On reflection, it’s incredibly unusual to come through a battle unscathed, so you’ll need to repair your aircraft. Or your graceful landing attempt to capture an enemy airfield may result in an interaction with the ground at a somewhat higher velocity than would be ideal. Or you might misjudge a strafing run and prune a few treetops with your wings (note: your aircraft warranty doesn’t cover using the plane for horticultural purposes). RepairingĪlthough your great skill and masterful tactical aptitude will surely ensure you emerge from most battles unscathed, every now and again, through pure bad luck or unsporting enemy behaviour, you might get shot down. Also remember that crews retain their skills when changing aircraft, so if you’ve invested in gunner skills, especially skilled gunners, it makes sense to keep that crew in an aircraft with turrets. It’ll take a while for a crew to become experienced enough to qualify for these, it’s worth waiting until you have a good idea of which planes you’ll want to keep flying before buying them.ĭon’t worry too much about where you spend early skill points, you can’t go far wrong upgrading skills that cost one or two points.

The final tab, Qualifications, are specialisations that can be purchased (silver lions for the first specialisation, gold eagles for the second) for each aircraft once your crew reaches a certain level, and offer a hefty boost to a number of other skills. Repair Speed and Repair Rank affect aircraft repair, oddly enough, more details in the next section. The third tab, Ground Service, allows you to speed up repair and rearming times Reload Speed is especially useful in Arcade mode where you don’t even have to land to reload, and reduces the time required to reload both guns and secondary weapons (bombs/rockets), the Wiki link above has a table showing the effect. Additional skilled gunners are expensive for low rank planes at 240 crew XP you can use the “Accelerated Training” option to purchase crew XP for golden lions, otherwise it’s a lot of saving up. The first gunner skill, “Number of experienced gunners”, is important as each crew starts with a single skilled gunner, and if there is more than one turret position on an aircraft (quite likely on medium and heavy bombers) then the effect of skill points spent in the other areas is dramatically reduced if the number of experienced gunners skill does not equal or exceed the number of gunners. Pilot skills apply to all aircraft, Gunner skills are only useful if an aircraft has turret gunners if you’re not sure, check the “Number of gunners” shown on the bottom of the crew skills window.

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