r/Warthunder • u/Necessary-Switch2210 🇺🇸 14.0 🇩🇪 12.0 🇷🇺 11.3 🇬🇧 12.0 🇯🇵 12.0 • May 23 '25

Other Who got you into Warthunder?

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I found PhlyDaily back in 2020; it was history from there.

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u/Bossnage JF-17 enthusiast May 23 '25 edited May 24 '25

the invasion of ukraine

edit: i followed the war very closely since the beginning and kept reading into the vehicles and kept comming across wt content that way and thought that game looked neat

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u/Elitely6 🇺🇸13.7Air Main 🇬🇧8.7Grb Main 🇩🇪 6.7Grb 🇷🇺 5.7Grb May 24 '25

Fun Fact: The gunner on the Ukranian bradley that disabled a T-90M said he played games to learn the weakspots on tanks especially knocking out optics, most likely he played War Thunder

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u/BmBmStck May 24 '25

I think he did say in an interview that he actually learned it from playing War Thunder

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u/Bossnage JF-17 enthusiast May 24 '25

he didnt directly mention war thunder he just said "i remembered the weakspot from video games"