The worst 70$ pixel plane in War Thunder | F-104S TAF

gaijin on there way to make the Italian air tree as unappealing as possible.

The F104S is actually incredible in air sim, not that it matters because only 3 people play air sim

f104s are really fun, like the f104a is just really fun to play... because its at 9.3 and does well. The missiles the F104S TAF carries and how it plays is not worth it at 11.0, if it was at a lower br i think it would definitely be worth it as it is an amazing plane, and you could do VERY well

I bought the F104S-TAF when it was in 10.7.And 9 out of 10 matches i get f5c and a10's as enemy and at that time, it was very op against those vehicles.Now in 11.0 ,not really bad but it does can bomb bases very quick and escape very fast from enemies.I have grinded 6.7M in silver lions and 1.3M in research points.If youre still playing this vehicle ,just bomb bases and run back or try to take enemies that are premium noobies

I bought a talisman for the regular 104s and I use it in sim. It s a very good plane there, especially now that they added new brackets and it's not constantly facing top tiers. Also I think the matchmaking system in sim is waaaay better than rb. All planes are useful at least once a week and there is no plane that is always frustrating no matter what

Now since the f104s is on 11.0 it should get the aspide missels because its on the same br as the F4E with aim-7e2.

back when this thing was on 10.7 it was very pleasant, once it got moved to 11.0 - never touched it

As someone who only play SB nowadays, the opposite is true for me, this thing is honestly the most potent SB mount I have mainly due to the sheer speed advantage it has over the most common enemies I face. This thing for some reason sits at 10.3 in SB and there's never a lack of food in the form of A-10's and SU-25's and if I ever find myself in an empty room, those magical tiny wings can somehow carry enough ordnance to blow up a base in one run, it's especially nice coz it can drop the bombs at supersonic speeds.

Well the first problem isn't that you wanna spend $70 dollars nor fly an f104 at 11.0, nah its the fact you wanna grind out Italy.

from watching defyn a lot, ive become a lot more grateful for having a gun in my J35XS, hard to use since no tracers and its only one far to the right 30mm, but its gotten me a fair few kills in turning and head ons that wouldnt have been possible with only missiles

In Air SB however this thing is a monster, it sits at 10.3 and the way BR brackets work in sim you can get into 9.3-10.3 match every single time You zoom around at 1400 kph and sling 6 missiles at oblivious attackers who barely have enough skill to fly straight and bomb bases To be fair I havent flown 104S yet, but I had many great games in german 104G at 10.3 and that plane is much worse with weaker engine and less missiles

I have Italy ground grinded out in full so I bought this to bully heli's and drop occasional bomb loads in ground rb. For that, it works just fine. The second you spawn, dive down to the ground and fly around the map to get near heli bases and then just boom and zoom them till they stop spawning. Most ground rb players who buy their way to top tier don't know how to evade missiles either, so you can slaughter hordes of premium attackers too.

Wooooo new walvis vid I really like your content, keep up the good work

Only jet i ever bought on release, main italy and love the space needle. Sadly they uptiered it to 11.0 after like 2 weeks making it see constant uptiers and making it 90% useless

Sim is the reason why I think most of the Rank VII premium's are worth the money. Huge RP/SL bonuses, cheap fly-out costs, and depending on the day an insanely good BR matchup make almost all of them great and fun planes to fly.

The same can be said about the Ariete. One of, if not the best, pure dogfighters at its BR, but almost always gets uptiered to the missile meta with no missiles or countermeasures. I stick to the G.91 R/4 for grinding the Italian air tree

It was usable when it was 10.7 i have a 3kd with about 200 games in it and ever since it got 11.0 i have not touched it

Honestly fantastic review of the F104S. Big thumb up, would like to see more of this kind

Joint worst with the ADTW imo, a plane with only regular 7E's and no agile eagle package at the same br as the F4E with both. Also no Guided CAS munitions (if you want to use it as CAS)

Meh the saddest premium right now is the J2M5, thanks to the gun nerf you get 42 shots and 2/3rds of them are black puffs. Had one hit me 6 times in my 109 G6...no crits, just a slightly yellow fuselage. I felt so bad for the guy 😢