My gaming partner keeps telling me that Germany is getting worse with each update, but when I analyzed the situation, I saw that they received some nerfs. Was Germany better than it is now? Could they have dominated the game?
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Its nonsense.
Germany is still stronger than quite a few nations in mutliple regards and ive not seen them get a specific nerf.
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Your statement makes no sense.
Germany, in recent updates, has been showing itself to be increasingly stronger and more technologically advanced than many other nations, with MAWS systems and other embedded technologies such as IRTS PIRATE and missiles with enormous precision like BRIMSTONE. It only lacks its original missiles like IRIS-T and MBDA METEOR to demonstrate just how great this power is becoming.
In the War Thunder scenario, it is possible that the German nation may receive some balance nerfs. An example of this was the IRIS-T: on the dev server it was extremely overpowered, and when it arrived in the live game it started to receive nerfs. It is a nation that has a lot of strong assets, especially when it eventually receives the IRIS-T missiles for the Typhoon.
Final considerations (all based on my opinion): yes, Germany will receive more balance nerfs, just like most other nations do.
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The only recent Germany specific nerf I can think of is the reduction of the IRIS T SLMs seeker activation and gaijin already reverted that so i don’t really see where you see the nerfs
they are wrong.
Just because germany havent gotten the absolute pinnacle for an update or so doesnt mean they are being nerfed
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to be fair its been nerfed in a few places looks at brutally underperforming
MG-151
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Eh… I would say that is less intentional nerfing and more just not putting the MG151s onto realshatter, Likely because they have wierd rounds, which is both a blessing and a curse. Because there was large chunks of time where the MG151s were the only functional canons at that BR
to be fair thats how it was historically they had 19Grams of filler compared to a shvak or hispano which is like 7Grams its historically accurate 20mms dont perform how they do irl
its not like many german props are OP if any are cause there FM models are so bad
for example FW-190 A was a very manuverable fighter IRL but ingame handles worse than any fighter of the br
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Eh… it still didnt stand a chance against the Spitfire, which is why they use to always use their mass advantage to dive away rather than trying to dogfight
cement the legend of the Fw190s supremacy in the minds of Fighter Command. In February the German Navy capital ships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, sailed virtually unscathed through the Channel under heavy Luftwaffe fighter cover.
As a further example, over two days at the beginning of June the Fw190s of the Luftwaffe’s Fighter Wing 26 (Jagdgeschwader 26, or JG26 for short) shot down fifteen RAF Spitfire Vs for no loss.
In August Operation Jubilee, the fateful Dieppe amphibious operation, saw forty-eight squadrons of Spitfires – most equipped with Spitfire Vbs and Vcs – arrayed against the Fw190As of JG2 and JG26. In the resulting combats 90 RAF fighters were lost compared to the Luftwaffe’s 23.
in a flat turn the MKV could beat it
but in basically anything else it looses
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The subsequent report, published in August 1942, gave little comfort. In terms of one verses one performance it was found that the Fw190A was markedly superior to the Spitfire Mk V in the dive, climb and rate of roll and, most importantly, the German fighter was faster at all heights by between 25-35mph.
The Fw190 was found to have better acceleration under all conditions of flight. It could leave the Spitfire with ease in the dive, particularly in the initial stages, and, if in a turn, could flick roll into an opposing diving turn which proved almost impossible for the Spitfire to follow successfully.
In combat the Spitfire could still turn tighter, but the speed, dive and rate of roll differential meant that the Luftwaffe pilots could dictate when and where they wanted to fight, and disengage at will.
Matters became so bad that that the RAF’s top scoring fighter pilot, Air Vice Marshall James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson CB, CBE, DSO and Two Bars, DFC and Bar was forced to concede that,
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Eh, they got lucky, Britain lacked the air power to attack a capital ship like that and the RN was all the way north, expecting capital targets to up near iceland, not the channel.
A specific example and a very specific time-frame, not necessarily any indicator the FW190 was superior to the spitfire in a dogfight.
Homefield advantage and older spitfires, not more modern spitfires.FW190 was from 1942, most Spitfire Vs were built in 1940/1941. MkIX swapped that advantage back immedaitely
But if you think the FW190 should be beating the Spitfire in a dogfight, be my guest to submit bug reports for them
often overstated as the tactics used made the mkV spit not stand much chance, honestly the fact that the only real change in performance between the mkv and mkIX being engine power and that making the problem be largely resolved does somewhat prove that
thats the fifth spitfire variant vs first Fw190 models
yeah MK IX was a beast in its own rights
And?
Im sure they learnt a lot from the BF109. The FW190 wasnt exactly Germanys first ever monoplane
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yea… the spit is a pre ww2 plane and the Focke-Wulf 190 is a 1941 response to that plane, of course the earlier marks would struggle.
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so it was fair
no this was the first one
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