This is, how it should look like, but this is not usual for playing Arcade Battles.

• Ground strike

Most of the guys will play as a fighter, flying below the clouds, so as a bomber it is your task to climb. (except you are in a bomber, that can't climb pretty good, like the Yer-2, if you have a 5000kg bombload)
How to bomb should be clear, I wont say something special to this, there are lots of guides about this, just to say, stay high, if you are high and stay low, if you can't climb (clouds prefered)
So if you bomb every base out, you will win pretty damn fast and you earn lots of lions.
There is one simple way to not die, do, what I wrote in the last sentence.
You will be happy about this and your mates will be pleased too.
Of course there is a big factor of teamplay in Arcade, so if there are no high altitude fighters in your team, you will die fast. (like 80% faster than you do with cover)
There will be few high fighters in tier II and upwards, tier I is pretty simple, because not every tier I plane can cimb that good and there are lots of newbies.
The bombers worst enemy will be planes like the I-185 (M82), Bf 109 G-2, every Spitfire, every american fighter with a "P" like P-47 and every Typhoon. (Their climb is amazing!)
Surely not everyone is clever enough to climb that high, but you're gonna be pretty much lost, if they are on you.

• For "Domination"

you should go down, (you will die fast, but don't let this ♥♥♥♥ you up, you need a win!) prefered as a divebomber and you trow your bombs over the ground units, because the tanks are able to capure a point and you wont be able to capture the point and you will lose tickets and if you lose ticktes, you will lose!

In the next part of the guide, I will show you, how to avoid / or attack high fighters and bombers.
So this was for ground attack.

Lots of pilots play as a fighter and I bet you do, or why do you read this guide, he?
But lots of pilots don't know how to handle their plane. Of course, maybe they want to have fun, but mostly you wont have fun with this.
Just keep reading and I swear, you will win!

First step: You climb. You just climb to the moon or uranus or somewhere, you climb as high as the enemybomber is. If you are high enough you are able to shoot down the bombers and the enemy's high altitude-fighters, that they can't bomb your bases or shoot down your bombers, because that would be cruel, like you read in the upper part.
If you have done so you watch for other upper planes and you fly to their airbase while excorting your bombers. Doublejackpot, hell yeah! Now it's yours to shoot as many planes on you altitude as you can. The bombers will do their job without being interrupted by enemyfighters.
Let's look at the results...



You get loot and maybe a daily win and you are not frustrated.

Here are some highaltitude fighters. With those you can mess up bombers pretty good.



"Se pi i tu, russahn fiterbomber", or Pe-2, the premium plane, a good bomberhunter. Take your rockets and use your bomberspawn. So you don't have to climb, but I rather climb a little, like 1000m, sothat you can drop on your enemy, set yourself behind him, aim, fire, hit and you find yourself in a big ♥♥♥♥ of planepieces. Turn away to avoid them.



You say, the Ju-87 "Stuka" series is ♥♥♥♥? You get shot very fast? GO ♥♥♥♥ YOURSELF! Uninstall and play WoT!!1!!1!!!111!
Sorry, I was kidding. What I tryed to say is that the Stuka is able to shoot planes nicely. Never underestimate a Stuka. It may be a freekill, if you fly low, but not with this. It has 2 x 20mm's, so if you turn your convergency right, you go for bombers or fighters. Remember, that you're an easykill, so don't let get shots on you and remember that a Stuka turns like a Beaufighter, a P-47 or a Ho-229. If you're doing a loop, this goes very fast, but not if you want to use your rudder to handle it.
Edit: Today I just got 4 kills with the Ju87 D-5 in RB. 3 With the 20mm's and 1 with the gunner. Also I shot a P-47 smoking with him. I swear, that was fun ^^. One guy said I would be a legend... well it might have been my crew.



P-47, or "Jug", or "Thunderbolt"
I prefer Jug, because it is one!
Like I said, the P-47 does a rudderturn like a Stuka or so, so you have to climb up and dive on your victims, because this one is no turnfighter.






P-63 "Kingcobra", or a banana, look at this camo!
It performs like the P-47, but it turns better, but suffers a little in puncto energy.
Use your cal .50 to aim and if you know where to shoot let the 37mm fun begin!






Bf-109 G2 or Bf-109 G2/trop
This is the famous Messerschmitt! Are you able to see the camo? I love to play this plane. In Arcade I sometimes get a 13-killstreak. My friend just got a 17-killstreak in the premium G2! xD
It is fun to play, but you have to get all modifications for this. I will has a climbrate of 30m/s or so.
Also it handles as a turnfighter, that's the op thing about this. It is an energy fighter, a turn fighter, an high altitude fighter. It has 3 20mm's, what is a good combination with the 2 german rifle caliber guns. I prefer playing with universial ammo for the 7,92mm's and no-tracer ammo for the 20's.
That's like 1 hit - 1 kill and you hit pretty good with the G2!
Here's a tip for you: turn the convergency to 300!


Bf-109 F2 is a little slower than the G2, but it is a tier 2 plane with rockets! Hell yes! Rockets for germany! It performs well. Climb up and mess bombers with rockets.







I-185 (M-82) is fast in climbing but not as fast in turning like the other Ishak's like the I-16 or the legendary I-153 Chaika. It has 3 russian 20mm guns, what means, that this will tear wings apart. You have to know that the russian ammo has lots of High explosive (HE) or fragmentation bullets (F). Mostly they have things like HE-I or FI-T or HEFI-T, what is awesome! That means, that you are able to easykill pilots or rip wings, if they once got trough one. But that's not so good vs. bombers, because bombers will have some armour. So AP-I or much better, APHE would be best against bombers.





The La-5 series is pretty much the same like the I-185. It has 2 russian 20mm's, but also effective against pilots or so. It turns and climbs a little better than the Ishak 185.






Let's take a look at the spitfire series. I hate to order all spits with one explanation, but I should it should be fine. The Spitfire is, with the Messerschmitt, the most known plane of WWII and there has to be a reason. If you think of an airplane you think of the shape of the spitfire, don't you? It was the first plane I knew with name. Enough. Let's talk about technical stuff.
It turns ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fast, don't do a turnfight with a Spitfire, man! I climbs pretty good. And there we go. Climbing up to bomberheight is no problem for this plane. Most of the Spitfires have 2 7,7 mm or cal .50 (12,7mm) guns and 2 20mm guns.







The Tempest is a better version of the Typhoons. The Typhoons, in real life, had some issues. So this had to be improved by the RAF and the Tempest was produced. You can read all the historical stuff at Gaijin's 'Ugly Ducklings': Hawker Typhoon Mk. I post.
The Tempest has 4 british 20mm guns and hell, they are awesome!
It climbs good, but turns not so good. This is like the P-47. You have to dive on your enemy, not turnfight with them.

• This counts for every fighter, not just for the Spitfire!

Open your fire at a close distance, like 500m or fire at your convergence. Get some hits, maybe a crit with the 20mm, or if you're lucky, you'll get the kill, because you have already ripped a wing off. I you have bad luck, you just fly a loop, sothat you don't crash into your target (you will be fast, because you will dive on your target. Dive on them men, why don't they get this all the time! Do it! Thx!)
If you once turned around you open fire again and again and again and again... and so on, but you should get the kill at the 2. attack.