A-4E Skyhawk Early

[Winters_Bane]

So I finished researching this squadron vehicle and started wondering if it was worth all the SL to purchase and crew train. Is this a good vehicle? I don't have any other planes to create a preset with it... my best is 6.7, and it doesn't start with any secondaries, and it seems like the stock grind would be rough. Anyone have any thoughts?

[French Cat]

If you get the gun pods and flight performance upgrades, then it’s a great vehicle in Air Rb, not a good dog fighter though. Issue is that it’s more of a grind attack aircraft, so it’s better suited towards ground RB. I would buy and spade it so when you finally reach 9.3, you already have CAS to back you up.

[Hyp3_#]

I second the above, as it's possible for the A-4E to do very well, when fully spaded, getting 5+ kills in games lasting longer than 5 minutes even at its BR in Air RB.

If you do run gunpods, please only use 1 gunpod. It isn't really worthwhile running the other 2 because it weighs you down heavily and sometimes you get maps that are high up, making the flight performance much worse.

If you haven't already, you should take some time to get used to shooting the stock internal 20mm cannons as they lack ammo and do a bit less damage compared to other autocannons at its BR. So you do need patience and muscle memory for it. You could try using Vertical Targeting, setting it to 600 meters for example, to help with aiming.

When stock grinding, just focus on supporting your team (i.e. target enemies going after them) and going for ground targets when possible as you are not a fighter. Also don't research and apply the "new boosters" module, the plane can roll and pull fine as is.

Do not turn in this plane unless necessary, keep as much speed as possible.

[Winters_Bane]

Originally posted by Hyp3_#:

I second the above, as it's possible for the A-4E to do very well, when fully spaded, getting 5+ kills in games lasting longer than 5 minutes even at its BR in Air RB.

If you do run gunpods, please only use 1 gunpod. It isn't really worthwhile running the other 2 because it weighs you down heavily and sometimes you get maps that are high up, making the flight performance much worse.

If you haven't already, you should take some time to get used to shooting the stock internal 20mm cannons as they lack ammo and do a bit less damage compared to other autocannons at its BR. So you do need patience and muscle memory for it. You could try using Vertical Targeting, setting it to 600 meters for example, to help with aiming.

When stock grinding, just focus on supporting your team (i.e. target enemies going after them) and going for ground targets when possible as you are not a fighter. Also don't research and apply the "new boosters" module, the plane can roll and pull fine as is.

Do not turn in this plane unless necessary, keep as much speed as possible.

Thank you!

[Winters_Bane]

Originally posted by A Glorious Squash:

If you get the gun pods and flight performance upgrades, then it’s a great vehicle in Air Rb, not a good dog fighter though. Issue is that it’s more of a grind attack aircraft, so it’s better suited towards ground RB. I would buy and spade it so when you finally reach 9.3, you already have CAS to back you up.

Thank you!