The event Spitfire LF Mk.IX has unquestionably some of the best flight characteristics of all propeller aircraft ingame (if not the best overall). If you don’t have it/haven’t faced it, believe me, it’s simply OP. For instance, there are veteran WT players that argue it is the best dogfighter prop plane of that game. With a 250lb bomb and hispanos, it isn’t totally useless for ground attack either. It’s simply disgusting at BR 2. In my opinion BR 4 is nice for it (edit: arguments below changed my opinion to BR 3), but anything greater than BR 2 is alright.
I think BR III is the best placement… Mostly because, there are other Spitfire variants yet to be added, that should really be higher BRed.
And, power level wise…? I still think it’s a good fit…
Japan
A6M3 - Premium & Event - A little slower, weaker bombload (has firebomb for giggle factor, though), slightly worse armaments (two regular MGs instead of two HMGs, but it’s canons that are doing the real damage anyway), and turns slightly better.
Ki-100 - Tech Tree - X4 the bomb load, about equal in speed (slight advantage to the Ki-100), equal armaments, slightly worse turn.
I think this is fair. The Ki-100 is a great plane, and I think the A63M is highly underrated (my favourite Japanese plane in game). Compared to the Mk IX Sptifire, they’re roughly equal as a collective group.
Germany
This is where theory fails… Because German BR III air is not that impressive, in terms of fighters.
Bf 109 F-4/trop needs a 250kg bomb, and then they’d be doing well.
Fixing the Fw 190 flight model would be grand, too… But the heat death of the universe is increasingly looking like it’ll come first…
And, a little controversially perhaps, I hope the G.55 gets moved down to BR III…
Other US aircraft
P-51 D5 - Tech Tree - X4 bomb-load, slightly faster, equal armaments (6 HMGs is deadly, makes up for the lack of canons), worse turn.
P-38J-15 - Tech Tree - Rockets instead of bombs (no + or - here, just entierly different tactical niche), equal speed, equal armaments (four HMGs and one canon instead of two HMGs and two canons), turns noticeably worse.
Ignoring the defunct P-38 without bombload, we can see that the Mk IX in BR III would not be that revolutionary to BR III Allied air… A way bigger bomb load is nothing to sniff at, nothing in the US tree would be made outdated by this Spitfire’s presence in BR III.
Soviets aren’t really in the equation, since they don’t match up against the Allies… But really, same thing here as for Germany, their fighters are just underperforming in BR III.
The spitfire is the best fighter in the game that isn’t the meteor by a long shot. It has exceptional speed and turning but more important is have by far the best climb rate out of any prop plane in the game nearly the level of jets
That would a be nice start to giving the US an actual br4 lineup, since currently they only have the Beaufighter, no br4 fighters at all. Even if it wouldn’t be amazing at groundpounding, it‘s fast enough you can rearm quickly.
(OFC some sort of br4 smg and a better rifle would also be needed…)
I think BR 3 would be fair with the current bomb loadout.
It would be an interesting choice between P-51D(Relatively bad flight characteristics but with much better bomb loadouts since it has 2x 500 lbs)and Spitfire Mk.IX(Much better if not one of the best flight characteristics but with the light bomb loadout which is 1x 250 lbs bomb).
One being mainly focused on ground attacking while the other one being mainly focused on removing enemy airplanes in airspace.
I have a feeling I’ve met you somewhere before because I was the pilot of that plane, but increasing the BR is fine until they fix all the FW190 series planes :))) because the German BR3 planes are terrible.
If IAR-81C is fine in BR1 then Spitfire with 1 small bomb is fine in BR2 imo.
Years of complaints on the forum, multiple bug reports filed, yet they dont even answer any of them, let alone they will fix them…really pisses me off that they dont even answer (and that they are all broken)
Well, they nerfed the BR of IAR-81 a while ago so it’s currently on BR 2.
I mean if you ask me, considering the amount of bomb this thing has on it probably deserves BR 3 and there are multiple airplanes like this on BR 2 such as both P-40E on Soviet and USA and SU-6 on Soviet. There are also other attacker airplanes with heavy bomb loadouts such as Stuka and SB-2m but they are at least very slow/flies like a brick.
For the bombload alone and being a fighter? Sure maybe.
But i’d argue that the P-51D has the worst flight characteristics out of all BR 3 TT fighters(Except Fw190 A-8 because that thing actively trying to off itself when try to turn fight for some reason), i wouldn’t say it’s THE strongest airplane on BR 3. Enlisted has rather hostile environment for airplanes like these, which is Boom and Zoom fighters that excels at high alt engagement but becomes a brick at low alt engagement(Such as Fw190 D series for example)with mediocre turn rate. P-51D is just that, only it’s heavy bombload for a fighter makes it worthwhile. Imagine it had a 2x 250 lbs bombs instead of 2x 500 lbs bombs i don’t think people would use it as much as it right now. I think that proves my point between either P-51D or Spitfire would be a good choice to be made(Or just use them both, since they don’t share the same squad).
In the meta perspective, P-51D will still be the meta because shooting down airplane does very little contribution to actually winning the match than constantly bombing ground and blow up enemy tanks especially considering that how the vehicle spawn works in enlisted but at least it would an interesting choice to be made.
Bro wtf are you talking about lmao. P51 has amazing flying stats u just can’t use it to turn fight (which the playerbase focuses way too much on). Use it for speed and energy.
No, literally WTF are YOU talking about? P-51 has amazing flying stats on low alt? Since when? Okay show me the proof because far as i know, all the good pilots i know of in WT hated flying P-51 on forced low alt settings against other fighters on the similar BR because very obvious reasons. Use it for speed and energy? Okay let me ask you this. Are you actually trying to gain altitude in Enlisted then?
