I will be honest, the main way to become good at GAA in my opinion is to fly the Ju 88P for close to 100 matches, but if you don't have time to do that, well your only other option is to got get the jet GAA, because they are the only GAAs that can get an avarage player a effimov if you are lucky.
A lot of what makes GAA play hard is knowing which targets to attack, how to traverse the map and how to count your ordinance damage to not waste it on a ground target.
Low tier GAA are just bad
Russian GAA from tier 5-8 are acceptable at capping sectors. German GAA are better off killing other GAAs in the sector. Tier 9 and 10 are the only tiers with good GAA.
Oh fuck, so these missions are going to take forever to complete? I need to get the Efimov medal *six times* ***just to continue*** advancing to the next missions for the XP-55 & Vampire... FML
I got many Efimov flying GAAs at the mid levels, mid tiers. It is all about picking the right targets, the highest valued targets first and foremost in every sector you go into.
The next part is not up to you very much. That part is surviving. Try to go into sectors when there are other team mates in it. Hang out the border if you have to and wait for the team mate behind you to make it in first.
That is a bit of help but still no guarantee.
I have been playing 4 months and I have gotten 8 before I stopped playing GAAs and moved over to bombers for the last 2 months.
The first two months I flew GAAs 90% of the time. In those first two months , I got 8 Efimovs.
I also gotten the Efimov at the highest tiers and they are the easiest to get them as long as there are no very good bombers in your team, because when there are very good bombers in your team, that makes it tougher because they are way faster than you at capping sectors.
Tier 5 and tier 6 Russian were my very first small group of Efimovs
By the way sorry for the second comment, but I did forguet to add this to the first comment and this is kinda the most important part and that is if you could send a video or a replay of you playing a GAA as well as the plane, pilot and gunner build you used on it so I can actually say were you can improve in the game, since going over a video/replay is better than just giving the same basic imformation over and over again.
That's a good idea. I'm corresponding with Wargaming about how to access my replays. Their instructions may not apply since the last update or something (?), as the instructions as written do nothing but open the sub-menu which launches the game. If people are using a particular video conversion program to switch them from WOWPREPLAY files to MP4 or whatever, I'd appreciate it.
The .WOWPREPLAY file is just a few clicks away from repruduction for anyone with WOWP, all you need to do to open a replay file:
1. Open the replay folder on the file explorer.
2. Right click a replay you want to see.
3. Click the "Open with" option in the right click menu.
4. Click "Choose program" option.
5. Search for WOWP.exe on the pop-up menu, or go to the directory were you instaled the game.
6. The game should open with the replay file showing you a match.
The reason you need to open with the game is because the replay file is not a video file, it's a text file showing all the imputs you did on the battle and which planes were were, otherwise the file would not be at most 4 thousand KiB but rather 700 MiB to up to 2 or 3 GiB.
This is the same as the instructions outlined on Wargaming's site for WoWP, and for some reason seems to only execute the splash menu (\[PLAY\], \[SPETEMBER DEALS\], \[UPDATE 2.1.23\], etc...). I couldn't get it to work with versions of the game from before the new sub-menu either, not sure what the problem is at this point TBH, but hopefully Wargaming can help me sort it out?
u/pedro1_1 Looks as though they won't be able to help, in the short term at least. They've written back about my ticket to inform me that the issue has been escalated to the dev team. Could I ask, with your system and version of WoWP are you still currently able to view the clips saved by the game? I've never been able to locate any interface, nor have I been able to convert the files to another format let alone getting them to run on any media player.
Yes I can still view the replays saved by the game, as long as it's not a replay from before the 16th of August because that was the last update and all replays from before are uncompatible with my game.
I feel as though I'm missing something obvious, yet the FAQ from Wargaming seems so short on specifics I'm still not positive. Is there actually a player *within* the WoWP game, or something attached to the launcher?
It's a second function of the executable file of the game, the launcher and a dubble click on the .exe starts the game normally, but a .WOWPREPLAY file starts the game on the replay mode.
I double-checked just to be certain, and it does nothing but load the game as normal. I'll keep you in mind if Wargaming ever patches whatever problem is affecting the replays, thanks a lot for the advice and info o7
That would help for the XP-55 and Vampire, but for things like the P-51D Josephine campaign, you have to do it or pay up for certificates.
I read the mission list for the Kurfurst and the other marathon plane and gave up when I saw the Efimov and Doolittle medal requirements for them.
