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[Reitousair]

Well, seems like this thread is very dead and is effectively outdated as the last guide was posted pre-2.0.5, which changed a LOT of things, guess I'll try and hijack it a bit with post-2.0.5 stuff.

 

Going to do a slight reformat, however.

 

Name of plane:

 

Recommended (minimum) skill level: 

Availability/How to Obtain:

 

Tech tree plane(s) that flies/fights similarly:

 

Equipment slots:

Consumable slots:

 

Pros:

 

Cons:

 

Opinion/Overall review: 

[DISCLAIMER] Keep in mind that I'm referring to my experiences, your mileage can very well vary, especially on harder to fly planes with niche playstyles.

I'm going to restrict this list to tier 6+ planes (though I might have a couple <tier 6 planes) due to me not flying many premiums below tier 6.

I will also only go over premiums I own and have flown for more than ten battles.

 

Equipment and consumables have enough choices that various people use that I will leave that to preference, though hopefully my descriptions in tandem with knowing what slots are available will give you an idea of what you want to put on.

 

Also, I'm gonna make separate posts for each nation for the sake of edit-ability if I come back to this project because having each nation in one post will be a pain to edit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 03 December 2019 - 11:04 PM.

[Reitousair]

U.S. Aircraft

Tier VIII: XP-58 Chain Lightning

 

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in U.S. tech tree and premium shop 

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): P-38F/J, XF5U

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, gun

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, ammo, turret ammo

 

Pros: 

Extremely high firepower

Very high durability

P-38 flight model

Same gunner system as A-26B

Large boost pool (30s)

Great low-speed characteristics

 

Cons:

Fairly slow

VERY low roll rate

Short gun range

Somewhat weak boost

Mediocre climb rate (partially nullified by low-speed characteristics though)

 

Opinion: Overall one of the best tier 8 planes in the game, it's a right pain to fight a good player in one as they will either outslow you, or outspeed you long enough and use their healthpool to inflict a lot of crits with their gunners. There's no real way to climb away from one because it's like the Memecake (pre-nerf XF5U) where it just... goes, for a very long time, before stalling out (in fact I've been able to climb from 1km to 4.5km's without stalling before.) In general having a P-38 flight model with quad shotguns attached while also being twice the size is hilarious as you can quite easily delete people, maintaining excellent maneuverability for a heavy. Though, it does suffer from being pretty sluggish and has problems changing direction due to the frankly, awful roll rate.

 

 

Tier VIII: P-82B Twin Mustang

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Rarely sold in premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: P-47N (loose), XF5U (loose)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ordnance

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, ammo, ordnance

 

Pros:

High cruise speed (600KPH without ordnance, 576 with full load)

Very high cruise (off-boost) acceleration

Good climb rate

Good controllability

Highest maneuverability of any tier 8 HF (13.1s)

Great at low-speed maneuvers, does not lose much controllability when below minimum optimal speed

3rd highest DPS of any tier 8 HF (728 DPS)

All guns are mounted in the center of the plane

Twin-fuselage, hard to hit in head-ons

Large ordnance load

High configurability, many equipment builds function well on the P-82B

 

Cons:

Very low boost speed (750KPH with no load, 720KPH with full load)

Below-average dive acceleration

Below-average altitude (2000m)

Somewhat fragile

Low gun range

Bad bombs/rockets: same bombs as the XP-44 and marginally upgraded rockets over the F4F, ordnance load is narrowly better than the P-47N

 

Opinion: A decent plane with the ability to become one of the strongest in its tier. While the cruise speed is high the awful boost speed rivals that of the J7W1 and you don't have much altitude to play around in freely. However thanks to still retaining the Mustangs ability to climb reaching people in space isn't much of a problem. The agility is great and lets you dogfight other HF's with relative ease. The guns while they have bad range, you have 14 of them and as mentioned above you have the 3rd highest DPS of any tier 8 HF which in tandem with the awkward hitboxes of a twin fuselage plane make it devastating strong in head-ons capable of winning almost any match-up--provided the opponent is a player, bots don't care about your weird hitboxes and will just kill you anyways.

Now, when you start equipping this plane you can change it from a decent plane into an insanely strong plane. Excellent cruise acceleration means you can hold any cruise speed easily, even if your cruise speed is in excess of your boost speed. Ordnance weighs down the plane a lot so pylons can discard 80% of the penalty meaning you can feel almost all of the benefits of speed-improving equipment which --thanks to the high cruise acceleration the P-82B-- can easily take advantage of and can hold speeds in excess of 800KPH with little-to-no boost. Alternatively you can kit it out for maneuverability and become capable of dogfighting light fighters, in fact with practice, skill, and luck, you can dogfight with fighters that have 10s turn times, possibly even lower but I haven't played around too much with this. As yet another alternative you can make the P-82B a capable fighter-bomber with faster ordnance reloads letting the P-82B be perfectly capable of dogfighting/escaping most enemies while still being able to assault mining plants.

It's genuinely surprising to me how night and day this plane is with/without equipment, and just how many different ways you can build it while still being a highly effective plane. The high cruise speed and even higher cruise acceleration with the amazing guns and high ordnance make the P-82B, so it would be in your best interest to learn how to use them if you want to fly this plane. I've really fallen for this plane and see it becoming one of my most played aircraft in the future.

