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Thanks for the info guys, sounds like I will continue with the naval fighters as Americans.
I really enjoy the bombers, but man you get next to no RP/score with them compared to ignoring the objective and Dogfighting, its quite frustrating. I spent an entire match in my Blenheim at high altitude taking out bases (took 4 bombings with 100% accuracy i think per base) and I never saw an enemy plane.
Got virtually no score or RP for that event though I felt like I was contributing to the overall objective (was a ground strike mission in Arcade)
Am I doing it wrong?
I really enjoy the bombers, but man you get next to no RP/score with them compared to ignoring the objective and Dogfighting, its quite frustrating. I spent an entire match in my Blenheim at high altitude taking out bases (took 4 bombings with 100% accuracy i think per base) and I never saw an enemy plane.
Got virtually no score or RP for that event though I felt like I was contributing to the overall objective (was a ground strike mission in Arcade)
Am I doing it wrong?
From what I've played of Arcade, I do find bombers a little boring. I've never bombed at high alt as it's just not very exciting. Those players who are at alt in Arcade are usually competent players, so they know how to handle the bombers. When you are in Tier 2 this isn't so great, since you don't really have any terribly robust bombers with good armament (apart from H6K, that thing can take a serious beating). For Arcade I usually do low-level bombing runs, most of the folks on the deck are all over the place so you can just fly into a hot spot and let your gunners pick off a few choice shots.
For bombing, I much prefer RB, since if an enemy fighter approaches your bomber badly (which is actually very common, most people don't know that you shouldn't approach from behind) you can really tear them up very quickly. It takes just a few hits to cripple their engine. Last night I had a couple of matches where I shot down plenty of aircraft in RB with my B-25, couple that with XP from bombing and its a good haul.
Even managed to get a Do-217 as I was returning to base at about 1000m. I pulled alongside it and let rip with my 3 x .50 cal. It just so happened that he lit up like a Christmas tree
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I scored my personal best kill distance last week. I was chasing a Wellington at 2500m in my 50mm armed ME410. I was very slowly catching, but the guy was clearly going for the map edge. So I take a few seconds, line myself up by dead reckoning, and loose 50mm of anger in a single shot. It blew his wing off at 1050m.
I slept well that night
I slept well that night
I scored my personal best kill distance last week. I was chasing a Wellington at 2500m in my 50mm armed ME410. I was very slowly catching, but the guy was clearly going for the map edge. So I take a few seconds, line myself up by dead reckoning, and loose 50mm of anger in a single shot. It blew his wing off at 1050m.
I slept well that night
screen shot to prove or we wont believe you!
New Update just downloaded
Notes:
The latest update of War Thunder will please players with interface changes, several planes will get their performance adjustments and also a lot of bug fixes have been made.
- Eject from the plane on carriers is fixed (now you can return to your plane without losing the aircraft)
- Fire angles of the turrets that were able to rotate 360 degrees are fixed.
- Many fixes to the Event interface.
- Changed directory name for the game logs – now it is "game_logs"
- Added debug data to the connection status (to ease troubleshooting by screen shots without the logs)
- Fixed video playback in historical campaign of the Steam version.
- Fixed an issue with “Show ammo” and “Show temperature” settings being impossible to save.
- Players that are not yet connected to the battle are now shown in the scoreboard menu.
- “Anarchist” title and achievements based on bombs and rockets are fixed.
- Slight render improvements.
- Fixed a few client crashes.
Completely changed FMs of these planes (according to data sheets):
- All planes of the La series
- MiG-3-15, MiG-3-15 (BK)
Yak-3:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
- The “100 octane fuel” modification is now accounted correctly. This way the flight model is now brought to Data Sheet reference (in older versions modification was counted twice).
- Reduced the effect of the elevator heaviness during speed increase (the old value was a wrong one and pilot couldn't blackout during horizontal manoeuvre)
- Maximum safe indicated speed (IAS) is set at 720km/h
Typhoon series:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
Tempest Mk. II:
- Fixed wrong coolant overheat alert message (new parameter in the interface for air-cooled engines)
Tempest Mk. V:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
Notes:
The latest update of War Thunder will please players with interface changes, several planes will get their performance adjustments and also a lot of bug fixes have been made.
- Eject from the plane on carriers is fixed (now you can return to your plane without losing the aircraft)
- Fire angles of the turrets that were able to rotate 360 degrees are fixed.
- Many fixes to the Event interface.
- Changed directory name for the game logs – now it is "game_logs"
- Added debug data to the connection status (to ease troubleshooting by screen shots without the logs)
- Fixed video playback in historical campaign of the Steam version.
- Fixed an issue with “Show ammo” and “Show temperature” settings being impossible to save.
- Players that are not yet connected to the battle are now shown in the scoreboard menu.
- “Anarchist” title and achievements based on bombs and rockets are fixed.
- Slight render improvements.
- Fixed a few client crashes.
Completely changed FMs of these planes (according to data sheets):
- All planes of the La series
- MiG-3-15, MiG-3-15 (BK)
Yak-3:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
- The “100 octane fuel” modification is now accounted correctly. This way the flight model is now brought to Data Sheet reference (in older versions modification was counted twice).
- Reduced the effect of the elevator heaviness during speed increase (the old value was a wrong one and pilot couldn't blackout during horizontal manoeuvre)
- Maximum safe indicated speed (IAS) is set at 720km/h
Typhoon series:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
Tempest Mk. II:
- Fixed wrong coolant overheat alert message (new parameter in the interface for air-cooled engines)
Tempest Mk. V:
- Fixed propeller polar curve that was leading to incorrect behaviour of constant-speed governor
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i had some poor games tonight, took 3 games before i got 1 kill
What on earth were you flying?
Or did the matchmaking put you up against FW-190's in your biplanes?
Not played this in very long time due to one of the updates giving my PC blue screen of death. I see its on steam hopefully it install properly, any news on when the tanks will be added?
What nation would you recommend to play as I enjoy playing as fighters & fighter/bombers, I started with the RAF and Japanese back in alpha are the spitfires still beasts?
What nation would you recommend to play as I enjoy playing as fighters & fighter/bombers, I started with the RAF and Japanese back in alpha are the spitfires still beasts?
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Well last night's War Thunder sucked. 
Played 5 or 6 matches, and lost every one of them. One match in tier 2-3 I got 6 kills with my tier 1 Lagg-3 in a massive furball before being shot down, which admittedly was epic fun!
Just got a bit sick of losing every match, often for seemingly no good reason. (Still had vehicles alive, and base wasn't bombed out.)
Ah well, may still pop along for some Friday night mayhem tonight in my new LA-5 Red Bull Racer
Played 5 or 6 matches, and lost every one of them. One match in tier 2-3 I got 6 kills with my tier 1 Lagg-3 in a massive furball before being shot down, which admittedly was epic fun!
Just got a bit sick of losing every match, often for seemingly no good reason. (Still had vehicles alive, and base wasn't bombed out.)
Ah well, may still pop along for some Friday night mayhem tonight in my new LA-5 Red Bull Racer