Do I lose the BiA bonus if a crew member gets knocked out

world-of-tanks

In WoT, the Brothers-In-Arms crew perk gives all crew members in your tank a 5% skill bonus, but only if it is trained to 100% on all of them.

If a crew member is knocked out in a battle and I don't use a first aid kit to revive them, does the rest of the crew lose that 5% bonus for the rest of the battle?
I know that when the Commander is knocked out, the rest of the crew loses their 10% Commander bonus, but does the same apply to the BiA perk?

Thanks!

Best Answer

No, Brother-In-Arms stays active, even when a crew member gets knocked out.

Source: Wargaming wiki

Related Solutions

Are crew members trained equally

Why would you want to delay that?

ALL crew members receive the same XP after a battle. If your battle got you 400XP, each of 4 crew members gets +400XP, not +100. If your crew member needs 1800XP till next skill level, you need to earn just 1800XP, 9000.

That makes tanks with large crew better for training as you train more crew members at the same time as all of them get the same, full XP.

There are two exceptions to that rule.

Elite Training gives double XP to the crew member with lowest XP at the moment of "upgrade".
Crewmen who die during the battle only receive 50% of the exp awarded.

Let's say your crew is:

  Commander: 84500XP
  Gunner:    84200XP
  Driver:    84600XP
  Gunner 1:  83800XP
  Gunner 2:  84100XP

You're in an Elite vehicle with Elite Training enabled. You won a battle, earning 400XP. It was the first victory in that vehicle so you received the daily 2x bonus. It's also a vehicle on a special mission list, with mission bonus "triple experience for the crew". During the battle your driver and gunner got killed.

The result:

  base 400 x2(first victory) = 800 x3(mission) = 2400

  Commander: 84500XP + 2400 = 86900
  Gunner:    84200XP + (2400/2(killed)) = 85400
  Driver:    84600XP + (2400/2(killed)) = 85800
  Gunner 1:  83800XP + (2400*2(elite))  = 88600
  Gunner 2:  84100XP + 2400             = 86500

As you see Gunner 1 got 4800XP thanks to the Elite Training (and starting off with lowest XP in the crew) and it got him ahead of all the rest.

Usually, there is no reason to delay choosing a skill if you only know which one to choose. The golden [+] is of no use, while any of skills that grow with percentage grows by strides in the early stage.

You may consider delaying in two cases:

If you choose one that works after achieving 100%, that's when you might consider delaying the choice - XP still gets collected, and you can change your mind about what to choose.
If you plan to retrain your crew for silver to the new tank, losing 10% of the base skill. The XP points accumulated under the golden "+" immediately fills the base skill deficit; to recover your crew from 90 back to 100% you need 39,153 exp and if you collected that many under non-assigned skill, you'll be back to 100% immediately (the XP consumed, obviously).

At which percentage of 2nd perk, perk reset leaves 1st perk at 100%

You need a smidge over 210k skill/perk experience for a crew member to get to 100% on your 1st skill/perk. The silver skill/perk reset has you losing 10% of your skill/perk XP, so you would need at least 233405 total skill/perk XP to keep the 100% in the first skill/perk. You would achieve this at 41% on the 2nd skill/perk.

Math: X*0.9 = 210064; X = 233404.4 or about 23341XP into the second skill/perk. Used the crewXP calculator to determine what % for the second skill would have at least that amount of skill/perk XP.

Edit: the crew calculator linked to above also has a section at the bottom for doing just this calculation (and I didn't know that until just now). Using this, you can see that having a 41% for the 2nd skill/perk results in the 2nd skill/perk dropping to 1% after a silver reset.