You can tell a guy that they out-zoom everything in a corsair and to wait for you, but they’re still gonna try and out-rate a zero.
Well, out-rating a Zero at high speeds would be historically accurate if gaijin modeled the Japanese planes correctly. So they got that historical spirit in them
Agree - the problem is that from my pov Germany lacks an OP prop plane in the range 3.3 - 5.7.
The only real situation / combat scenario in which climbing pays out is when you fly in a P-47 vs JP teams on those Pacific maps - it is actually possible to win such matches solo 1 vs 6 as long as you play below 5.3. Without Ki-84s and A7M2s you can clap entire JP teams with excessive sideclimbing due to their lack of speed and high alt power - and thx to the high contrail alt of 6.500 meters u can get to safe alt before your contrail reveals your position.
I agree that defensive flying in a 190 can be fun - but not vs multiple opponents. I use my 190 F-8 just for BP challenges like killing enemies with a 1.000 kg bomb or more (i don’t play Ground RB) - all you have to do is to sideclimb up to 7-8 km, fly a wide loop, block enemy blind hunt / avenger orders and attack some (mainly US) boys reaming at their small airfield.
But thanks to the “engine overheating nerf” you need to avoid using WEP in the climbing phase - otherwise you engine temp of 83° Celsius (previously white) starts flashing red after ~ 15 minutes - and you don’t have the engine power without WEP to outrun any opponent or to reclimb…
Have a good one!
Not sure if understand your post correctly - if you refer to the cancelling of axis vs allies and the absence of Italian support for German teams you have a valid point.
But as you stated correctly Italian props are extremely rare to see in Air RB - and despite some peaks in the past (looking at Re 2005) they are even more pushed into the corner than German props as they are performance-wise even more outperformed.
The sole difference is that the average Italian pilot is way more experienced and is able to counter massive performance disadvantages with skill. If you look at plane performance data there is not a single aircraft which dominates vs opponents at the same BR.
But they have a severe advantage vs German props using the same DB 600-605 series engines - u can tame their overheating with prop pitch adjustments (and can use infinite WEP without overheating) whilst you kill the same engine in a German plane with the same adjustments - and most of them can turn like hell compare to German counterparts; the 3.0 109s are imho the sole exception - and to a certain degree the Bv 155s if they have enough speed.
I used the Re 2001 CN too - the easiest way to fulfil Rank III daily tasks requiring a fighter at a very low BR - and i agree that you have to play it like other rat planes like A6Ms, I-16s or early Spits as you are way too slow.
You can say anything you want - but war thunders main strength is still that they are able to generate emotional reactions even from battle hardened long-term players. It doesn’t matter if those emotions are positive or negative.
7 years of playing… and I still feel the same emotions I felt years ago when my team was making me 1v5+. Goated game.
Gotta get that spicy new jet that can launch Fox-3’s while doing a handstand. I grinded there for points on coupons and the amount of people still keen on after-burning pre-merge without knowing their planes’ best rate speed. I mean I bought the 23-ML, and I sticked to custom matches until I was accustomed to the plane as a whole.
On to this topic, I’m weirded out how the Ki-84 ko, A7M2 and the N1K1-Ja share the same BR? Statshark says Japanese winrate across the board from BR4.0-5.7 is like 60% And these 3 planes have a WR of 60%!! Even zeroes had a WR of like 58%-60%.
These 3 doofuses of a plane are the hardest planes I’ve fought to claw myself a win. N1K1-Ja is easy to deal with, but the A7M and the Ki-84? Damn.