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Hi,
since WG is not going to provide us with exact info about the new skills,

All respective numbers are now also on WoT Wiki

I've tried to summ things up a little bit.
I don't claim the data to be fully accurate. Any additional info or corrections are welcome. (sources:wotdb.ru, forums)
Numbers shown for skill at 100%

Brothers-in-arms - Perk
+5% overall skills.
Whole crew must have. BiA remains in effect with dead crew members, OL verified.

Commander

Driver

Gunner

Loader

Radio Operator

Original skills

richmi

Wow, I thought that the view range perks would give a bit more...

How sure are you of your numbers?

Apart from that, thanks a bunch! I've been looking for something like this.

 steamrick, on 20 March 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:

Sure enough to choose/or not, new skills acording to those, but still cannot guarantee anything.

 richmi, on 20 March 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

I'd say 0,03 equals ~3%
thought I had an easy answer to that, but after reading wiki I'm discombobulated.
Have a look yourself.

Ramming Master
The Ramming Skill also reduces incoming Ramming damage by 15%.

Sharpshooter
Critical chance is increased 3% (though originally this was a mere 1%)

Actually, doesn sharpshooter mean you're even MORE likely to have 0 damage crits?

 steamrick, on 20 March 2012 - 11:14 AM, said:

Why would anyone want that?    I'll rather ding than that ( cause then at least I'm sure what I did)...  

You have a +1 for your effort. Data presented looks valid enough, the advantages arent great so I would still choose Repairs as a main skill for heavies, camo for TD and arty.

Concerning Brother in Arms (in your garage you see +5% more skill for each crew member). But those 5% doesent add to 100% crew skill + 11% (bonus from commander) + 5% (crew ventilation), instead its only 5% of the orginial crew 100%. Let me explain in numbers (I also consider you`re using crew ventilation) :

100 + 11% + 5% + 5% = 122,37 > 100 + 11% + 5% + (5% din 100) = 121.55 (<-actual value in game during combat, tested using crosshair reload mods)

So we perceive a smaller effective increase than 5%. I hope you get my point showed in numbers.

Even if its not that much Brother in Arms gives a small increase for every crew member (inclusive commander) so I would choose it as my main skill (since 100% its needed to work), they I would go for Repairs (that one would increase slower since its second skill but will work even if its not 100%). For the third skill I`ve got no idea what should I choose lol.

 elwoodblues23, on 20 March 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

Thx, but I'm 2 lazy 4 equations with so many unknown or unclear factors  

You should post this in Gameplay Discussion, that forum is way more active and you would help more people.

 Treborn, on 20 March 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

Thought it belonged here by the topic, but u r right. Maybe some Mods can move it there...? (hint)

+1 for your good information. Now I just decided I won't choose any new perks because they're pathetic. Camo + repair remains the best choice, depending on tank type.

just one more question.
If one will have (almost) 5% more on base skill e.g. 121% instead of 116%
how much reload time will be reduced?
Maybe someone know the answer?

 Treborn, on 20 March 2012 - 11:44 AM, said:

Camo for arti is useless if you start your arti grind @ t5/6 (Hummel/S-51). Getting your tracks up to avoid enemy fire is far more important because camo values for those big arti are near 0. Better go for repair and +5% traverse for driver  - Ace -  and Off Road Master. GW-E becomes suddenly totally different handling (i tried it on testserver)

Also camo is useless on german TDs since t8+ TDs dont have a camo value to speak, so better invest in BIA and better Mobility for those.

 Krzystos, on 22 March 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:

Depends on the reload time of the gun. That aside a better reload time (eg 0,2sec) isnt that important, skill increase for gunner (to hit or not to hit) is the main factor here.

 Krzystos, on 22 March 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:

I can tell you that the actual reload time reduction in game is around 2.2%. I explained above why.

I verified this on Test Server 2, of 7.2 update.

 Folterknecht, on 22 March 2012 - 12:38 PM, said:

You are right, I just pointed out some general criteria.

 richmi, on 20 March 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

repairtime is halved with full crew on 100% repair-skill, so..

^ repair 100% faster with skill at 100%

 richmi, on 20 March 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

Wiki gives a formula (with parts explained) for camoFactor which is used with opponent's effective view range to calculate how far he can see you from: camoFactor = baseCamo * (0.00375 * camoSkill + 0.5) * camoNet * camoAtShot + environmentCamo

The important thing for us to note here that everything else is multiplied, then environmentCamo added. So bushes are effective for heavies despite their bad baseCamo but not much else is. For camoSkill we just need to look at this bit: (0.00375 * camoSkill + 0.5)

So with 0% camoSkill a tank is basically operating at 50% of its baseCamo before any other modifiers. With 100% camo skill on entire crew you get 0.00375 * camoSkill + 0.5 = 0.875 which is 75% better than having no camoSkill. Adding commander bonus to both cases makes the relative boost a bit smaller. (Wiki examples include it for secondary skills.)

 richmi, on 20 March 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

As explained in the post above, you're always at 50% efficiency with the skills at 0. Goes for the primary qualifications as well.

I would like to see these numbers soon after release...

Ive heard some conflicting rumors about ventilation and brothers perk. Do they stack or not? Did anyone measure this?

 leatherenthusiast, on 28 March 2012 - 06:22 PM, said:

They do stack, also with gold consumable.