Hmmm…
450sp - 50 for reserve BT-5.
IF you go and cap you gonna have 600sp, so you are still short. And bt-5 will struggle against typical opponents at 4.7
Better to use would be that BT-7 with t-34 gun, it gets scouting, so it’s easier to gain SP.
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Wow haven’t played this BR in a long time last few games Yak 9 decimates teams…
Was it Gaijin’s intention to make Russian CAS broken at every Br.
Who balances this game and if we are talking tank killing power (which is how ground battle brs work) it could easily go to 6.3-7.0
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Exactly that :)
Checked stats and to no ones surprise this person is not good at the game.
So is Gaijin going to ever correct/uptier/fix/nerf this obviously broken aircraft? Or we going to continue to be subject to swarms of aircraft just one tapping all tanks.
I have no issue using SPAA against them, but the current APHE shell is just stupid strong.
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It wouldn’t be even that much of a problem, if APHE wasn’t modeled without any flaws, in addition to also overperform by having that magical spherical blast field.
Gaijin added realShatter to planes, only to make small explosive shells outperform Mineshell in damage to structure.
If there was realShatter for APHE, Gaijin would just buff it so much that it deals the same damage as before.
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AP and APCR are a complete joke compared to how deadly APHE is.
Like 500mm pen of 45mm APCR would still be less useful than 60mm pen with APHE, when you need five times as many hits.
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I must believe that op team is flying straight without dodging spaa or diving to hit ground verhicles.
Players voted not to change it, we are stuck with this nonesense
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Good Yak pilot can snipe any SPAA and the ones at this BR are slow to traverse and get angles on.
Sure a level flying one will be obliterated by an Ostwind 2
Well I have an issue. First of all, i’m bad with AA and i don’t want to become a master of it just to enjoy playing 5.x
Then, even if you have AA on your team, those will likely be german ones and they are purely useless, while also having enough armour to trigger the fuze of the Yak’s shells so that’s stupid.
No, those in support of the APHE change had a slight lead.
Gaijin decided to just not do it because according to them there wasn’t enough of a consensus.
Lazy slobs, I tell you.
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One Yak-9K rare because I see op team deploy one Yak-9K and other planes like F4U-4 are consider even firing rockets on spaa from safe distance.
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Good CAS is good CAS I have seen a P-47 destroy a team but that is with bombs and rockets.
The Yaks strength is cheap to spawn and 1 or 2 shots and it acts like a HS-129
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Yeah it’s an actually usable HS-129. That thing barely even flies and the yak is an UFO
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Thing continues to be essentialy an “I win” button. It absolutely demolishes tanks and I score air kill after air kill in it too, and 45mm works wonders as fuse sensitivity is, for whatever reason, 1mm, so it explodes more often than not.
It can be defeated by disciplined enemy AAA with multiple vehicles covering one another. Yeah. GL with that.
BTW I’m not even accurate at the moment, way too high mouse sensitivity. But I see it can snipe from 800-900m just fine. GL with most SPAAs vs tiny target at that distance and all Yak has to do is align for 1 shot. so vs skilled Yak player SPAA is toast.
I’m only skilled in the plane on plane combat, so my perspective is different and I usually avoid SPAAs, but thx to speed and size, as long as the distance is around 1km, I don’t worry much.
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“uh yeah WT is a team based game so you should coordinate 5 players to kill one braindead guy on a laser firing UFO”
who came up with that excuse?
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Gentlemen what the hell we are discussing for? In real life Yak9K WAS ABSOLUTELY BAD AND USELESS PROJECT. The cannon was too big and too powerful for such small aircraft. After couple of shots Yak9K was always in very bad condition, cannon was damaging seriously its airframe, engine etc. Moreover the power of recoil was almost deadly for pilots because the plane simply cannot fly properly, it was stalling and spinning. Additionally it was almost impossible to aim properly.
What Snail should do:
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Remove full APHE belt and add another which would have for example 1 APHE and 2 AP solid shells.
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Increase drastically propability of canno jam or make 100% propability of gun jam after 3-4 quick shots (less than 2s delay between shots).
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Increase drastically gun recoil, which will affect the flight of plane and increase gun dispersion.
4 (optional for real life experience) - after couple of shots there should be high propability that engine will start getting damage.
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