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It certainly explains why the 1000lb bomb on the J21-A3 is mounted on a really low pylon.
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I've been killed pursuing ground attackers who set their 1000lb-ers in a delayed fuse and getting caught in the blast.
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I'm ashamed to say it, but after losing a bunch of matches in naval because no one thought to bring in coastal boats to sneak capture points, I was determined to grind a few patrol boats out and discovered that BR 1.0 - 3.0 for naval is literally just Blood Wake and is loving phenomenal to play. Now I have another tree I need to grind out.
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I've been playing a lot of coastal lately. Using small boats to relentlessly bully destroyers is a lot of fun.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I've been playing a lot of coastal lately. Using small boats to relentlessly bully destroyers is a lot of fun. Hell yeah. Comes with a relatively rare achievement as well. 
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I've been playing a lot of coastal lately. Using small boats to relentlessly bully destroyers is a lot of fun. It's true. Depth charge kills are best kills.
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Coastal boats is real good until you get higher tier and then it sucks because the second a moffet looks your way you die instantly. Also it is criminal having a boat that goes max speed 20 km/h
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Madurai posted:It's true. Depth charge kills are best kills. Yes! No question of them dodging the fun barrels.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Also it is criminal having a boat that goes max speed 20 km/h The Soviet and Japanese river boats are so incredibly painful to use
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I've been very fortunate in that my starting coastal coincided with the availability of a 3.0 battlepass boat that is great, a warbond store 2.7 torpedo boat that is great, and some low level katyusha tub I got during the Christmas event (I think). Because of that I've been blessedly able to refuse the use of those awful river boats that have no draught . In theory small armoured boats with tank turrets should be fun, but at best they hit one in three shots on the open water. I feel sorry for my friend who is stuck in an endless succession of wooden Fairmile shitters.
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i've been playing the Japanese coastals and some of them are so painful its not even funny
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CODChimera posted:i've been playing the Japanese coastals and some of them are so painful its not even funny Type T-38 is actually good. It's still delicate and slow but the 25mm rips apart other boats
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I have a battle pass boat and it's fatally flawed because the 25mms can only shoot backwards. It's still one of the better ones
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Farecoal posted:Type T-38 is actually good. It's still delicate and slow but the 25mm rips apart other boats yeah I didn't mind that one, also the tier 1 premium seemed ridiculously op
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CODChimera posted:i've been playing the Japanese coastals and some of them are so painful its not even funny The Japanese coastals are pretty much garbage, thank goodness you can get into destroyers without grinding through them. My favorite low-tier boat is the British MGB-61 at BR 1.7. You put API in the two twin 12.7mm mounts and light poo poo on fire while the AI murders other poo poo with the 40mm on the rear deck. I suck at WT and I've still gotten 10 kill missions using the 61 boat.
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I swear that air RB just hates me. If I want to play Americans I get uptiered and die because I'm the only one who climbs. I play Germans or Italy and the teams are 5v5 and three of my allies are in JU288s. I play British and it's full mixed teams with at least three Ta-152s dropping from orbit. I just want to find a fun battle rating where I'm not the only teammate trying to fly.
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If you are the only one climbing then you have to cut your climb short to be able to support your teammates and to be in position to be supported by them. Teamwork trumps the energy advantage every time, so unless you are in a squad where everyone is climbing it is not ok to ignore the rest of the team that's deciding to lawnmow.
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YF-23 posted:If you are the only one climbing then you have to cut your climb short to be able to support your teammates and to be in position to be supported by them. Teamwork trumps the energy advantage every time, so unless you are in a squad where everyone is climbing it is not ok to ignore the rest of the team that's deciding to lawnmow. gently caress I needed to hear this. I've been having a hard time in RB 3.3-3.7 but I've also been climbing to a decent altitude regardless of what the rest of my team is doing to try and zoom and boom but I keep getting my rear end handed to me on the exit. What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs?
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SwissDonkey posted:gently caress I needed to hear this. I've been having a hard time in RB 3.3-3.7 but I've also been climbing to a decent altitude regardless of what the rest of my team is doing to try and zoom and boom but I keep getting my rear end handed to me on the exit. What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs? All chat “CLIMB YOU FOOLS” Otherwise try to hang a bit above them to cover their asses when the German UFO planes inevitably swoop down on them
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SwissDonkey posted:What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs? Play as Germany.
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SwissDonkey posted:gently caress I needed to hear this. I've been having a hard time in RB 3.3-3.7 but I've also been climbing to a decent altitude regardless of what the rest of my team is doing to try and zoom and boom but I keep getting my rear end handed to me on the exit. What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs? Play 10.3 so you can easily swoop onto the deck when your team gets engaged! Serious answer: You need to keep in mind how many players are actually on the team. If 80% of the enemy team dives onto your lawnmowers, then that just became the decisive furball of the game. Sure it might be nice to stay up high and maybe BnZ some of the space climbers that are left, but it's way more important to kill some enemies in that engagement at ground level. At times I have quite literally just counted how many marked enemies I can see below me.
