What's better, Tanks or Planes?

[ShoneChello]

Just wondering as to which one is better in terms of grinding, winning games, and fun.
It also helps if you explain why.

[Belos]

Just to say. I hope you are just playing br1 asking questions like this.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Belos:

Just to say. I hope you are just playing br1 asking questions like this.

Why? Its a legit question for every tier in fact depending on the nation your playing some BRs your planes or tanks might be ♥♥♥♥ that bracket. Serriously play some more there defiantly tiers where its like "oh yeah that nations planes are ♥♥♥♥ this teir, oh crap their tanks are stronk as hell this tier!"

[Belos]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Originally posted by Belos:

Just to say. I hope you are just playing br1 asking questions like this.

Why? Its a legit question for every tier in fact depending on the nation your playing some BRs your planes or tanks might be ♥♥♥♥ that bracket. Serriously play some more there defiantly tiers where its like "oh yeah that nations planes are ♥♥♥♥ this teir, oh crap their tanks are stronk as hell this tier!"

Ok kiddo into the list you go. I don't understand your gibberish, maybe master English.

[jimknopf107]

If you are on a city map you will not find so many targets with a plane, btw driving a plane is more difficult then a tank

[OldBeard]

In term of tactical advantage, a plane can be really useful to destroy tank the infantry don't have access to (provided your plane has some sort of bomb and your aim is decent) but you're an easy target for any player willing to lay down an AA and any faster/better piloted planes.
Tanks on the other hand can really be annoying for the enemy team if you can avoid AT, planes and other tanks ( most often done by the low effort, low skill tactic of staying out of bound to snipe any other tank spawning).
I myself find plane being far more fun than tank since they don't get the tendency to get sniped from miles away by another tank/guerrilla camping the spawn. You might not see as much action/rack as much kill (although some plane have decent capabilities in both air combat and infantry/AT combat.)

[Panzer]

I wouldn't really say there is a definitive answer. There are many factors that come into play with this question, like the map you're on, your own skill in tanks vs planes, your teammates overall competence and what vehicles they are using, your enemies skill, and more.

If you're on a highly urban map, a tank would likely fare better than a plane since many of the infantry will be hiding inside of buildings. However, if you aren't used to playing tanks and you overextend, or if your team is not competent at supporting armor, you're likely to just be swarmed with explosion packs and TNT charges.

Open style maps can also be great for tanks, especially if you do what everyone hates and just sit in a grey/unreachable part of the map and fire off rounds. The only way you'll be taken out is by enemy planes/armor, or depending on the type, maybe infantry anti tank weaponry. You'll be entirely immune to explosion packs and TNT.

Alternatively, if you are on a more open map, planes can be absolutely devastating with rocket and bombing runs, especially if the enemy team doesn't have their own air to counter you, or engineers building anti air guns. Planes are less reliant on your teammates to do well, and are more focused on your own personal skill and the skill of your enemies (Such as enemy pilots or engineers building anti air guns).

Planes can also do well on urban maps, particularly ones with narrow streets packed with infantry moving to an objective, but overall in my experience it's easier to do better with a tank on an urban map, than a plane.


Great tankers or great pilots can sometimes almost single handedly be the reason a team wins. With 1 exception, tanks or planes can be equally powerful when used correctly, i don't think one is objectively better than the other. A tank sitting in a grey zone pumping HE into a building to defend a point can win a game just as well as a plane doing constant offensive bombing/rocket runs on infantry trying to push into a point. The only difference perhaps, is that planes can engage enemy tanks as well, even with a smaller bomb payload. A plane may not have enough bombs to outright kill a tank, but even 50kg spam will be enough to track and barrel torture one into submission while your infantry finishes the job.


So ultimately to answer your question, it's really something you will need to figure out yourself. I find that i do better and have more fun in tanks instead of planes, but i've seen plenty of games before with excellent pilots that carry their entire team to victory. How well one does over the other at grinding is reliant on how well you do with it, it's not as if tanks will outright give you more research or money compared to planes or vice versa. It's entirely dependent on how you perform with it and if your team wins or not.

[Godspeed]

Infantry win games.

[Hitiburinval]

Well depends on what you value the most. Tanks push the line, while planes weaken the line. You want to deal the most damage? Use planes. Want to provide an incentive to reach the objective or defend it? Use the tank. The weakness of a plane is that you are always exposed. The weakness of a tank is that your slow.

[Cyrus]

infantery wins games i play anti tank and kill at least 5 to 6 tanks and airplanes in a round

[Belos]

Originally posted by Godspeed:

Infantry win games.

Pretty much. Should be the answer to the post here.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Belos:

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Why? Its a legit question for every tier in fact depending on the nation your playing some BRs your planes or tanks might be ♥♥♥♥ that bracket. Serriously play some more there defiantly tiers where its like "oh yeah that nations planes are ♥♥♥♥ this teir, oh crap their tanks are stronk as hell this tier!"

Ok kiddo into the list you go. I don't understand your gibberish, maybe master English.

Oh no the small child put me on his list. The gibberish would be for those who played games diffrent nations do better or worse each tier with planes and tanks.

I know you like "tiers what is that? Also is there more then br1?"

Seriously US tanks tend to suck most tiers, their planes are crazy good, German planes mostly suck, but tanks tend to be best in tier. Japanese tanks are different, to say the least lol.

Not sure how I could explain it any better with out holding your hand in person though...

[Belos]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Originally posted by Belos:

Ok kiddo into the list you go. I don't understand your gibberish, maybe master English.

Oh no the small child put me on his list. The gibberish would be for those who played games diffrent nations do better or worse each tier with planes and tanks.

I know you like "tiers what is that? Also is there more then br1?"

Seriously US tanks tend to suck most tiers, their planes are crazy good, German planes mostly suck, but tanks tend to be best in tier. Japanese tanks are different, to say the least lol.

Not sure how I could explain it any better with out holding your hand in person though...

Don't you have a job or school you need to get to you poor third worlder.
Things must be really slowed down that you are the only one commenting lol.

[Snake]

Vastly dependent on the map, so both.

[Trickst3r83]

With airplane it's hard to bomb cities and stuff, the tanks can hide well between the buildings and infantry do have some cover, but I really enjoy flying in this game

[gholamyalireza2]

plane in my opinion