How am I supposed to use the Vautour IIN?

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I unlocked the Vautour IIN yesterday, and so I tried using it for a few games. But I have faced some issues:

  • I haven’t unlocked missiles, which are kinda important for a 8.3 interceptor. To unlock them, I need to get gunkills, and…
  • This plane is a brick. With a turn time of almost 40 seconds, it’s kinda hard to put guns on anything that isn’t even more a brick (aka bombers).
  • Where are bombers? When I play fighters, I see several of them in the other team, but when playing the Vautour IIN I’ve barely seen any.
  • How do I hunt down bombers with guns? Even when I find a bomber around, I face another problem. The bombers I face at 8.3, most notably the very common Il-28, have really powerful defensive armament that will shred anything nearly. The only way to get close while escaping the rounds is to either dive (which the Vautour IIN, as far as I’ve experienced, isn’t quite good at) or steep climb (which it isn’t really good at either).

So, how do I play this thing? The people I asked told me it was a pretty good plane… Then what am I doing wrong?

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You aren’t. Avoid it.

These planes were alright years ago before they removed their airspawns. Now they are just useless.

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It does have airspawn though, just not as high as bombers but altitude isn’t really the main problem…
I can easily climb up, but there’s nothing up there lmao

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You spaewn in and climb at 15 degrees to about 5km. If any bombers are there count yourself lucky and engage. If not fly towards the enemies climbing from the airfeild and try doing headons. Before you get missiles this is your best option.

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Alright I guess. And once you get missiles is it worth playing?
I ain’t going through that if it’s not even good when spaded

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The nords are fine in headons if you don’t wanna guide them. The R511s are only good against bombers and IL28 can still evade easily if they spot them. It’s alright in downtiers but in uptiers it struggles since there are no bombers. You can still use the same strat of going for climbers with r511s and nords. At least prety much nobody can catch you if you keep up your speed.

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That doesn’t sound like awesome gameplay lmao
I think I’ll just stick to the Ouragan and Mystère II

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It’s fun when you shoot down bombers and run away from people crying in chat that you don’t wanna fight them. But yeah sucks otherwise.
Focus on getting the mirage IIIC. Love that plane so much.

Ngl the Mysteres kinda suck ass. They lose so much speed on maneouvering and just don’t have the thrust to get it back.

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Well the Ouragan has the same issues but at least it doesn’t deal with 9.0s

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It does not lose nearly as much speed as the mystere. At least it does not feel like that. And I have the whole left line of the french tt spaded so I have played all the vehicles.

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That’s what I thought but no one mentioned it to me so I guessed I had just lost skills after switching to the mystere 2…

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Yeah as I said get the mirage IIIC. I put a talisman on it and researched the entirety of rank 8 with it.

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It’s a long way down there though, is there anything at rank 6 I can use to grind reliably?
While having fun

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This would be the main issue. None of the planes are that good. I would say either the super mystere, alpha jet or the etnedard IVM. Avoid the f86 and f84. The f-100 might be okay but I have not played it. The same goes for the hunter. The vautour bombers can work since you can often get bases without people noticing but if anyone sees you you are dead.

Didn’t you say you have the mystere?

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The mystère 2A, not the mystère 4

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Spading some vehicels is painful, and vantour is one of these. I killed many AI targets (both air and ground) and spent GEs to unlock missiles.

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Oh yeah does not help there ks 3 mysteres and a super mystere. I think I skipped that one and just played the ouragan and vautour until I had the super mystere

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