cuz they cant play the moment there is enemy pilot what you gonna do with P-40 ? Im using Yak-3 all the time even on BR V. Anti meta aircrafts like the Yak-3 and Spitfires are very useful to ruin the day of meta players.
Im also flying the French Yak-3, because its French, duh.
Great aircraft and an absolute beast in a dog fight with zero flap adjusments needed, making this aircraft a no brainer to use.
Low ammo count is a small issue though when intercepting bombers, but the guns are well place enough so you won’t miss your shots much, if you are not blind that is.
Well its not no brainer to use actually it requires a lot of brain activity if a Zero is a dogfighter the Yak-3 is all around aircraft it can dog fight it can boom and zoom it can exchange it has really the most amazing stats making it good for everything. You can roll in exchanges its gun is the the nouse with good velocity this means it has more range then other aircrafts in head on exchange its super accurate. Its aircraft that requires little skill to use but if you have skill its potential is huge is very different then a one dimensional aircrafts like the Zero that really is no brainer to use. Yak-3 is very versatile aircraft that many people think they have discovered its full potential but they only scratched the surface its so good that some people prefer it over La-7 even.
Well if it had high ammo count would be insanely good. With this aircraft you dont need many shots its super accurate and enlisted has only small battles so its more then enough to kill 2-3 planes without a problem.
Cycling Yak-1 lagg3 and P40
This is the averge try harder gameplay in enlisted, unfortunately this kind of gameplay also give you the most Influence to the match and of cource, grinding income.
Why would you do it in BR III in BR III its good to have 1 yak 3 since if the enemy decides to play a BF or Ki-100 I dont know what you gonna do with Yak-1 or lagg3 or P40. Or god forbids he is running focke-wulf non of your aircrafts has good roll rate so you cant dodge his boom and zooms.
This plane can’t do both CAS and B&Z due to it’s climb rate
And if you’re not doing CAS on a plane, your tryharder teammate will just yell at you to get off the plane slot.
Never listen to your teammates they will just get your killed its much better to farm enemy aircrafts and apcs and know when to use CAS then to endless grind infantry. The moment a CAS pilot meets a dedicated pilot you will know the what being farmed means high roll rate planes with good speed and good turn are very deadly its a good idea to keep one at least just in case and combine it with CAS aircraft. Just remember always to use first the CAS aircraft the other one is just in case since if you are not running one well the enemy can ruin your close air support capabilities. Normally a good aircraft can easily kill 2 CAS aircrafts. That’s why the best aircrafts are aircrafts that can do more like the P-47 that can do CAS but can also do boom and zoom.
The average Enlisted Pilot thinks that more guns means better aircraft and payload is all but its really more complicated then that.
This is the evaluation of a average pilot in enlisted xD If it has more guns it must be better xD and the allies are kind of spoiled since the axis factions dont have at lower brs good roll rate aircrafts to punish them. But if Japan had something like N1K1-Ja at BR III like the allies have the spitfires and soviet yak - 3 you would see how fast CAS pilots can get punished. Normally aircrafts have 2 types of armor real armor like tanks do and roll rate that is even better since armor is good but not getting hit is even better. And if you are getting killed over and over again by the same aircraft no matter how much your spam aircrafts it probably means he has more range then the aircrafts you are running and he is using his superior range and good roll rate to kill you all the time. Aircrafts have strengths and weaknesses and its always advised to play your aircraft at its strong sides.
In General roll rate is very important to reposition yourself if you are not a dogfighter or to position yourself for good boom and zooms or do scissors for an instance also very important specially with the Yak-3 many people in enlisted they go in scissors without realizing they cant win such engagement with their aircraft that has terrible roll rate.
For an instance N1K1-Ja is better then a Tempest in lower and mid speed scissors but at high range will win:
Consider the aircraft combat as 50% knowing of the capabilities of your aircraft and and the enemy aircraft even the best pilot cant win a engagement when all the odds are stacked against him no matter how good he is.
This is a combined unit gmae, go play warthunder if you want to play air combat they will say.
Even in warthunder, ground battle player will also importance CAS ability than air combat
That’s why soviet 4.7 gound player will still use 4.0 yak9K than yak3
There are differences between WT and enlisted flight models.
You play fw190, pressing exactly the same key as how you roll in WT, and you’ll find out the roll is significantly slow compare to WT. Defensive maneuver is much much worse in enlisted, you will get shot much eazier with heading mark and nerfed maneuver. In WT we assume dogfight duel is start from a head-to-head flythrough, but in enlisted 99% of the time only one or none will survive even both player is aware
Not this is do to FW in enlisted the other good roll rate aircrafts are fine only the FW has this problem since its bugged. The Yak-3 is perfectly good same as the spitfire or P-47.
Well exactly that’s why running only CAS planes is bad idea.
Cuz there is not many good option if there was Yak-9UT why would I use the K ?
Not only the FW, there’s no plane roll the same as WT
The basic logic of air combat is just different in WT and enlisted
Get shot with .50 or 20mm ~ die in WT, but in enlisted plane can take much more damage until Instant die
So WT player will attack while dodge in head to head, but in enlisted short burst is harder to kill, plus worse defensive maneuver, playing bulldog mode is how you “not make the enemy win” in head to head fight
Yes its different but still roll rate is important because if you do less damage doesn’t mean you should not roll and still its enough to kill the enemy with Yak-3 you can even ignore it since you can headshot the pilot instead of killing the plane. If you are not rolling out with Yak-3 I dont know you are missing the point of using it.
You can slaughter the entire German aircraft TT with Yak-3 and the Ki-100 without a problem. The only better aircraft is the spitfire unless you go beyond BR III. Then you can face maybe something like Ki-84 but still the spitfire is better and the Yak-3 has good chances against Ki-84. And the Jets going in a stupid frontal engagement against Yak-3 without having higher altitude will just get yourself killed.
But aircraft don’t get deployed very often here. What if the enemy stops spawning planes entirely?
And we inherited the war fog mechanic from War Thunder just like WoT, so we can’t strafe infantry with cannons either. Most of the time, planes without ordnance loadouts are basically useless, even if their flight performance is top-tier (except the Yak-9 and LaGG-34).
In Enlisted, infantry meta demands an aircraft that can both counter enemy planes and take out vehicles. That’s exactly why those two Stalingrad aircraft at BR2 are so meta and sought-after.
When I fly the P-40, I can also moonlight as a bomber, strafing infantry and tanks. At least I’m actually helping the ground team.
If you just circle up in the sky all day ignoring ground targets… your pilot’s folks will be coming up to collect you real quick.
You’re really dedicated to sticking with the Yak-3, rare commitment right there. I don’t get it, but I respect it.
Speaking of Japanese anti-tank weaponry, is there an improved late variant of the Type 4 rocket launcher with better penetration in Japanese military history? I saw staff on a Russian forum saying BR3 anti-tank weapons are already in development. That was way back when the fake Manchuria map first showed up. The post has been around forever, and I still have no idea how much longer we’ll have to wait.
Same is with the spitfire.