I am opening this thread to discuss the “Against all” challenge of the current Battle Pass, specifically the subrequirement to destroy five player naval vessels using a fighter aircraft; I hope that this thread can clarify specific tactics and offer feedback to the devs.
Firstly, I believe that the naval subrequirement is extremely poorly thought out due to how unbelievably accurate naval AA guns are even before considering proxy-fuse rounds, etc.
Secondly, this subrequirement is made all the more impracticable by the mandatory condition to use a fighter of at least rank 3, which forces players to use vehicles of a certain BR range (~4.0 and above) and so guaranteeing their instant destruction by an early destroyer- or late coastal vessel-'s auto AA guns. In my opinion the naval subrequirement of this challenge should only require a player to use any vehicle of rank 3 in the battle; this would mean that players can take - for example - rank 3 coastal vessels within the 2.0-3.0 BR range without having to contest the usually deadly AA zones of more advances vessels.
Tactics-wise, under the current conditions of the challenge, the most viable option I have employed is to pack an F8F with three naval mines and dive on the most isolated enemy vessel and hope they don’t shoot me down. I also have to hope that they are actually a human player, as destroying a bot (which comprise most of the team in a naval game) will not count towards the completion of this challenge.
So far, I have only attempted this challenge in naval RB, however I think players will find Naval AB a far less frustrating mode to complete this challenge in due to the bomb impact indicator that is displayed for aircraft.
Those are my initial thoughts on this challenge; I would like to read the thoughts of other players, perhaps from naval mains as well as people that only play naval for Battle Pass challenges, so that the community might develop specific tactics that are optimised for this challenge. I hope we can all complete this challenge expeditiously, thank you for reading.
Isn’t the free BP reward a rank 3 BR 3.0 fighter with 10kg HE rockets and 20mm APHE cannon rounds? that should be quiet capable of dealing with coastal boats.
The other option is to try your luck around 6.7 with the WW1 dreadnaughts as they have basically no SPAA, how ever due to navals’ compression you run the risk of also seeing WW2 cruisers with all the SPAA and cold war destroyers with SAMs.
My plan is to use the Kikka to dive bomb the dreadnaughts.
Except that in Arcade the ships will see you coming and knock you out the sky just as easily. At 4.3+ when almost everyone has HE-VT or mass AA forget it (WW1 ships excepted)
Source - many, many multi-anti-air kill battles.
Most players simply do kamikaze runs in Hellcats or Corsairs, with the occasional Mustang. Single bomb planes will naturally be less likely to get the kill even if you do manage to drop it.
But the hellcat is not a fighter. Its classified as a Torpedo Bomber. It will not work for this challenge… This challenge needs to be done with a fighter
Anyone knows the best strategy? I don’t have any coastal boats. The only Rank III naval that I have are US Bluewater 5.0/5.3. Could the F-82 (fighter) with 2x 2000lbs bombs and/or 25x HVAR be an option?
Edit: Or could I take a (British) reserve tier ship (like 3.7 HMS Vega) and pair it with a 3.7 fighter like Thunderbolt Mk.1 with Bombs and Rockets?
Anyhow, I already finished it. Combination of reserve tier Destroyers for Britain and then using the Thunderbolt Mk.1 with 2x 1000lbs and 6x M8 Rockets and also USA BR 5.0 destroyers and then the F-82 with 2x 1000lbs and 20x HVAR. Never played much naval but that challenge actually was kinda fun.
