Fighter Piloting Strafing 101

An good match showing how strafing is also an viable tactic…
Since im aware of the battlefield at this point i didnt do much hawk eyeing, which means i hover over the battlefield (like you do with Stuka) watching for infantry gunfights. You can basically see the fire lines coming from the guns at times. This is signs to look for when your team isnt marking targets, which is pretty much aprox 70 % of your games. So with this said youre basically like an flying MG with much more guns and beefier caliber

Ps. Be careful with classic music on youtube…the damn bastards have found a way to copy write block old music with their “own sound” called orchestras xD its like 1700s Yankovic all over, atleast Yankovic is being creative about it with all right

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how to strafe:
step 1: suicide
step 2: pull a bomber

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Based

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Sounds like an waste of plane to me ^^ And tickets to if youre attacking

it’s a waste of a plane and tickets to pull a fighter in the first place… the only plane that can really strafe effectively is the bf110 g2, and even then most kills probs come from the rockets. i guess the il2m isn’t so bad either, and if 20mm actually weren’t peashooters, the fws would be really good at this too. it’s a shame but strafing just isn’t viable but the idea is pretty cool tbh

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Well if i can score 5+k in an match only strafing and fighting some airplanes (basically controlling the air) then why isnt it viable ? The fighters are pretty much dominating the skies and protecting them from bombers more reliably + have way more mg power. But sure Attacker planes does ground strafing much better for sure which is their main role. but i would strongly disagree that fighters arent needed in this game and are only for suicide bombing even if its an viable tactic to.

Ex an constant good bomber or Attack plane will screw up their team but that one will not last as long if an Real fighter is controlling the air and protecting their teams one. And if that fighter also is supporting their support planes against ground troops thats even more of an win to it. But sure for the cost of ground troops though but usually that also weights in with counter air and AA setups of which they will put out after some time if you rly annoy them.

Ive heard the same argument against snipers and support teams and just cant agree on it

5k from strafing? really?

snipers are trash though, unless its moscow axis or normany axis or tunisia allies

Snipers ?! They are not xD Well i cant speak for Berlin though ^^
Ive racked more then 200 kills with snipers couple of times + i feed the team with fresh intel all game long so if the team is some what able it usually helps (think the AI sometimes reacts to marks asw from what ive seen, but not rly sure yet). But sure there are times i suck to and its dry season all game which is same with Fighters. Its harder for sure then Attack planes and bombers to get ground kills but against most planes its just feeding time :wink:

a good player can use any squad effectively but that doesn’t mean its not trash. and yeah ai do react to markers but sometimes they seem to have higher priorities

Well one mans trash is another ones treassure as they say ^^ But yeah so ive noticed asw with the bots

I love playing as everything in this game, sad to see people call something trash because they aren’t getting tons of kills each game

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