Opinion on Ju288C?

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Hi,

With the upcoming sales, I am looking for a vehicule to earn SL easily in ARB. So at least a middle rank, or higher, and that doesn’t requires much brain to do this (not that I am bad, but sometimes it’s good to be able to play and rest in the same time, with easy gameplays).
That’s why I think about the Ju288C.

Knowing what I am looking for, if you are used to play this aircraft, I would be happy to have your opinion.

Feel free to suggest another vehicule also. Thank you.
And attack the D point.

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I like the JU 288C, it’s a nice bomber and the newly added 2500 bombs are giving it quite some punch.

If you’re using it for ARB only, then that’s a decent choice if this suits your gameplay, especially with the 20mm turrets.

If you’re looking at something that is also helpful in GRB, then the Do 335 B-2 might be a good choice too.
But so is the He 219-A-7, which gives you a lower BR at Rank IV…

Good luck with whatever you pick in the end :)

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288C is nice low tier grinder on germany,
After latest update, when you get 2 x 2500kg bombs , you get 2 bases in one go.
Also those bombs deal lot of damage in GRB.
Easy silver, easy to play but it is also boring quite fast.

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Dont waste your money. its bad. you will get intercepted 7 out 10 games (have fun vs. jets). Every game will be lost anyway, because Germany has no capable fighters in this BR.

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I manage to avoid interceptions most of the time even with very slow/vulnerable bomber, by flanking and coming back over objectives later, when the dogfights have already begun. Flying low with + flanking work well also (did that a lot with Ju188). So I am not really scared to get intercepted most of the time.

Thanks for your advice though!

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Go for it.
Its a SL printing machine. and a good grinder.

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It is literally a the best low tier grinding plane in the game now. Specially with the 2 new bombs

I was able to do the BP mission in one GRB with Ju 288

Also, is a lovely plane to air-SIM battles as well.

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this would work just fine, if you take your time. dont except to win any matches at that BR :D

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Its fast and annoyingly tanky aircraft. Made nearly of pure asbestos. With a good set of turrets and good coverage. From someone who fights them rather than plays them. It does look like a very good medium bomber, only really hurt by the limited ground target available in ARB

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The best money printing bomber, complete with hard hitting turrets, and the speed to get away from planes when you need it

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it’s a beast in ground.

fairly fast and with a nice payload.

Just dont fly in a straight line towards the zone but take your time and try to avoid other planes until you have dropped your bombs.

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cancer and a plague

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288 has almost single handedly ruined 6.0 air, but it’s still an unbeatable SL earner and for germany a fantastic RP maker. I can’t fault you for picking it up even though I HATE the thing.

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on the bright side I think 6.0 mm has been freed at least a little, I dont seem to get 6v6 anymore

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For me,it’s a pretty good opponent if the user KNOWS how to use it properly,it’s pretty manueverable,and tenacious,making it harder to hit down.

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Yes totally agree

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May i ask why you bought it and flew it just 3 times?

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Its the single best SL printer in the game from a passive gameplay standpoint and its not even close.

All you do is point your nose at a base, watch youtube or whatever for 2 minutes, drop your bombs, fight off people on your tail if they are there, point at airfield, afk again, land, takeoff rinse and repeat. It’s the one of the fastest bombers in the entire game relative to what it fights, and basically only touchable in full uptiers.

Don’t ping for a base, and don’t respect them either. Point at a base, when you come back look at the minimap, if someone is in front of you heading for that base its not yours anymore switch bases. Obviously check heading before you point at a base too, make sure you are in front for that one.

The turrets are also very deadly, if you get decent at them you’ll be at least criting anyone that goes for you 80% of the time if you are paying attention.

Bring the napalm loadout, I think you can get 1 base with 2 and snag half of a second base. You can’t make custom loadouts otherwise just bringing 2 napalm would be better. I haven’t played it in a while you’ll have to see what nets you the most score, im guessing its the 3 napalm loadout. Check you score after getting 1 base and compare that to other loadouts, you want to run the loadout that gives you the most score for a single base. I don’t think the ju288 has any 1 base loadouts that isn’t severly over nerfed on rewards like the double 2500 but you can check.

My guess is the best loadout is either 2 1800kg or 3 napalm. Napalm weighs significantly less so your flight performance is going to be better, but if you get significantly less score for only getting 1 base vs 2 1800 and it forces you to get 1 1/2 bases to get similar score it might be better just running the 1800’s.

Or i have some SL boosters ill check, havent played this thing in forever.

Yep take 2 1800’s, you get the same for 1 base that you do for getting 1 1/2 with 3 napalm. You also don’t piss off someone on your team taking half a base, and you don’t have to stick around for longer its a no brainer.

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JU 288C are the most unrealistic and under tiered plane in War Thunder the pilots that use them religiously are responsible for more spawn camping than any others and because allied bombers don’t have Incendiary at br6 in sim the 288 completely ruins the game and causes half allies to quit by bombing spawns on all the fwd airbases especially Denmark which for some ridiculous reason in sim Gaijin has removed the AAA from fwd Airfields

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I own a ju288 but don’t use it as they are far to OP and unrealistic for me to the point they even get an airspawn in sim !! I have been a real pilot for 20 years and not even modern twin engine planes can climb 5000 ft vertical fully loaded like 288 does in sim and finally to top it all off they seem to have a never ending amount of ammo for tail Gunner unlikerest of bombers

The only bomber that can compete with ITIN sim is the Shackleton in brit tree yet Gaijin put that at 6.3 even tho the 288 outperforms it and is only at br6