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I use them like dive bomber 
I fly Bf-109 G-10. It has no bombs but instead has gunpods with 2 additional 20mm. It basically oneshots fighters.
Also it’s quite nice for strafing runs.
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I sometimes use the YAK-1 I am comfortable with it in both bombing and shooting down planes
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It has 2x20mm so I’m not surprised.
Im not sure why people play fighters to be honest. Most attackers have guns which allows you to shoot down other planes and to make points you have to get to the point and make kills. Every time I get a new fighter squad I say “oh free pistol and med kit!” Then forget they even exist
The slot is always open 
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Lol yes very very true. But you still get way more points attacking the enemy on the point unless you just want to do barrel rolls or something in a fighter plane
I can get outmaneuvered by P-38 so I need this extra turn rate
I’m a bad pilot but often the only one we have, who tries to shoot down enemy planes.
is more a rest from the usual spawn, kill, die, spawn, kill, die etc.
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Makes sense
I use the I153 m62 at level 32 lol. Those 8 rockets give good ground strike capability, while the 4 MGs and amazing mobility makes it quite a good fighter
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Make sense, is a good plane on warthunder if I’m not mistaken it is used to farm silver lions
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When you get used to planes they are a great change of pace, especially if you can aim! You get quite a lot of XP, even with parachuters…
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i mean, in 14 minuts only 12 kills… with airplane on gare de saint lo…
no offence but its quite… low
like, the map is giant and pretty much in the open.
i presume it has been the first time you played that map?
it can happen.
either way, fighter planes ““similarly”” to bombers they have to relay on infantry kills. so strafe can work and sometimes are effective. especially in open maps like this one ( outside the destroyed train station )
usually, with fighter planes i get from 4 up to 9 airplane kills, and 45 infantry.
with the G10 though… it’s a bit rough.
even if it has okish cannon you’d still do better with bombs.
but hey, the attempt its there, and above all, it matters that you have fun 
( otherwise i can’t really explain why using a G10 
unless it’s prem. but even there… matters of opinion i suppose )
It was my 3rd or 4th match on this map. So basically it’s new to me.
Your guys don’t kamikadze into the ground?
Typically when I spawn in a plane there are two options:
75-90% chance that enemy will kamikadze all his planes from now on.
Rest - he will try to fight me. Usualy we end up with doing circles for 5min. I’m not a good pilot.
As for why G10, it shreds planes. And when I play as a fighter, that’s what I need.
Although I’m 1/2 xp to Fw so I’ll have decent guns + finaly something for CAS.
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I dont have a lot of experience with using planes in enlisted but here is what I have learned so far:
Dog fighting is horrible in this game mostly due to being constricted in 1st person view and 3rd person view not existing as well as air targets not being able to be marked. Only having 1st person view in every vehicle makes it harder for you to gather your surroundings. This leads to other planes pretty easy to outmaneuver you and leaving you in a confused state of where you are versus them. Then there is no marking system for planes in the game which leads to spotting being very bad and leaving the fighter just wandering about in the massive airbox trying to search for that bomber that somehow outmaneuvered him. The warthunder system of spotting where enemy planes are marked when they get close to you and it being a skill that you can upgrade your pilot in is a much better system. If I was the dev team I would probably implement a similiar system so air warfare is worth a damn.
3rd person view is a superb way of breaking immersion and isn’t really the problem.
The problem is bomber and attacker pilots have no incentive to contribute and actually help their team short of crashing their plane into the enemy and getting 2 or 3 kills or punishment for suicide casing, so fighters are just redundant. basically, get good son. 
why should i
if i get the airplane is because im there to use it. not to waste it.
and i mean no brag, but usually, unless they shut me down ( which happens rarely if i have to be honest ) more than often i remain on the plain for majority of the match shooting down other planes and strife infantry everytime i can ( looking around that no planes spawned ).
which in my opinion, the biggest problem with fighters, is that you can’t prevent bomb runs even if you are chasing him. due to models still being clunky, and spawns being too close to the battlefield. so that’s why majority of the players spawn, make a bomb run, and suicide.
but that doesn’t prevent me from shooting them down if they do try to recharge and continue the process while wiping out lots of infantry.
it’s all about memory, and good eyes ( lol ).
i suggest you to pratice with flaps, they sure help
even in custom matches, so that you can learn paths from the enemy, and test better than pratice.
ah i see. you don’t have the FW yet.
well, with the FW things are a bit… different.
perhaps much easier, and at the same time, harder.
the FW despite got a few fixes, it’s still weird. it’s like defeat the physics law sometimes.
but it has decent rockets which can go through buildings and wipe out whoever is inside.
perfect to clear points from pesky attackers / defenders.
some claim that it can even destroy tanks, but unfortunately, in 2/3 months that i use the planes, i never managed to destroy 1.
i mean, perhaps i did, but i’m not sure about it.
like, sure, i get the kill, but maybe it’s because the vehicle was empty, or i just killed the last guys while the player was bailing out.
as there is no replay system, hard for me to say.
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He still played well.
I have on Re.2000 for the entire battle (22 minutes) to kill only 10 infantrymen.
The only enemy plane was shot down by a stuka
That’s why I’m in favor of increasing the damage to machine guns \ guns planes and why against kamikaze.
This is worthy of respect.
Planes are often used as a missile, but not an airplane.
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