War Thunder!

Friends,

If some of you guys play War Thunder on a regular basis just like me then please add me: PeterBlom   

War Thunder is a beautiful WW2 and early jet era sim with great online action and visuals! Everyone can download it and it comes with no costs   

Some self made ingame action shots of today:

My Sabre F86

 

Nicholas in his Typhoon saying hello

 

Online action with my SabreF2, just shot down an enemy Sabre

 

Four-engined Japanese bomber was one of the victims tonight

 

And more kills...

 

And more...nobody can outrun a fully upgraded Sabre in War Thunder



My Heinkel bomber making a run

 

My B-17 making a run

 

This B-17 has a lot of holes but survived!

 

I still love this Meteor F4 LW, a bit slower then a Sabre or Mig15 but still a beast in the air

 

Meteor F4 kill...



Meteor F4 following a Sabre



B-25 making a steep dive

 

Russian Pe-2 heavy fighter



Spitfire vs Japanese flyingboat

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It's looking good   If one day I find time I might try it, I flew a little bit with IL2 sturmovik a few years ago.

Can you please edit your post with smaller screenshots please?   

no problem, I just made them smaller and also added a few more nice screens in my first post...enjoy   

Is the learning curve anywhere as steep as Sturmovik? 

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

Is the learning curve anywhere as steep as Sturmovik? 

Nope, just play 'arcade battles' like me and make sure only to use mouse & keyboard. Do not try to use a Joystick in 'arcade' because a mouse is more accurate while aiming.

Also...make sure you know the assigned buttons for 'looking behind' because there alway be an enemy on your tail   

pour avoir fait une pose de simracing en 2010 et voler en escadrille sur IL2, je comfirme que l'apprentissage est dur et longs
beaucoup plus que pour la voiture, tout du moins pour moi.   
je ne connais pas bien War thunder mai je pense que c'est très arcades.
IL2 sort un nouvel opus qui me semble très bien
http://il2sturmovik.com/   

Yannick Lampure wrote:

je ne connais pas bien War thunder mai je pense que c'est très arcades.

IL-2 is more hardcore and will cost you money to buy.

War Thunder has 3 modes: Arcade, Historical and Realistic flightmodels. Soon War Thunder 'Tanks' will come available and all for free. Probably in a year from now War Thunder 'Fleets' will see daylight.

 

Some more self made pics of last week, enjoy   

Japanese bomber knocking out an aircraft carrier

 

The famous Swordfish torpedo plane

 

That's a hit!

 

The landing went a bit wrong...lol

 

Heinkel bomber formation



SBD Dauntless dive bomber

 

My Dauntless badly damaged and just seconds before it blew up mid-air

 

My Dauntless after being shot down during a night raid



B-17 formation getting attacked by Japanese A6M Zero's



A Zero got hit by a B-17 rear-gunner

 

'tis a beautiful game (and brilliant fun with friends!), really need to get back into it

Matthew Allington wrote:

'tis a beautiful game (and brilliant fun with friends!), really need to get back into it

add me as a friend: PeterBlom   

What's your player name Matt?

Peter Blom wrote:

Matthew Allington wrote:

'tis a beautiful game (and brilliant fun with friends!), really need to get back into it

add me as a friend: PeterBlom   

What's your player name Matt?

I'll find out when I reinstall the game!

hey Peter,
that flag on the sabre´s nose looks like czech one? am I right? I know that ntherlands looks similar but with orange circle in the middle...but I cannot see that..so czech?

Awesome screens Peter ..   

I Was working my way up to a P-Zero love the japanese airplanes ..

UPDATE 1.41 RELEASED! TANKS AVAILABLE!!!

Pilots and tankers!

We are pleased to announce the release of the War Thunder Update 1.41 that makes Ground Forces available for everyone to play! In order to add tanks to your hangar just go to the “Army” tab in the “Research” menu and purchase them the same way as you would do with the aircraft.

Ohh the Gloster Meteor !

Here are some new pics from my online actions from the past 3 months...enjoy   

A Gloster Gladiator shot down by my Buffalo
shot 2014.03.31 21.59.10

Japanese Flying boat
shot 2014.04.05 12.18.50

Japanese dive bomber...banzai!
shot 2014.04.08 18.19.54

Large Japanese bomber
shot 2014.04.12 12.45.06

Waiting for the green flag...
shot 2014.04.12 13.20.58  

My P-51 Mustang showing no mercy
shot 2014.04.20 23.36.14

Soviet bomber
shot 2014.04.27 16.37.50  

A Tempest II patrolling the English coast
shot 2014.05.04 00.56.44

A Hellcatt showing of it's bombs
shot 2014.05.07 22.21.08  

This was not nice...I got hit badly and my engine died, oil all over the place
shot 2014.05.11 11.51.49

Soviet Mig-3 hunting bombers
shot 2014.05.11 21.32.43

Battle of Britain Day! Hurricanes diving on enemy Heinkels and Bf-110 escort fighters
shot 2014.05.17 16.24.10  

A Hurricane got nailed and almost landed on top of me, my rear gunner had a busy time
shot 2014.05.17 16.30.52 by blom20122, on Flickr

My wing of Bf-110s who survived the mission
shot 2014.05.17 16.37.05  blom20122

Shall I give another burst?   
shot 2014.05.17 20.33.15

My lovely Spitfire Mk. IX
shot 2014.05.18 00.04.28

My lovely Spitfire Mk. IX badly damaged and about to crash with my enemy still shadowing me
shot 2014.05.18 18.26.59

One of these days I'll try this

I played in the early alpha then beta strictly in realistic mode. Was very fun. Once I got the other guy to bleed off his speed things usually end with a nice sweep across the tail and much smoke then dirt napping.

Was a pain in the ass to get the Mustang A unlocked but once I did life got real good.

Your screenshots indicate things have gotten even better!

Judging by just a couple of arcade battles this seems a lot of fun!

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

Judging by just a couple of arcade battles this seems a lot of fun!

yeah and best thing: It's free to download, does not cost you a penny. I play only with mouse and keyboard (Arcade battles) so fun for everyone   

This game is awesome. Start off with the UK its the best low tier class. Research the hurricane its a bad mofo.  

Austin Johnson wrote:

This game is awesome. Start off with the UK its the best low tier class. Research the hurricane its a bad mofo.  

I use the hurricane as well   

I'm donwloading now. I'll try that after my work.  

Victories: 875
Finished missions : 1502

Number of flyouts: 5555
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time played fighter: 206 h
bomber: 12 h
attacker: 15 h
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Air targets destroyed: 6470
Ground targets destro: 4985
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Untill now i mainly played tier 2, i think it is the most fun.

I own everybody, i mean everybody, almost always Nr 1 and "terror of the sky", "punisher" blabla....

Tier 2 i swear, Russian La-5 is boss, or the English Spitfires (but they have an ammo problem, La-5 has 340 rounds baby)

Upgrade your machine guns and cannons with new ones, better accuracy, put guns at 500m crossing over, believe me, no one does it at tier 2, they wont stand a change, oh and keep this a secret pls.     
Going to 3 and 4 to get those damned jets researched

Good post Jef, I think I'm closing in to 8500 aerial kills now   

Ben, Steve, Austin..add me as a friend: peterblom ...so we can form a squad in game