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The higher tier Panzer IVs do not all have the same gun. At least one of them has the PaK 40 L/48, maybe both, which is slightly longer and more effective than the PaK 40 L/43.

It's the same gun, just 5 calibers longer, so it's slightly more accurate and has slightly better penetration.

Turn fighters are almost universally very light, so they're generally far better at climbing than the conventional energy fighters, which are heavy and slow to get up to altitude.

The main thing that makes turn fighters turn fighters is that their design either is built to minimize energy usage on a turn, so they can basically keep turning forever without significant speed loss, or they're built to exploit energy usage on a turn as efficiently as possible, so they can very easily turn in on someone but they eventually run out. The difference can be easily seen looking at the Spitfire Mk I or II, both of which use very little energy as possible, versus the Mk V, which burns through energy quickly but is the single quickest turnfighter in the game, even giving the Zero a solid run for its money... as long as the Mk V has enough energy left not to stall.

The Bf 109 and the Aira/Kingcobra are both good planes to learn about optimal energy usage. They're what I like to call 'light energy' fighters, because they have the small size and light weight of turn fighters, and can actually pull a good turning radius, but they're generally pretty dependent on good energy control for good performance. They're useful for transitioning to later tier Japanese and British aircraft, because both of those nations ended up going the energy route as their heavily turn fighting based air rosters became increasingly outmatched by energy fighters.

Remember, by the time you get to the upper tiers, you're usually smarter yourself.

Hopefully. There's a lot of complete idiots who managed to slip by and completely wreck the balance of the upper tiers with their terrible flying.

Honestly, I'm probably one of them, really.

It would be cool if there was a way to turn the flamethrower flame off and just spray gas all over the target before lighting it up with a quick burst of flame. It's an actual thing you can do with a flamethrower, after all.

Technically always, technically never. Because of how lion gain and autorepair works, you can lose money flying anything above a reserve plane if you manage to crash as soon as you take off. However, if you survive with your plane undamaged (or freshly landed and repaired) you can make money even on jets, which cost over 20,000 lions to repair fully, probably closer to 30,000.

I do know that the Bf 109s get expensive very, very quickly, with the A-4 maxing out at just over 10,000 lions if it's completely destroyed in battle, which is more than you get for a single kill. I think the 190s take longer, around the G-2. Not sure about the other lines. The Me-410s don't get that bad until up to tier 4, and even the 262 with the heavy cannon and the Arado don't get that expensive.

I understand your argument, but I have very little trouble killing Tigers in it. The Tiger's a fast heavy tank, but it's surprisingly easy to flank. A lot of tiger pilots keep their armor pointed towards where they think the most enemies are, so if you slip around they're easy pickings, and it's ridiculously easy to get around people on most maps, because most people go towards specific places on the maps.

They force themselves down these imaginary 'lanes' like they're playing League of Legends, and that gives savvy players ample opportunity to slip through the cracks, the hills and valleys and paths and passages that very few people ever go down. Even on wide open maps like Kursk, there's still plenty of places you can maneuver and get close to the enemy, and it's amazingly exploitable.

If it gets moved to anything smaller though, *psh*

There is, actually, a weapon called the manuballista, also more commonly known by the Roman nickname of 'Scorpion'. They were basically ballistae that could be carried by a soldier as a crew-served weapon similar to a machine gun. Actually firing it without mounting it... well, it certainly wasn't a good idea. Even if it wasn't a firearm, the thing still had some hefty recoil, after all. Still, though, it was a devastating weapon, allowing soldiers to carry around something with comparable lethality and range to a siege engine, and the Romans used it to devastating effect.