In this episode I show a few matches from the German and American points of view, as well as discussing the reasons why the balance of power has shifted from the US to the Germans.
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00:00Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of War Thunder, in this episode you can see I'm in an ME410, the version with the 50mm cannon, I'm in the B version which doesn't really have any difference between the A version, in the other ME410's they get 13mm machine guns, because we don't have any, we don't get any, I think the 50mm version did have other weapons but we don't get them in the game at the moment.
00:29As you can probably guess I'm in the Guardian Angel event, a realistic battle event, basically the Americans have to defend their bombers while they bomb the factory and we have to shoot them down.
00:41It's always been quite lopsided against the Germans traditionally, because obviously we had the ridiculously highly accurate gunners from the American bombers, but that seems to have changed obviously quite a bit, they're not so accurate now and I think the Germans may have some extra planes in their, like more players and I think they've been given an extra choice of planes, I could be wrong, but it's definitely made the event a lot more fair for the Germans.
01:10The only problem, well the other problem is the Americans themselves, they're allowed bombers, so a lot of people choose bombers, think they'll get the really accurate AI, that's been changed and so they get slaughtered quite quickly.
01:22Basically leaving the, you know, few American pilots who have taken fighters, I mean I haven't used bombers in it so far, but we've been taking fighters as the Americans and just been getting slaughtered, you can see the weird effects of the river through the propellers, sorry about that, there's a bit of a graphical glitch you'll see in a minute.
01:42So we're getting near to the bombers, about 3km out, so, you know, getting close to the range where we can open fire, you can see that graphical glitch coming up, I think it's to do with where they fly over the river, like I said in my last video I've been having some problems with them, no hits so far, oh we've got a hit, we haven't got any critical hits yet.
02:04I think my gunner gets knocked out pretty early, I'm not sure exactly when but, I mean you saw him firing then, but when I wanted him later on he was dead so, or unconscious as the game calls it.
02:17Just coming round for another attack on the enemy from behind this time obviously, which is kind of better, makes me an easier target, hopefully we can get more time to shoot them, nearly took out one of my own teammates, trying to sort of range my fire with the 50mm cannon but it's just not really working at the moment.
02:38I do get a hit in a minute, I think the next shot will be a hit, possibly, possibly the one after that. First a fire came at me, I still don't know where the hell it came from, unless it was the bomber in front getting really accurate AI again, for a split second.
02:56Finally got a hit, knocked one of their gunners unconscious, not really getting many hits after that, just opened fire with 20mm now, still not much damage but we're getting there.
03:11Still think we knocked another gunner unconscious, unless it was the same one from earlier. Starting to do damage to the fuselage but I'm getting quite near now so I'll turn the engine throttle down, put the combat flaps up, not the air brake because I don't want to lose too much speed.
03:27Starting to open fire on the next bombers, see the 50mm isn't actually doing all that, I'm getting a few sparks where it hits and doesn't do any damage which is quite annoying. Just trying to put a few shots into a lot of bombers, once one's on fire I just leave it really, hopefully it'll burn itself out.
03:46It's put it's fire out so, realigning for another shot and boom! Just blew it to pieces, well maybe not pieces but it went down pretty easily.
04:01And the next one, first shot, firing the engine, it's already lost a few engines I think, yeah it's already lost some already, and yeah there we go. That was practically one at this point, and as I was saying earlier, the Americans have a disadvantage in that, oh look at all the parachutes there.
04:22As I was saying they have a disadvantage in that everyone seems to fly bombers, I didn't really see any I don't think, I'm having to watch this in a smaller screen because it's on movie maker but I don't really recall seeing any American bombers in this match but I don't really recall seeing many fighters either, I mean I was pretty much unmolested most of the match.
04:43I only actually get attacked now, this is when I realised my gun was dead, but the enemy has only got one bomber and I think he's already crashing, he's just not dead yet so, obviously I'm trying to escape, I don't want to have to pay a repair bill, I think I had three repairs so it'll repair itself for free anyway but I didn't want to get shot down if I could help it.
