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Air RB is objectively garbage.

>being bad

>maybe 1 in 5 planes in the game for the meta
>awful matchmaking
>no era lock
>cross nation premium abuse is worse here than any other game type
>germany, ussr, france italy vs UK, USA, Japan

do I even have to go on

Not even the same person who did the comparison
Really though, a lot of people don't like sim because the game doesn't fly for them. That and nametags.

>being bad
you don't have to

>ABlite player telling sim player he is bad

The reason I made tank RB first was because you can still use planes without the help of the instructor and that you don't spend time sitting in your plane longer than five minutes before finding a target.

Yeah that's definitely an upside. I personally don't use aircraft anymore after the utter disappointment I had with the Ju87 G-1.

>ab-lite
whatever helps you cope, shitter

D-5 is where it's at.

But honestly you should be playing USA if you want good fighter bombers.

It's not that bad besides the constant "flight models being almost non-existent so you flat spin trying to turn" meme almost 24-7.

Yeah, but I never see B-17s pulling off the same as the PB4Y

Not even B-29s can compare the the ridiculous accuracy and damage as the PB4Y from what I've seen

when?

>A variety of different armament configurations was tried. Some YB-40s were fitted with four-gun nose and tail turrets. Some carried cannon of up to 40 mm in caliber, and a few carried up to as many as 30 guns of various calibers in multiple hand-held positions in the waist as well as in additional power turrets above and below the fuselage.[1]
Holy fuck when?

r e m i n d e r t h a t t h i s g e n e r a l b e l o n g s i n t h e t r a s h

Is there a list somewhere that shows what tanks can appear when in tank sim? Or is it totally random?

Elaborate

Every X hours tank SB changes the list of allowed vehicles. Sometimes it's ~3.3br, sometimes its endgame stuff. I was wondering if there was a schedule for that or not. And if the T20 sees play in SB often since I kinda want to buy that.

I think the lists are partially random. Something you'll have to find out on the day.

>Britain
>Handheld

You are the constant

>you are the deciding factor in a team game

>Earned: 60SL 4RP

yea, but there are at least 14 other people on my team.
you would think that even if i get blown away in the first 5 min, 14 other people would be able to win the game at least some of the time

what am I in for?

speedy and squishy

being T-34 food

slow and squishy

mid-speed and squishy

relatively speedy and squishy

a spoonful of speedy and a scoop of squishy

50% speed and 51% squishiness

two scoops

good posts

>there are people who think warbonds are too hard
oh well, can't hurt to have second Achilles in deck.

>there are people who think that the rework of warbonds was just a massive goalpost movement
FTFY

What's your strategy to warbonds? Rerolling shit missions? Just doing w/e you get? Both air and ground at the same time?

>hit cancel
>game loads 2 seconds later

>either top 3 on team or bottom
feels kinda bad

>click cancel
>joins game after 5 seconds

>Both air and ground at the same time
Is that even possible?

>press cancel
>enter map in the next 8 seconds

>hover your curson over the ui element that indicates you no longer wish to search for a battle and actuate the clicking mechanism
>8.267 microfortnights later the client connects to a session

hmm I wonder why a tank destroyer can aim at almost 90°

I'm finally returning to this game after 1,5 years. Didn't Left Alt use to be free look instead of C? Also is there way to make it so that missile guidance isn't inverted up/down, or is that even better option?

Germans saw the British anti-gravity technology and hoped to capitalize on it, unfortunately their hover engine was never functional so they were left with a tank destroyer that could only point up, not down as it was intended.

Bait or are you not aware that it was a Flaktruck in real life?

It's a jab that an AA vehicle is used as a TD. Doesn't even have ammo against planes either.
Not like it would matter, anything worth lobbing shells at just lawndarts after the bombs are away.

The 29-K is able to set a fuse to its HE shells, but for some reason the Flak isn't and Gaijin said they have no intention at the moment to give it its AA traits

>Finally getting "New (insert) cannons" or "New (insert) machine guns" on a jet

Satisfaction. I hate that you have to grind out hundreds of thousands of RP to unlock basic upgrades.

It was enabled by accident and the mechanism for setting it is so convoluted as to be almost useless in normal matches atm.

>I hate that you have to grind out hundreds of thousands of RP to unlock basic upgrades.
A simple, yet difficult to describe matter:
))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

>fire 1 second burst from stock hispanos
>jam
>full auto 90% of ammo to gun break on landing with spaded guns
>no jam
)))))))

checking in for my daily fuck the challenger!