 

 

Tier VIII: P-80A Shooting Star

Recommend Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): P-51H

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Copy/pastes almost everything from P-51H

Strong boost

High dive speed

High controllability

Notably high roll rate

Good climb rate

Nose-mounted .50 cals, great at shredding enemy aircraft and better than the guns on the P-51H

Good altitude

 

Cons:

Somewhat short burst length for .50 cals

Long gun cooldown

Somewhat fragile

Lower altitude than P-51H

High minimum optimal speed

Somewhat prone to critical damage

Somewhat low cruise speed for a fast high-alt fighter

 

Opinion: An excellent tier 8 plane, akin to the Vampire being a tier 8 Attacker, the JL-1A-37 being a tier 8 MiG-9 and the Ho-229 being what the Ta-183 always wanted to be at tier 8, this plane is an FJ-1 at tier 8. It's everything you know and love (and possibly hate) from the Mustangs but improves upon the Mustang playstyle with nose-mounted guns and considerably more powerful boost. While the P-51H can already shred things, the P-80A makes the .50 cals a proper buzzsaw and with your very high roll rate in tandem with controllability you can stay with people quite easily. However the really high minimum optimal and somewhat bad heat cycles on the .50 cals (bad range is just a given) can really put a damper on just outright dominating. Stay high, stay fast, but don't be afraid to take some risks with this aircraft as once you get a handle on it, you can maneuver with your targets and saw right through them.

 

 

Tier VII: XP-75 Eagle

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): P-51D/K, Bf-109Z (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Most maneuverable of the tier 7 heavies.

TEN .50 caliber machine guns, the best example of a DPS hose

Fairly high dive speed

Good climb rate

Good dive acceleration

Effectively no maximum optimal speed, only dive speed is beyond maximum optimal

High cruise speed

 

Cons: 

Low healthpool

Somewhat low boost speed

Small boost pool for a heavy (20s)

P-51's effectively outperform it in every area but firepower

Same guns as the P-40, a tier 5 plane

Engine is EXTREMELY vulnerable, almost guaranteed to get critted upon damage (yes, the XP-75 is single-engined, IRL it's two smaller engines conjoined into one)

 

Opinion: An underrated tier 7 plane, though not without reason. The guns suffer from pathetically short range for tier 7 and individually each gun has abysmal DPS, you don't have the raw healthpool to take a ton of damage either. However, you have ten awful guns, four nose mounted, and six wing mounted, and ten X almost nothing = something; the sheer DPM is hilarious as the guns take a very long time to overheat and you don't need to aim much to shred people --especially if they're maneuvering. The performance is great once you get some practice with it and it can even carry some ordnance if you're in a pinch.

However... there is a very unique aspect of the XP-75; the P-51D/K is the only hard counter to it. Even the I-220 has a way for the XP-75 to run away/kill it, however the XP-75 is a heavier Mustang in every way which unfortunately means you lose some performance and therefore can't escape a competent Mustang pilot. Good thing they're very rare so this barely matters anyways, but, it is something to note.

 

 

Tier VI: A-26B Invader

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in tech tree and premium shop (somewhat common reward plane from leaderboard events)

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Ju-88A, Pe-2 M-82 (fairly loose, arguably no planes fit)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, turret, ordnance

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, turret ammo, ordnance

 

Pros:

Fairly fast

Somewhat strong boost

Large boost pool (60s)

Six .50 caliber machine guns in the nose

Two twin-.50 caliber 128 DPS turrets

Solid climb rate

Decent dive acceleration (if you want to pretend to be a heavy fighter, I guess?)

Very fast ordnance reload time

 

Cons:

Somewhat flimsy, prone to crits

Engines are made of glass

Bomb load is awful for tier 6 (1600lbs/725kgs vs. Ju-88A's 2200lbs/1000kgs at tier 5)

Front guns are inaccurate, especially with no sniper view for bombers

Short-ranged forward-firing guns

 

Opinion: A very fun bomber that can prove quite effective, actually. The bombload is... well, trash. But with practice it's still effective against all but the heaviest of sectors. The guns are funny to troll enemy aircraft or kill ADA if you failed to flip a cap, the turrets are excellent for tier 6. However nothing can save it from how crit-prone it is, especially the engines. It can be extremely painful to deal with heavy fighters since your front guns aren't powerful enough to kill them quickly and they will likely inflict heavy damage, even in a head-on. While your turrets are great a lot of heavies at tier 6 are also great, especially when their target has been crippled badly. When you luck out and don't get crippled though, heavies aren't awful to deal with provided they aren't specialized.

 

 

Tier VI: XP-55 Ascender (aka the [edited]ender

Recommended Skill Level: Low-Medium

Availability: Obtainable only by completing the XP-55 personal mission set

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Spitfire V, P-51A

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Low turn time

Good dive acceleration

Good dive speed

Good acceleration

Very controllable

All guns are nose-mounted

 

Cons:

Fragile, does not have massive wing hitboxes unlike the Spitfire

Very high stall speed for a turnfighter

High minimum optimal speed

Four .50 caliber machine guns are somewhat weak for a turnfighter

 

Opinion: Certainly not like the... ehhh let's not risk getting a warning for undesirable language about donkeys; XP-55 in that other game which has planes and is a popular MMO which was brokenly overpowered. Here, it's a very solid plane that can do what no other turnfighter can, chase people that try to BnZ it. The guns perform better than the P-51A due to their mounting and due to being a turnfighter you'll usually be close to your target so not much in the way of complaining about the firepower, however compared to other turnfighters, not the best armament. The main flaw of it is the excessively high stall speed and minimum optimal, it makes it very hard to sustain fights against other turnfighters and you're not quite fast enough to just run away from them. Is it worth the effort of the personal missions though? Yes, it's a solid plane, but, well, when I get to the British later it'll give you an idea why I recommend the Vampire missions over Ascender's first.

 

 

Tier VI: P-39N-1

Recommended Skill Level: Low

Availability: Only sold occasionally in the premium shop or given as a reward, hard to obtain unless you used a code back in 2017

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): La-5 (loose)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Good turn time

Extremely controllable

Excellent combination of guns

Good heat cycle for the 37

 

Cons:

High stall speed for a turnfighter

High minimum optimal speed

 

Opinion: An excellent aircraft that doesn't really do anything poorly. The high responsiveness allows for extremely smooth maneuvers which does a lot of favors for using the guns. The 37mm while a little inaccurate, is still serviceable and hits extremely hard for a turnfighter, the .50 cals help supplement the 37mm, and the .30 cals do a good job of maintaining constant DPS on people when in close range. Extremely forgiving in all aspects though the speed is mediocre, but hey, better than being outright bad, right?

