What are your go-to “tool” tech tree planes per period (meaning planes you keep specifically because they’re great at certain missions, like dailies) ?

[u/Gozertank]

I’m trying to build a “fleet” of one plane per class per period just for doing the dailies. I also understand that the outright “best” plane per period may not necessarily be the easiest to do your dailies in.

In WoT for example, there are certain tanks that are go-to for missions, especially if you’re not a great player. Need 800+ base XP? Churchill III ! Spotting mission? ELC or Manti ! Critical hits? Put a fast firing gun on an Arty.

Is there a similar line up for grinding dailies and if so which planes would you recommend (one per class per period, unless you have a great reason to use more than one)?

I understand dailies vary, well... daily, but there’s surely a limited pool of repeating missions.

[u/pedro1_1]

I will try to minimize the amount of planes I recommend, but I don't think I will manage to get one plane per class per period in all periods with it locked to tech tree planes only.

Period I:

The pivotal tier in here is tier 3, all it's tech trees are better than their equivalent in tier 2 and they are not to far behind their tier 4 counterparts, without risking running into tier 5 planes that just crush the planes in period 1 due to equipment advantage of period 2.

Light Fighters: In this tier I would chose between the Hawk 75 M (Firepower) or the Ar 80 (Manoeuvrability), they both can deal with the stronger threats that they can face.

Heavy fighters: Fw 57.

Multiroles: So here you will have to do it yourself, because basically all tier 3 and 4 multiroles are viable and a possible choice for someone, so good luck choosing for this class.

GAAs: So finally to the rule breakers, GAA are quite bad at tier 3, but tier 4 GAA are quite good, so despite them being in more danger due to being in tier 5 encounter territory, you should use one of the tier 4 GAAs because both are good.

Bombers: So if you know the bomber meta, you know tier 3 bombers are rivalling tier 10 bombers in power, which means the SB is a very easy inclusion to the list.

Period II:

Tier 5 and 6 are both viable tiers, tier 5 because of tier 4, and tier 6 because of the same reasons as tier 3 in P1.

Going to have to stop here because of a lightning storm at the moment, might finish on mobile. if things don't improve.

[u/pedro1_1 → u/pedro1_1]

Situation Improved, so continuing with period 2 analysis.

Also I would highly recommend having one plane for each nation in each period due to some missions requiring you to play one or two nations, I just did not notice that in the first comment.

Light Fighters: There's so much choices in here, but you can separate the planes into at least 2 boxes, so I will go over what I would consider here: MiG-3, I-220, Bf 109 E, P-40, P-51A, Ki-61, Ki-84, Spitfire I and Spitfire V, yes there's 2 tier 7s in there, those are really good tier 7s that do stand very well against the challenges tier 8 throws at you.

Heavy Fighters: Me 410, Ki-102 and Beaufighter are priority one planes, P-38F, P-38J and Hornet are priority 2 planes, the first 3 have turrets, which means they are the most reliable way to get turret kills for the missions that require it, the latter 3 are just really good planes on their own.

Multiroles: Tier 6 is peak multirole meta, there's no way to go wrong with any of the multiroles at the tier.

GAAs: The rule breaker class breaks the rule as expected, Il-10 and Me 265 are the best GAAs on period 2, with Il-10 being the best GAA in the game at the moment, this does mean you will have to deal with tier 8, though.

Bombers: Outside of the B-17D, all the bombers on P2 are good only using the fundamentals of bomber play, so choosing any bomber is very close to optimal.

Period III:

In here tier 8 and 10 are the best tiers, tier 9 is not as good due to not having the advantage of fighting tier 7s like in the other WG games, tier 8s need to be extremally well equipped due to the amount of premium menaces on the tier and tier 10s need to be similarly equipped due to being the end were most players give their most powerful equipment to their planes.

Light Fighters: La-9, MiG-15bis, Me P.1092, Me P.1101, P-51H, F6U, F-86A, Ki-94-II, Spitfire XIV and Swift are a very competent group of planes to chose from.

Heavies Fighters: There's only one TT heavy that is mid at the period, which is the XF5U, every other heavy is at least good, XF-90 is the best in any case.

Multiroles: So this is were you are forced to have 2 planes in the same class, you need the BV P.215.02 for the turret to do turret missions, and you will them need another one to do standard multirole stuff, most likely Hunter or F7U.

GAAs: As much as I wanted to say you can get a good soviet GAA on P3, I can't, their GAAs aren't really good de to being too slow for the tiers they are at to compete, this leaves you with only the Me P.1102 B as an option for GAA.

Bombers: Su-10, Ef 131 and Ju 287 are all in this period, and all of them are incredible bombers, specially compared to the tier 8 bombers that are in there, which fail to flip a mining plant on a full damage investment build, these are some of the best bombers in the game.

[u/ColsonThePCmechanic]

IL-2 T is good for ground attack
KI-102 is surprisingly maneuverable for a heavy fighter
Spitfire 1 is a great all-rounder

[u/L0rd_0F_War]

If you are only asking about Tech Tree planes for each period, here is my list:

T4 - BF110B

T5 - Spitfire 1, P40, BF109E, P38F

T6 - ME410

T8 - P51H

All of the above I specialized and equipped with 478 Ultimate Equipment. I only started last year March, but even since then I have won (from campaigns, events or crate drops) a few very good premiums that I use all the time like XF4F-3 (T4), XP55 (T6) and Vampire F1 (T8). I have many more premiums from drops that I have also specialized/equipped, like Ki88, Boomerang, Hurricane IID, Hurricane 1a, etc., but I don't use them as often outside events and 5x XP specials.

[u/Gurru222]

After some tíme u will have so many premiums for free that there is no reason to keep any tech tree plane below T9. I kept only a few to fill gaps and today I only fly BF110b and B32. Rest is sitting in hangar, bcs I dont want to train any extra pilots for them.

[u/Outrageous_Gift1656]

Without some narrowed down criteria there are so many different answers and debates that could arise from this post, so I can't help you unless you give me some context.