******Official War Thunder Thread*******

Brainchild110 said:
We have a higher instance of people running Realistic Battles, these days, Ex mate. I know how you love those, so get yourself in and playing in a squad. Spangles, myself, Firebar (don't let him in BF109! He breaks them) and many others are regular RB'ers. We have lots of members who have progressed their lineups too, and are able to play B17's, Lancasters and Jets now, and anything below, so there's a ton of variation to be had.
Have you got a headset to come on TS with? It's been so long I can't remember.

Current fashion is to play P51's, which is a very kind gesture to the opposite team as it allows them to kill us with ease as we wobble around the sky like retarded pidgeons.
Fancy a go tonight? Doesn't have to be P51's :)
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Sounds great, I haven't played War Thunder in a while though so my flying skills are likely to be a bit human. I am a machine of course. But yeah, I'll be back on and I'll float around in the Squadron chat and on TS.
 
Matt-

I enjoyed your diss-assembly of tiny biplane, but must say I was rather disappointed he didn't end up in more bits.
I was expecting parts flying everywhere, but you only blew the top right wing off and set him on fire. I wanted vaporization! Or for the TT to not explode, and just make a TT sized hole where his pilot had been!
Very disappoint.
 
When you're deaparate for a pee, and can't find an airbase anywhere nearby. Call on Hellcat's mobile airbase service...


For the record, I survived and finished the map with it!
 
So, I wonder what crew slot I should put my shiny new Spitfire Mk IX premium in then, care to help out Brainchild? :p :D :p

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matt_fsr said:
Witchcraft.
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On a more serious note, for anyone who's interested in this "Summer Madness" event, and specifically the current 'Will to win' challenges, here's my thoughts and what I've found so far.

I think Gaijin seem to be trying to encourage people to perform well in War Thunder in return for rewards, it's just that they're going about it a really, really poor and frustrating way. As many have already pointed out, for an average player to get 40 victories at the top of the team, it takes more hours than exist in a week by a factor of about 6!

However, people are sidlining the "Hunters luck" challenges, possibly because the rewards for these appear to be only Silver Lions, when in fact they also put you into a 'lucky chance' of winning premium planes.

Now, anyone who knows computers knows that computers don't deal in luck, they deal in algorithms and maths. Random is very hard to reproduce, so everything must have some kind of system involved.

Now, here's where it gets a little more complicated. Gaijin aren't going to lose face by changing the event that they've dreamed up, no matter how much people whinge on their official forums.
However, several people on the forum seem to be getting a premium plane reward for the 'Hunters luck' task - which is getting 10 battle wins using a certain tier planes, and being in the top 3 players. (much more achievable for the l33t of OcUK)

What I think they're doing instead of making you grind 40 wins is giving away premium planes in the 'Hunters luck', and they're either giving away:

a) Loads of planes, in the hope that people *AIM* to get the stupid 40 victories, but are pleasantly surprised when after 10 victories with planes of a certain tier, they get rewarded with the premium plane they were wanting. (Terribly psychology I know, but hey, in Soviet Russia, game plays you!)

b) Premium planes on a 1st come, 1st served basis. Gaijin haven't said how many premium planes they're giving away as far as I can tell, but if you leave your last victories until Sunday night, you might end up with nothing but Silver Lions. (it's much easier to code a system which gives the first 500 people a reward, than it is to do a random 'luck' generator.)

So, I won my Premium Spitfire :p > by getting 10 victories using tier 3 USA planes, and being either 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the team. (tactics involved include head-to-heading for additional kills, and loading up rockets on anything that carries them for quick kills)

My personal guess is that you're more likely to get the premium plane rewards for doing the tier 3 challenge than tier 2, but this is just a feeling and based on no information whatsoever.

Tonight I'll be firing up my British lineup of tier 2/3's and working on getting another 10 wins with high scores to see if I can get the quad-cannon Mustang. I don't particularly care about the German LA-5 because for a BR of 4.0 there are much better German planes which kill more efficiently, such as my glorious HS-129. If I've any grind left in me, I might try and get the Russian P63, even though I lack skills with the 37mm cannon planes.

What I have found out is that the way the tiering system counts is that it only cares about whatever plane you finish the match in - so you can keep you overall BR down and only take a couple of Tier 3 planes, just make sure near the end of the battle you bin whatever tier 2
plane you're in and grab a tier 3.

USA makes this easy(ish) because it has P47's in tier 3, yet only BR 3.0 and they pack friendship rockets. :D (I may have upset a lot of
pilots lately)

Right, so now I've thoroughly confused everyone.... good luck if you want to attempt to get any premium planes! If you want to improve your chances of a battle win, play a bit tactically. If you're in a domination match and your team appears too stupid to cap airfields, or seem to be flying too many bombers - cut your losses and quit out.

In ground strike, if you're up against a team of 12 enemy bombers, you might be better quitting. Remember that there can be a time where your crew is unavailable, before you can take that nation out again. I've found sticking to the same nation works best, as you don't switch from turn fighting to BnZ and back again continually, and you get used to weapon velocities etc.

And yes, I flew USA because I wanted to obtain a premium plane that costs 6900 Golden Eagles (!) ordinarily, or in real money, about £23 - just so that it'd feel like for once I'm trolling Gaijin, rather than the other way round! :cool: :p :D
 
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It's still good!
Just slice off the last part of the right wing to match, neaten up the edges, and she'll fly just fine! You'll probably increase the roll-rate too, so you could fly it like a fighter.

...Might have to carry a few less bombs to save weight tho...
 
Apologies ladies for my lack of activity in game of late. I've been trying to figure out if I like Ghost Recon: Phantoms and after a week of playing it I've decided.....no.....
So I'll be back in all my majestic glory to terrorise the skies of WarThunder.

Are we trolling tonight??
 
I've been playing this a lot recently but I don't know what I'm doing to be honest.

I've upgraded quite a lot of planes but I've got no idea which sort of plane loadout to use and not really sure how I should set my crew stats.
 
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