festive treat, which could be anything from gold and WoT Premium Account time to rare Premium vehicles and brand-new 3D-styles.
This is where I end — and once again I give the floor to Santa! See you in your Garages, Commanders!
I hope you’ve been getting along well with my kind assistants, fellow tankers!
The 2018–2019 Collections: A Second Chance
If you didn’t have a chance to complete the Collections for Holiday Ops 2018 and/or 2019, now you can. You will have to first reach Festive Atmosphere level X, then you can start using shards to craft the missing items for your Collections and get all eight styles as a reward. But you’ll need to hurry — after January 13, this opportunity will be gone!
We’re done here, fellow Commanders! Jumpstart your progress on Holiday Ops 2020 and work your way up to reap rewards! We wish you a Merry Christmas…
... and a happy New Year!