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SwissDonkey posted:gently caress I needed to hear this. I've been having a hard time in RB 3.3-3.7 but I've also been climbing to a decent altitude regardless of what the rest of my team is doing to try and zoom and boom but I keep getting my rear end handed to me on the exit. What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs? At that tier, I'd probably stick to around 3km altitude max and just dive at the first enemy attacker I have a good angle on, or any low-flying enemy fighters that might be trying to engage my team. This is a bit of a soft counter to enemy climbing: if someone's climbed to 6km altitude, but there's no enemy to dive on at 4km because everyone's on the deck, a whole lot of that built up energy advantage has been wasted. They will still be in a superior position but there is a cap to how much of an advantage they get, and the resources spent widening that gap past that cap have been a waste. And maybe you won't win that game but you'll probably have a better time of it than if you were the only person climbing and just got wasted without getting to do anything.
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SwissDonkey posted:gently caress I needed to hear this. I've been having a hard time in RB 3.3-3.7 but I've also been climbing to a decent altitude regardless of what the rest of my team is doing to try and zoom and boom but I keep getting my rear end handed to me on the exit. What's the best way to deal with your team keeping low while the enemy team climbs? Before you boom, make sure your zoom will have you heading towards allies. Most players can't resist a head on so if someone's chasing you stay low and fast headed straight at your nearest oncoming ally. Try to keep track of which planes are faster than you at your current tier. Knowing who's most likely to go after you can help with target selection.
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The talk about the current topic reminds of the old days where queuing for air battles as British meant you had a 90% chance of going up against Americans over Hokkaido. Where the American fighters would promptly get annihilated by the brits, after which said Brits would suffer heavy losses from the B-17’s turbo-laser batteries when dealing with the bombers that hadn’t flown off onto space. Every single time.
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So I'm slowly getting better at playing France at the 7.3 BR (usually uptiered to 8.3, natch) and it turns out that I did well in BRs 1-5.7 simply because the enemies are even more braindead than I am and now I gotta actually play well. One thing I learned is to always have a plan B in case I miss, my shot doesn't penetrate or I don't kill the enemy gunner in the first shot, so I stopped shooting from wide open fields which improved my gameplay... considerably. Are there any easier resources for learning weak spots of the Soviet, American and German tanks around that tier? I have to admit all the cold war tanks look quite similar (due to me not being as well versed in them as WW2 tanks) and generally speaking the heavy Soviet and American tanks are the ones that surprise me when my Somua SM can't pen them from the front. I tried playing around in the armour analysis tool but it's a pain to go through every single tank in every tree one by one to try and see where my SM and my AMX M4 can pen from the front (and for an unnerving amount of American and Soviet tanks, the answer is: "nowhere")
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Deltasquid posted:So I'm slowly getting better at playing France at the 7.3 BR (usually uptiered to 8.3, natch) and it turns out that I did well in BRs 1-5.7 simply because the enemies are even more braindead than I am and now I gotta actually play well. This is where the post war MBTs begin to appear and where designers had a better idea of what to armour/not to armour. So typically upper front plates, mantlets and turret fronts are generally very well protected at the expense of armour elsewhere. Except the Germans who took a look at the enormous big cats they were producing before and decided to just slap the biggest gun and the biggest engine they had together. So if you have to engage from the front you’re looking at lower front plates, cupolas and often the amour under the gun at the front of the turret. Ideally you want to be flanking, and when doing so the lower centre of the tank is always a good place to shoot, especially with Soviet tanks. BR 7.3+ feels very much like a binary choice where either your gun has no hope of destroying an enemy frontally or will cleave through it like a hot knife through butter as if the armour wasn’t even there.
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I swear some bombers are so tough. Im positive its how bad a shot I am but goddamn that one PB whatsit can shrug off hits
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Yeah, against some of the bigger bombers you really need to pick your shots, which can be tricky if they're maneuvering and you're trying to avoid turrets. Unless you got a really fat gun (30mm+) or can get a frontal shot at the cockpit, usually your best bet is to avoid targeting the fuselage. Instead, focus on the engines and the fuel tanks (usually in the root of the wings). If you're lucky or got enough firepower you may get a wing break, and if not you still got solid odds at causing a fire, engine failure, or destroyed ailerons.
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I love the LVKV-42. It's the best AA gun. I just sat on the point and let the whole enemy team come trundling into view.
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Whole team imploded and I was the only one who had any kills. Took off and headon killed a Mig-17 close to the airfield. Then this Thanks snail
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Oh yeah that happened to me in a F-4E recently. I was dogfighting something, maybe a Mig-23, I can’t remember, but I got my nose up to get a lock and then blipped out of existence. I thought, “Oh, I wasn’t really paying attention to anyone else around me. Serves me right I guess.” And then I noticed who was credited with the kill…
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If it flies, it dies, first to fire, etc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbvayxf4vw
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Ok listen. French bombers are bad. Edit: To be clear i dont mean the little cutie frontline one. I mean the big barn boys.
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The push-pull engine pods are great though
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I just don't understand the number of players who dive off the jump and go ground level. not even a slight climb directly into the fight?
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Sometimes you want to feel the speed and the best way to do that is to smash into a sanddune because you're at 15 meters above sea level going 450 km/h.
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Famethrowa posted:I just don't understand the number of players who dive off the jump and go ground level. not even a slight climb directly into the fight? Climbing slows you down, diving speeds you up!!
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lmao, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10KI3frs28I
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Both F8s are going down to 10.0; and I gotta hop back into those two planes. They were easily 2 of the best at 10.3, and at 10.0, outside of the match making gravity of most of the new premiums, they'll be kings. Lotta good BR changes for air actually, they're even creeping up the Su-25s. Slowly, but at least they're doing it.
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