I have said the P-51C is undertiered many many times, maybe not here on the forum but I’ve done it. Yak-3 is also too strong.
5.3/5.0 while Yak-3 is 4.3 lol
Ki-61-II is worse than Yak-3 in most ways but is 4.7 instead
Yak-3U is much simpler to fly than P-51C or P-47D28. It has literally everything except high-altitude performance and a high dive speed, you can fly it with little game knowledge and still come out on top.
A 6.3 at 5.7, a mediocre 5.7, and a 6.3. 109 K4 hasn’t been good in… a long time, and the 3U holds most of the cards. For most altitudes it climbs faster, has higher top speed, turns harder and sustains turns better. That’s all you really need to know for that matchup.
fly any balanced 5.7/6.0 plane against a 3U, flown by someone with opposing thumbs, and come back to us
what playing 7.0 is like:
(it is not very good)
a whole BR higher btw
You should take a 4.3 instead like Ki-61-I Hei. Same battle rating so it’ll be balanced right?
like most 5.7 cuz of stuff like lf mk9 and yak3u and vk
(what i want to say is that the k4 is average for 5.7 if you take all the op bs out of that br bracket)
F4U4B lost its firepower advantage as 4 cannons hardly make a difference and flaps at some point got a lot worse.
But I can’t agree LF Mk IX deserves 6.3
I mean, with all airspawn maps it is kinda busted (though once at alt it no longer climbs well…), but at least it’s slow and fragile(nowadays everything is fragile, but 3U f.e can fly with 2 wings missing).
that’s true, since apparently turntime really is the only stuff a yak-3u has for it accordin to him.
You know since he also says P-47s are unkillable to yaks, why doesn’t he fly the 4.3 P-47?
When spraying hard in a head-on, yeah, to some extent. But for normal shots - naaah.
Generally +/- 1BR is brütal.
I have killed A LOT of Lf Mk IXs in Fw 190 D9/A8/F8. These are the ultimate s*itfire counter if one knows what he’s doing.
Lf if played right, can be super annoying, i remember how I met a guy with a great dodging game and I was relatively low on ammo. I basically had to push him all the way to the deck in Ta-152H, and as we started at 4000m, it took quite a while :D
6.0 would work.
At 6.0 sits Re.2005 VDM, which is worse armed and even slower. Yet I still consider it superior because Italy is superior by definition, god damn, I’m biased (I play Italy like a lot, haha).
Anyway, I see Lf MK IX at 6.0
And 3U at 6.0 too, but only if it gets its damage model/flight model fixed, so it actually suffers penalties for missing parts of the plane - right now catching a 1-winged 3U that has 3km on you (because you thought he’s dead) requires goddamn Do-335B2, because it can move like 20km/h slower than topspeed in level flight so Ta-152H can’t even hope to get it, and Bf 109 K4 will most likely fail too.
I don’t play RB so this comment will probably be useless just as an advanced warning. But in SB I don’t have any issues with the standard Yak-3 at 4.7 due to how busted some other 4.7’s are.
Granted there’s no denying it’s a powerful aircraft but that’s only at lower altitudes, up high most aircraft can munch on them. They’re an aerodynamically clean aircraft but that lack of engine power really hurts them in spiral climbs etc. Even on the deck a 109G-6 in my experience will out spiral climb a Yak-3 and up high it’s no competition (that said the G-6 is another aircraft that could be 5.0).
That said the Yak-3U is a bit of a monster that can only really be countered by aircraft that are faster or can dive away. Slashing attacks in the Sea Fury and the Hornet seems to work well against it.