You’ll earn more kills by keeping things simple than you will by paying homage to your favourite scenes from Top Gun. While most of these manoeuvres have a purpose in War Thunder, you won’t know how best to employ them early on into your fighter pilot career. Looking out of the cockpit as a battle rages around you, it’s easy to fool yourself into thinking that the endless chain of loop-the-loops you’re performing is in some way useful to you or your team. For a lot of beginner pilots, victory is synonymous with outlandish manoeuvres and death-defying acrobatics.