coordinated teamplay in warthunder random battles? Forget it! It is thing that never happens! How play it solo, that is question? I personally prefer energy fighters, but P51 really is not good for this, mainly because of very bad climb rate: you reach 4k meters and your team already lost or won. And, as OP said, after first and perhaps second attack it is just running away to the friendly AF or hell knows where, because it is losing energy pretty fast, but cannot climb away. it can be played, but this plane is massively overrated, as in WT environment (matchmaking, and random battle madness with rampant individualism ) it is less than mediocre plane.
“as long as you stay very fast and above 6-7 km”
Pointless advice. as battles hardly happen so high, it is 3k to 5k max!
Pointless comment. Why?:
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You refer to a comment describing fights vs the P-51 D-30 in a P-47. You haven’t even flown a P-51 higher than BR 3.7 and have zero matches in any P-47.
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I recommend to play a few dozen battles in any US fighter at 4.7/5.0 - You would be aware of that you meet quite nasty opponents - you are forced to get above 6 km to be somehow safe from Yak-3Us and A7M2s - even stuff like I-225s is dangerous…
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A battle or fight happens where you want it to happen. Fighting on the terms of your enemy is the first step to get killed. So if you main strength is at high altitude there is no need to go low.
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So if you fight at lower alt that does not mean that others would do the same.
This few games we get over 5k with p51 most of the team is already dead, or game is almost won. Please, come back to the reality of random battles!
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Because it was a plane filled full of fuel tanks, with good high altitude/high speed performance, designed to be mass produced, and its main job was to escort high flying bombers with the their long range.
The clue is in the name, Mustang.
In the game, high G penalty (airframe damage, manuverability, and pilot blackout) have way less effective on any planes.
High altitude performance is irrelevant because no one climbs anymore
Long range is useless (other than planes on ki 200 where range actually matter) and the excessive fuel tanks serve no purpose other than making your plane easier to burn
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It has middling performance at high alt. I’m surprised people keep bringing it up. I almost never take the fight there unless I’m fighting planes that have worse performance at high alt e.g La-7.
Plus its rudder at high speed is HORRENDOUS. Once Gaijin eased the F8F-1’s high speed rudder stiffening, I pretty much stay away from the P-51D-30 now. Had numerous times where I could’ve gotten a kill fast but the rudder just blows it for me (It’s historical though so I’m not going to advocate for a change.)
Well, when I fly my P-51K, which is basically a P-51D-30, sometimes I have Japanese planes as my opponents. And when you come across situations like this, you can hardly gain any advantage.
Not that much of a plane problem, squads are annoying and hard to deal with lol.