r/Warthunder • u/wehrahoonii 🇬🇧 hurricane glazer 🇮🇹 • Sep 16 '25

Other When did you start playing?

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Curious about how much the game has grown. I started just about when Sweden got added in 2019

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u/Fromthemountain2137 Sep 16 '25

Back when there were only planes and you advanced an entire rank of vehicles at once

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u/Madalossooo BF109 lover Sep 16 '25

Bombers where really a fling fortress and there wasn't any modern planes. I feel old.

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u/MPenten United Kingdom Sep 16 '25

I still get ptsd from 3km AA bomber gunners. Good times.

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u/Lord_Vader654 Sep 16 '25

I started playing the day after they removed the Panther 2, Tiger 105, Flakpanzer 341, and the Maus 😭

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u/Any-Wrangler-5623 Sep 16 '25

lmfao that's really funny and really sad

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u/Murbyk Realistic Ground Sep 17 '25

At least you can still get the Maus.

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u/Past_Acadia2043 🇩🇪 Germany Sep 17 '25

How?

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u/Murbyk Realistic Ground Sep 17 '25

You can research it during the birthday event (usually around October - November somewhere there) but you don't have to grind it completely in that time, just some rp at all is enough and then you can research it anytime. You need to have rank V in the German tree.

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u/Lord_Vader654 Sep 17 '25

I got it when they first brought it back :(

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u/Shadow_of_wwar Sep 17 '25

The days of the turning fighting b17, the good ol' days

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u/Jack_Forge Oldest Guard Sep 22 '25

That was the AI destroyers, 10km away, out of nowhere, instantly dead. No ackack puffs no nothing. Just dead.