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.