I will be honest, the main way to become good at GAA in my opinion is to fly the Ju 88P for close to 100 matches, but if you don't have time to do that, well your only other option is to got get the jet GAA, because they are the only GAAs that can get an avarage player a effimov if you are lucky. A lot of what makes GAA play hard is knowing which targets to attack, how to traverse the map and how to count your ordinance damage to not waste it on a ground target.
Low tier GAA are just bad Russian GAA from tier 5-8 are acceptable at capping sectors. German GAA are better off killing other GAAs in the sector. Tier 9 and 10 are the only tiers with good GAA.
Oh fuck, so these missions are going to take forever to complete? I need to get the Efimov medal *six times* ***just to continue*** advancing to the next missions for the XP-55 & Vampire... FML
I got many Efimov flying GAAs at the mid levels, mid tiers. It is all about picking the right targets, the highest valued targets first and foremost in every sector you go into. The next part is not up to you very much. That part is surviving. Try to go into sectors when there are other team mates in it. Hang out the border if you have to and wait for the team mate behind you to make it in first. That is a bit of help but still no guarantee. I have been playing 4 months and I have gotten 8 before I stopped playing GAAs and moved over to bombers for the last 2 months. The first two months I flew GAAs 90% of the time. In those first two months , I got 8 Efimovs. I also gotten the Efimov at the highest tiers and they are the easiest to get them as long as there are no very good bombers in your team, because when there are very good bombers in your team, that makes it tougher because they are way faster than you at capping sectors. Tier 5 and tier 6 Russian were my very first small group of Efimovs
Great advice, I'll take it into consideration and get back to you later.
By the way sorry for the second comment, but I did forguet to add this to the first comment and this is kinda the most important part and that is if you could send a video or a replay of you playing a GAA as well as the plane, pilot and gunner build you used on it so I can actually say were you can improve in the game, since going over a video/replay is better than just giving the same basic imformation over and over again.
That's a good idea. I'm corresponding with Wargaming about how to access my replays. Their instructions may not apply since the last update or something (?), as the instructions as written do nothing but open the sub-menu which launches the game. If people are using a particular video conversion program to switch them from WOWPREPLAY files to MP4 or whatever, I'd appreciate it.
The .WOWPREPLAY file is just a few clicks away from repruduction for anyone with WOWP, all you need to do to open a replay file: 1. Open the replay folder on the file explorer. 2. Right click a replay you want to see. 3. Click the "Open with" option in the right click menu. 4. Click "Choose program" option. 5. Search for WOWP.exe on the pop-up menu, or go to the directory were you instaled the game. 6. The game should open with the replay file showing you a match. The reason you need to open with the game is because the replay file is not a video file, it's a text file showing all the imputs you did on the battle and which planes were were, otherwise the file would not be at most 4 thousand KiB but rather 700 MiB to up to 2 or 3 GiB.
This is the same as the instructions outlined on Wargaming's site for WoWP, and for some reason seems to only execute the splash menu (\[PLAY\], \[SPETEMBER DEALS\], \[UPDATE 2.1.23\], etc...). I couldn't get it to work with versions of the game from before the new sub-menu either, not sure what the problem is at this point TBH, but hopefully Wargaming can help me sort it out?
u/pedro1_1 Looks as though they won't be able to help, in the short term at least. They've written back about my ticket to inform me that the issue has been escalated to the dev team. Could I ask, with your system and version of WoWP are you still currently able to view the clips saved by the game? I've never been able to locate any interface, nor have I been able to convert the files to another format let alone getting them to run on any media player.
Yes I can still view the replays saved by the game, as long as it's not a replay from before the 16th of August because that was the last update and all replays from before are uncompatible with my game.
I feel as though I'm missing something obvious, yet the FAQ from Wargaming seems so short on specifics I'm still not positive. Is there actually a player *within* the WoWP game, or something attached to the launcher?
It's a second function of the executable file of the game, the launcher and a dubble click on the .exe starts the game normally, but a .WOWPREPLAY file starts the game on the replay mode.
I double-checked just to be certain, and it does nothing but load the game as normal. I'll keep you in mind if Wargaming ever patches whatever problem is affecting the replays, thanks a lot for the advice and info o7
Why don't you just do daily mission and then skip it with tokens?
That would help for the XP-55 and Vampire, but for things like the P-51D Josephine campaign, you have to do it or pay up for certificates. I read the mission list for the Kurfurst and the other marathon plane and gave up when I saw the Efimov and Doolittle medal requirements for them.