War Thunder first tank gameplay

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I never played arcade, only realistic. I still found it much easier to get kills in the Russian aircraft. I couldn't kill anything in the Bf 109 for whatever reason.

109s are tricky but once you get the hang of them very rewarding (5 if my top 10 planes are 109s) they are not boom and zoomers like the Russians and Americans and not great turners either like the Brits and japs just pure energy planes they climb like mountain goats especially when you run just the nose cannon in the later models. The trick is to climb high fast keeping your speed above 270km at almost all the time while climbing and around 400 when diving. Then shallow dive enemy planes, pull up hard stall roll and hammerhead them as they struggle to chase you. Which is sort of the trick with 109s for most of the game as long as you keep high and keep the speed up most enemy planes will struggle to catch you, only the yaks come close. So patience and watching enemy from above waiting for him to burn his altitude or speed on something else before striking is the key.

British and Americans will always struggle to chase the 109s in mid tier (the griffon spit and bearcat change this) the only issue are American bombers can be a massive pain and the Russian I-185 and la5 can if left alone to climb and climb will become a massive pain in your arse

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Maybe you've nailed my problem, I don't know how to energy fight. If I can't turn fight or boom and zoom I'm all out of ideas.



It's funny you should say this because these in particular were guaranteed to kill me every time in the Bf 109. Most other things I could kill from time to time, or escape from, but once these engaged me I was toast. La-5 in particular seemed to always be faster than me, out climb me, and out maneuver me. I'd be on the cusp of rage quitting.

Ahh la5 rage, I know it well, truthfully they pissed me off too a lot, until I actually flew them myself and felt how they handled, best thing to do is get a feel for each plane if you are struggling against them, once you know how they handle you find it easier to kill them


La la's of doom if I remember handle a lot like the fw 190, they roll very nicely and have 3 really annoying shvaks in the nose, but they are not great at diving if I remember correctly the 109 can be pushed just a bit further then them in a dive which can give you a small bit of breathing room, they're also nose heavy I think, they climb well in the opening if a game at a casual 15-20 degree but they are not the best of getting the nose up quickly try vertical yo yo and see if it helps when being pursued


Though I've been working and will be continue doing so for the next 2 weeks so can't give you some hands on advice.

According to the Dev blog the J7W1 is getting put in the next patch. I have most of the Jap line reserched so I'm waiting on planes like this. It's like waiting for moar Dinosuars for Jurrasic park.

New patch 1.43 out.

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

new vehicles for almost every nation new german/russian tanks, new british jet attacker, new japanese fighters (including the awesome j2m)..

J2M woot! I didnt even see that added to the tree. B17's watch out!