It would be nice if upgrades were, I dunno... not just upgrades? Actual modifications. Stuff like putting more powerful fuel into your plane that burns out the engine faster, or upgrading certain ShKAS into UltraShKAS that burns out quicker but fires twice as fast. The armour plates on the Lavochkins are a good example of how modifications should be: trade-offs where you can adapt your vehicle to how you personally want to fly. The armour plates are basically useless unless you're going heaps of head-ons or getting people on your tail constantly, but if you find that happening a lot it's a good option.

books.google.com/books?id=6u8GBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA73

>The purpose of this self-propelled flak gun was not to provide air-defense as such, but to provide a mobile weapon capable of destroying fortified positions and the heaviest enemy tanks.

Yes it could do both but its primary function was ground targets

ready for the #truth?
youtube.com/watch?v=_3hXPbmzlu4

I doubt they'll ever do something like that, again because of )))))))))))))))))

But it'd be nice if basic upgrades for jets weren't ridiculously high

oh please not this shit again

>having to suicide because someone shot your breech on your new stock tank
))))))

have T3 in USSR and USA, both tanks and air
check tasks for all 4 supported modes, to see if there's something simple at hand
T2: switch only if task requires teamplay, or something you're not particulary good at
T3: keep switching until you get task that can be completed in 3-4 battles, doesn't require teamplay, and something you're bad at.
Special Tasks: Pick one, and let it run in background while you do daily tasks.
Because time for the is limited, daily tasks have priority over special tasks when it comes to switching. If special tasks is crap, let it go, and try on next day
don't shy on leaving losing battles, if task requires you to win.

generally nothing very complex, just have proper gear and cut grind where you can

Oh well, that explains it

Hopefully gaijin gives the brit tree a bunch of Portees to play with so it gets something similar.

just go use machine guns on AA)))))

>he quits because CAS got nerfed

nah that's just retarded, if you want such over the top modifications there's CoD. most reasonable thing to do would be going full WoT with historical modifications which actually provide benefits OR different playstyles (see:two different cannon variants for the same vehicle)

UltraShKAS is historical, as is experimental fuel.

roll to find your inner slav

Rolling for Sergey

o shit, I thought russians weren't so retarded to call a MG ultrashkas, turns out I was wrong. way to make a fool of myself

>TFW almost 2000h in game
>TFW to T5 in every air tree except Japan and France
>TFW to T4 in every ground tree except Americans, Japan, and France
>Have never bought premium except with gifted GE
>Only premiums I own are gifts

Newfags, don't make my mistake. Leave while you can

rolling for Vladimir
lucky you

>"I thought russians weren't so retarded [...]"

Please read what you wrote again. UltraShKAS only saw limited deployment/use but they would be interesting. Double your ROF, halve your reliability.

Gimme that Pyotr

I'd say we already have enough non-production variants of vehicles in game.
At most I'd like to see ability to remove some of armament and maybe armor, to gain perofmance, just like you can choose to carry less fuel. I'd gladly exchange 37 mm cannon on KingCobra for few m/s of climb

>tfw over 6000 hours
>T5 air in US, Ger, Rus, and UK, 4 in japan and italy (fuck the french)
>T5 tanks in US, Ger, Rus, and UK (fuck the japanese and french)
>only premium I ever actually "bought" a krautbolt, every other premium is event-only
Someone please fucking kill me.

when is Gaijin going to fix the Mk. 24 so it can't get outflown by J7W?

No, when are they going to delete the J7W?

The same way it deletes literally everything it's matched against.

>1200 hours
>spent like $200, mostly for funny premiums like cannon Chaika, P-47M or Ta 154
>play 2-3 battles a day, but only air arcade now
>don't care about K/D and W/L, just do whatever I feel like
>still have fun
so... this is power of being casual? Feels nice.

>crying about something that is currently overpowered
>not using said overpowered vehicle instead
Just switch sides already. Why suffer instead of dominating everything?
>played kraut air when it was OP
>switched sides to pastas when they dropped bc even more OP
>currently omw to the Shinden to fly an even more OP plane
This is how the game should be played, if you want to have some fun and not get stomped every match.

Redpill me on the M48's HESH
Is it worth grinding for?

>HESH

No.

The only good shell for the M48 is the APHE and the HEATFS.

I still load 5 HESH just in case i ran out of ammo or i see a milk truck.

Works for me. I don't know about other anons though. Skip it and go straight for the HEAT-FS if you can.

What is the best way to take out a BV? Head on it? BnZ? It seem no matter what I try it shrugs off all punishment and the pilot has so many guns/gunners of such massive caliber that 1 round will often knock out a single engine fighter/interceptor

P-47
hit it in wings from 1.5km+, set engines on fire and get some distance

Does that apply to all M2 carrying fighters, and which belts should I use?

Italian GF when?