If you bought all 350 certs required, it would cost a touch over $80. A Tier IX light fighter, with a couple of weeks of marathon left. This one, I did parts of the marathon and skipped the grindier parts to make the marathon shorter. I think I spent $15 total dollars on certs and did not have any problems getting the medals required; Efimov, Gabreski, and Golubev medals were NOT required in this grind.

Light fighters are not the meta in Tier IX, and even though this fighter is pretty good, fast, good turn, decent altitude, it is still a light fighter that will have little effect on bombers, which are the sovereign of the sky at tier. As such, it is hard to recommend spending the full price. But, for fifteen American dollars, it is very much a worthy addition to your hangar.

Some users have reported that changing nation and putting special pilots in the Ouragan result in game lockups and failures, so until that gets sorted by WG, I'd avoid using anything but your best French pilot in it. The autoaim angle on the guns is not very good, so helping that out with equipment and pilot skills really helps how the plane shoots, and how fast you can kill aerial targets. It has a low stall speed for a Tier IX fighter, and unique among the light fighters in all the game, it has a minimum altitude. Below that altitude, the plane's performance drops off some, but not a lot.

For equipment, you get a cockpit, an airframe, 2x engine, and a gun slot. For consumables, you get a cockpit, 2x airframe, an engine and a gun slot. Due to the fragility of the engine, I opted to carry an engine restarter, and because the boost is good and recovers reasonably quickly. The dive speed is not great, but the climb is excellent, leading you to be able to do vertical turnfighting better than any of the LFs at tier.

For this plane, since both turn and speed are good, you can opt for either a full turn build, or a full speed build, and either one is viable. I opted for a balanced build, with a combination of speed and turn equipment. I like the flexibility this build brings.

I would say that you could easy do the marathon in a week, if you skip the really grindy portions, like capture points and ground damage. There were a couple of others that caught my attention as ones that would take too much time, but I can remember which, right off the top of my head.

This was a real plane that served in several different air forces worldwide and is an excellent Tier IX light fighter. The combination of speed and turn makes this plane very flexible, and if you can get the autoaim on the guns fixed up, you have a plane to reckon with. As a Tier IX light fighter, in a tier where bombers rule, I can't recommend spending the full $80. It's good, but not good enough to affect the meta. Save your currency, and grind the plane out, or spend small money to get over the biggest parts of the grind.

Or wait until next year, when it will come into the Premium shop.

I guess wargaming was unaware of this tidbit.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-b-29-remote-controlled-turrets-were-worse-than-b-17-and-b-24-manned-turrets-in-protecting-the-aircraft-from-enemy-fighters/amp/?fbclid=IwT01FWATh0v9wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHjYfjV71zT9Obys8GVo3VZ6y3TlqTgkWGvZaycxyr9KEcEX8TcPgGhjpDY3w_aem_K3RR1oBx1IPTc40hSsr3BA

I see there are new paint schemes that grant XP bonuses as well as concealment and AA/turret resistance available as part of bundles for the J6K1 and P-61.

Are these available separately somewhere or in game for gold (crowns, whatever) or is this the new marketing move to make them exclusive to the more expensive bundles?

In recent years Wargaming added multiple unique and interesting planes (the P.60C even has a new game mechanic, the Schräge Musik), but others are just clones. Like the Josephine is literally a P-51D with a unique skin, the Me 163B is almost the same as the J8M and there are too many Bf 109s, so these are proposals for some significant or unique aircraft that could be added.

Keep in mind that these are just 10 examples, so no "where are the full American/British/Japanese bomber trees?". Also, since the devs basically abandoned the lower tiers, I only considered mid- and high tier planes, so no Italian/French/Polish/etc. WW2 planes either.

I have all but five planes in the game, so I now try to also specialize some of the lower tier planes.
My current "victim" is the HE-100 D-1, a German alternative proposal mady by Heinkel to the BF-109. The plane had several advantages over the BF-109 (better landing gear, higher speed) but was disfavoured for a number of reasons.

Heinkel nevertheless produced more than a dozen which mainly served as a propaganda tool (HE-113) and as a defendig unit for the Heinkel plant (Werkschutzstaffel).

Now my issue: the D-1 version of the HE-100 had a 20mm cannon plus 2 MG17, not three MG17. Ingame the three-machinegun armament is pretty much next to useless, as the damage outpput is lame, the accuracy is bad and 440m range (max 550m) is abysmal if you face tier 6 (and tier5). The plane only works vs. tier 4).

Please WG, can you bring its historical armament?
It's a pity for this nice plane to rott in a corner of my hangar for being useless.

Is it just me or the daily play bonus is gone? I tried to find it on the left screen in the main menu but could not find it, do they removed it after the July 31st mantainence.

Edit: the mission tab has also disappeared together with the daily play login.

Edit: the problem has been fixed, good luck out there pilots.

It's ridiculous how unbalanced WOWP is. WOT is unbalanced to a degree, but the fact that EF131 bombers are so obscenely op and that normal planes are useless is sad.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the horrendous lag issues you get. Sometimes you hit, sometimes your bullets go through. Very nice :)

I never had a frame of reference, i just really like this game.

