Idk about Sim, tried it once and got shot down just before reaching a Base, If I remember correctly.
I do understand that people in general don’t like sharing their strategies on the forum. So I try to observe how other players play in battles I join.
Just an interesting strategy I noticed today in Air Realistic:
- He used the F-84G-21-RE, which has an air spawn, so this plane will always get to the front line very quickly.
- He only attacked Light Pillboxes (148 score per destruction). I suspect he used the Ground targets belt, but I’m not sure. I don’t think I can check this on the replay.
- After killing 8 Light Pillboxes, he just made a head-on against the closest enemy (he obviously wanted to die and enter the next battle).
- He managed to kill the enemy and die at the same time, which gave him even more score:
The interesting part is, all this took him less than 2 minutes! And this 1936 score was multiplied by x1.0 (rank 5 plane) and x1.4 (game mode multiplier). So he got 2710 event progression score in total in less than 2 minutes. It looks like a very effective strategy. I’m sure about one thing - no matter how good you are, you won’t get such scores so quickly in Air Arcade. But I do understand you need to know maps very well, and surely not every map even have Light Pillboxes. I usually don’t attack ground units (especially in Air Realistic), so I would have to learn a lot about the scoring system in this element of the game. From what I checked, destroying artillery units is not worth it (score-wise) in Air Realistic.
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Doing the same with the Wyvern, attack AI and then head-on
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I tried to do the same, but I won the first head-on, so I had to find another player to try another head-on, which delayed me significantly:
I destroyed 5 Light Pillboxes (definitely worth it), 1 SPAA (not worth it), and 1 howitzer (not worth it).
I probably should use some Strike Aircraft. In Air Arcade every plane has an air spawn, but that’s not the case in Air Realistic. So I was pretty late to the party when I reached the AI units with this Su-11.
Is there any list of ground targets scoring in Air Realistic? Because there is no point in wasting ammo to get 25 score for destroying SPAA. And I’m not sure what’s the value of all ground targets in this game mode.
In Air Arcade the best scoring AI units were always AI planes, medium tanks (but they were not worth shooting with guns), light tanks, vehicles (the ones that are literally named “vehicle”). I guess it should work the same way in Air Realistic? Maybe I should actually switch to Ground targets belt and just try to figure this out. It’s a very easy strategy, you don’t need much skill to do this. It looks even better than attacking bases.
The destruction scores I have checked so far in Air Realistic:
- SPAA = 25
- AAA = 40
- Howitzer = 40
- Light Tank = 147
- Vehicle = 147
- Light Pillbox = 148
- Medium Tank = 151
- AI plane = 172
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Damn, I just did something irredeemable…
I shot down a BV-238 with my Wyvern. He was escorted by like 4 guys but because of me he still failed to reach a target ;(
But seeing the dark silhouette of that whale plow through the clouds was quite something.
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Task number 3 done. Will most likely not grind them all because I go on vacation.
I rarely have light pillboxes in my games with the F-84G-21-RE. I did a quick test yesterday and only had one out of 10 games.
I currently grind the SU25 and A-4B, alternating between sim and realistic.
If I want to do something different, I play the French SB2C and go for ground targets. The multiplyer isn’t that high, but the ground targets work well and enemies are usually surprised at how good my manoeuvrability is.
If SL boosters are to be used, I ride out my A-1H.
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How long can we buy the stages with GE?
Same as the coupon up grade till the 29th?
Just to be sure I’d buy them before 26th 11:00 GMT.
Till 29th is stated only for coupon, and even that if I understood them correctly is that you can use the upgrade coupon till 29th, after that it will dissapear and you will only have non-tradable coupon.
August 26th is the last call.
Tornado is on saleeee…50% off . Its usefull for event.
Eazy mode on!
Doesn’t it face Amraam’s and OP radar missiles?
I think that was the point. It’s easy mode for people farming Tornadoes.
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Ah, gotcha. So this is more of a Tornadon’t.
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That’s an interesting idea considering GE wagers. Since they require wins (which is a team effort after all).
I played the Tornado yesterday in Air Realistic, and I can confirm that I lost almost every battle with it. But I don’t think there is a sure way to get into battles against Tornado teams.
The Tornado is not working very well for the event. Too many players use them, so it’s all about getting to the base before other Tornado players. I even saw one Tornado player teamkilled another Tornado player, just because the guy overtook him on the way to the bases. Some people use like the minimum fuel level required to reach the base, just to be first there. Then they cut the throttle and wait for enemies to kill them. It’s just crazy.
Tornados work great for me in AB, ideally downtier them even. In RB you compete as much with your own team as with the opponent, in AB you can often either get a lot of ground targets on domination maps where there are still 6 blobs of vehicles, or even better, any map with bases, take out a base every 30 seconds, then start working on the airfield. In-air reload is just so much better than rtb for reloading…
Did the Iranian f14 get r77?
no only IR missile are the aim-9s
The R-77 is an ARH missile, not and IR one.
No. Shouldn’t even have R-27s tbf
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