How do you play the A4e early and Swedish jets like the J29 and A28? After grinding Sweden air I went from 2 million SL back in December to now barely 100k. I suck. I spend hours every day playing and watching tutorials but nothing helps. I have not improved at War Thunder since I first began two years ago. There’s no point in me reducing my br cause I suck just as bad at props as I do jets. Only difference is that jets I die a little faster. I had to stop grinding Sweden for a while cause I ran out of SL to pay these ridiculous 10k repair costs and so I played the A4e early to try and get some money. Huge mistake. I love the plane but I can’t it worth shat. I tried bombing bases but can never reach a base without getting intercepted and as a fighter I can’t kill anything. I either get smoked in a dog fight or shot from the back by a missile that I had no clue was coming. It has an RWR but I have no clue how to read it and what’s the point. Missiles never seem to trigger it.
Like how can you know when a missile is fired at you? And also half the time I never even see the plane who shot it even though I’m constantly looking around. It feels like I’m playing Simulator cause the enemy planes don’t always get a red marker, but somehow they always see me. I’ve tried climbing and dive bombing but always die to some Mig19 or other faster plane or miss by boom n zoom. Staying low? Never works cause I always die to the enemy attack planes bombing bases. Sticking to the team? That sends me into massive dogfights that I always lose within a minute or so. Swedish planes are just as bad. The Tunnans are slow and can’t turn and the Vampires can turn but never enough, the pilots always gets G lock and they’re too slow to catch up or run away from anything. I’m so close to going broke and have lost all interest in the game. F Gaijin for waiting until I spend 2 years and 600 hours into the game before having me go broke. I’m boutta delete this game and throw my computer out the window. I’ve tried for so long to get better at the game but I feel as though I’m either mentally disabled or the game is rigged against me. I’ve also researched the squadron Hunter plane but can’t afford to buy it, further increasing my hatred and frustration towards this game. Am I missing something? And yes, I have tried taking a break away from War Thunder in the past to no avail.
Post a server replay, maybe I’ll give you a couple of tips on what to do and what not to do.
Playing at lower BRs will definitely help you, but only if you’re going to actually analyze your own gameplay, thinking of ways to do things differently and seeing what works and what doesn’t.
To post a server replay, press the message icon at the bottom right, then select one of your past battles. You will see text saying “View Server Replay”, click it, then copy the link of the page that will open in your browser.
I can also just pick a random server replay where you are present.
Not sure how to post replays because l don’t actually have the game downloaded but rather play through Geforce Now. If anyone does please let me know and I’ll definitely post them. Thanks!
JK, with the a4e its better to use it as an attack aircraft at low altitude (climb up some then dive down to gain speed) recommend the gun pod no matter what though, also use the a4e’s insane roll rate to your advantage
There is your first potential problem:
You use jets without expert qualification. If you want to get anywhere with jets, you need to have better crews or “expert” qualification. One can buy expert qualification for SL, but only if the crew is good enough. Yours are not.
The rank V planes require a crew skill of 25 to allow expert, the rank VI requires 30. In order to gain crew level quickly, you should spend crew xp on the cheapest items. No matter what they do. Once you can buy expert, that will add 6 steps (+3) to most of your crew skills. But look up how much SL expert will cost you. It costs the same amount as the plane did! So the Tunnan will be about 300000SL.
Also, you gain crew xp 3x faster in arcade. You can already expert rank III planes on these crews. Maybe you want to use a premium or talisman rank III plane(s) in arcade and build up crew skill faster.
Then switch to rank 3, use a nice premium or a talisman vehicle to work on SL, Crew xp and your own abilities with planes. Use the SL to expert the rank 3.
For the future, slow your advance. If you cant afford to expert it (either poor crew or no SL), you are not ready for it yet.
Do you have any premiums or talismans?
No premiums. Only talisman from a couple free ones I got for the P-400 in the US tree and the swedish hurricane and B-18 A. l am considering playing arcade to regain SL.
The B18A and Hurricane are a great starting talisman combo. Decide a crew you will want to use each plane with. Expert the all the planes (solid silver star shows up). Now go base bombing in arcade if you can. Create a new preset with 2x500kg and the small bombs. Use the other swedish planes with BR 2.7 and lower in your lineup. Don’t use any rank 3 for a while.
The swedes have a great rank2 lineup!
The idea is to earn as much RP (in “Earned:” line) as you can. Because that decides how fast you gain crew XP.
Nah l never got any premium starters. So I max out crew for those planes and play arcade 2.7 until I get enough SL to play jets again? This way I can still research jets but it will take more time, allowing me to afford jet crew levels, right?
The first thing is to stop playing planes without expert on green crews. So you need to get the crew level up to 25 for entry jets. 30 for the A4. Without premiums, you will not earn so much SL with rank 2. But with the talismans, you gain the crew levels. For SL it might be better to use rank 3 or 4, but only if your crews are ready too.
Keep in mind, the talismaned planes are clearly the best to boost your crew levels. No question there. With SL, you have to find the sweet spot for yourself.
I just played an arcade match with the B18A. I destroyed the air base. I have a talisman on that one too, but also premium time. I earned 7000 RP in 10 min. You would have received 3500 RP. That would be 105 crew XP. But it only paid 10000 SL, so you won’t get rich that way.
Here is the replay: https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/316606615191237938