Tips regarding ground attack in Air Simulator Battles for earning Event points

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Hello, I would like to ask few questions regarding the ground attack in Air Simulator Battles, for the first time I’ll dedicate a time to grind a event instead of only admiring the said plane in the Marketplace without the possibility to buy it;

At the moment the best plane and more confortable I have is the squadron vehicle from the USSR tech tree Su-22M3, which is easy to know that I’m not a good air-to-air player in general, I prefer attacking ground targets in air battle matches.

Before, I can also leaves some of my experience: Usually I carry full load of incendiary bombs, usually dropping two bombs/base, which makes me, as a player, not useful to target ground convoy, or naval fleet, neither trying to attack enemy airfields, which, I may be wrong, but Incendiary bombs seems to deal low to no damage.

  • What should I consider focusing during the match? (e.g. enemy bases, enemy airfields)
    • As said, two incendiary bombs is the best way I found to quickly destroy enemy bombs due to the continuous damage effect, but this also seems to give lower points compared to explosive bombs, should I reconsider my strategy? Considering that I never tried explosive bombs due to my poor skills on dropping bombs.
  • What’s the best or at least reliable way to quickly destroy enemy airfields;
    • Which weapons should I use? (e.g. explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, unguided rockets)
  • As I’ll use the Su-22M3 primarly, should I consider carrying one or two air-to-ground guided missiles to target ships, specially the carrier, if so, which model? If no, what I must consider, also, on said vehicle, is it good or not to target enemy carrier?
    • Also, how I should attack said target? from the top or from the lower sides?

I’m a newbie regarding Air Simulator Battles, so I may expand these questions to other vehicles, but I’m thankful for any helpful tips which I can apply.

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Incendiaries do extra damage on airfields as well. The biggest difference with other modes is that SB EC uses modular airfields, so you have to target specific locations to deal effective damage and eventually destroying the airfield. These modules are

  • Tents - They repair damage on other modules, so focus on this module first.
  • Hangars - Pretty easy to spot. Damaging it increases repair time for enemy planes.
  • Fuel depot - Increases refuel time for the enemy.
  • Runway - Self-explanatory. It has more HP than other modules. When destroyed it prevents enemies from spawning there.

The old wiki has a more in-depth explanation and a few images to visualize it better.

https://old-wiki.warthunder.com/Enduring_Confrontation#Airfields_and_their_Modules

As for what’s more effective, I’d go for bases. The Rolands around airfields make it pretty difficult to bomb airfields effectively with just dumb bombs.

Ground and sea targets give very little score per unit destroyed and they’re too risky to bomb without some good guided ordnance. Considering the payload you have per sortie I wouldn’t consider it worth it.

One thing to keep an eye out during the events are the “zombers” that will keep throwing themselves at your airfield. The overloaded F-111As and the F-4Es are very easy kills and a great way of boosting your score if you can find them. If you have the R-60Ms try going for head on or side shots to avoid the F-111’s MAW, or get in close and gun them.

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Thank you, I’ll consider this.