My condolences to those who put care and effort into the New Wiki, but it is just not acceptable and a big downgrade over the previous 2.0 Version.
I loved the vast amount of data it had, you could get info on literally anything in War Thunder, be it Missiles, Ammo belts etc.
What I loved in particular are the “Usage in Battle” as well as the Pros and Cons sections. The new Wiki had these outright deleted and replaced with some meaningless colourful bars based on player votes.
Usage in Battles
Old Wiki:
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Usage in battles
The P-51H-5-NA is a high altitude energy fighter. It has impressive performance against most props it may face and it can put a considerable fight against earlier jets. Compared to its German and British counterparts, it outperforms them by a fair amount in engine performance. The P-51H-5-NA can also be used as a strike fighter, as it can have great loadouts of combinations of bombs and rockets for this purpose.
Whilst having great engine performance, the P-51H-5-NA can turn impressively as well, out-manoeuvring most of its German counterparts. It has good ordnance, capable of shooting any aircraft down with relative ease, as well as being able to dodge incoming attacks by jets. It has a good climb rate which also gives it an option to put up a fight against jet encounters, being able to perform boom and zoom attacks as its energy retention is good. It has a tendency to break its wings while zoom climbing at speeds higher than 550km/h. It also uses high octane fuel, which means it has considerable susceptibility to fire.
At low altitude, fighting with a turn fighter mindset will mostly work. If jets are present, try not to drop your speeds too much, as you may need to dodge multiple shots. The P-51H-5-NA will not perform as good against jets, as it does not have comparable speeds. Boom and Zoom attacks are the most effective against jets, as this manoeuvre mostly removes the speed out of the equation.
Most enemies faced by the P-51H-5-NA will be easily taken down, but unfortunately it also faces jets from time to time. Me 262 and Ho 229 are the biggest predators of this plane. The Ho 229 will out-turn you while the Me 262 will outrun you.
Since the P-51H-5-NA has a good engine and fast climb rate, you should be higher than ALL the enemies since it’s going to be hard for allied planes to turn fight with both German and Japanese planes. This is one of the main advantages of American planes: powerful engines, to out-climb and out-speed most of their German counters, because most of the time, even a 1v1 turn-fight with a Bf 109 and Fw 190 will result of you being defeated assuming the pilot knows how to fly, in order to avoid this, Boom and Zoom is the best way to get a kill with a P-51H-5-NA.
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New Wiki
Especially with 80 Dollar Premiums now, I find this completely nondescript and intransparent New Wiki very questionable.
In my opinion, the 2.0 Version should be continued again. The only thing I like about the 3.0 Version is the vehicle comparsion feature.
This Video should sum up the problems with the new Wiki better than I could:
