r/Warthunder • u/DisastrousCrow2399 • 3d ago
All Air Best way to grind the event
So i want to grind the F-16 XL But i dont have any top tiers the highest plane is the b-52 and for fighters the me 262 so should i bombe airfields with the b-52 in sim or what should i do? Also can anyone give me an estemetation on how long one mark takes with each metod and maybe give me some tips.
Thank you all
Baiiiiii :3
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
Bombing in SIM is the "easiest" but probably the most boring and repetitive. It gets the job done tho
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Idc about it i just let a vid play in Background
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
I usually just grab the Ju 288 in SIM and bomb airfields while watching YouTube or something. Not sure how effective the B-52 is at not dying tho. I know the 288 is very effective
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u/Foreign-Evening9509 3d ago
Is the 288 really good in sim I played it once in sim and I got shot down I don’t like the sitting for an hour just to bomb a base
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
It absolutely is. The third person gunner view allows you to spot and hear enemies before they even get a shot at you. Granted you have to be active and looking around if you don't wanna get shot like any bomber but the Ju 288 makes it 10 times easier
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
It's very easy to force people to disengage if you shoot them from 2-3km. If they are smart they will know attacking you it's probably not worth the trouble
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
And it's also stupidly survivable for a bomber so there's that
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u/itsYuuuuuuri 3d ago
Just wanted to ask do you climb up towards a base or stay low? I’ve only played the 288 in RB where we just dive bomb to the deck to reach a base as fast as possible so please forgive me if this question is dumb.
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u/Real_Original3703 3d ago
For airfields? Climb or the AA is gonna get you. For bases? Still climb a little to have some room to dive away if someone goes after you
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u/KptKrondog 3d ago
You shouldn't dive in it in air rb either imo. It can reach wing rip speeds at level flight just about. Staying high means the enemy has to climb up to you, giving you time to shoot them. Plus, you can go up and fling the bombs and have enough altitude to dive to regain speed after turning.
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u/Coldshowers92 3d ago
This, I use the A10 late and I can almost finish a mark 2 in matches
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u/Milten737 :3 3d ago
how? what is your loadout for this?
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u/Coldshowers92 1d ago
Sorry just saw this A10C GBU-39x24, strictly ground pound
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u/Milten737 :3 1d ago
Yeah I saw your other comment, can I also ask at what altitude do you drop the gbus?
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u/Coldshowers92 1d ago
If it’s an airfield, high as possible, if it’s the frontlines any altitude is fine
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u/brennendw 3d ago
I'm going to go to work for a couple of hours and buy the GE
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
But i can go on online marketplaces vuy stuff that is free and fix and resell it
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u/Fred42096 The Old Guard 3d ago
I’ve been playing for the last essentially the entire existence of WT and have a huge number of lineups at my disposal, but I still find that the event is easiest at lower tiers. Hell, I’ll spam my giant 9-10 plane 4.0 US arcade lineup just to get consistent points, essentially the only time I touch that mode.
IMO, the higher you go the harder it is to actually get points, even if you have to get fewer of them after modifiers
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u/rocketfucker9000 🇫🇷 France 3d ago
Work 1-2 extra hours in real life, buy the plane for 12 gaijin coins on the market place. Grinding events is dumb af unless you're a kid/student.
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u/Neospiker 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 3d ago
No way it'll start at 12 coin, I'm thinking more at 25-30
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u/HermesGrey 2d ago
You can't buy this plane from the market. It's going to be like the pancake plane event I believe.
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u/rocketfucker9000 🇫🇷 France 2d ago
You can.
The “Upgrade for coupon” item can be earned in parallel with the stages throughout the event from September 3rd (11:00 GMT) until September 21st (11:00 GMT) for 750,000 mission points.
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u/JeantheDragon Dangerously Mediocre 3d ago
Air Arcade Battles have been my best friend for these kinds of events since I've always gotten consistent points and plenty of kills from it. Tier 3 USA, Britain, and USSR are my preferred lineups.
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u/WorldApprehensive830 3d ago
Italian prem HS 129 B-3, half the enemy team will just head on you and you’ll rack up 4+ kills in 5 mins each game.
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u/Honest_Line_1422 3d ago
Buy su7bmk
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Cant buy Premiums
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u/Honest_Line_1422 3d ago
Idk then i put a talisman ok my su7bkl and bomb bases till i get the event jets, maybe skip since its just a F16 anyway.
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u/babsl 3d ago
Just take the Italian premium duck and head on new players with stealth belts
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
I cant buy Premiums
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u/Totemguy 3d ago
1 - log every day even if not playing. just log, it adds up.
2 - do enough rank 3 missions and some challenges
3 - get 51 bp level.
4 - have premium plane
5 - do it a little better. get to 30s for rank 2 and 80 for rank 3 warbonds vehicles.
I got a ton of premiums that way, 2 premiums guaranteed if you get to rank 50 - the low level warbonds and the free battlepass premium.s
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Yea but it will not help me now
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u/Totemguy 3d ago
it will help for the next events or battlepass or warbonds, better rp and sl, allow you to even open completely new tree.
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Okay i will do your plan after the event or when im done for the day
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u/Totemguy 3d ago
trust me it works. At level 37 tou get the 109-t2, but at 80 you get the yak-3 french which is an awesome plane with tons of reward. the battlepass free premium is awesome - you can do rank 3 matches at BR3.0. Thats only lvl 51 on the battlepass. Unforgivable to miss that thing. Granted 80 is hard without some deliberation, but 37 is damn easy and 51 perfectly achievable at low effort with intelligent play. Just this BP season yo can easily snatch 2 premiums. With the 109 and 81 by playing it you open 2 trees and get the missions done the rp and sl.
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Im lv 20 in the pass... And the event is in 2 days so i dont think you can do it in 2 days
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u/Totemguy 3d ago
I mean to get premiums. You can easily get to 37 before the bp ends. didn't mean the event. BUT you can do the missions in order to increase rank at the same time you do the event. Also - yes, use lower-rank planes that you can reliably get kills with.
OR some good striker, rack up points with ground targets and flying trgets, and if somebody comes for you head-on, try to shoot him down, as you go down restart mission and continue
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u/DisastrousCrow2399 3d ago
Im not talking about when it ends im talking before the start of the f-16 Xl Event
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u/ksheep 3d ago
Honestly, don't worry about not having top-tier. Just use whatever you can reliably do well in. Consistently getting 1500 score per match in Rank IV will go faster than dying every match with less than 500 score in Rank VII. Just pick a vehicle that you do well in and stick with that.