With how they’re working right now it’s not really worth Me setting up an AA gun when a plane can steal the kill
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You gotta look at it in a different light
All that matters is that aerial rat is dead
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It’s pretty much the fighter pilot’s job to hunt down other planes thought… So I doubt they steal anything from you 
Aa guns work really well earlier war thought and are a huge help to factions who do not have air supremacy (Tunisia axis for example). Some aa in Normandy also took down my razorback once or twice, and often prevents me from nuking annoying cats accurately…
You can also get nice freebie xp shooting at the occasional bomber formations too. Free xp is good xp.
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Actually I’ve been having some severe issues with trying to shoot them down lately. ESPECIALLY with the Soviet AAs. It seems to take 3 full magazines in order to even get it to fly off course, let alone take it down.
There is definitely a new issue with them due to the change.
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You need to lead your shots a lot, you´re probably either not hitting a critical spot or not hitting enough in general. I´ve taken down whole bomber formations with the Jap AA and almost a whole one with the Soviet AA (a Yak took 2 kills).
Have you done that since the most recent change?
My aim appears good. I’m landing most shots around the engines or cockpits of the bombers, and other planes for that matter, but it doesn’t seem to effect it much.
I know they said they made it spread the damage out a lot more rather than direct damage, and at that point they should make it more of a flak cannon (airburst when the shell is near, let alone dead on).
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I made this post more for lone fighters especially when I’m dealing Whip HVAR rockets and then pilots
Not really, only against player aircraft and that goes pretty well like always so I assumed it´s the same against AI bombers.
The Soviet AA feels weird. Half of the time I think someone is trying to kill me with an infantry MG but later realizes it was their 72k.