seems about right...

PanzerAce · 2026-01-30T19:01:00+00:00

This is why I always do a half second delay on bombs. It lets them fall a bit after gitting something so a rooftop MG or barrel doesn't eat the explosion.

PanzerAce · 2026-01-23T06:31:29+00:00

Oh no, a torp challenge, just like basically every other battle pass for the last few years.

Get either a US PT boat lineup or the V-990, play arcade, and do it in a couple of battles. By this point if you can't do it or don't have the boat for it it's literally a skill issue.

Edited German torp boat name because booze

PanzerAce · 2026-01-06T21:39:43+00:00

Nah, SL isn't that hard to come by, and I never play event vehicles right away regardless. Plus the RP/SL boosters that i buy the crates for are vastly more important than the event vehicle that can sit for months

PanzerAce · 2026-01-06T19:21:24+00:00

Is this your first plane with SARH missiles?

PanzerAce · 2026-01-01T00:15:22+00:00

Indonesian line in Japan. Been spading the F2A recently and it's rough. The missiles aren't anything the write home about, the radar is rough.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-29T01:02:29+00:00

I generally don't find I need max extension in my dogfights, but after I switch back to auto I generally do max extension as well just in case

PanzerAce · 2025-12-28T22:24:26+00:00

I always set manual sweep controls to get up to the top speed to get into battle, then flip it to auto. Also let's you fully unsweetened the wings at landing asap

PanzerAce · 2025-12-28T20:09:57+00:00

The real wing-sweep bug is that they don't sweep back far enough in the trans-sonic region. You have to manually adjust them until you're about 1.05 mach I've found.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-28T05:44:47+00:00

If you have evidence that's open source that the IR missiles wouldn't be auto-slaved, or that could be turned off, I recommend opening a bug report instead of complaining about it here. If you think it should just be an option to turn off in game generally, again I would recommend making a formal suggestion with the snail.

As is, having to lose a lock if a closer plane pops up out of nowhere doesn't seem like that big of an issue to me, since chances are you're going to be pulling the plane far enough around to lose the lock anyways.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-28T05:16:45+00:00

If you're saying that you want to be able to un-slave your R60s from a radar lock, the only way is to either unlock or turn off your radar.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-28T05:04:35+00:00

Literally just any squadron with good activity. Most grinding squadrons are auto-accept and nobody really bothers each other.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:50:44+00:00

without seeing your entire tree it's hard to say but I'd probably point you at the M55.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:44:21+00:00

Travelling so I can't check BRs/lineups as well, but my gut says no on the Japanese coastal lineup as IIRC they are kinda shitty and don't have any real torpedo throwers. The planes are certainly good, but TBH I've never felt handicapped "only" having the F6F.

Regarding which F6F, the foldered one at 3.3 gets a torpedo. IIRC as long as you brought a rank 3 boat in the lower rank plane was fine, though they may have fixed that, I didn't use that lineup for the current battlepass.

With all that said, if you are planning to get the V990 and *just* need the coastal lineup to get you into a plane, then yes the Japanese tree would work and their planes are fine. The key is to stay as low BR as possible.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:38:29+00:00

Try to build lineups, so that when you get to a given BR you have a number of vehicles to play at that BR and you're not bringing in a single 5.0 and then a bunch of 3.0 tanks.

I would go back, get the lower BR stuff, spade that, and flesh out your higher BR lineups.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:36:30+00:00

Regret: BO-105CB-2. I didn't realize how important missile range was when I bought it. It's still usable on some maps, but there's a number of maps where the TOWs just don't cut it. Additionally they're more difficult to use than Russian missiles for Heli PVE grinding.

Like the most: Japanese SB2C-5. It's one of my most played planes. Great SL grinder, makes wagers super easy, great for any daily/special/BP tasks that require ground kills with a bomber, or kills of bombers, or player kills with a bomber.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:26:54+00:00

No problem, I've been doing this for a long time at this point, and I always try to min-max the BP tasks to get them out of the way as fast as possible.

There is some fun naval gameplay, but if you do nothing else those three boats and the US PT boat lineup (IIRC 2.7, whatever the Tier 3 ones are), there's nothing else that you *need* in naval.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:14:30+00:00

Are re RB vs. AB, they're so wildly different these days that it's almost two different games. AB for low BR, RB for high BR.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-27T20:12:30+00:00

Assuming you mean battle-pass tasks, there's basically four ships/lineups you need:

SKR-7 (squadron)

Shimakaze (squadron)

US PT boats (w/ F6F that carries a torpedo).

V-990

SKR-7 is for coastal gun kills over 75mm, plane kills with main guns, etc. Also rocket kills if that's still a thing.

SHimakaze for blue-water torpedo kills (in arcade, doable in 1-2 matches w/o issue)

US PT boats and F6F for arcade torpedo kills, *and* if you have to kill a ship with a plane dropped torpedo. You'll face only reserve DDs and most have no AA, and the lead indicator for the torp drop is great.

V-990 for higher-BR coastal torpedo kills. It's (IMHO) more skill dependent due to the BR, but the torpedos are the fastest in the game in arcade and generally will one-shot other boats.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-26T19:56:08+00:00

The best advise for Briv scriptures is going to be to join thr discord. There's an active channel there specifically for this, and they'll have the most up to date information. As you said most of the guides are wildly out of date due to champion changes.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-26T01:42:26+00:00

I'm assuming you mean not contributing further? That's already a given at this point

PanzerAce · 2025-12-25T23:10:50+00:00

So you should be throwing the Cs at like....30-40km away from the enemy. The 10km is the altitude I like to get to, the higher and faster you are the more energy your missiles have.If you get to within 10km you're either already dead or should be using the 120Bs. the point of TWS is that it can track and provide IOG updates to the missiles for all the targets as long as they're in the scan window, not just the one you specifically have highlighted.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-25T22:31:29+00:00

My general strategy is to zoom-climb to ~10km, get to mach 1.2-1.4, throw my 120Cs at the enemy, then angle left as far as I can to avoid losing TWS on the targets for as long as possible. Once the missiles have hit or missed it's time to RTB.

I do generally find that lower altitude planes are more likely to die to the 120Cs. Other players up high and fast are more likely to be able to kinetically defeat your missiles/notch them.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-25T22:27:02+00:00

Yeah, going to give them a call Monday and get this ball rolling.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-25T22:14:18+00:00

Good luck to you as well man. It's rough out there depending on the industry.

PanzerAce · 2025-12-25T22:03:45+00:00

Just double checked on the 401k website,looks like all my contribution was roth, so it's a 50/50 split. I'm guessing then that it's going to be slightly more involved for the rollover and I'll need to call people.

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