War Thunder

[Butcher]

I found the BF 110 awesome when i was @ rank 4. But as soon as you have those 20mm cannons on a better platform (BF 109 E @ rank 6), you will find out the BF 110 is utter shit. At least I never got warm with anything not being a one-seated fighter after this.

Thus I wouldn´t recommend going for the DO 217 also. Maybe you can do it, but be warned that everytime you make a wrong move you will be dead for sure, as you can´t outrun or outturn or outclimb the enemy with those. Beaufighter has at least good speed, but still the problem remains that you will have problems shaking enemies off with it.

[Musti]

Sadly, yep. It flies terribly, every slightest change of direction means massive loss of speed, 180 degree turn burns half of it or even more, and then you can't even accelerate, it only goes reasonably fast when you keep it absolutely straight. 110s are basically big, slow flying free kills unless they have many friends around them for defense, now, It might be realistic but I'm not so sure considering the FM of many other planes (P-40 AKA "flying wardrobe full of bricks")

The only redeeming features are quite good armament for its level, and it looks good. But only one level higher you get the mighty Beaufighter, so yeah, it's awful. Gaijin fix it!

Beaufighter has at least good speed, but still the problem remains that you will have problems shaking enemies off with it.

The whole trick is to NOT get anyone on your tail (ok it applies to everything but you know what I mean)
Though there are some ways to evade enemies with the Beau.
1. Nose down, get as much speed as possible, run to the friendly spawn
2. If you can't outrun your enemy plane and he's close you can do one fun thing :d, gear down, landing flaps and fire all the guns you have, the recoil will slow you down a lot (especially Beau Mk X with its 6 x .50 cals and 4 x Hispano) When enemy over takes you might get a chance at him (or at least a few more seconds of flight)

[Surfbird]

I do by far best with my beaufighter in HB. I think I had my best HB game with it yesterday and I'm not really good. But I killed five and was the only guy remaining for quite some time. It has at least decent climb, great guns and good speed. Shaking off enemies is obviously tricky, but usually you get the kill when you are behind someone, so it's not a big issue I think and I still do rather good than bad in the games I play with it. Even when I get shot down earlier or later, I usually manage to do some damage for myself before going down. It's flight physics are rather easy to handle too.

[THeTA0123]

So far i am getting EPIC results with the ME110 by flying high, Diving, unloading and then getting the hell out, not looking back. This is the same tactic ME110 pilots applied in WW2 and it works great in Warthunder aswel.

[LuckyOne]

Don't know about the 110 but the Beaufighters are extremely good at killing stuff, as long as you can shake off tailers. After that, my current favourite plane, the A-20, insanely fast, good climb, 3 mgs to keep people off your tail and 6 forward hitting .50s for ground targets + 4 bombs for bombing runs... And it does good, matchmaking wise...

The only trick is to stay away from heavy hitters (37 and 20 mm cannons can get your elevator/rudder down fast, if they know how to aim).

[Steel_Lion_FIN]

Has anyone managed to get to Malta in a P-40 in HB? Or Guadalcanal in a Spitfire mkII?

[McCloskey]

So far only possible when they mix Allies, which I haven't seen happening in quite a while actually.

[Butcher]

After this chat here I decided to get the Beaufighter and try it out ... first round with it got me 11 kils without a death. Best burstmass so far, no questions asked. I could fly away if somebody was behind me, because that thing is also fast. And that is only the first one. The next level gives you an extra 6 machine guns to your 4 cannons. Madness.

[Musti]

Mk X is slightly slower and handles like a bus when compared to Mk VI (which makes the Mk VI more effective in combat IMO). But its absolutely merciless, everything dies in a blink of an eye, and that's always fun.

[THeTA0123]

Rank 5 with US and UK

Gotta freaking love the beaufighter and A-20G
Now its time to get der german bombers! Ju 88!

[siben]

Sucks donkeyballs

[Musti]

All bombers do. Theta Y U NO in Forgotten Hope Squadron!?.

[THeTA0123]

i dint knew we had one

[Surfbird]

I'm fucking pissed. Chased a Yak 3 with my friggin Corsair A-version ofer have the map for 15 minutes, hitting that **** over and over again, scoring 500 points only by hits on that single guy and he takes 1 laughable crit at the left wing. Any plane with cannons can shoot down another plane with like 2 of my twenty bursts I hit, but 50 cals are no cannons so they of course don't do damage at all. Fucking War Thunder team has serious brainlags. Not sure if it's that russian easymode plane or he 50cals are just ridicolous. Probably both.

[Steel_Lion_FIN]

Everything Soviet is OP (Look at the IL-2 dogfighting pretty much anything). The Swag 20mm and 7.62 are so much to deal with in their planes, especially since their stealth belts are all API-rounds.

Meanwhile, in the Japanese planes, I got shot down in a Ki-61b in historical by AI in a Fury because it caught fire while I was dogfighting with a Typhoon mk1a. Jap planes burn so easily (Historically semi-correct) and the 12.7mm Ho-103 MGs are so.. lame, like the american .50cals.

Gaijin has some issues here to address..