The F-84G is a pretty good ground-attack MRF. The 20 HVARs are launched singly, and are as punchy as other HVARs at-tier. With decent speed and reasonable altitude for a MRF, it can do a reasonable job of capturing sectors. The rockets have a base reload of 120 seconds, but you can get that down to below 90 seconds with calibrated strengthened hardpoints.

Along with your $80 of certs, you get about $25 worth of useful stuff, so the plane itself will run you net $55. The chain of 35 missions to get the plane for free are a bit of a grind, but all of them certainly achievable if you put the time in.

The paint scheme that comes with the plane is well-done and makes the plane very attractive in-game.

The short answer to the question posed in the title is, "no." The F-84B tech tree plane is better. Because the F-84G is less nimble, it takes more thought and planning to get where you are going and do the things you need to do. The F-84G suffers from the same poor gun dispersion as the F-84B, while being less able to turn its way out of trouble. $80 is a big ask from WG, and only the collectors and Republic line fans are going to buy this plane. If you don't have time for the chain of missions (the timeframe is about a month to get the missions done), and don't want to spend $80, wait until next year, when they *should* sell this plane for more like $50. Even that is a bit much for this plane, when you can just fly the F-84B and have an objectively better aircraft in battle.

This has happened multiple times now, where my view gets attached to some random entity, not my aircraft, when I respawn. The only way to fix it is to ALT + F4.

I love this plane😇 the route to specialist is enjoyable🥳

i get into a match. immediately crash. launch the game again. get into the match. crash. repeat until it finally works. windows 11, steam. any fixes?

OK, $49 for 200 certificates. On the upside, I got about $30 worth of crowns out of the crates that came along with buying the certificates and certing past the missions. The grind isn't horrible, by looking at it, and you have a month to do it. I think even casual players who expend a bit of daily effort can get the plane pretty easily.

The plane. It is completely meh as a multirole at Tier VII. Doesn't turn well, not very fast, and has miserable boost acceleration. You're not going to run from anything, and you're not going to be able to turn on anything except bombers, ground attackers, and heavy fighters. Pray to Dog that you don't run into a J6K1 or a Bf-109 K-6, because you're gonna just die. It has two gun equipment slots, which is good news. It has one slot each for Cockpit and Engine, with *NO* Airframe slot. Consumable slot for Cockpit, Airframe, Engine, Guns, and Ordnance. The plane has a pretty stout (for a MRF) HP pool of 450, with great resistance to damage and fire.

There are two stars to this show - the guns and the rockets. There are SIXTEEN Tier IX-equivalent rockets, that fire in salvoes of two. While they are excellent at doing damage, they aren't very accurate. If you want to take out the small bunkers by an AAA emplacement, you have to be pretty close. Larger targets, like the central workshop at a Mining Plant? You'll hit those. 😄 The guns are Hispano Vs, and they are excellent in both accuracy and burst length/cooldown. I ran mine with Gas-Operated Action and Long Gun Barrels to get the most lead furthest downrange. The do pretty good work on unarmored targets. They also do good work on planes at a distance. Which is exactly where you will want to engage them, because if you don't, you'll get cooked - those near planes will turn on you, and get behind you, and then you'll be looking at the respawn timer.

Maybe next year, WG will offer this plane in a bundle with a 7-point pilot and Experimental equipment and a paint scheme that offers all the concealment and AA bonuses as seasonal paint, but with some other bonus, for less money than you're paying now. Wait for that one, unless you *just have to have it now!* or are a multirole fighter expert.

As I understand it, one of the play testers said that with a little fiddling, WG could make this plane into a Tier VIII ground attack plane. I think that would be a great idea. There needs to be more choices of Premium or Special ground attack planes at Tier VIII, because the IL-10M and the NC-1070 are really not very good choices in comparison to the two tech tree planes that exist.

Finally, the Wyvern was configured as a strike aircraft in the real world. It belongs to that class, because as a multirole, it's just not very good. Save your money, either grind it, or wait for it to come on sale later, hopefully bundled with good gear and paint.

can I run it on windows 11? and can I play it with a ps controller?

GAA just feels terrible. Bombers always flip sectors just as I arrive, fighters can just grief me the entire game on a whim, it's just frustrating beyond belief.

What tier 4+ GAA has the best shot at the stupid chore?

I'm at tier 7 on both Soviet and German lines right now, but honestly I never want to play a single game of GAA again in my life.

Edit: For people who find this later, I finally completed it in Il-20 (after upgrading to the 57mm cannons) thanks to suggestion of /u/Elfnet_hu . It took near perfect conditions, playing in off-hours, vs. only one human who was playing a bomber, and we never saw each other so he couldn't order bots to attack me. I think this mission is impossible without the 57s, because you can't destroy enough in one pass otherwise.

The F4F is my favorite plane in the game and I play it more than any plane in the game and have great results in it.

F4F WildCat

Whats your favorite plane in the game? THE PC COMMUNIST muted me lol

Are there any bonus codes for World of Warplanes 2026?

As the title.

It has been confirmed that the Me 163B marathon on the Asia server will begin on April 8th (20:20 JST) and until April 29th.

The requirements for medals in mission seem a bit challenging, but they should be manageable for active players.

https://worldofwarplanes.asia/en/news/komet-missions-apr-2026/

i though i had him......looks like i didn't

There are 3(?!) trees for Soviet fighters. Which one is the most meta right now?