The first thing you need to know is the overall goal of the game. You can either win by air superiority or by killing all your enemies. This is a bit backwards because air superiority would involve controlling the skies, so no enemies but that's what they call it.





Air superiority is gained by taking out strategic ground targets and is one of my favorite parts of the game. As you progress to higher tiers, you have the option of using fighters or bombers (starting at tier 2). The fighters can take out enemy targets with straffing runs, while bombers take a more devastating approach. The details of both are found in the Gameplay- Tactical section below. Once enough enemy ground targets are destroyed the progress bar will start to fill. At 100% you win the game.

Killing enemies is the straight forward part of the game but is trickier than it looks. The game is set before guided weapons and, therefore, is true dogfighting. You have to rely on your skill, luck, and teamwork.

Just like real life fighters, going in without a wingman is near suicide. This isn't World of Tanks, its Aircraft, you can't just rumble in with a tier 5 and take on three tier 2's by yourself. The biggest advice I can say about strategy is get a plan going as soon as the countdown starts, at least pick a direction to fly.





There isn't much that can be said about the strategic value of the game itself, this is due to the fact that it revolves around who you play with. This is a bit dodgy because it's still in beta and people are still learning and trying out different plans.

The best course of action that I've found is either escort the bombers to anti-aircraft locations and let them take it out, it will relieve you from ground based fire while you concentrate on the fighters when their gone.

The second strategy, mainly for the bombers is have a designated pilot and a designated bomber. I inadvertently discovered this because my wife wanted to play with me. She controlled the keyboard, which are the bombs and speed and I ran the mouse, the direction and guns. This seemed to work really well for some reason, I only assume it was because I could concentrate on flying and didn't have to worry about everything else or it was because it was more fun playing with my wife next to me.





The only issue I have on strategy is when I'm working with idiots that refuse to pick or stick to a plan. There are too many people that respond with "kill them" or "win", when you ask "What's the plan?"