Winter Battles 2025-26: fun and gifts!

The Winter Holiday season in War Thunder Mobile is open!

The long-awaited time of magical winter battles and amazing gifts has arrived in War Thunder Mobile!

From December 22nd, 2025, till January 8th, 2026, take part in the themed event and get a unique holiday vehicle in a cool camouflage.

During the event, you will get to:

Battle with special vehicles in festive locations in the "Winter Battles" mode.
Complete exciting holiday missions.
Fill the festive Battle Pass meter to earn New Year Bonds, Gold, titles, and decals.
Expand your arsenal with new holiday vehicles sporting incredible camouflages.
Update the camouflages on your favorite top-tier tanks.
Exchange your New Year Bonds for fantastic decals, avatars, titles, and valuable consumables, as well as vehicles and decorations from last season.
Launch colorful fireworks.
Send and receive holiday gifts containing vehicles and valuable rewards.
Celebrate your victories and ring in the New Year 2025 in great spirits!

Winter Battles mode

Welcome to the new holiday mode – Winter Battles. To win, your team needs to collect gifts scattered across special winter maps (just “run over” a shiny box) and deliver the loot to your holiday base – under the tree. The team that first delivers the required number of gifts under its own tree wins.

Important features of the holiday mode:

You can join the battle by pressing the “To battle!” button, which is located in the lower right corner in the event window.
You can use only special vehicles for battle, you can choose from the list after joining the game session.
Drive near a gift under the enemy's tree to pick it up, then deliver it under your tree to earn +1 progress toward your team's goal.
When you receive a gift, a notification appears above your vehicle, which disappears either after successful delivery of the gift under the tree, or after the destruction of your vehicle.
If an enemy steals a gift from under your tree, your team's progress will not be deducted.
If a tank carrying a gift is destroyed, the stolen gift will drop to the ground.
If a teammate who picked up a gift is destroyed, you can retrieve the gift they dropped and deliver it to your tree.
If you manage to retrieve a gift that was stolen from your team, it will be automatically returned under your tree. Your team will not receive an extra +1 progress for this, but the enemy will have to come to your tree again to steal a new gift.
If the battle ends before either team completes the mode's goal, the team with the higher score wins.
to win, a team must collect 5 gifts under their tree or destroy all enemy vehicles before they deliver the gifts to their base before you do.

You can only enter battle using tanks from the special festive vehicle list available at the start of the battle. During the battle, you can respawn for free an unlimited number of times. Complete event tasks to unlock more vehicles.

You can shoot off fireworks in tank and ship campaigns. After using fireworks, one random player in the battle will receive a “Happy New Year!” match award and a bonus of 10,000 Silver Lions after the battle no matter the result of the battle.

You can purchase themed camouflage for vehicles from the holiday mode in the camouflage selection menu, if you have this vehicle in your hangar.

Tasks

From the start of the event, there are 6 tasks with four difficulty levels available, as well as a bonus Daily Task with holiday gifts.

Complete tasks, fill the progress bar, earn Silver Lions and Pass Points, and unlock new vehicles for battle in Winter Battles mode!

In total, you can receive 5,400 New Year's Bonds during the event, as well as 50 bonds for each Battle Pass level above 19.

You can purchase additional bonds for Platinum Wolves by clicking “+” next to the event currency in the Store.

Winter Event Pass

The Winter Battles Battle Pass is the main source of New Year's bonds. To increase your pass level, complete seasonal tasks and earn pass points for BP progress, or simply fight in Winter Battles mode — the points you earn in battle are converted into pass points and increase your pass level!

When you purchase a Battle Pass, you will receive a themed “New Year's Garland” decal and access to all rewards in the pass line, starting from level 1.

After purchasing the VIP Pass, you will immediately receive unique rewards: a themed avatar and an incredible Snow Maiden decal, as well as 7 steps of progress in the pass.

Winter Store

Access the Winter Battles event store from the Hangar of any campaign by tapping the special themed icon.

A Soviet medium tank with an 85 mm D-5T gun, armed with shells that aren't the most penetrating, but contain a large amount of explosives. Thanks to its good mobility, the T-44 (FM) can maintain speed on any terrain, evading fire and attacking enemies from the flank. Aim for your opponent's weak spots and win!

A British submarine equipped with six 21-inch (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes and two twin 5.2-inch (13.2 cm) guns.

The Czechoslovakian L-39ZA Albatros is distinguished by its responsive handling even at maximum speed and its considerable range of suspended weapons. However, it is worth remembering about the small ammo capacity of the cannon and low acceleration speed.

The holiday store features a whole collection of new themed camouflages for top-tier tanks. You can only purchase camouflages for vehicles that are already in your Hangar.

In the in-game store you can purchase vehicles and decor from last season's Winter Battles.

Seasonal decorations and camouflages are only available for a limited time. Once the event is over, these items won't be returning to the shop for the foreseeable future.

Hangars and music

The snow-white blanket has wrapped the fields and forests, the frost has bound the rivers and lakes with a strong ice armor, and in the hangars there is a cheerful jingle of bells and sparkling beautiful trees. Look how your hangars have been changed!