How To Grind Silver Lions BETTER | War Thunder Tips

These are some of the best ways to grind/farm Silver Lions, and some tips that make the grind a bit easier in general. Enjoy!

Song: Noxive - Dreamer

0:00 Intro
0:27 Overview
0:47 Wagers
1:01 Thunderer Wager
4:29 Battle Victory Wager
5:26 Auto-repair
6:00 Play what you are good at.
6:17 Silver lions modifiers
7:12 Premium time/aircraft
8:36 Improve!
8:50 HAVE FUN

[jonathankuykendall]

See what a lot of streamers don't touch on is that you can play 500 matches where nobody goes for ground targets, but as soon as you use the wager everyone is doing CAS and the entire enemy team focuses you.

[flashtirade]

If you do end up ponying up the cash, wait for premium time to go on sale. On occasion you can get half a year for 20 bucks, which is really cheap for how much time and effort it will save you over that period (if you play the game semi-frequently enough to benefit). And you can use tech tree planes that you like instead of buying some meta premium grinder that you might not be familiar with.

Another option for approximately the same cost is the battle pass which, in addition ot the premium vehicles you can get as both direct reward and warbond purchases, dumps a ton of SL and RP boosters. Again you have to play enough to take advantage of this, but really there's no avoiding playing the game if you want to get anything from it.

[BlitZnGodzilla]

Honestly, I bought the A2D a couple years back when it was 50% off and it's a great SL grinder. After bombing a base I usually manage to shoot down 1 or 2 other planes before either I get shot down or the match ends via. Space climbers.

[Warhero]

Here's a SL grind story.
Back when the IL2 1941 had the OLD 1943 model, I grinded out for what I remember was 1 to 2 weeks, maybe more. Anyway, I found flying the OG "flying tank" fun and relaxing. At the same time as mentioned was when I hit my first 1mil SL mark. It then only took about 2 to 3 days to hit 2.5mil. By the time I was done with grinding, I made it to 25mil, all without spending a single cent for Premium or SL by itself.

[theherbmeister]

0:00 litterally my entire war thunder experience, but instead of 1 plane, its half the USA ground tech tree and half the USA air tech tree.

[stormjet]

Best squad wager is also a good idea if you're in a squadron imo, just 4 stack in low tier ground or air rb and you're basically guaranteed to get best squad award pretty much every time

[clunkCA]

My favourite plane to do the thunderer wager is the Q5A. Unless youre uptiered to 9.7-10.0 you’re faster than every other plane, you have flares and decent offensive weapons. So much fun to walk A4E/e pilots who don’t know how to play jets in the Q5

[ELMdesu]

To be fair, you don't really have to spend your money to have premium vehicles. The battlepass always offers a free premium vehicle and most of them are good sl grinders (except the beaufighter and the tonk).
Besides that, there is the warbond shop. Back then the rewards are really good (I managed to grab the xp50, Italian Spitfire, and the German P47). But they now changed the reward system so if you have the time it might be worth it.
The last thing are events. If you are on PC, you can sell the event reward coupons and buy premiums with the money. The money that you will earn may vary depending on the event or meta. For the crafting event, a vehicle can worth around 70$ and for the summer and winter events it will worth around 40$.
Last year, I sold my F4F Phantom for 70 GJN and bought a premium account and a couple of planes during the summer sale. It's really worth it since I have grinded up untill rank 6 in the US, USSR, GB, JP, and Swedish tree and to rank 5 in the Italian and French tree.

[junior]

First time I see ur videos. Keep doing it man gj, also another tip is playing naval, specially a premium destroyer. They usually have high percentage of silver lions

[gigaseta]

I never stopped to think to try and get wager done in Arcade lol I will be trying thx! Also that kill at 7:50 was hella clean

[KuiperCubewano]

Thanks for the tips! Usually I would skip til the chapters that could adjust with me but I watched til the end and honestly, worth it. Thanks JetNoob! Subscriber added

[srinjoysengupta]

I bought the xp 50 only premium i own just for SL grinding and it's wonderful even without boosters if I get 5 kills then I will get 100k plus but the highest i ever got was around 930k with 7 kills and a 500% booster in air rb but u can even push that higher with wagers or orders

[sadnap]

Something I found out is for the victory wager take a line of all bombers in air AB, then climb to 5000-6000m. no fighters will climb to you and you can bomb your way to victory.

[Skyfighter]

I've found the biggest way to stay positive in Silver Lions income, is to know when/how to quit matches so you don't lose your plane.

I know, I know, that sounds pathetic, like the old "Arty blows himself up" in WoT, but I am serious here.

Let's take my F-100D for an example. It has a repair cost of about 12K silver Lions. That's about the same amount I make in that aircraft when I solo blow up an enemy base (with premium time). If I finish an entire bombing circuit (because the F-100D does not have the option of bombs and sidewinders), and I'm the only player left on my team, I will J out on the Runway and let the "no hostile players" countdown burn my team's tickets. If not, I'll probably load up on more bombs and hit another base, or change to Sidewinders, and try to help my team clean up.

By not dying, I have guaranteed that I won't lose money or have to wait for the plane to get fixed.

[Mr.F_]

this was really helpful jetnoob. i dont know what iv'e would of done without these tips. great job😃

[hlxccx]

With the battle victory wager you can go max stake and then go into heli mode and leave once it loades in and you can easily get max stage but you have to wait 2 hours for the battle to actually end, Ive used this and it actually works

[sandupatrascu]

Awesome guide, and probably on the most important thing there is. Thanks)

[ayacu]

I think the problem with arcade is the amount of competition about getting this wager done

[Thunderbox]

one thing you didn't mention is when you do stuff in battle go back and land it give a boost to RP and SL when you take off again about +50% or something (don't quote me on that figure)

And I also enjoy the long grind for new vehicles, it makes it more satisfying when you finally get it, grinding for upgrades on those things can range from an inconvenience to being as much fun as brushing your teeth with sandpaper

[lukajalo]

7:49 not for SL but the amount of convertable research points i have would be enough to research every plane in germany that i have left