Do 335 or Me 410 B6/R3

[Bootleg Greedo]

Which do you guys think is better/like more for ground attacking and why? I'm personally partial to the Me 410 (though I admittedly haven't used either 335 near as much), mostly because the 335 feels pretty fat and hard to turn, while the 410 is surprisingly maneuverable considering it's a big twin engine heavy fighter.

[Katokevin]

I'd prefer the 410 (though the premium 335 is not terrible thanks to having 3 Mk 103's as well as a nice bomb load) but regardless, the 335's fly like a fridge full of bricks.

[Narf]

Originally posted by Katokevin:

I'd prefer the 410 (though the premium 335 is not terrible thanks to having 3 Mk 103's as well as a nice bomb load) but regardless, the 335's fly like a fridge full of bricks.

That might actually be insulting to the fridge.
But jokes aside, it's just very important that you are not going too fast in the dive, because then you lose all ability to steer - including pulling up! If you keep it relatively slow - not far above 500 - you can still maneuver pretty well. It's very easy to go faster than that, so one must absolutely kill all power to the engines before starting the dive and pull up with a good amount of wiggle room. Even more so when you still have bombload remaining. Once you have a feeling for that it's pretty fun.

Its air combat capabilities are craptastic, but it works great vs. ground targets in ground RB. If an enemy is dumb enough to give you a headon or you can catch somebody's back, it easily obliberates everything, but anybody who's smart enough to not do that, you stand no chance against and can only hope to run.

For anti-ground I'd actually pick the B4 over the B6. The 50mm AP-T has way better damage than the 30mm HVAP-T because it actually fragments inside the target, while the HVAPs need to hit anything directly to kill. It's not so rare to find myself having to strafe a target three times because each aproach only set the target on fire and I need to run down the two FPE uses.

[Bootleg Greedo]

Yeah air combat is the other reason why I think the 410 is better, I can't always kill stuff that spawns in and comes after me, but when I get those 30s and 20s on target, it's over. As for the 50mm cannon variants, I'm actually researching them right now and have yet to give them a try. If they get more kills then that already sounds fun, usually how I try to play the B6/R3 is crippling more than killing, trying to assist friendy tanks and turn their fights in their favor (and murder M18s and milk trucks with impunity), in part because it can be hard to 100-0 a tank crew with the HVAPs, even with good guns on target