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Japanese planes edition

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>first couple games in Leopard. F U N if you can get a front shot because APDS isn't modeled correctly
>arcade tactics of slamming into with bombs and rockets

Should I get a talisman for the Leopard?

>Only 600k lions left after jet buying spree

I am training to be a Teeb (ground and air) any tips

Spitfires are the easiest planes in the game to fly, enjoy clubbing everyone around you, in the LF Mk. IX especially.

point and click

>air
just click your ruby landing gears to be instantly behind any given enemy
>ground
get the cromwells ASAP and grind everything in T3 with them.

first for flat

I'm getting the itch to buy the P-61A again, someone convince me otherwise

That's not REAL flatt!

It's literally a piece of shit with no redeeming qualities, don't buy it. If you really want to grind with a black widow just tali the P-61C which is better in every single fucking way.

How low can you go))))

It's a black widow that isn't even black

P-61's are beautiful planes, it's one of the few I continue to fly after I spade them

>he forgot expert crews
uh oh

Decided to try out Simulator Tank battles. It's fun but holy shit if it doesn't murder your SL.

Guess I should only go back in there with a good goy account.

I wouldn't say it murders your sl

>Not even in sim can i get away from CASniggers

>Weaker engines than C-1
>climbs worse
>turns worse
>Doesn't carry bombs
>Doesn't even fucking have airbrakes

Just talisman the regular 1, there's literally no reason to buy the premium P61.

BAKA

)))))))

>we will never get the ability to retract the gun

Why do they look so confused?

>Ivan, do we exist?
Mystery solved.

>turret doesn't retract while it reloads

Really makes you think

Y'all don't deserve the pleasure of watching his videos but since we're on the subject of the ASU family

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>make tank that goes fast off-road
>give it an impressive gun with a decent HEAT-FS she'll
>base the entire thing around scouting and flanking, and taking shots in split second windows of oportunity
>at no point did they think to add a stabilizer

Fucking west germany

Shell*
It was autocorrect, I swear I'm not retarded

Are all M4's this fucking bad?

M4s are good, you are bad

The A3s finally get a bit more mobility than a Dicker Max
Too bad that except for the 75mm jumbo they are either using a shitty meme howitzer or are grossly overtiered.

Too busy making Retro Wave.
youtube.com/watch?v=bBs-lPvk3Zk

IT-1 ))))))

can the nato get hullbreak'd?

I agree that I'm a fucking shitter, but holy fucking shit yesterday I failed to pen T-34 from sides and rear with M4A1

I get the Tetris effect pretty bad from this game. When I'm trying to sleep I automatically visualize x rays of penetration effects and calculating bullet drop in sniper mode.

Lad I've got non penetration from unangled point blank wolverine hulls with 50mm/L60 and once from five consequent shots to the turret of a fucking F2 using His Majesty's fiery 57mm dong.

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>different waffentrager tanks built
>add the worst variant
))))))))))))))

Wt Auf E. 100 when

>7.7 br )))))))

I thought that the biggest flugzeugfugger cannon the army had was the 105mm

you think that's bad?
127mm of pen vs 80mm of armor, guess who wins?
))))))))

>using joystick in air rb
i hate this

>enable booster
this is considered critical hit

How is that worse than 112mm of pen vs 50mm thicc flat plate? I can tolerate the dice slav memeing on me for one shot but five?
I'll admit that 2 of them was somewhat reasonable but I'm still pissed

>being an autist that uses joystick outside of SB
kys

it's worse because the wirbelnigger had no business obliterating me right after I took that screenshot
but holy shit yours is god-awful, gaijin needs to be firebombed ASAP

Flying this fucking thing should be labelled a war crime

What's your favorite Italian plane? Also why so few people play air sim? It's fun

>Only 7 kills
lol

>7 kills
>5k score
>0 anything
>2k score
Really makes you think

air kills against players really should give more score, at least more than 1000. air spawning in an F-84G and getting to the enemy tanks (at a speed nobody can even catch up to you with) yields more than 2000 points for 3-4 tanks destroyed

You don't even need to destroy tanks, machinegunning 10 milktrucks to oblivion yields about 2000 points

yeah, but that actually takes time doing passes and shit. heavy tanks are actually worth more than air kills right now

>only 600 points less than me
REEEEEE
I swear to God the more kills you get the less points you receive per kill while ground targets shit out consistent amounts

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what goes on, probably part of that hidden soft-cap on how much RP you can earn in a match

there is a soft cap on rp and you receive less score per air kill the more you kill but a bigger score doesnt correlate to more rp / lions at all. i remember not getting significantly more rp for 14000 score matches compared to 5000 ones

ded

how long until the fastest players will unlock the ki-94 and type 65 so they can provide feedback?

