Aircraft Guide - Wargame Red Dragon

[@grigorynaumenko3087]

Like your video. As a player with 600+ hours in RD, your words would probably help newbies who just came to the game. Though, some notes: 1. Planes like Tomcat and MIG-31 have a feature - they shoot 2 missiles in one salvo. They are F&F, so you can let the plane shoot 1 salvo and evac the plane to avoid combat with air superiority fighters. These 2 missiles either both hit and kill an enemy plane, only one hits and damage/stun the enemy plane, or none hits (sad face). But sine you have already evacuated the MIG (or Tomcat), it is reloading only 2 missiles, not 4 or 6, which is much faster and you can bring it back in the air faster, compared to situation when you fully unload the whole payload. Also the advantage of both MIGS and Tomcat that they can detect enemy aircraft the exact moment when they spawn, so it gives you a major advantage over the enemy. 2. AT planes like A-10 are only used against tanks. Though, A-10 is a horrible tank hunter, since it is slow, its accuracy is only 40% and penetration is only 26. Compare it with F/A-18 Hornet with better AT missiles and take it, not A-10. Also you should choose F&F AT missiles, since the plane with such payload will shoot the next rocket immediately after the first one, compared to SA payload, where the next missile will be shot only when first one hits or misses. Plus, F&F missile will continue its travel even if your plane is dead (this feature is also true for ATGM infantry and vehicles, if they have F&F payload). 3. I understand your passion for napalm planes, but there are only few really good ones (like USA Phantom or Czech MIG-29). Others would only eat your activation points in your deck. They cannot kill units, they usually die due to low ECM and speed. In addition, most of such planes carry 2-4 napalm bombs, what does not create a big puddle of fire. And units in armored transports like BMP or BTR can just drive through it without major harm. So, my point - take napalm planes only if you have spare points in your deck when you took all necessary things (this also applies for cheap anti-heli fighters and rocket planes).

[@Bandanner]

Very good tips :)

[@Smiktor2137]

Tip 2 isnt very good. A-10 is one of the best units in the game. Subop just doesnt understand its role. Its way better than C Hornet, and is something that is a must have in US deck.

[@grigorynaumenko3087]

@@Smiktor2137 I do not agree with you. let's just compare stats of the planes. Speed: 500 A-10 vs 1000 for f-18. ECM: 20% A-10 vs 40% f-18. Missiles: 6 mavericks with 26 penetration and 40% for A-10 vs 4 mavericks with 30 penetration and accuracy of 50% for f-18. f-18 missles even have further range than a-10. I think f-18 numbers beat a-10 numbers. you can argue that a-10 has GAU-8 and its fun, plus it is well armoured and can sustain some damage. However, ATGM planes are usually called in to swiftly and fast kill top tanks. f-18 can do this: it is fast, he dodges AA better than A-10 and shoots its missiles with higher accuracy. both planes come with identical ranks of either 2 regular or 1 elite, so you cannot even compensate bad accuracy of a-10. and final nail into the coffin of a-10: while it flies, tanks can just simply escape in the forest or in the smoke. so... why I should go with a-10?

[@Smiktor2137]

@@grigorynaumenko3087 A-10 has 2 front and rear armor. That means it can survive 4 5 he missiles. That is already ridicolous. When playing against US you wany to have a lot of AA. This means 40 ECM on Hornet is not enough. Also the fact that it stays in aa range for so long beacuse 4 ATGM. And here it cant be seen that you dont understand role of a-10. Its like a flying unkillable fortress. Basically stops any advance of tanks just beacuse it hovers in front of smoke cloud. C hornet is better at killing superheavies if anything, A-10 is better at everything else. Also im talking about 1v1 sweaty ranked setup where there is no 6 superheavies on the field. A-10 is like hovering menance. You force your oponent to hide his tanks and operate with yours freely, thus winning the tank battle without any tanks. You force him to hide and not advance beacuse everything that advances dies. Putin is amazing with A-10, i recomennd you watch some of his videos where he utilizes it to maximum. Razzman has 1 video against him where he lost beacuse of A-10s.

[@Smiktor2137]

Also slow speed is actually amazing as it allows it to stay near frontline, not do giant circles and is able to get all 6 mavericks off on for example, aa that reaveled itself. Also it allows accuracy scaling to do that accuracy boost for you.

[@grandswed]

This was very helpful, Whenever I call in planes they just die and I just think they are usless, this will help alot.

[@Bandanner]

Its ok, I call them in knowing in general what I am supposed to do with them and still let them die ;)

[@grandswed]

@@Bandanner as long as the drop their stuff I am happy, if they fly in and die befor getting shots off I am sad xD and that nearly always happens

[@d.esanchez3351]

Bro, im used to play airland battle in solo (amatur level) but now that a friend an i get the red dragon we were trying to get a bit good at it. Ive seen other channels but your tutos and guides are the best. Keep like that, ive learned a lot (and if you could do something about recon and tank/antitanak vehicles i would really apreciate. Im kinda shit on those jajaja)

[@ddhmarcus2968]

Thank you for this, i used to always go "haha napalm go brrr" and just spam those like back in 'nam btw, please do continue these videos!!!!

[@z4ck_playzbrawlstars194]

Me too

[@tomlyons6802]

Thank you for the guide. I enjoyed yesterday's stream, had it on whilst I gave 10v10 tactical a go for the first time. With not much success.... ahaha

[@Bandanner]

Haha you are relying on 9 other people remember. It sadly can be heavily weighted to one side.

