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[TheBronzePickle]

The KV-1 has spaced armor on the front, but it's open at the machine gun turret and the driver's viewport. It's hard as hell to land a shot in either of them, but if you do it's generally pretty painful for the other tanker.

As for AI, they're pretty much the same as any other tank of their type except for slightly less effective guns than normal, but it's generally harder to actually land shots in them that do significant damage because in most cases they're so under-tiered and relatively thinly armored that shots go in one side and out the other without detonating... or even really slowing down, for that matter.

[Jopax]

So I've been playing this again for about a week, had some fun games, had some shitty ones.

But today, I got the wagers thingy, had one for the Antimech/Thunderer, so I say why not, hop into my ground strike planes and proceed to do fuck all due to a combination of shitty maps (HELLO NORWAY) and shitty flying on my part.

The pinnaccle of the evening which made me uninstall again was when I was flying my Mitchell against pillboxes and AA guns and got shot down by AA within a couple of minutes of starting the attack. This happened three games in a row, in the last one I managed a single pass, random AA shot crits my right wing and I barrell into the ground helplessly.

GG WT, GG

[Naryar]

Norway is a nice map... for air combat at least.

Ground attack... well, there's that island who is covered with flak. I think there are some nice, thin islands that have lines of bunkers you can attack decently.

Unless the latter is merchant fleet i'm not that familiar with these maps.

Yeah the b25 is decently tough but the wings fall when another plane blows a bit hard on them. Still very nice gunners and frontal firepower.

It's no stalinwood plane like the havoc tho

[Aseaheru]

Killing ships is fun, and eventually possible with MGs.

[Zrk2]

Killing ships is fun, and eventually possible with MGs.

Well, American .50 cals.

[LoSboccacc]

What were you expecting flying over aa?

Have you tried not to come in level?

[Jopax]

Because not flying level means none of the bombs will hit, and the only reason I was going low was to ensure the bombs hit since being a couple meters off with the 500lb's means no kill when it comes to pillboxes. Plus once you've bombed you can strafe with the mg's afterwards.

And the problem with the Havoc is that you can't really aim the bombs unless you're doing something stupid as diving, which will cause you to crash because the thing is heavy and unwieldy.

[Erkki]

Try to attack in a shallow dive of only 10 to 15 degrees or so at most? Physics are kinda wonky in WT and most planes can pull up from much steeper and faster dives at lower altitudes than they should... You may need to unlearn a bad habit for the A-20 or B-25.

[LoSboccacc]

just come level but on a wide S to trow off AA, fly straight while unloading, then vertical/horizontal S on the way out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP_-WUMi-nw

all of it basically applies, except WT AA are not as good as described there.

[Sonlirain]

That would work if the AA in WT weren't so innacurate. They might end up hitting you anyway because of the wide spread of projectiles.

[Naryar]

new and glorious arado (master race)

also interested on that tier IV new murrican fighter-bomber.

[Naryar]

There is an IL2 with TWO 37mm guns now...

it's not like the russians needed more 37mm guns. Also if it flies like the standard IL2, it's gonna be Yak9t-broken.

[Sonlirain]

And you were happy about the Arado with its puny 20 mm guns it wont be able to use on anything.

[TheBronzePickle]

It'll be able to use them in a ground-attack role, at least, as well as potentially on other bombers/attackers. Hopefully the extra two engines will make it a fair bit faster, as well.

I mean, it'll still be flying with things that are faster than it, probably, so the last part is irrelevant, but at least it can pretend to be threatening.

[Naryar]

And you were happy about the Arado with its puny 20 mm guns it wont be able to use on anything.

but it's the arado

Also 20mm guns are never puny when it's German 20mm air targets.