It'll probably be like a P47N but 6.0 because cannons)))

what exactly makes the P-47N better than the D ones?

It's basically a D on roids, better than it in everything with a comparably slight jump in BR

Because they're bad. Sim boi 4 lyfe.

And also im only starting to grind the Italian tree so idk.

Since friends don't play RB I had to play AB with them.


Is the leading indicator actually detrimental?

Most of the time it seems very off and only really works up close where you don't need it at all.

The N1K1 is also a sad excuse for a 3.0 plane.

Whenever I try to play arcade, the indicator just makes me fuck up my shots.

>Is the leading indicator actually detrimental?
use it to estimate target's speed, it's not much use for anything else, really.

>Is the leading indicator actually detrimental? Most of the time it seems very off
the leading indicator works based on instantaneous vectors, it does not take into account events that occour over time such as the enemy plane's acceleration or turn radius, and neither yours or your angle of attack. if you're turnfighting for example it would show you where to shoot if the enemy stopped turning that instant and started flying in a straight line at exactly that speed. it gives you informations about how fast the enemy is flying and in which direction, but cannot perfectly predict where you need to shoot. usually you need to aim further if the enemy is close to the 0.8 mark or moving very fast relatively to your screen, and closer if the enemy is very near or slow. in certain instances where there's a significant altitude difference you might need to aim a bit higher or lower than the enemy plane.

tl:dr it helps you aim but you shouldn't aim exactly where he says to. usually a bit ahead or behind based on experience.

>The N1K1 is also a sad excuse for a 3.0 plane.
break the three float thingies by low passing on your airfield and it becomes absolutely ridiculous, we're talking redline in a straight line and 30+ degrees climb rate

>tried to do this in test flight
>floatplanes can't even take off

but the n1k1 takes off just fine..?

the F1M1 can literally helicopter without the float thingy. you go in an arcade test flight, break it and put it into a 90 degrees climb. if you go any slower than 30km/h it'll actually start accelerating in WEP

It won't go past 8km/h even with WEP

>nipps get better navy blue camo for the corsair than burgers

>Japs get the marine corsair at a lower BR than the claps

Just bought this. How to?

>break the three float thingies by low passing on your airfield and it becomes absolutely ridiculous, we're talking redline in a straight line and 30+ degrees climb rate

I'm going to try this, thanks.

>Think this is bullshit
>Try it out
>It fucking can't take off

THE BURGER CORSAIR HAS PAPPY SKIN
THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE END

>Neither can A6M2-N
>F1M2 can take off just fine
>Bombers take off just fine

use your 4 30mm gas chamber launchers to delete all cold war planes from the face of the earth

I tried to take off with that big German float plane in test flight once but it failed with full load.

Also trying to ram off the floaters is quite precise work without destroying your prop

BV?
You have to use MEC to turn off the engine on your left wing and turn with the engines on your right wing. After that it's ez pz.

>turn off the engine on your left wing
turn off the engines* on your left wing

>After that it's ez pz.
I actually have trouble with the big floater

He162 should be at 6.0

surprisingly even japan had bigger.

>Try to take off with it
>4km/h with WEP
Sausage Gaijin.
This shit worked fine a month ago.

shoot and kill
ez 4kd
amerishitters all come from the groundpounder/bomber lines and p80s are made of fire

It's still hard, but it's easier in stormy weather.

It's still bullshit and broken.

Yeah, but at least you can get over 30 kh/m.

>Try in stormy weather
>~40km/h
>Wave slaps plane 40 meters upwards
>Take off

ba.65 with no gunner when

> winter map 4 times in a row

yeah i quit. Until these cockroaches don't implement a server browser i'll leave this unbalanced sorry excuse of a game, i'm done

see you tomorrow

>the tank grind
Wow! I sure love getting 9k rp from a 12 kill game using a premium tank with a premium account!

>9k RP
I think you mean 2k.

>warthunder is the only game in existence

>world of tanks

You're right.
See you in 3 days.

Anyone wanna see?
It's sitting outside a VFW near me.