to use attack or not.

[lunatic1]

let me see if I can word this right.
when in fighter mode and carrying bombs I bomb Gvs then shoot down planes
when in attack mode and carrying bombs I bomb gvs and shoot down planes
which pays more points-and for the sake of argument in both cases same gvs same planes, because I already know all planes and gvs pay different.
and if in fighter mode and bomb gvs/shoot planes does the game differentiate between the two, does the fighter to gv kill score as a fighter kill or as a attack kill, and vice/versa for the attack kills, plane to plane kill score as a fighter kill or a attack kill. a lot of time i'll up heavy only to have to dumb ords to fight/defend from a fighter and again vice versa. it might save me hanger time and less bails or less ord dumps. thankyou.

[hitech]

By pays more are you speaking of score or perk points?

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[SlipKnt]

I assume that regarding perk points, it would be the same because those points go to the fighter score anyways.

But if for score it matters in the stats?  I don't know how that works.

[ImADot]

I'm pretty sure for score and stats (like hit percentage), if you fly a fighter sortie, any bullets that don't hit another plane are "misses", even if you down a hangar. If you fly an attack sortie, everything you hit counts for something.

[lunatic1]

By pays more are you speaking of score or perk points?

HiTech

with perks it depends what you kill and with what you kill it with.
so I guess perks

and I'm sorry I think I posted this in the wrong place

[lunatic1]

I assume that regarding perk points, it would be the same because those points go to the fighter score anyways.

But if for score it matters in the stats?  I don't know how that works.

yeah but if you bomb a gv while upping in fighter mode does the kill go under fighter or attack?
and if you shoot down a fighter in attack mode does the kill go under attack or fighter.
might be easier to ask, which is better fighter mode or attack mode for killing everything.

trying to get the best bang for the buck so to speak.

[lunatic1]

I don't understand the K/D thingy anyway so I don't pay attention to it.
I don't try to get a better rank to beat some other player, I use rank to see if I'm improving my own skill for each tour.

[The Fugitive]

For perks I dont think it matters which one you launch under. For points/ranking it does matter. If you bomb GVs in fighter mode you dont get the hit% for damage, nor does the kill count toward score. It also knocks down your kill per sortie and and stuff, because if your counting GV kills in fighter mode it doesnt add them in so in essence you could kill 3 GVs, land, get your name in lights, but the kill will just be added to the total, but not to the scores. As far as the k/d, and k/s you wasted a trip because those wont be tallied.

Thats why some guys wont kill ack to set up a vulch. They upped in fighter mode and it will hurt their numbers.

In attack more it all counts toward score/rank... bomb damage, bullet hit, rocket, everything. Of course if you only fly attack mode all the time you fight scores/rank suck and that pulls down your over all score/rank.

I think the score/rank system was set up so you have to participate in a bit of everything to rank high over all. There are some tricks to gaming the system and some guys only play the game that way.

In the end its all in how you want to play. If your interested in improving your aim and so watch the hit% just shoot at planes in fighter mode.

Of course I could be way off and Lusche will be along shortly to straiten us out 

[Lusche]

Fighter vs attack mode

Score:
In Fighter Mode, only killing or damaging of planes count.
In Attack Mode, killing/damaging of planes, vehicles do count, as well as damaging/destroying structures (AA guns, town buildings, hangars and so on).

So if you plan on doing anything but shooting at planes, you better select "attack" if possible.

Perks:
You always get perks for killing the enemy or destroying their structures.
Your plane type decides where your perks go: Fighter, Fighter/Attack and pure Attack planes do earn you fighter perks, Bomber and Bomber/Attack planes do earn you bomber perks. Your scoring mode selection has no influence on this.

I don't understand the K/D thingy anyway

All your valid kills in that mode (see above) divided by your (deaths+1) is your K/D. (It's (deaths+1) simply to avoid division by zero)

[hitech]

When in fighter mode kills on the ground of both vehicles and structures are not scored. So things like hit % will go down if you are strafing objects or vehicles in fighter mode.

In Attack mode structures and vehicles are scored.

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[Lusche]

Of course I could be way off

No, you weren't. 

[The Fugitive]

No, you weren't. 

Woo-Hoo!!

[Lusche]

So things like hit % will go down if you are strafing (...) vehicles in fighter mode.

Only if something has changed in AH3.
I did specifically test this way back in AH2. The first thing I once did in a tour was strafing an LVT in fighter mode and killing it. Then I landed & ended sortie.
While (as expected) I did not get any (score) kill credit or damage points for it, I did get a hit% result.

Hits on objects still doesn't give you anything,  though

[hitech]

Woo-Hoo!!

Congratulations.


HITech

[hitech]

Only if something has changed in AH3.
I did specifically test this way back in AH2. The first thing I once did in a tour was strafing an LVT in fighter mode and killing it. Then I landed & ended sortie.
While (as expected) I did not get any (score) kill credit or damage points for it, I did get a hit% result.

Hits on objects still doesn't give you anything,  though

Your correct hitting vehicles counts, hitting structures does not.

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