...Spitfires can still be a bit of a pain to deal with though if the 37mm decides to troll you.

 

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 11 January 2020 - 10:08 PM.

[Reitousair]

Soviet Aircraft

Tier VIII: I-260

 

Recommend Skill Level: Expert

Availability: Available in tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Su-9, MiG-9 

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

57mm delet gun (insanely high per-shot damage and range)

Solid 23mm backup guns

INSANE dive acceleration, possibly the best in tier 8

Very high dive speed 

Very high top speed

Strong boost (however the plane needs to be ~500kph before it accelerates properly)

Somewhat large boost pool for a multirole (15s)

 

Cons: 

57mm potato cannon (extremely low velocity and somewhat inaccurate)

NS-23's have awkward hit registration at times

Maneuverability is a myth

Very high minimum optimal speed

Very low maximum optimal speed

Very high stall speed

Multirole altitude cap

Basically requires a good internet connection to use

 

Opinion: An aircraft that can be either extremely good, or utter garbage. The pilot can make or break this plane as it straddles a very fine line of performance with a very unique set of characteristics. Still, it's a MiG at heart despite the awful maneuverability and is excellent at BnZ. It's fascinating that the dive acceleration is so good that you can dive slightly to gain a lot of speed and then climb if you want to gain altitude (yes, this works, WoWp """""physics"""" can be funny.) The 57mm if you know how to aim it is truly devastating and is full-well capable of one-shotting some planes but at the same time the velocity is so bad that you basically need <150 ping to make it consistently hit. The armament overall is hit-or-miss, but when you never miss you can take on heavy-fighters, head-on.

Oh, also, be prepared to be called a hacker once you learn how to use the 57 on this thing.

 

 

Tier VII: La-9RD

Recommended Skill Level: Low-Medium

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): La-7, La-9

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Extremely strong boost

One of the highest climbrates in tier 7

Accurate guns

Somewhat high healthpool

Somewhat durable

High boost speed

Has two engines (technically, it seems jets can be critted to lose 6s of boost, but if prop engine is critted all boost is lost)

Very good maneuverability

 

Cons:

Low damage output, only two 23mm cannons

Very long cooldown on guns; cooling is longer than burst length

Low maximum optimal speed

Low cruise speed

Struggles to take advantage of high boost speed due to above speed problems

Stiff elevators, might have problems entering turns

 

Opinion: A fun, somewhat effective plane with a niche for pursuing/intercepting attacking aircraft while defending a sector. The guns restrict the La-9RD's ability to kill, not through their damage output, but due to their lengthy cooling time, even tap-firing causes frequent overheats and jams without practice since the guns refuse to cool down.Still, the La-9RD's extremely strong boost and high maneuverability make it excellent at chasing down aircraft that try to BnZ it or in general try to escape. This also means you can surprise people by quickly boosting to well beyond your optimal altitude and shooting them down but be mindful of your mediocre diving capabilities because you'll be left an easy target on the way down if you aren't aware of incoming enemies. It can be painful to play in tier 8 battles however since you really feel the lacking DPS and long cooldown time but when top tier, definitely a plane capable of getting work done just... don't expect to solo carry games in it.

 

 

Tier VII: 302 (aka I-302P)

 

 

Recommended Skill Level: High-Expert

Availability: Available in tech tree and premium shop (somewhat common reward for missions)

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): None

For the sake of giving you a comparison: Similar premium plane(s): Meteor Mk.I, J8M

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Extremely high speed

Very high dive speed

Good altitude

Fairly strong boost

Four 20mm cannons in the nose

Somewhat high crit-resistance

 

Cons:

High minimum optimal speed

Extremely fragile

Poor acceleration when not in minimum optimal speed

ShVAK cannons are obsolete for tier 7

Weird mounting, two guns in the nose and two guns below the nose

Guns overheat very quickly

Very bad maneuverability

 

Opinion: Not a particularly great aircraft, if I'm to be honest. Very fun to play but the guns do not work very well due to their weird mounting, hit registration, and short burst length. The acceleration isn't strong enough to quickly bail out of a situation and entering low-speeds at all is practically a death sentence if you are not extremely wary of your surroundings. Can still do some work, but the guns limit its ability to kill, the engines somewhat limit the ability to rocket away, and the maneuverability limits the ability to stay on target. But I must say, the Meteor X J8M flight/fight style is interesting to work with.

 

 

Tier VII: Tu-1

 

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in tech tree, very rare in premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Me-410, Yak-9U (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, guns, turret

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, ammo, turret ammo

 

Pros:

Two 45mm cannons

Solid backup guns

Both guns have the exact same muzzle velocity

Extremely high healthpool (700 HP!)

Excellent controllability

Two .50 caliber gunners

Small profile from the front and rear

Huge boost pool (45s)

Excellent low-speed characteristics (for a heavy)

 

Cons:

Somewhat awkward hit registration

NS-23's are in the wing-roots, HC-45's are in the bottom of the nose; lead isn't quite the same on both guns

Very low speed

Very low climb rate

Very bad maneuverability

Roll rate is almost nonexistent

Large profile from above/below

Gunners are somewhat weak

 

Opinion: An excellent aircraft that flies a lot like the Me-410. The problem comes is that you basically have Me-410 performance a tier higher, which is... not the best, to say the least. However thanks to the impressive controllability (responsiveness to input) it's full-well capable of dogfighting other heavies and it can fly slow enough that it's hard to get one to overshoot. To some extent it can hover behind a target and blast them away with the very high firepower. The hard stats may look like garbage, but, remember, you're effectively a Tu-2 but instead of bombs you devastate people with sniper cannons. It's infuriating to be flying a bomber and a Tu-1 approaches, high health, high firepower, long range, long boost, and low speed-- a very strong combination for making a bombers life difficult.

