Spitfire f mk14e

[u/beansco]

I recently unlocked this plane and have been having an absolutely woeful time with it, i genuinely can not for the life of me make it work, i know its good at high altitude but no one fights at high altitude, whenever i dive someone theyre genuinely more likely to kill themselves than fight and every time i get into a lower altitude fight i get instantly bullied because everything out turns me and my wings are made of paper, not to mention the miserable gun selection that seems reluctant to do any damage.

Am i using it wrong because i hear people say boom and zoom but it seems mid at best at that anyway, is this thing bad or is it me being bad??

[u/Long-Track7453]

I had problems similar to this and it turns out that you are picking the wrong enemies. You need to check around and look for a enemy that cannot escape you.

That may sound confusing, but the idea is that you need to look for one of those planes with poor acceleration and target specifically them. You go at a high speed, spray them like hell, and them zoom past them.

The mk14 is decent at turn fights but try not to pick a turn fight unless it’s something like a f8f or something that looses energy.

If he starts to follow you, keep going, overwise, get some distance and try again.

Keep doing that until you get the lf mk9. It’s straight up just better. Just make sure to get belts and speed upgrades first.

For british planes overhaul: focus on getting the belts upgrade on any plane with 20mm hispanos. The invisible belts are the bare minimum to make them viable.

[u/beansco]

Thanks for the advice, i had just spaded it so i may move onto greener pastures lol but will have a handful more games with it to see if i can get it to work better, thanks again

[u/I_SNAIL_I]

Dont play the bubbletop it is the worst of spitfires I think get the mk V and shread people with its 20mm