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The comprehensive guide to notable foe's
By Chud Leandros
a user-made guide to all the traits and behaviours of common foes
   
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Introduction
Welcome to my comprehensive guide of notable foe's, this guide will aim to satisfy you're curiosity about cirtain traits that belong to aircraft and thier pilots, this should help you in becoming a better warthunder player, please note that this guide is based purely on my opinions and presonal experiences, and therefore it does not aim to offend any warthunder pilots.
Arcade battles
This will most likely be the more empty section of the guide, as the behaviors that i am going to talk about are rarely present in arcade games. This will contain some aircraft, but not all.

FW-190
Basically any fw is a dangerous one, (unless its dead), never head on a 190 unless your exteremely confident and/or stupid, you wont last long against its flying armoury. 190's are sort of like MiG-15, 15bis and 17 pilots, they tend to ruthlessly prey on the weaker aircraft, usually by booming and zooming. When bieng dived on, once spotted, a player should immediatly take evasive action in order to stay alive, as he will have a higher E-state (energy state), than you, and thus he can easily fly away or climb out of reach before you can react, you only hope is to try to shake him with some shifty moves, possibly while flying next to the ground/sea, as he might not be able to pull out of hi ludicrous speed dive, and may plough straight into the ground for humerous effect.

Yak 1/3/9
Same as before, all yaks are dangerous due to thier flying armoury of guns, especially the yak-9, yak-3's on the other hand have some crazy climb rates and therefore will tend to stick at a higher altitude in order to escape the other fighters, the same method as with the 190's should be used to avoid death.

Spitfire
Most spitfires are capable of out-turning anything that isn't japanese, so dont try to turn-fight a spit, the most notable spitfires are the mk1-2's and the mk9 onwards, (the mk5's seem to be lacking in basically everything when compared to other aircraft of its BR), despite this, i cannot reccomend going head-on with a 5c (vc) due to its 4 20mm's.

spitfire (griffon) AKA "spacefire"
The name says it all, spacefires are pack animals that love to hunt anything they see, the nickname of spacefire is earned from its outrageous ability to outperform basically anything at high altitude, although this rarely takes place outside of realistic battles.
Realistic battles
FW-190
190's will always stick to what they know, and thus will act identically to thier arcade bretheren.

F-82 Twin-Mustang
F-82's are an unusual breed of plane, not the type of plane you want to head-on, but f82 pilots will nearly never use that advantage. when flying in RB, never rely on an f82 to come to your aid unless it is right next to you, not much is known about 82's, except they seem to like climbing and not much else, we are not sure at this stage if this is a behaviour or if 82 pilots are just prone to AFK climbing, due to thier natural inborn inability to help teammates.

Spacefire
Do not, under any circumstances, try to fight a spacefire at high altitude, as he will nearly almost win, and if he loses, you then have his 5 other spacefire buddies orbiting somewhere above you seeking revenge for the loss of their ally. The only way that you can reliably kill a spacefire is by baiting it into a climb for someone else to deal with.

Tu-4
This. Plane. should. not. exist, never try anything against one of these unless you happen to be piloting a very fast jet or something with very big guns, tu4's are way to mainstream and op to be put in a game with any other aircraft, they should be put into tu-4 only matches.I would like to dub the tu4 "starkiller base".
Custom battles
Tu-4
same as before, except worse due to the infinite respawns granted by custom battles.

MiG-15/15bis/17
These guys (along with f86's and cl-13a's) are the biggest d**ks in warthunder, especially in custom games, they are the most likely aircraft to prey on weaker aircraft that dont stand a chance, and spawnkill for the sake of it, if you fly one of these aircraft, but dont do this, then i salute you!, if you have been a victim of such evil acts performed by these evil aircraft then you have my sympathy, let us take a stand against them by switching to heavy tanks to deny them kills, and force them to turn on one another.
13 Comments
JohnCrysostm 8 Mar, 2019 @ 10:06pm 
When you see a Tu-4, just remember, if you can't fight them, join them
JJ LL 5 Mar, 2019 @ 10:14am 
Shit guide
Chud Leandros  [author] 2 Mar, 2019 @ 4:54pm 
i'm surprised this guide is getting views now, it's 3 years old. ( i might update it if i get the time)
/aceg/ /gfg/ LoganNS 2 Mar, 2019 @ 8:52am 
what did i just saw...
dandinks 26 Feb, 2019 @ 1:45pm 
fam
every jet is a dick in custom battles
purpl3 24 Feb, 2019 @ 10:46pm 
"as he might not be able to pull out of his ludicrous speed dive, and may plough straight into the ground for humerous effect. " That's the way :csgohelmet::p2chell:
Green_Baron 23 Feb, 2019 @ 6:53am 
You forgot the MiG-19, and the F-100D
Metalli 22 Feb, 2019 @ 5:50am 
I will fight all of thise.
Damian030303 12 Feb, 2019 @ 6:35am 
FW-190 <3
The Melon Master 23 Jun, 2017 @ 8:04pm 
I have gotten direct hit on a Tu-4's wings with rockets, and all that was damaged was a fuel tank! A FUEL TANK! ANY OTHER PLANE WOULD HAVE ITS WINGS CLIPPED OFF FROM A ROCKET HITTING THERE, BUT NOOOO! THE TU-4 JUST SAYS, "No, comrade", TAKES THE HIT AND KEEPS FLYING LIKE NOTHING'S WRONG WHILE INSTA-KILLING ME WITH OP TURRETS! *Heavy breathing* *Sigh* The Tu-4 was a mistake. Every time I see one, I think: GG, you win. Have fun with your Russian bias, Tu-4 players. Those turrets are too accurate, and engage at ridiculous range. I'm not even going to try to ask Gaijin to nerf or remove that filth, because I know they wouldn't listen...maybe I should just stay away from that BR range to save myself from the agony.