Are people afraid of the HitlerBolt? aka German P-47

[mp81996]

I can understand why it can be the 1st plane to be shot out of the sky, because with a BR of 2.7 It certainly doesn't act like a plane with a BR of 2.7. It climbs so fast, it can reach 4000+ meters so early in game you can intercept bombers without worrying about other fighters trying to intercept you unless someone else is in a P47 as well.

When Phly showcased it on his channel he made the plane look so amazing in the hands of a skilled player, even a mediocre player can do somewhat okay with it. got 4 kills on my first game with it. and I even impressed someone on my second game, As soon as the game started WEP to 4000m in a vertical climb to intercept bombers, took down two in less than 30 seconds apart from each other and some guy was like Holy S*** in the chat. I was like, oh plz, it was nothing and sure enough some scrub rammed me.

Are people afraid of the P47 in general? or is it the HitlerBolt people are scared of. let me know.

[Xoho]

They're afraid of the hitler bolt because it's about as effective against the lower br aircraft as the later p47s are against upper tier 4 and even t5 jets. The only difference is that it's a bit more forgiving and affects newer players, who don't understand how to counter it other than turning. Yes it's good, very good. But there's a counter to everything. The P47 can't maneuver well below 400kmph so you need to abuse that as well as it's momentum. It's momentum opens it up to energy traps as it can't bleed speed quite as easily as a lighter aircraft. A lot of US aircraft are undertiered, the p47-D25/28 could easily be 4.7 or even 5.0. The N15 could be an even higher BR at 5.3 to 6.0 and still perform fairly well, albeit with an airspawn to counter it's piss poor climb performance compared to upper tier aircraft.

A lot of newer players take amazing US aircraft, and try to turnfight in them or worse yet decide to ground attack/lawnmow in fighters. Or try to energy fight, but do the polar opposite of what should be done. Gaijin's tendency to buff/nerf aircraft based on everyone's success/failure to use that aircraft leaves aircraft like these rather overpowered for a skilled pilot.

[uɐɐılʎʇs]

Funnily its on of the most complained about planes from what ive seen. Yet i rarely see those whining about it complain about the russian version which is better.
They all perform the same but the russian variant also has bombs at the same br as the german one which doesnt have a bombload.

Having that bombload helps win the game faster. But i guess since the german one has no bombload it is used in its fighter role way more often.

If you want to talk about comparitive BR op planes it would be the second best plane overall in my opinion, first being the Russian just ahead purely for the fact it can do what the german does but also help win games faster.
Thtat sort of performance + firepower at that BR is just OP for both of them.

German would be one of my most used planes for a few of the warbonds/decal/event challanges that require x amount of kills of x type of plane with a t3 vehicle, or X amount of kills in 1 game with a t3 fighter.

[onebullet95]

The plane itself is not a problem, the problem is the actual BR it has. Im not very good in RB and i can clearly say that a plane that can dive at 800kmh and a plane with API x3400 bullets shouldnt be that low, its ridiculous! I use that plane in t4 SB to kill 5.0 planes wtf? And yeah in SB u can take it in t2 against f2a, f4fs and hurricanes mkiis hahaha they can barely reach 500kmh

[Smetrix]

Don't you mean "Do you hate the German P47 a.k.a the Hitlerbolt"? The answer is kinda.

[SpaceKraken]

Actually, high speed has it's downsides.
When you dive at 800 km/h, it becomes very hard to turn, you can't hit anything smaller than a Pe-8, and your plane keeps accelerating until it reaches 910 km/h... and then RIP wings.
80% of the time you will pass the enemy without even a chance to hit.

P.S. You guys have Cheatfires, a.k.a. Spitfires, a.k.a. best plane in the game. Let Germans have something good too.

[CyanUsecKitsune]

THE P-?? IS SCARY :'( they are deadly with their 800 guns

[RAM AIR IV]

Well considering that 8 50cals are scary at any BR it is really scary at 3.7

[gary]

i like spitfires

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

German p-47 is fine. Stop complaining.

[ShadZep]

I’m not afraid, I got my b-57 with M3s to rip off the wings

[SpaceKraken]

Oh, and also, why people are not happy because an interceptor intercepts other planes?
Let's balance everything then - bombers won't bomb, fighters won't fight, attackers won't attack.

[onebullet95]

Yeah its ok that but with a 2000hp engine u dont need Air spawn and dont get me wrong I own that plane and like i said before, im not very good in RB and im able to get 4-5 kills games. The worst part is that u can get those 4-5 kills and u still have 2000 bullets haha and for those who said that its very hard to aim at 800kmh, try 800m gun convergence and stealth ammo, its ridiculous even tho u are diving at that high speed.

[uni-sp]

Well... the P47 on it's BR is OP as hell when flown right. The biggest advantage is the amunition or more the amount of it. You can stay out in the air for ages and kill the whole enemy team and still have some rounds left. you can't do this in most other planes. Then you have too many of them... in most german teams right now you have up to 5 of them... even 6. More of these things and you have a US team that actually climbs. Then the idiotic habbit of Allied Teams doesn't climbing... most matches are over in under 5 minutes. it's just not fun... Take it the air spawn away...and raise the BR to 4.3.. still a good plane but you wont see so many of them.

[RAM AIR IV]

It's also a good ground pounder in tank RB. Even with no payload, it reeks havoc on all open top vehicles. I killed 4 m13s and still had 2100 rounds left