The LaGG-3-8 and LaGG-3-11 should be your research
after researching it as this would pull your remaining
priority as it is very powerful at BR 2.0 and they will be
planes into higher tier matches. Research a couple
your first cannon-armed planes, which can take out your
of them (if there is going to be a BR jump) before
peers with a few well-placed shots while other planes
placing them in games together. Use Boom and
are still mostly using lower-caliber machine guns.
Zoom tactics with the LaGG 3 as they are not very
maneuverable and don’t stay and turn fight.
Once you have these two planes, put them into your
lineup and you should notice a very big difference in
Round off the lineup with two of the BR 2.0 bombers,
the ease of getting aerial kills. I would not recommend
such as the Su-2 M-82 or the SB 2M bombers (-100
using one plane at a significantly higher BR right
and -103). Take note that the SB 2M-103U MV-3 and
SB 2M-105 have a much higher BR, so do not include
them in your lineup if you want to stay at BR 2.0. The
Su-2 M-82 has forward firing guns, good for taking out
lightly armored targets but has a smaller bombload; the
SB 2M bombers have better bombloads at the expense
of forward-firing guns. At BR 2+, targets such as tanks
and light pillboxes, as well as bases will start to appear,
and you will need bombs to take them out effectively.
Alternatively, if you fancy your role as a fighter pilot,
you can take a look at the remaining I-16 fighters
in Tier I (Type 10, 18 and 24) which have rockets but
no cannon armament. These maneuverable planes
are excellent at killing less maneuverable fighters
(which is almost all of them except for the Reserve
planes) by staying on their tails and riddling them
with bullet holes from the 4 ShKAS machine guns.
Recommended research: LaGG 3-8 → LaGG 3-11 →
Su-2 M-82 → SB 2M series → I-16 (Tier I) series
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