Just use the tried and trusted tactic of climbing, use your 2 stock AIM-54As from 20-30km away on unaware targets, land and repeat.
The F-14s are incredibly easy to play in this mode.
I like that Gaijin admits they know how broken KH-38MT is because they wont let you use the Su-25SM3 in the event.
currently the B52H seems to be an early model since it doesnt have any of its guided weapons and only dumb bombs
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also this may be a somewhat unpopular take but markers should be removed imo. the older SEAD event was incredibly fun without them since it let you get away with some funny stuff.
The B-52H is specifically a pre-1991 variant since it still has the rear gun.
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If you look at weapons only, then neither does the TU, but that’s fine considering they are very niche additions, here I was strictly talking about the plane variant.
That 's outdated now that Bvvd gave a direct answer regarding them, a few months after that leak:
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We don’t have any plans to introduce those aircraft as top-tier aircraft in our current meta. In other words, we don’t see them as the pinnacle of aviation development in War Thunder. But as museum pieces, collector’s aircraft, or event vehicles ─ yes, strategic bombers might appear in the game sometime down the line. That’s because there’s definitely demand for them, and we understand that in certain special modes or simply as rare collectibles, they could be interesting for players. So we’re not ruling them out completely.
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I’m ab arcade main and my main method of points is playing as aggressive as possible in the F-4E/Mig 23MLD, launch as many A2A armament as possible, use cannon ammo to strafe soft targets if there’s no enemy aircraft, rinse and repeat.
Kill ground targets until you get 250 SP, then use the small tactical nuclear bomb to strike clusters of enemy AI using CCRP. When you get 500 SP use the 30 kt bomb to destroy enemy airfields. Stay low and wide, avoid PvP!
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or go balls to walls for pvp and also earn a ton of score lol, I somehow beat 2 Mig23Mls in a F4E with 60 Zunies
got the score in 2 games or about an hour and half
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The B-52H is also an early model. Not reflective of its most current version.
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so mr smin how are you liking the event?
Hi smin, idk if it’s the right thread to ask but is there a possibility of 256x256km maps and/or the April fools gamemode itself making it’s way into normal war thunder as it’s own gamemode? This but polished would make a very good gamemode
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Lol, never undrestimate the F4E!
Got my 7700 points for the bear in a single game, with only the free vehicles. Dodging F15s and F14s.
I think the favourable high BR jets easy to get a2a kills with have a reduced reward compared to the other ones, do you know if that is correct?
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Would be cool, but it is probably too similar to RB EC so it wont be coming unfortunately.
Is it intentional that the available lineups don’t include viable air to air options?
Previously events for April Fools were fixed, balanced lineups so now this seems unfair to players that lack US or USSR options. I’m not against bringing your own planes, but shouldn’t at least the best be available to everyone so that there’s no active disadvantages for not having them?
Seems like a massive oversight unless there is something like higher rewards for using worse vehicles or similar that I just missed.
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honestly I would prefer the best A2A planes being the F4E and Mig23ML brings me back to when these planes were the top of the food chain and BVR wasn’t such a massive thing
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@Smin1080p_WT do we know if this event or at least the mode without the nukes will stay in the game after the 13th?
I see no reason for it not to stick.
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