 

 

Tier VI: IL-1

 

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in tech tree

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Spitfire V (loose)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Extremely durable

High healthpool (450HP! Me-410 only has 400HP)

High controllability

Good maneuverability

Large boost pool for a multirole (15s)

Somewhat quick

Extremely long burst length (~12s)

Long ranged guns

Accurate guns

Fast ordnance reload (60s)

 

Cons:

Extremely bad speed (the IL-10 --a tier 7 GA-- is 15KPH slower)

Extremely low altitude (the IL-10 has 100m less altitude)

Somewhat stiff elevators

Small ordnance load (2X100kg bombs)

 

Opinion: A very situational plane that is excellent in said situation. Great for smaller maps with lots of sectors thanks to the long range of the guns and low speed of the IL-1. The surprisingly good agility lets it dogfight effectively everything but turnfighters which unfortunately bully the IL-1 with ease due to how slow it is and how low its optimal altitude is as well. Still, the IL-1 is not to be taken lightly and should be considered extremely dangerous if piloted well: it has the health to go head-on with even heavy fighters, the range to almost always engage first, and the maneuverability to either rapidly turn around or dogfight with on top of its very low speed meaning it can prolong its gun range advantage or already be turning as tight as it possibly can. Running away can be a problem thanks to the long gun range and the capability of the guns to hit beyond their max optimal range.

*flexes in camping power*

 

 

Note: the IL-1 actually lead to the development of the IL-10. This creates the amusing parallel of the IL-8 being a further development of the IL-2 and the IL-10 being a further development of the IL-1. While the IL-1 wasn't successful unlike the IL-2 the IL-8 was ultimately overshadowed by the IL-10.

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 03 January 2020 - 03:20 AM.

[Reitousair]

German Aircraft

Tier VIII: Ho 229

 

Recommended Skill Level: High

Availability: Unavailable, as of writing this still has yet to show up after the Secret Trials event

 

Similar tech tree plane: Ta-152

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns
Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

High boost speed

Fairly high cruise speed

High dive speed

Strong boost

High dive acceleration

High climb rate

Great altitude

Unusual fight model, capable of surprisingly sharp turns

Two Mk.103's taken from the Me P.1099 B-2, good RoF, range, and damage

Looks really cool

 

Cons:

Guns overheat in only a couple of shots

Guns are somewhat awkwardly spaced apart

Guns cool down somewhat slowly for a Mk.103

Bad turn time

Unique flight model, hard to learn

Somewhat poor controllability

Somewhat fragile

High minimum optimal speed

High stall speed

 

Opinion: An overpowered plane; one of the strongest in tier 8. It may be hard to learn at first but it's a terrifyingly powerful aircraft capable of going anywhere it wants, wherever it wants, and can attack whoever it wants. The guns are great once you are practiced and people struggle to hit you in a head-on due to how thin it is. The weird physics attached to it allow it to dogfight with planes far more maneuverable than it at higher speeds and it doesn't suffer from being crit prone which is nice, because if any control surface is critted you can't dogfight anymore. When played well it can control just about any engagement --even if it didn't start it.

 

 

Tier VIII: Me 109 TL

 

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop (one of the more common tier 8 reward aircraft during events)

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Fw-190 D, Su-9 (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Decent rate of climb

High dive speed

High dive acceleration

High boost speed

Large boost pool (15s)

Good firepower

 

Cons:

Bad maneuverability

Somewhat poor acceleration

High minimum optimal speed

High stall speed

Guns are somewhat inconsistent

Somewhat short burst-length

Lengthy cooldowns on guns

 

Opinion: A decent aircraft, not bad, but not good either. There's not much to write about it on here as the listed characteristics pretty much define it. The low acceleration is something to be careful about though, especially when you can't fly very slowly either, it's pretty easy to get caught up (trying to) dogfight and suddenly you're completely incapable of gaining speed until you drop altitude. Thanks to the high dive acceleration you don't have to lose too much altitude, but, well, you're probably dead if you need to drop altitude. The low acceleration also harms the ability to respond to situations or to perform anything but vertical BnZ. So... I may list a bunch of negatives here but with some practice you can work around them. Despite this, it still ends up only being decent while also being difficult to fly.

 

 

Tier VIII: Do 335 A-1 Pfeil

Recommended Skill Level: High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Me-209 A, P.1056

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, guns, ordnance

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, ammo, ordnance

 

Pros:

Large boost pool (30s)

High cruise speed

Very high dive speed

Unique Mk.103 (1km range!)

Very good back-up guns

Four 250kg bombs

Good roll rate, fairly easy to stay on target

Durable

Great altitude

 

Cons:

Awkward hit registration with the Mk.103

Very big, easy to hit

Turning is very stiff

Weak firepower for a tier 8 HF

Somewhat low boost speed and acceleration

Bombs greatly impact speed

VERY high minimum optimal speed

 

Opinion: A great aircraft capable of doing a bit of everything. Especially for going to altitude and diving on people. Despite being a great plane, it isn't quite a hard-carry plane since it lacks the speed to quickly get around and the firepower to quickly put heavier enemies down. It lacks the low-speed characteristics to hang around particularly well so... have to be a bit careful with it. But, hey, as long as you aren't up against a line-up of the strongest planes around, you'll dominate, and if you're up against a lot of the strongest planes around, you can handle yourself just fine.

 

 

Tier VIII: BV P.203

Recommended Skill Level: High-Expert

Availability: Very rarely appears in premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: Me-262

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, ammo, turret ammo

 

Pros:

High boost speed

Strong boost

Fairly high dive speed

Huge boost pool (40s)

Very powerful armament

Great altitude

Durable

Twin 13mm gunner

 

Cons:

All three guns have different ballistics

Dive speed is only 50kph higher than boost speed

Low cruise speed for a heavy

Wings are extremely prone to being critted, no airframe consumable to repair them either

Somewhat low climb rate

EXTREMELY bad roll rate, on par with some GA and bombers

Maneuverability, wait, what's maneuverability?

