oldewolfe, on Mar 11 2018 - 09:01, said:
No they treat their third skill as their 2nd skill when it comes to experience. So much bad information in this thread.
Here is exactly how it works, when you first recruit a female crew member they already have Brothers in Arms and a skill\perk of your choice at 100%. That means you will be working on your third skill right away. The only tricky thing is that the Brothers in Arms perk counts as a 0 level perk. Now what does that mean? That means that while you are working on your third skill it advances as if it was only your second skill.
How do you earn female crew members? Easy, you can get them by finishing any of the 15th missions in the personal mission campaigns as well as during special events.
Are female crew members the only ones that have a 0 level skill\perk? No they are not, you can get male crew members that also have this when you buy certain premium tanks:
Cromwell Berlin
Rudy
ISU-122s
IS-2 Berlin
Tiger 131
Thunderbolt
Pudel
* special note that Lozas M4 comes with a commander that has Sixth Sense as a 0 level skill
The difference between female and male crew members that have 0 level skills is that the male crew members don't have an additional skill at 100% so you will be working on your second skill\perk instead of your 3rd with the females crew members (though I think some of the females you got from events other than the personal missions may not have had the 2nd skill\perk either, though I am not sure).
Edited by WangOnTheLoose, Mar 12 2018 - 01:53.