05:05Mission objective failed, I think there's a bit of a glitch because we actually won the match and obviously they didn't get any bombs lost, I think that glitch has been around for a while on this event, I'm not entirely sure why but it just seems to count as an event fail.
05:19So I'm just trying to dive away, I was thinking of the landing and then obviously we won the match, so off to the airfield just trying to stay alive and we've practically won, so there's the match where we won against Germany, and you're probably wondering where's the one where you won against America, I assume that's next.
05:41Sort of, like I said America's been having a lot of trouble with the MAC risk event, mainly their own fault because a lot of them are choosing fighters, fighters, bombers and leaving the fighters completely outgunned and outnumbered.
05:59I've been playing a lot of games, I've won a few of them but I've usually died pretty quickly and usually they're only technical wins like a couple of bombers have just dived down and bombed the target quickly which isn't really that good because obviously it's not really what the event's all about.
06:16So here we came second place, got a good amount of RP and a good amount of lines, so I'll show you one of my better American matches, so here we are in a P-47, got 10 rockets, could have taken some bombs and just dived down to attack the factory but like I said, not something I particularly agree with, it's not in keeping with what the game's actually meant to be about.
06:42You can see that graphical glitch again, and it's just kind of annoying that it's happened, you know, that matches keep ending in this, you know, either the Germans annihilating the bombers or bombers diving through, you know, to a thousand metres and winning the match that way.
07:00So at this point I'm just sort of trying to close in the distance, obviously got a bit of height, about 5,000 metres, we're above the bombers, can't see the enemy yet, like I said I'm doing this on Movie Maker so the screen's quite small, just passing one of our bombers.
07:17I don't think this match had too many people playing as American bombers, but I've seen some matches where the whole, you know, practically the whole team is made up of bombers and obviously that puts us at a bit of a disadvantage, which obviously helps us to lose the game.
07:37Like I said, I think the Germans have got some extra aircraft as well, so that's helped them a lot, I think they've got the Bf 109 that can take the 30mm cannon and I've actually seen some of them becoming the bomber hunters, I think before there used to be one or two interceptors, so you had everyone going as four Me 410s and the one or two interceptor planes being used, well, taken out the Americans, whereas now there's a very wide array of them, so obviously a lot of them are going after the bombers.
08:07There's the first fighters, I'm trying to really focus on the bombers, the Me 410s, but I end up diving in for some of the Bf 109s and Focke-Wulfs anyway, so I'm trying to get a shot on this Me 410, but I'm not sure, I think I get a hit, I can't quite remember, just trying to angle, well trying to roll the plane to get a shot on him.
08:37Just starting to get near him, and there's a Focke-Wulf 190, and well, obviously we're going to shoot them with rockets, the first strike of the match was a rocket kill, didn't expect to actually get a kill with them.
08:53I was meant to be saving them for that initial dive at the beginning, but I forgot to use them, so I just fired them off and managed to get a lucky kill. You can see there's quite a lot of German aircraft, well, not half air bombers, but a lot of them already on fire and crashing.
09:10I'm just being swarmed by bombers and German fighters here. You can see the Americans are outnumbered at this point, because it's bad enough you lose all given fighters, but because some of us are allowed to take bombers, which I think shouldn't really be allowed or should be limited, I don't know.
09:33It sort of ruins a really good event that, you know, protecting a bomber stream when half the players can become bombers and just dive down on the target, it sort of defeats the whole point of the match, of recreating a bomber raid over Germany.
09:47I don't remember in the Memphis Belle, the bombers just diving down to bomb their targets to evade German fighters. I mean, I got a few hits, and I'm trying to go after this Focke-Wulf, and any second now, or maybe not now, but in a minute, you will probably see one of my wings ripped off from an enemy fighter.
10:09I don't think I managed to get a shot on this aircraft. You can see I'm not the best pilot anyway, I mean, I managed to miss all my shots, but yeah, at this point, I lose my wing. It didn't really stay for the rest of the match. We did win it in the end, I tried doing a replay, but it didn't really show much from it.