 

Side note: this plane uses two mixed-propulsion engines yet it only has two engines in-game, so if you happen to buy this plane, do be warned about that. This plane also comes equipped with the same Mk.103 variant as the Ta-152 which is the worst version of the Mk.103.

 

Opinion: A somewhat overpowered plane, you have a lot of boost and a lot of speed, paired with long-ranged, mid-ranged, and short-ranged guns. It's effectively the best bomber hunter in tier 8 thanks to the 40s of boost and 950m range guns. However, it does take some effort to bring the guns to bear on anything that has any semblance of maneuverability as the BV P.203 is a very unresponsive plane on top of being highly unmaneuverable. Still, you have a pair of guns for every occasion--even in your rear--so if you can wrangle the plane, you're sure to do a lot of damage.

 

 

Tier VII: Fw-190 A-8

Recommend Skill Level: High-Expert

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shopp

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Fw-190 A-5, Fw-190 D

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Extremely high firepower (marginally worse than Me-265 and Fw-190 D, more than an Me-410)

Highest cruise speed of any Fw-190 (beats Fw-190 D by 3KPH)

Gets cruise speed paint

Notably high roll rate

Most durable Fw-190, can take a beating

Large boost pool

Small minimum optimal speed band

 

Cons:

Is almost a complete copy-paste of the Fw-190 A-5, a tier 6 plane

Extremely low boost speed

Very bad maneuverability

Bad altitude

Below-average climb rate

Guns are somewhat inaccurate

30mm cannons are halfway down the wings

Bleeds speed excessively quickly

Somewhat sluggish

Somewhat high stall speed

 

Opinion: A bad, but not completely irredeemable plane. The sheer firepower in tandem with the healthpool makes the 190 A-8 somewhat apt at ground-pounding or going head-on with HF's. The abnormally high cruise speed can also be useful for hanging out above your pitiful optimal altitude. But, unfortunately, this is a(n) (arguably inferior version of a) Fw-190 A-5 upgunned and uptiered. While the A-5 is a great tier 6 plane, it has problems fighting tier 7's, now take that plane and make it fight tier 8 planes. I would tell you about my experiences fighting Vampires and Ho-229's in this thing, but I believe one could already color in all the details of how frustrating that would be and thus I shall refrain from going into detail about giving myself a new hairstyle.

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 04 December 2019 - 10:17 PM.

[Reitousair]

Japanese Aircraft

Tier VIII: J8M Shusui

 

Recommended Skill Level: "Super-Expert"

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: None

To get some sort of comparison: Similar premium plane: 302

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Strongest boost in the game

Highest boost speed in tier 8

Highest dive speed in tier 8

Best altitude in tier 8

Extremely good climb rate

Powerful armament

Decently high roll rate

Somewhat low stall speed

 

Cons:

Bad maneuverability

High minimum optimal speed

Very bad cruise speed, well below minimum optimal speed

Only two guns that overheat quickly, and are short-ranged

Extremely fragile

Crit prone

Extremely prone to fires

 

Opinion: A very fun, but very niche plane. Would not recommend, extremely hard to fly, let alone do well in. But being a rocket can be really fun as you enter/exit any engagement you want and the guns hit hard.

If you really feel up to the challenge: the J8M is a capable aircraft in skilled hands with the insane speed and acceleration it wields, the guns while short-ranged are somewhat accurate and hit extremely hard, and the maneuverability is just barely enough to win dogfights with HF's. But keep in mind I said skilled hands, extraordinarily few people are able to use this aircraft effectively; even some of the best players struggle greatly with the J8M. It is not an aircraft one should buy without second thought (unless you just want bootleg Me-163 as hangar decoration) as the extreme difficulty of flying it does not bode well for ones sanity, credit-earning efficiency, or statistics if you're into those. So, be warned if you really feel up to it: trying to git gud at the J8M is a hard commitment to uphold.

 

 

Tier VII: J4M Senden

 

Recommended Skill Level: High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): F6U, F7U, MiG-9 (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns

 

Pros:

Very high boost speed

Very high dive speed

Great dive acceleration

Large boost pool for an LF/MRF (15s)

Nose-mounted 30mm cannon

Somewhat durable

 

Cons:

Bad maneuverability

Poor low speed characteristics

Low altitude

Guns overheat quickly

Guns cooldown slowly (especially the 30mm)

Hit registration can be awkward

 

Opinion: A sorely overlooked aircraft, it plays a lot like higher tier aircraft and can approach tier 8 speeds quite easily. It hits hard and goes really, really, fast while having just enough agility to stay on target. It's great at hunting heavy fighters who dare fly low (in fact with bombs equipped it's only slower than the Hornet) with the absurd speed and high dive acceleration. The J4M can even pick fights with tier 8 aircraft, just... don't expect to survive all the time; the J4M may be good but it's still a tier 7 plane.

 

Tier VII: Ki-94-I

 

Recommended Skill Level: High-Expert

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Bf-109 Z (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, guns, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Insanely high firepower, same raw DPS as the Me-262 but a tier lower

High cruise speed

Fairly quick

 

Cons:

Low boost pool for an HF (20s)

Extremely poor maneuverability

Very awkward gun mounting (two guns halfway down each wing)

Guns overheat very quickly

37mm cannons cool down slowly

 

Opinion: A weird plane that certainly provides a unique experience. You pretty much go all-in on firepower at the cost of maneuverability, other than that there's not much that's terribly noteworthy about it. It's a decent aircraft but extremely hard to use.

 

 

Tier VI: Ki-88

 

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: None

Similar premium plane(s): P-39N-1, P-39Q-15

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Very powerful armament

Good altitude

Fairly agile

 

Cons:

Fairly fragile

Guns cooldown slowly

Mediocre speed hurts ability to use altitude

 

Opinion: A decent aircraft, it hits a lot harder than the P-39's but it's not much faster and is considerably less maneuverable while being pretty flimsy itself. Still, it can be fairly amusing to go head-on with tier 7 planes and casually blast them out of the sky due to the firepower in your nose and being Japanese it's still able to fly slowly. While nothing special, it's an intriguing plane to fly.

