War Thunder Community Magazine Issue 2 | Page 17

EARLY BR 3+ clips, and the Lalas sticking with 20mm cannons. The La-5 variants provide a big performance increase over Suggested lineup: Yak-7B, MiG-3-15 (BK) or 3-34, the LaGG-3 planes at the cost of a slight BR increase La-5, Il-2, Il-4 (3 fighters, 1 attacker, 1 bomber) of 0.3, so switch over to them as soon as possible. Keep a fully upgraded fast-climbing interceptor with Once you finish up research on Tier II and start a decent punch (one of the MiG-3) in the lineup as on Tier III, the suggested BR 2+ lineup will not be bombers will start to appear in larger numbers. effective anymore as Tier I planes are not effective when researching Tier III planes (40% RP penalty). The attackers introduced in BR 3+ will add another Switch over to Tier II planes as soon as possible. dimension to your gameplay. The Il-2 is a capable attacker armed with a cannon that can shred tanks For the fighter line, you have a choice between the and other vehicles, and comes with bombs and Yakovlev and the Lavochkin lines. Both fighter lines rockets for that purpose too. You will not be attacking are roughly similar in performance, with the Yaks minibases and airfields with the bombs however, being slightly more maneuverable while the Lalas are as they are more effective against tactical ground slightly faster. The big difference comes in the different targets. If you wish to, you can also research through armament systems adopted later on, with the Yaks the Pe-3 heavy fighters to get to the Il-2M at a slightly favouring larger but slower cannons with smaller higher BR 3,3 but comes with a rear gunner. At BR War Thunder Community Magazine The GameOn Magazine // 17