[@hundun5604]

These tutorials are great. However, the music is a bit distracting. I don't mind if you turn it off, or lower the volume.

[@AethilEpicMusic]

Excellent guide and explanation, thanks! :)

[@Bandanner]

Glad it was helpful!

[@citizensnips9071]

Приятно видеть, что выходят новые видео по WRD. Успехов в творчестве

[@faizturtle1331]

sir, what type of missile and jet to attack jets, heli and vehicles with missiles, because my jets always attack targets using only bombs and miniguns

[@ahmeddarwish5077]

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[@Bandanner]

That is very kind of you to offer I will keep that in mind.

[@ahmeddarwish5077]

@@Bandanner well, I'll be waiting for your decision then ... Tik .. Tok .. Tik .. Tok ;)

[@josphat.Karanja]

My best rts game i have meet..... Need to combine with some modern units❤

[@Bandanner]

There is a big mod that "adds" modern units to the game... I forget its name though.

[@josphat.Karanja]

@@Bandanner nice to hear that, can't wait to mod it out🥳

[@Bandanner]

@@josphat.Karanja I think its the Wargame: Annihilation Mod, never actually tried it but heard good things.

[@colonelnino2424]

thank for you tuto because in french we don't have good tuto

[@vantuz8264]

Soviet R-27R missiles with 8400m are better than R-77 or AIM-120 with 7700m only on paper. In reality they're signifincantly worse. R-27R is slower. In a head on engagement both R-27R and R-77/AIM-120 will hit their targets at the same time. R-27R is semi-active [SA]. Which means the plane can't fire a second missile before the first one hits/misses. And that the missile will lose track if the plane dies. [FoF] missiles don't have that limitation. So in a head on engagement a plane with R-77/AIM-120 will fire 2 missiles against 1 R-27R. The second R-27R will have lower accuracy due to suppression and may never hit the target if the plane dies. Super-long range missiles on MiG-31M (but not MiG-31) and F-14 are filed in pairs but have very long aiming time (2 seconds instead of 0.4). So they're tricky to use. F-117 are can only be spotted at 3 times shorter range than normal planes. That range is shorter than AA range and even air superiourity missile range (perfectly balanced!). The most reliable way to counter that BS are MiG-31/31M and F-14 since they have extremely strong radar and can see farther than even other air superiourity fighters. Laser-guided bombs of F-117, Harrier GR-7, F-1 are dropped very precisely so they can destroy even superheavy tanks through sheer HE through thin top armor. (perfectly balanced!) 2 armor value makes the plane take less damage from missiles, effectively making your planes have 24HP. Note that A-10 and Su-25T have 2 armor on front and rear while Su-25 only on the front. All of them are vulnerable from the side since 1 armor does nothing.

[@Bandanner]

Good details :)

[@weatherholtzeric]

MiG-29 first flight was 1977 first built for the Soviet army in 1982.

[@bloodsongthesparkywolf3717]

*Howeling intesefies*

[@hegoyyoutubination]

Not to be a snowflake, but why are not you breaking down such things as F&F-SA missiles or plane stealth?

[@Bandanner]

Not sure why asking that would make you a snowflake. It's a fair to ask if you wanted to know about something else :) The idea as noted in the description was to cover the basics of the fixed wing aircraft. Talking about the weapons systems in more detail would add significant length to the video, thus I decided not to continue into all that as it is already at 23 minutes after cutting various bits of content. But I will keep in mind that someone is interested in that kind of detail.

[@hegoyyoutubination]

@@Bandanner no-no, you've got me wrong. I myself know about such things, I used to be Colonel back then when we had our old leaderboard. Just stumbled upon your vid by chance and was left wondering, why didn't you mention those features of vehicles

[@toniodu371200]

I personnaly use srm for helos only as they're litteral shit for killing planes even in blob and mrm for planes kill. Don't use lrm cause it's just absolute crap and the meme tomcat is so fragile it's not worth 180 points... I use napalm as smoke to protect infantry from long range ( as there is no smoke bombers ) and only from time to time as slow mover kill/panicker. I rarely use agm ( except some like seeds, the froggo or the warthog ) as it's a lot of money for one or two kill at a time when bombs are doing the same job for less money. Bomber are life, use bombers, like bombers, hate 227kg bombs ( its shit, even a lucky hit won't kill, just panic ). 500kg are the ones everybody have but I really like the 1t bombs, they always destroy what's under the blast and can even rekt helos pretty hard. Not to say cluster bobs are absolutely wreking lightly armored vehicles and severely hurt everything else while infantry stays untouched ( but panic them so dont bomb your own troops )

[@uncletimo6059]

no no no no NOOOOO cheap short range and slow fighters are used to counter enemy HELICOPTERS, the expensive ones, like akula, longbow, tiger....you are very very happy if you take out a one of those uber helicopters that cost 150 points with your 70-80 point crap fighter. another use is for soaking enemy fire - let them go first, then spam ASF, bombers, SEAD behind them. you also can open with one of those cheapo fighters at the start of 1v1 or even 2v2, to scout out the enemy, see if a helo rush is incoming, and take out enemy helicopter (or two) if you can before they unload. you can even go BRRRRRRT on ground units with them if no AAA is in range, why not.

[@Bandanner]

Yes you can do a lot of different things with all the aircraft as I noted at the end of my video due to their range of weapons and versility. Its very kind of you to share your strategies. :)

[@uncletimo6059]

@@Bandanner the no no no no no you have to say in razzman voice