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 04 December 2019 - 10:34 PM.

[Reitousair]

British Aircraft

Tier VIII: DH.100 Vampire F.1 (shortened to just Vampire)

Recommended Skill Level: Low

Availability: Obtainable through the Vampire personal mission set

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Me-209 A, Spitfire XIV 

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Very strong boost

Very high speed

Fairly high dive speed

Great climb rate

Decent dive acceleration

Great low-speed characteristics

Very maneuverable for listed turn time

Fairly controllable, though bricks at higher speeds

Solid armament, four nose-mounted 20mm cannons

 

Cons:

Guns are somewhat inaccurate and overheat somewhat quickly

Somewhat fragile

Low altitude

Pitch responsiveness can be a bit stiff

 

Opinion: The most powerful plane in tier 8 currently. No hard counter to it exists and it always holds some advantage over an enemy. Not very good at taking out bombers and kinda weak at GA hunting as well, but there's effectively nothing better when it comes to fighting other aircraft. It always has either a huge speed advantage or huge maneuverability advantage over its opponent (not counting equipment.) A very easy way to describe it would be, "It's the Attacker but without the altitude and tier 8." A lot of the performance characteristics it has are very similar to those on the Attacker, which helps make it a very straightforward, effective aircraft to fly. Just take care to not let people get easy shots on you, you may have some armor, but your healthpool won't keep you flying for very long under fire.

 

 

Tier VII: Meteor F.I

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): I-220, Hornet (loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Quad nose-mounted 20mm cannons

Fairly strong boost

Good climb rate

Very high dive speed

 

Cons:

Guns overheat quickly

Bad maneuverability

Somewhat low boost speed

Low altitude

VERY prone to fires

 

Opinion: A good tier 7 fighter. The firepower in tandem with the boost alone makes it pretty good as long as you don't try and dogfight a lot with it. It is a bit awkward however that it's a fairly slow, low altitude aircraft despite being a jet in tier 7. But, no matter, you have the dive speed to chase after HF's and the guns to rip them apart as well, you win-headons with just about every LF/MRF at tier 7 and usually you can get away... provided you have some fire extinguishing capability to save you from all the fires you'll be suffering; it's not even a Japanese plane!

 

 

Tier VI: Mustang IA

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): P-51A, F4U-1

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Quad 20mm cannons

Effectively retains all of the soft stats from the P-51A

Same dive speed as P-51A

Same boost pool as P-51A (10s)

 

Cons:

Guns overheat very quickly

Dumpsters P-51A's hard stats

Less durable than P-51A, somewhat fragile.

Slower than P-51A, fairly slow

Less maneuverable than P-51A, bad maneuverability

Less altitude than P-51A, somewhat low altitude

 

Opinion: A very good tier 6 aircraft due to the fact it retains all of the soft stats of the P-51A but pairs them with VERY strong guns for the tier. The hard stats may look bad but despite what the paper says, it can do some serious work. Despite this, still not part of the tier 6 meta due to the awful hard stats limiting its ability to get around the map and handle enemy aircraft. 

 

Note: Please do not confuse this with the Mustang I when playing, as that plane retains almost all of flight performance of the Mustang IA but has almost the same firepower as the P-51A. I've seen a couple people thinking they could go head-on with the IA because they thought it was just a I.

 

 

Tier VI: Mustang Mk.I

Recommend Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Occasionally sold in the premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: P-51A

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Effectively retains all of the soft stats of the P-51A

Same dive speed as P-51A

Same boost pool as P-51A (10s)

Extremely forgiving heat cycles on the guns: slow heating and somewhat fast cooling

Slightly more maneuverable than Mustang Mk.IA

 

Cons:

Dumpsters P-51A's hardstats

Less durable than P-51A, somewhat fragile

Slower than P-51A (and most planes in tier 6, for that matter.)

Less maneuverable than P-51A, fairly bad maneuverability

Less altitude than P-51A, restricted in ability to use dive speed

Extremely bad firepower; short-ranged, low DPS, inaccurate

 

Opinion: A very bad tier 6 aircraft that has little going for it. While it is almost a complete copy-paste of the Mustang IA the extremely short range of the guns in tandem with their low DPS make the performance exceedingly unforgiving if enemies react to your presence. In fact it arguably has worse guns than a stock P-51A thanks to the bad accuracy of the guns. In effect, there is nothing salvageable about this aircraft as the strong points are rendered moot by the guns. Do not buy this aircraft.

 

Note: Please do not confuse this plane for the Mustang IA. The Mustang Mk.I is somewhat harmless in a head-on while the Mustang IA will win head-ons with most aircraft in tier 6. It is very important to distinguish if somebody is in the Mk.I or IA as these are two wildly different aircraft in their capabilities (almost all of which is down to the weapons used.)

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 03 January 2020 - 03:24 AM.

[Reitousair]

Chinese Aircraft

Tier VIII: IL-10M

No, it's still not happening.

 

Tier VIII: JL-1A-37

Recommended Skill Level: High

Availability: Rarely sold in premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): F6U, MiG-9, MiG-15bis

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

High cruise speed

High boost speed

High dive speed

Great dive acceleration

Great climb rate

Almost the exact same armament as the MiG-9, but a tier lower

Good altitude

Somewhat low minimum optimal speed

 

Cons:

Guns overheat VERY quickly

37mm cannon cools down slowly

Very bad maneuverability, particularly exacerbated by mediocre controllability

Prone to fires

High stall speed

 

Opinion: The JL-1A-37 borders or just crosses the line of being overpowered. While the maneuverability is just enough to stay on target and nothing more, it effectively copy-pastes everything else from the MiG-9 onto a tier 8 plane and gives it a new look making it quite powerful for tier 8. But the severe lack of maneuverability is what cripples it from casually dealing with every match-up it can see as in tier 8 some planes can turn better than it and also fly almost as fast, as fast, or even faster than it. The guns also suffer from the short range of the 37mm cannon which while accurate, is short-ranged which can put a serious damper on your ability to go head-on with people. Not to mention the constant fires you'll be having akin to the Meteor I.

