WAR THUNDER SPITFIRE M1A PLUS

Above this, the BF-109 has better performance.

The spitfire has better performance than the BF-109 at low alt, below about 4 km. I'm not saying that head-ons vs Spitfires are EZ auto-wins, but there are very few fighters that Spits will 'outgun' within their respective BR ranges. Not to mention that most 109s have significantly better 20mm guns than the Spitfires do. Given that they are somewhat fragile + only have wing-mounted guns, Spitfires definitely do not fair better in head-ons than the Yaks and 109s, which both get at least some in-line firepower. And unlike Italian planes, they're common enough that there's no real excuse for not knowing their strengths. The first Spitfires show up before 3.0 and don't drastically change by ~4.3, aside from half of the 7.7mm MGs being traded for 2x 20mm guns, so someone who has reached 4.3 by trying to turnfight Spitfires in anything outside of Japan has somehow failed upwards.

WAR THUNDER SPITFIRE M1A PLUS

Spitfires show up pretty early on and have decent load out, plus they mop up the yak and bf-109 players who have been head on-ing everything since 1.0, not completely insane to think people might have a hard time against them having had little resistance prior, having a problem at 4.7 is odd but maybe they just ground out bombers first and came back for the Bf-109's/Fw-190's. I don't want to just drop a 'get good,' but this is a serious case of not bothering to learn how your planes fly relative to those of your opponents. The Mk 22 is pretty awful for 6.3 and the Mk XVI is catasrophically bad at 5.0.Originally posted by shadain597:Maybe don't try to turnfight a turnfighter? 120rpg for 2 sparkle cannons doesn't get you very far, especially with bombers like Me 264 being around the place now. Quad hispano armaments, despite being pretty unreliable, are better than the mixed armaments a lot of spitfires get. You just have to put up with it i'm afraid if you want to play tier 3 and tier 4 props in Britain. But since about after a month after that the SAPI round has been busted ever since and just deflects off a target when it hits (hence the sparks you see). There was a brief time of bliss when air target ammo was first added back in like 2014. 'Hisparkles' are the same as they've always been for years. It can get to 6000m very quickly but once it is there, it will be out performed by most things it faces, 190Ds and 109Ks especially. The LF MK.IX is probably the best example. Mainly due to being 'spacefires' as they have great time to altitude, which got axis and soviet pilot's goats as the Spitfire also happens to turn fairly well. ĭo you see the winning rate of Spitfire F MkIX & MkXVI ? Is this what you called 'balance' ?Ī YouTuber Adam514 made a video for Spitfire Mk22 weeks ago and the 'Hitpano' sucks unless killing the pilots.Īll the spitfires got uptiered around the time all the 109s, 190s, 152s, etc got downtiered to around 5.3-5.7 (Despite some like the D-13 being more than capable enough to compete at BR's 6.0). The MG151/20 can kill my Spitfire Mk22 within 5 rounds most times while I can do that in my dream. To be frank, the spark is beautiful but we players feel upset and annoying. What about nowadays ? Just hit, hit, hit and hit. Before 1.71 we can kill a fighter within 30 rounds and about 60 for a bomber like B29. We call them 'Hitpano' for their 'amazing' performance. No matter Merlins or Griffons are great engines but they don't perform decent for 'balance'. Repair cost is not a way to make a balance.) Someone says that Spitfires have high repair cost while nobody cares about that because we have Spitfires and they are reliable and powerful ! (PS: G56&Ta152 have higher repair cost but they are not abandoned. Spitfires are so popular in WT for years but they has been destroyed again and again.

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