As title, it starts in 5 days and i’m trying to plan ahead to increase my chances and lessen the grind of it. The requirement is using a minimum of 35mm offensive armament caliber and destroying 15 player air vehicles while using an air vehicle yourself.
My problem is that i have skimmed through the planes that i own and can only find ONE plane that even has that high caliber main gun to begin with. So i’m a little confused on if there is something obvious i’m missing somewhere, like; does it include suspended armament as well (missiles) or is it only main gun? If it includes suspended armament then it’s absolutely not an issue anymore, but if it doesn’t then there are not many planes at all that has that high caliber main guns. The one i have found so far (that i have unlocked) is the Swedish T18B (57).
To give some ide of what i have available:
USA: I have almost all of the tree (missing a lot of foldered planes).
Germany: Only rank II
USSR: i have about half the tree up to rank VII (missing left most line and the second from the right).
Britain: I have up to Rank VI (missing left most and center lines).
Japan: Only rank II.
China: Everything up to Rank IV
Italy: up to rank III (missing bomber line)
France: Rank III (missing center line)
Sweden: Everything.
Israel: Rank IV only the two center planes.
Any and all tips and information on this Challenge would be greatly appreciated.
Take the 3 USA P-63s (4 if you have the King Cobra) and the PBJ-1H into air arcade, that’s 3 or 4 37mm and 1 75mm bomber vaporizer, all at the same BR except for 1 a fraction lower. Oh and the XA-38 if you have it. That’s 4 tech tree and 2 premiums all in the 3.3 to 4.0 range, with a lead marker to make hitting with the big guns easy!
If it’s like previous similar challenges then it may be best to separate out firing of the big gun from the others. Otherwise, in things like P-63s if you’re firing all guns at once, it may be the 50cal that does the “killing blow” and so it won’t count towards the challenge.
Also, Yak-9T is also good, and if you don’t have it should be an easy research before the challenge starts. (And the Su-6’s (and Il-8 if you have it) can be a quick way… just go head-on crazy and rinse/repeat).
Do you have the Russian ITP (M-1)? I’ve had tons of fun with that plane in Air AB. It can be sneaky at times and that 37mm gun does amazing things. I want to say it’s 4.7 in Air AB. Could line it up with a Yak-3T (37mm gun), Yak-9P (37mm gun), P-63A-5 (37mm gun) ,and maybe the Yak-9UT (45mm gun - but the 6.0 BR might be a little high). Get one of the domination maps and you could probably get all 15 kills in a single game. :)
I tried with the French P-63 but after 6 kills I got nothing.
I also picked to shoot only with the 37mm and got at least one kill but still din’t count.
It could have been a case of the stats not updating, even after a few battles. Did it end up coming good do you know? If you check the after-action battle report available in the hangar it should show what was the “killing blow” munition. I know you said you had the 37mm separate, but check it out anyway to see what happened.
Just as a general comment to this thread in general, here’s an example of me just blasting away with all guns in the French P-63 and with the after-action battle report showing the various killing blows:
My understanding is that the first one (green underline) would count, but the other three (red underline) wouldn’t.
you can try the yak9k(45mm) + yak9t(37mm) to complete that task in Air Arcade.(select the anti-air belt for both the 37mm and 45mm cannon, basically one-shot one kill), and can easily finish in 3-4 matches.
This - I didn’t even bother to use the cannon-only firing mode since if you hit with the cannon then it’s going to be the cause of a kill, not the machine-gun. Had P-39 and P-63 for backup IIRC, but never needed them.
You can legit use any plane with a cannon the size they’re asking. Just go into arcade. I got it in the me262 in about 8-9 games. Annoying challenge for sure. Not as annoying as player vehicle kills with 100kg bombs though. That was infuriating