 

 

Tier VII: P-51K

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): P-51A/D/H

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

An almost perfect copy-paste of the P-51D

Great energy retention, especially in turns

Somewhat large boost pool for an LF (12s)

High dive speed

Good rate of climb

Good altitude

Good controllability

Good roll rate

Fairly durable, fires are very rare

Slightly better muzzle velocity than P-51D

Slightly better unboosted climb than P-51D

 

Cons:

An almost perfect copy-paste of P-51D

Low gun range

Considerably less burst length than P-51D (according to a datamine website and what I've seen from P-51D gameplay)

Somewhat high minimum optimal speed

 

Opinion: A very good aircraft, but severely limited by the range of its guns. If you like the P-51D, you'll like the P-51K, if you hate the P-51D however, you'll also hate the P-51K. I would recommend getting the P-51D for yourself to see if you want a version that prints out a lot more credits, but, alternatively, if you want to see what the P-51D is like then the P-51K is for you.

 

 

Tier VI: Mosquito 26

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: Mosquito

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, guns, ordnance

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, ammo, ordnance

 

Pros:

Large boost pool (30s)

Decently high speed

Consistent, mid-ranged firepower

Large ordnance capability

Bombs stored internally, do not effect speed

 

Cons:

Less speed than Mosquito

Less maneuverability than Mosquito

Bad low-speed characteristics

Bad high-speed characteristics

Low altitude for a heavy

Low firepower for a tier 6 heavy

Not much armor, loses health quickly

Very sluggish, in cruise, boost, and dive

Low climb rate

Bleeds speed very heavily in turns, even compared to the original Mosquito

 

Opinion: Not a very good aircraft. The Mosquito is already a plane that's decent, but making the Mosquito worse when tier 6 has some of the strongest HF's in the game? Unless you're a Chinese aviator like me, hard pass, it's not worth the money. Just go play any of the other tier 6 HF's and they'll probably make you more money from their superior performance characteristics. Now, this isn't to say it's unusable, however it takes some adjustments to the Mosquito playstyle to deal with an inferior version of it. Probably not worth the effort it takes anyways, if you're thinking about buying this: don't.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 30 November 2019 - 07:48 AM.

[Reitousair]

European Aircraft 

Tier VIII: J21RB

Recommended Skill Level: Medium

Availability: Available in tech tree only

 

Similar tech tree plane: Sea Hawk

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ordnance

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, ammo, ordnance

 

Pros:

Great dive acceleration

High dive speed

Very strong boost

Retains speed very well

Good climb rate

Above-average boost pool (10s)

Extremely controllable, highly responsive to any inputs

Powerful ordnance that reloads quickly (60s!)

Rockets are mounted under nose, easy to aim

Very good burst length

20mm cannon cools down somewhat quickly

 

Cons:

Somewhat low boost speed

Lacking acceleration when cruising

Mediocre turn time, partially offset by controllability

Cripplingly bad altitude, partially offset by service ceiling and boost power

Most of your firepower is short-ranged .50 caliber machine guns

20mm cannon is somewhat inaccurate

Lengthy cooldown time on the machine guns

Rockets induce a heavy penalty to speed (20kph)

Somewhat prone to critical damage

VERY low maximum optimal speed, especially for the dive acceleration

Almost complete loss of control beyond 700kph

 

Opinion: copy-paste from this thread:

I've described it before: "It's like a Sea Hawk but tier 8 where the Sea Hawk statline actually works."

 

On paper it doesn't look very good but it has excellent dive acceleration and controllability which with proper application makes it very good at running away or dogfighting things. Like the Sea Hawk the boost is pretty powerful and allows you to just kinda... climb, especially with a turbine equipped you pretty much don't lose speed when climbing until you reach red altitude. Do beware of the very low max optimal speed though, the J21RB bricks pretty quickly and doesn't like to drop speed all that fast so you might have problems entering/exiting dives/turns. Also you're probably not going to have much of a chance against most specialized aircraft as they likely have equipment to render any advantages you have moot.

 

The 20 is very good but mediocre on the accuracy, while the .50 cals are very accurate and will shred things plenty fine once you get close enough. It's surprisngly good at going head-on actually, the firepower while short-ranged is accurate enough to do some damage and you have the healthpool to take a few hits on top of the plane having some armor to lessen the damage taken, don't push your luck against full-health targets though as you WILL lose the DPS race and you will likely lose the ram as well (too lightweight to safely ram.) The ordnance is good and reloads quickly which means it's surprisingly apt at ground pounding.

 

However, you still suffer from being like the Sea Hawk, you're a decent all-round aircraft with a few good niches but the hardstats just aren't enough to make it good. It's certainly not a bad aircraft, but it can be a bit hard to get used to and requires a fairly familiar hand to wield properly.

 

 

Tier VII: VB-10

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in both tech tree and premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane: F7F (somewhat loosely)

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, engine, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Huge boost pool (40s)

Very high, consistent firepower

Maneuverable for a tier 7 HF

Twin-engined, engines are not particularly prone to crits either

Very resistant to fire

 

Cons:

Very low controllability, not responsive to input

Bleeds speed excessively quickly

Bad low-speed characteristics

Very poor acceleration when cruising, boosting, and diving

Low altitude, awful climb rate

Wing-mounted guns, compounded by very large wingspan

Slow

Low healthpool

Guns have questionable accuracy

 

Opinion: A pretty mediocre plane. It's great at shredding everything that dares take it on, provided it gets its guns on target, and provided they hit. Top tip when fighting one of these: don't get hit. The sheer firepower is enough to quickly rip apart even bombers. However, in order to use this firepower you pretty much have to fight this plane every step of the way, from reaching your target, to maneuvering on target, to actually hitting the target. You have the same healthpool as the XP-75 but are far more likely to get shot than the XP-75; the VB-10 is a pretty big plane on top of it's thoroughly mediocre performance. Probably one of the worst purchases I've made though I can't say I particularly regret it, the raw firepower and turn time it holds can be amusing to play with but, phew... compared to the J21RB above which is highly responsive to what I want it to do, the VB-10 puts up a fight when it comes to controlling it.

