It’s weird that my team can spawn fighters and spaa to kill other planes, or do I live in crazy town where only there, others can spawn CAP? Since you’re so worried about other fighters.
Sure at first. Drop them from a high altitude and carpet bomb and bam, you literally have more range than the 45mm. Once the bombs are dropped or carrying very little, I have, and have seen AD-2/4s or A-1Hs all be able to defense themselves. The only time they couldn’t was getting 2v1’d
BF-109 isn’t the greatest turn fighter to begin with? Spitfires almost always can and will put turn the yak.
It may be a good multirole but 29 rounds leaves CAP difficult, and CAS good. Depending on what your ratio of CAP / CAS is.
Also what do you have your gun sight set to?
(Suffice to say, I don’t care it goes up in br, I don’t even play it. But if it’s going up it should be for the right reasons).
Dogfight, not turnfight.
There’s more to dogfighting than turn fighting.
Yaks are very good at rolling at low-medium speeds (rolling at 580-600~km/h IAS feels bad/stiff) and have very powerful flaps that almost let them float without risk of going into a spin.
And I like comparing planes’ dogfight capabilities to bf109s because I enjoy flying bf109s and feel they’re one of the more versatile fighters that exist at 4.0/5.0 without feeling undertiered, and that versatility makes them both fun to fight and use compared to more boxed in aircraft.
those 29 rounds don’t affect flight performance and can be used in any order as desired. It’s not as good at anti-air as the air targets belt, but engine/cockpit shots remain just as effective, wingshots seem to be mostly his due to lack of material to reliably fuze against.
Usually 300 m vertical targetting, but in bf109 (mg151/20), p63a5 and yak-9k, I’ve come to prefer 600m vertical targetting and then aiming as if I was using 300 meter vertical targetting to give me that little extra lead to make shooting easier. Mustang Ia/F6F/F4U-4/italian planes/japanese props/spitfires it’s all 300 meters when shooting planes. Mustang Ia I sometimes shoot at tanks with (vanishingly rare choice) and set it to 600.
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I remember many years ago when I was in a match with another Leopard and we were simply shoot up by two SU-6 with 37mm guns. Couldn’t even defend us with that crappy MG 3 that doesn’t even elevate enough to hit planes with.
It’s pretty stupid that you can rush a cap and then immediatly spawn a flying tank destroyer.
So unless you’re team already started the match with some SPAA, that tactic is just always going to work out, unless you get beaten to the cap rush.
It’s hard to see any points with you, you’re extremely disagreeable with anyone, since you have what? 30k matches. So you believe only you are the one whom has an idea of how to play vehicles.
You literally mentioned before, that despite any vehicle, you know how to play it immediately, perfectly…
Sorry but again try to stay on topic as all the things were already discussed here.
It is always better to be able to fight the air and Yak always have a chance. Not to mention that no other plane in game has the same capabilities around that B.R.
Gaijin gave it higher B.R. already, I hope it goes to around 5.3
People play other games than WT, 65k matches means your either a bot or only play one game.
We’ve already had the bomb vs cannon discussion, and if you are as good as you claim, you should have absolutely no problem being able to use bombs to greater affect than your cannon.
(This is in relevant to effectiveness, if you couldn’t tell).
It feels suspicious it’s both your favorite vehicle, and you want it to go up in br. Almost like confirmation bias no?
How have I not been on topic? You took it off topic there guy. When you said “there’s no point in having a discussion”
If my point was that bombs are more effective that would be the case, but as I have said 45mm is far more capable and effective and there is no other air vehicle at the B.R. of Yak-9 that is as good as it is.
It is not my favorite vehicle, but as a normal person I have used it before I started talking about it in order to check how good it is and what it is capable of. I propose You should do the same as You will actually be able to understand the vehicle before discussing it.
I will just quote:
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As it was already discussed about Yak-9 anti air capabilities in the topic. Just saying “but someone good in the air can deal with it” is not a point worth discussing as it can’t be checked in any way.
What we know is that copared to other vehicles that are used anti-ground, the Yak-9 is both good at destroying ground targets and air ones compared to other vehicles used for the same reason.
It was your favorite the last time I checked your profile. Roughy when this thread started. Which is suspicious.
I play on console, it is far harder to be far more accurate with a controller, and before you bring up M&K, that’s just a no. Being generally good at the game, when I test flew the Yak, TU-1, and SU-8 in the past, pretty much only light tanks were super susceptible to the 45mms. (These tanks would die to 20mm as well easily). Mediums could be killed, depending on range and angle. Heavies are generally a long shot.
I think my favorite kill in my Tu-1 was skipping rounds off the ground beneath a Tiger H1 and blowing it up. (Took 3 rounds to kill his whole crew out of the 10 I fired).
It wouldn’t give you good data if I, the person with less matches tested that for you with bombs. Because option A: my data grossly out weighs yours, then you could just say I faked it as I assume you would. Option B: since I clearly don’t fly as much as you, the data becomes skewed lower, as you don’t have the same constants. To have actual sufficient data, you need constants, but change the variables.