10:29Now, here's one of my other matches. This is actually my first one, I think. This is probably my second best match as the Americans. Actually, I didn't get any kills, but I got quite a lot of assists in this one, I think. It's actually quite telling when I've got more kills or shootdowns in the one German match I had compared to the six or so American ones I had.
10:54Like I said, I'm not a very good pilot, but I suppose it's not really fair as well, because the Germans have to shoot down AI bombers, so it was obviously quite easy.
11:04But yeah, this one I did. It could have been my best one, but a lot of the planes, you know, I just didn't get to shoot them down, and I got a lot of assists, so I set a lot of them on fire. Again, I got the rockets, I don't know if I use them in this match, but I'm just trying to climb up some altitude, sort of looking for the enemy in the distance.
11:26This is a really fun event, I must say, but it's quite hard for the Americans, because they have nearly half the team's bombers, which kind of ruins it. There's only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or so fighters against, I don't know how many Germans have, but they have almost a full team, so that's like 16 people.
11:46So yeah, I don't think the Americans need more players, I think they just need the ability to play as bombers disabled, and for this event, you know, 10 fighters against 16 Germans, plus 15 AI bombers, or 12 AI bombers, you know, it should be an even fight, but at the moment it's basically 4 to 6 fighters against about 16 fighters.
12:14So none of my rockets did any good, I'm trying to go for the Me-410s, which there's a lot of of, you can see how many fighters there are in this little bit of video. So I'm starting to get some hits, and just about set him on fire, and knocked his gunner unconscious, but only an assist, so not great, but not terrible either.
12:34Got some more hits, another plane's on fire, probably from the B-17s, I think I've started a second fire, possibly, on his other engine. The Me-410s do have it quite hard if they lose on their engines, because they're sort of stuck in a weird position where they're not dead, but they can't take part in the fight anymore, because the bombers don't stop, they just keep on flying.
12:56So, you know, once you've lost your engine, basically, out of the match, you're limited to taking down low-flying aircraft, and even then they have to be pretty badly damaged for you to have a chance of taking them out. So I'm trying to go for this one, it's the one with the 50mm cannon, so, you know, not exactly the most manoeuvrable aircraft ever.
13:18Getting some hits in, and I think any second now, the enemy pilot comes up from behind me. Sort of tunnel visioned in a little bit. Starting to run low on ammo anyway, and their pilot knocked out. I actually watched the plane on replay later, and it just circled around the map.
13:42It was quite funny, it never actually crashed. I thought planes were meant to despawn after like 10 seconds, but maybe where I stayed in the game, I don't know. But yeah, so, we ended up losing this one. The bombers never got to their target, AI or human, the human ones are still diving when it ended.
14:06So, yeah, it's a fun event, I've had a lot of fun as Germans, but I only played one or two matches, because, you know, I was trying to get my Americans to win for the Americans in this video, plus I was trying to unlock the P-63, so it was logical to use the P-47 American to do that, whereas with the Germans, I'm trying to unlock the F-109G.
14:30There's no aircraft before that, the F-4 isn't in this event, so I wouldn't get the XP bonus, whereas with the P-47, I'm trying to unlock the P-63, so I would get the XP bonus.
14:42So, yeah, it's a fun little event, but I shouldn't complain, the Americans used to have it pretty easy, because of the AI gunners, but Gaijin patched that a little while ago, so it's a lot easier for the Germans now.
15:00So, yeah, it's a fun little event, but I shouldn't complain, the Americans used to have it pretty easy, because of the AI gunners, but Gaijin patched that a little while ago, so it's a lot easier for the Germans now.
15:28So yeah, fun little event, had fun playing on it, hope to get some more videos up soon, because I haven't done any for a while, like I said, I'm back at university now, so I will try and get some footage of 1.43 on the dev server, or when it's up on the live server.
15:44So, yeah, I'm back at university now, so I will try and get some footage of 1.43 on the dev server, or when it's up on the live server.
16:14So, thank you for watching, please leave a like if you liked the video, leave feedback, can always do with some feedback, and subscribe if you like these sorts of videos, and, well, thank you for watching, I'll see you next time.