WoT
THAT'S the joke.
WT is better than WoT.
And I found it fairly funny that someone said you would be a T-28 fighting Tigers?
Thank you for that laugh, it helped.
Half the folks here probably have not even tried playing WT. I was an idiot too, listening to what others said about it and mocking it, without actually trying it out and putting some time into it. Man, my boot does not taste good. I have quite a bit of fun in it. It's graphically very beautiful, just love how tracers and hit sprites look in WT. I get racked nose to tail by 303's and I may have an engine that is ever so slightly smoking. Like watching those gun cam vids really. The planes look great, with details of auto-adjusting cowl flaps. Tanks are nice as well, though the maps suck. It's all way too small. Even the aerial maps can be a bit feh. Tolerable, but feh. Tank maps can piss me off though.
An example of one of my recently runs; I was flying the Blenheim in one map, fairly cloudy. I wanted a little speed so I could reach the target and get the hell out of dodge, so I dove below the clouds. Risky, but can work out if a little lucky. For a moment, I spotted something through a small gap in the clouds over me. "Oh boy. Hope they didn't spot my arse...". Unfortunately, they did. They came screaming down through the clouds, an I-15, I-16 and a MiG-3. Otto starts opening up on the first one in range, the I-15. The I-15 is landing some solid hits on my R wing and tail. "Not good..." Knowing Otto isn't exactly the most skilled, I take over. I-15 was to have a very toasty day, as he soon catches fire. "He's done..". The I-16 follows the same path as the I-15, making it easy to get guns on him, but the MiG stays just under the clouds and gets a little over me. I-16 opens up, raking my L wing, but mostly hitting fuselage. My guess is he was going for a pilot kill as most of the rounds were front part of the plane. #1 starts to put out a very slight white smoke from his attack but I manage to pay him back in greater, as he starts spouting thick black smoke. That sent him packing. "Now, where is the real trouble?" Just as I start to scan high, I see tracers start pouring into my plane. Hits are focused around the turret. I only manage to get a few rounds off when, *Gunner Unconscious* "Damn!" He was doing the smart thing, going for the gunner. I couldn't do anything but watch as he pumped every bit of his ammo into my Blenheim, screwing up just about everything except critical flight controls. He focused on #1 and the L wing, but I lucked out for sure. He ran out of ammo and had to RTB. "Let's see if I can get home..." Number 1 engine was hit and losing oil pretty quick, and I already was dealing with a handful as my wings were shot to hell, making it already a little tricky to fly. I manage to get clear of all visible contacts when #1 goes dead. Now I have full rudder just trying to keep her from rolling over, and with my wings so bad off, yeah. A little tricky became a major pain in the arse. "All's well..." I said to myself. I have to keep #2 going at full or I will just fall out of the sky like a rock. Slow, easy movements. Let the plane steer herself. Runway is just up ahead, get my flaps down and see what she'll do. So far, a-okay. In fact, she is a little more stable right now. Throttle down a bit, get to 150 but keep gear up, don't want to drop until I'm off the runway. She's starting to yaw a bit hard but still manageable. Drop gear as I get to the runway, but made a fatal mistake. I throttled down too much, she starts to yaw very hard to the left then snaps R, as R wing dips into the ground. R wing rips off and as my Blenheim slams into the ground, breaks off the L wing. She just skids down the runway a little before coming to rest. While it did credit the MiG with the kill, it still said I performed a soft landing.
In my book, I won.
In all due honesty, I got damn lucky. But if this had happened in AH, I would have no wing's, and been in the tower ages ago. WT has something AH doesn't, gradual damage. A little quirky, but it is there. AH is: It's there/it's not there. I hate that about AH in all honesty, and really wish they would up the battle damage system a bit.
All in all, I enjoy both games quite a bit. Aces High has a very nice Strategic depth to it that WT just can't compare to. There is a LOT more to do in Aces High, which pretty much limited by your willingness to do it. War Thunder is graphically very beautiful, with it at times looking like I'm watching a gun cam shot from WW2. They have a gradual damage system in place that gives me some kind of chance to do something, rather than just *POP No wing*. Usually doesn't save my arse, but there HAVE been times.
They both have their pro's and con's.