 

 

Tier VI: S-199 Sakeen (aka the Messer[edited])

Recommended Skill Level: Medium-High

Availability: Available in tech tree, occasionally sold in premium shop

 

Similar tech tree plane(s): Bf-109F/G, Bf-109 E

 

Equipment Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, guns

Consumable Slots: Cockpit, airframe, engine, engine, ammo

 

Pros:

Copy pastes the soft stats of the Bf-109 F

Excellent controllability

Retains and bleeds speed in a controllable manner

Somewhat quick when boosting

Above-average boost pool (12s)

Great low-speed characteristics

Extremely accurate guns

Four small bombs, but they reload quickly (90s)

Somewhat durable, not particularly crit-prone nor fire prone as well

Has a gun equipment slot, unusual for anything outside of heavy fighters in period 2

 

Cons:

Dumpsters the hardstats of the Bf-109 F

Very low cruise and boost speed

Fairly bad maneuverability

Standard multirole altitude, boost not strong enough to fly much higher

Somewhat low firepower for a multirole in tier 6

 

Opinion: A fairly fun plane as it copies the soft stats and flight style of the Bf-109 F while having more firepower than it. However the hard stats are a severe drawback to it doing much against a lot of the more powerful tier 6 planes. It's the Mustang IA of the Bf-109's, soft stats? All there, hard stats? Mostly gone, but it picks up firepower which helps greatly for taking down enemy aircraft, especially due to the great accuracy of the S-199's guns. I've even gotten several Gabreski medals with it thanks to the fast-reloading bombs, however despite this I wouldn't say it's a good plane to try and go for a Gabreski. You really need to know the limits of your ordnance and precisely where to place it. Would I recommend buying it though? Eh, I guess I would, but it's definitely not a must buy and can safely be skipped if you're looking for a good tier 6 premium.

 

 

 

Edited by Reitousair, 05 December 2019 - 11:34 PM.

[Reitousair]

Alright, phew, finally got all of my tier 6+ premiums written up about to some extent. I'll have to do some proofreading later to fix some inconsistencies and grammar but for now, I'm done.

 

Do feel free to add your own, this thread has been dead for quite a while but may prove useful for people if it gets new guides for post-2.0.5 content.

 

Also, if you have any questions do ask, especially with some of the terminology I use which may not be clear to some people.

[hoom]

Superb effort!

[SpiritFoxMY]

Vampire vs. Horten?

[vcharng]

Anyone have a guide about NC1070?

[Reitousair]

SpiritFoxMY, on 20 October 2019 - 01:35 AM, said:

Vampire vs. Horten?

 

Hmm, may I ask for clarification here? Not sure if you mean a comparison or the match-up between them.

Received clarification from elsewhere: I would say the Vampire is the superior aircraft. It wins more match-ups than the Horten thanks to the far superior maneuverability, and similar speed.

 

vcharng, on 20 October 2019 - 03:52 AM, said:

Anyone have a guide about NC1070?

 

I don't, but, hopefully others can help revive this thread with more relevant (post-2.0.5) information about premium aircraft.

Edited by Reitousair, 21 October 2019 - 03:38 AM.

[trikke]

thank you, Reito!

[hoom]

So how would you rate P-51K earnings vs Tu-1?

 

I'm kinda wanting to buy a 2nd T7 during current discount & I've recently repurchased P-51D, specialised it up & been quite enjoying tearing around with Ultimate gear so I quite like the idea of doing that but earning like the Tu-1.

 

I wanted to get the VB 10 but nobody seems to have much positive to say about it & I don't want to buy a mediocre plane thats not much fun to fly.

[SpiritFoxMY]

I'll let Rei know of your question but personally - get the Tu-1. It's a powerful meme machine and you'll end up earning more simply by virtue of murdering everyone - something which the P-51K can't match.

[hoom]

I have the Tu-1 its very good, earns very well.

But its not really the sort of thing I can spam & spamming the Vampire for Silver is getting a bit too repetitive so I want to get another high-tier Premium & am too cheap for a T8.

Edited by hoom, 28 October 2019 - 12:10 PM.

[trikke]

I love the vb-10.   

Fly it every time I get to T7, but I just bought the Tu-1 so it getting all the love currently

Only 4 battles in the Tu-1 so far, but the raw numbers are way above my average stats so far

 

Tupolev Tu-1

6 4 16 0

 

Aerial Targets Destroyed 7.33 44

Ground Targets Destroyed 0.00 0

Damage Caused to Aerial Targets 3,017.30 18,103

Damage Caused to Ground Targets 0.00 0

Edited by trikke, 28 October 2019 - 12:43 PM.

[Reitousair]

hoom, on 28 October 2019 - 02:57 AM, said:

So how would you rate P-51K earnings vs Tu-1?

 

I'm kinda wanting to buy a 2nd T7 during current discount & I've recently repurchased P-51D, specialised it up & been quite enjoying tearing around with Ultimate gear so I quite like the idea of doing that but earning like the Tu-1.

 

I wanted to get the VB 10 but nobody seems to have much positive to say about it & I don't want to buy a mediocre plane thats not much fun to fly.

 

I believe Tu-1 and P-51K have similar credit multipliers, only bombers/GA make notably less (even when prems) iirc.

 

However P-51K is also a lot harder to rack up high scores in and thus you'll generally be making less credits for similar amounts of work.

[hoom]

Well I've been scoring well & enjoying the D so I think this is going to be what I'll buy.