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# Premium ammunition

The higher-penetration round available on nearly every gun, bought with credits and named after the days when it cost gold.

Also known as gold ammo, gold rounds, premium rounds, prem ammo, gold spam.

Premium rounds are usually [APCR](/glossary/apcr.md) or [HEAT](/glossary/heat.md), offering thirty to sixty millimetres more [penetration](/glossary/penetration.md) than the [standard shell](/glossary/armor-piercing.md) and often no more damage. They cost several times as much in [credits](/glossary/credits.md), which is the whole balancing mechanism behind them.

They were once purchasable only with [gold](/glossary/gold.md), the paid currency, and the name stuck long after they became available for credits. The debate about them is unresolved: they let a player answer [armor](/glossary/armor-thickness.md) they could not otherwise hurt, and they let anyone bypass the armor that a heavily armored vehicle is built around.

Firing them constantly is expensive enough to lose credits on a [Tier](/glossary/tier.md) X battle, so a normal [loadout](/glossary/equipment.md) mixes them with standard [rounds](/glossary/shell.md) rather than replacing them.

## Related terms

[APCRA lighter, faster shell with higher penetration than AP, less normalization and a steeper penetration loss over distance.](/glossary/apcr.md)[HEATA shaped-charge shell with high penetration that ignores distance entirely, but is defeated by tracks, screens and any spaced armor it detonates on.](/glossary/heat.md)[CreditsThe main currency, earned every battle and spent on vehicles, modules, ammunition, repairs and equipment.](/glossary/credits.md)[PenetrationHow much armor a shell can defeat, in millimetres, rolled plus or minus 25 percent on every shot and compared against the effective thickness it hits.](/glossary/penetration.md)[ShellOne round of ammunition, carrying its own damage, penetration, velocity and behaviour against armor.](/glossary/shell.md)

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