Holiday Ops – a small guide to deal with one million complexities

Alright lads, since this years event will be very similar to last years I'm going to take a swing at an incoherent guide, a summary if you will. This event is complex. Perhaps I can show you how to max out the event as fast as possible. Perhaps I can clear some stuff up.

There will be dozens of resources, missions, assignments to max out. A summary of the most important ones:

• Rocks/Ore: for unlocking festive levels and vinnies missions. You'd think this game is Dark Rock Galactic, with all the focus on Ore. Ho ho ho. It might as well be crystal meth in shiny colours. Remember you can convert rock A to rock B at a 20% loss (this is important).
• Vinnie's assignments (as in: oi, give me your rocks, chump): credit/xp boost, discounts on tanks, and 4x female crew members. This is the one you want to do first.
• Vinnie's missions (these are separate from the assignments above): each day a new one, culminating in discounts to tech tree tanks + a jolly fun commander + festive tokens. Remember: no daily missions, you can not log in for a week and then complete 7 missions at the same time.
• Festive levels: the main reward from these is crew books and universal blueprint fragments (yes!).
• Chaffee: he's a dog. If you throw gold at him, the throws goodies back at you. More rocks! 5x XP missions! Seems well worth it if you have the gold to spare, you get 4 rolls per day. Yet another daily thing to click.
• Your mate's garage (expect your friends towns to ALL be named Potato Point or Tomato Camp or something): visit them religiously, for more rocks. Up to 450 as the event goes on. Rocks are good. Rocks are life.
• There will probably be an Advent Calendar (not confirmed in this article): tanks for gold, a year of premium for gold, etc. Historically there are good deals to be found here.

Secondary / smaller rewards:

• Camo styles: you acquire these passively, not a priority.
• Decorations: unlock them via festive level, but don't actually do anything. Feel free to make your garage as fun or as painful as possible.
• Cheshire cat: chance a lootbox will drop this cat, will probably give you daily goodies if you click on it, and gives Chaffee a butt to sniff.

Late-game event rewards:

• The Gift Terminal: aka. the one eyed bandit, the thing that gave you flashbacks to 'Nam if you tried to wring a Obj 283 from it last year, the Resource Sink, the Token Thief, the Time Waster, WG's Most Devious Ploy Ever. This should be where you throw all rocks you don't need anymore. 2000 rocks per try. No tier 9 tank this year (thank god) ^{perhaps there is a hidden t9, there is speculation you can get some kind of Patton}. 91% of your rolls will be "Spin the wheel, get a repair kit.". The big thing here is Experimental Equipment, crew books, and free XP.
• The Festive Store: previous years camo styles. Please, WG, let us get copies of old styles. I desire with all my heart to drop some of that lootbox gold on the blue and gold 2018 style.

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Step 1.

Vinnie's assignments should be completed first for the credit boost. It seems you can complete them on day 1 if you buy lootboxes, and then spend the excess rocks on him. In essence: this is both the thing you can complete first, and the thing with the biggest bonus on your game. The focus should be on Warm Amber and Meteoric Iron. Convert if you must.

1. If you buy boxes: you will get a whole mine's worth of rocks from the boxes, you should convert up to the point you need. Don't convert too much!
2. If you are F2P: those 2 types of rocks should be priority. Every little step is extra credits. Remember you can 'mine' rocks a few times per day, remember the auto-collect feature, remember to visit friends garages, the dog, etc.
3. You also get a choice between bonus to XP, free XP, or crew XP. I usually swapped between the XP and free XP bonus depending on if I was grinding a tank line or playing my premiums.

Need more motivation?

The bonus to credits applies to all vehicles in the game, including Premium and rental ones, until the end of Holiday Ops on January 8, 2024, at 7:00 CET (UTC+1).

Got some of those 100% credit boosters? Good, enjoy 400k credit games in your ELC for 6 whole weeks.

Step 2.

Festive atmosphere should be step 2. This will give you access to most other content, especially the slot machine, decorations, etc. Rock Crystal and Pure Emerald are needed to boost this. The slot machine especially seems to drop a lot of goodies this year, better than last year. There seems to be no confirmed t9 premium in the machine this year.

Step 3.

Vinnie's Missions, but those will be completed as you go. You'll get much-loved discounts to tanks. Remember that you should check which low tier tanks are the highest valued in credits: any discount up to 40% will mean you can sell the tank for a profit. Easy free 500k credits or so, or a nice little discount to that Wolverine you finally want to 3-mark (like I'm ever going to do that, lol).

Step 4.

Simple, decorate your garage how you want, and for every 2000 rocks you get, throw a token in the Slot Machine. Happy clicking!

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All in all, it's going to be playing with tanks. Let me say in advance: happy holidays to all!

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^{Feel free to add anything I missed, or if you want to correct anything.}