Oh alright that makes sense. Is it really important to max all stats others than G resistance?
Defensive armament stats can be ignored.
The main stats all help quite a lot but I usually do vitality last. Keen vision and awareness helps you identify enemies from further away to have them marked. G-tolerance and stamina are self explanatory.
Repair speed and rearm speed also help after you have the main stats to at least like 4. Since they cut down the repair and rearm time on the airfield by a lot.
my current lvl 24 crew
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You can’t get expert without buying. It always costs SL.
You may be conflating buying CREW levels with buying expert.
IF AND ONLY IF you intend to use the plane for a long-time, yes - get expert.
If you plan to skip it ASAP, you can avoid it but its absence is going to hurt you when flying defensively or in high energy dogfights. It’s very expensive, which is why we are OK with skipping it and eating a bit of suffering.
Only relevant for getting cheap crew levels to qualify for expert (see table of costs above), otherwise G/Stam, then keen/aware.
Then what does expert do? It’s described as adding +3 to all stats
I am not.
I could swear you got it for free. I have so many expert crews and I don’t remember ever buying them. Might just be stupid who knows
difference between aced and basic crew. Both stats are maxed out and it’s the same plane
it basically just doubles the bonus you get. Expert adds half the max bonus
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Oh that’s cool, I might get one crew to expert at some point then
Ace crews have a mechanic where an enormous amount of RP gained unlocks free purchase, otherwise it costs GE:
For Expert though, you just have:
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If I might suggest the mirage IIIC.
When you get it if you like it.
I know you get ace for free I have a couple vehicles aced.
I must have got mandela affected. I don’t recall buying any expert crews except on some jets.
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Did you take a shower afterwards? Every time I play the B7A2 I feel absolutely disgusting… it just so badly out classes so many other aircraft.
It’s one of those planes I hate seeing, no matter what I’m flying… because I know it will be above me, and it will out turn me. It also has the benefit of being teamed with aircraft that will devour anything that dives to avoid it, and typically flown with more skill than the US/USSR/LW aircraft.
Personal hygiene is overrated 😂
Rest behind a spoiler as imho OT:
Imho you should try to fly it without mouse aim and instructor - with a classic Hotas/JS. That means: No head-ons = potato aim - so no point & click.
I like it simply because the plane has a stable FM and is supports my play style - rather defensive and capable to deal with meta planes like Ki-44s or Yak-3s which are spammed like there is no tomorrow.
During grinding events the plane guarantees a base kill (often) and a player kill. The air spawn prevents you from teamkill attempts during take off. And it is capable to fight in full uptiers - i struggle way more in full downtiers, stuff like B-239s or the cannon Tchaika flies circles around you, so keeping your situational awareness is extremely important.
In order to win a match i prefer to go for the best enemy player / aircraft - decapitating the enemy team is from my pov way more successful than trying to kill numbers. Especially if you fly a plane which needs to be flown with some brain vs stiff competition.
If you fly a B7A2 frequently you are fully aware of its downsides like slow top speed , slow dive speed, rather bad acceleration / energy retention and stiff controls / compression at high speed. I can’t remember getting killed by B7A2 - but i killed a lot of them in the UK Thunderbolt (energy/BnZ) and in full uptiers in the C-3604 (turn fighting).
Imho JP teams saw since the introduction of the Thai SB2C-5 a massive decline - a lot of non-pilots use them and as soon as you play 6 vs 6 on Pacific maps you can kill an entire team in a plain P-47 or Hellcat. And a Hellcat can kill B7A2s if he keeps his speed high.
Imho you might revisit the prop tiers - France has some pretty good props.
You might want to go on yt and watch some vids about the MB 157. A BR 3.3 Rank III fighter able to outturn any Yaks. With decent aim you can work around the imho single negative aspect: Low ammo count.
But as written also by others: In order to use the full potential you need g-tolerance and stamina otherwise you black out.
A word to your 4.0 VB 10 - u need MEC to deal with the overheating issue; use 80% Prop pitch and keep both coolers at 50% and you can fly with infinite WEP the whole match. Use superior top speed vs Yaks and La-5/7s and drag them above 6 km - you outturn both Lavotchkins and most Yaks use min fuel, no need to take head-ons.
Have a good one!
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That plane is indeed a beast. Sucks that the french had not thought of us playing wt 80 years later and it only had 60 rounds per gun
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Dang didn’t know the bloch 157 was good in realistic, arcade physics are super boosted so it’s hard to tell how a plane would perform in realistic.
How do you do that? I had no idea that I can control such things
Use forum search for MEC settings and watch yt to use it:
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Thank you! I’ve always enjoyed playing the V.B.10 and I’m glad I can get it to perform better
OK?
As general information:
A crew can’t collect points for ace level, if it hasn’t been experted before. So if you don’t buy expert, you will not get ace. If you have no expert crew yet, all your previous income is wasted for ace skill. That is one reason why I expert crews: Over the years, they turn gold.
While it is no problem to expert your rank I and II crews on all crew slots if needed (very cheap), you should plan ahead for everything rank III and up. Expert costs as much as the vehicle itself. You don’t want to expert a vehicle on many crews unless you want to pass it around on purpose. The reason why I do it is that it is aced on a lvl 75/100/150 crew. Further missions would waste the crew skill, so I move the (talisman/premium) vehicle to another green crew and let it grow there. If you don’t plan to play tanks and ships, you can move it as soon as you have reached 75.
If you grind slowly, you will be able to expert your new planes. Don’t waste money on crew skill, it will come if you don’t rush.
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Why even bother saying to play rank II then?
It’s not much more work to get to rank III and also with rank II you won’t make any real progress towards the BP.
Rank II is fun
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Nothing stopping you from playing it.
I just pointed out that they were saying to grind the battle pass for the free premium and you cannot do that with rank II
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