Consumables!! Essential in high tier battles!!

I've already concluded that a vast majority of successful players have well-trained to extremely well-trained crews, but this post is about how essential consumables are to a successful battle. I'm talking about simple consumables such as kits and extinguishers. Here is an example I just had on EU about 5-10 minutes ago. 

I'm grinding the Panther 2 for the on-track and loaded into a tier 10 battle on Lakeville, south spawn. I start toward town to the right trying to get to the first hillock to support and wait for our heavies. A t62a (red team) must have gotten quickly forward on the middle road. He spotted me, hit/damaged/tracked me. My first attempt to repair track fails so by the time I do repair, I've taken a total of 3-4 hits, leaving me with about 35% Hp. Now, without small repair kit, I die with all zeros never having fired a shot or having any red tanks even detected. 

Thanks to the kit though, I was able to deal 696 damage and assist damage for 1315. I know, not so great, but not zeros!  The team got beat 15-11, but my small contribution earned me 5th place on our board thus getting me the "At The Apex" operation for 1000 xp. So, thanks to that kit, I earned 1802 Xp instead of what probably would have been about 50 xp. 

Tier 4 and up:  Equip with consumables!!