War Thunder Hard Trophies: Stunt Achievement Guide

A small set of War Thunder achievements rewards not playing well but doing something specific and unlikely. Each has a trigger condition, a vehicle type that makes it realistic, and usually a partner achievement you can stack in the same match. Achievement text and thresholds change with updates, so verify each condition in-game before building an evening around it. The achievements overview places these in the wider system; this page is the workshop.

The stunt achievement table

Achievement	Condition	Vehicle type that fits
But… how?!	Shoot down an aircraft with a tank cannon	AA vehicles and tanks with usable elevation
High-precision strike	Hit a target with a guided bomb at extreme range	Bombers with guided ordnance
Doomsday	Win a match you bombed with a nuclear weapon	Heavy bombers
Peaceful atom	Shoot down an aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon	Fighters and AA positioned early
Vengeful Spirit	Score a kill after your own destruction	Any vehicle; heavies and attackers fit best
Cold-Blooded	Score two kills while your vehicle burns	Heavies and hulls that survive fires
King of the Hill	Score five kills while contesting a capture point	Heavies and mediums that can hold a point
Dead Weight	Destroy a target being towed by a tow cable	Any gun vehicle near contested targets
Street Brawler	Score two kills within thirty seconds at under ten meters	Fast mediums and light brawlers
Size Doesn’t Matter	Destroy three destroyers in a small boat without losses	Small naval hulls with torpedoes
At one blow	Destroy five targets in one second	Bombers with large payloads

Condition mechanics worth understanding

Timing windows. Vengeful Spirit, Cold-Blooded, Street Brawler, and At one blow all happen inside a short window, so engagement choice matters more than vehicle choice: you need a fight already in progress, at the demanded range, with your firing solution ready. The heavy tank role and SPAA role pages cover the vehicle families these conditions assume.

Combo stacking. Several conditions share a setup, which is where the efficiency lives:

Setup	Achievements in play
Heavy tank holding a capture point	King of the Hill plus Cold-Blooded if the hull burns
Brawler pushing into a close-range fight	Street Brawler plus Vengeful Spirit if the trade goes both ways
AA vehicle engaging low-flying aircraft	But… how?! plus Peaceful atom if a nuclear carrier appears
Naval small-boat torpedo run into a group	Size Doesn’t Matter plus At one blow on a well-timed salvo

Air and naval dependencies. High-precision strike and Doomsday belong to the bomber role; guided-bomb and close-attack variants sit closer to the attacker role; Peaceful atom wants the early-intercept habits of an air lineup; Size Doesn’t Matter wants naval positioning. Every stunt achievement is easier in a vehicle you already fly or sail well, which makes the stunt layer a project for established players, not new accounts.

The honest framing

Chase these one at a time, in vehicles you enjoy, after confirming conditions in-game. Chasing all of them at once is how players spend a week in vehicles they hate for badges they will forget. One condition, one vehicle, one evening: that is the pace that finishes the layer.