Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24440536-20150425100947/@comment-25467429-20150429134133

It really depends on your play style, the room you end up in, and what you have at your disposal. Being on attack is easier because you have effectively stationary targets to go at. Even if you're under constant attack, you stand a fairly good chance of racking up points over the duration. But if you're going in a fighter on a defense strategy, even some attackres are a pain to try and track down for kills, so you might not do so hot. I've seen attackers outscore a room hitting around 60,000, and I've seen defenders do the same.

I think ideally you should have two attackers and two defenders. Unles one is just that great at a given role, you don't want only one peson (or worse no one) on one or the other. Personally, I'm just not a great defender. I average around 15-20,000 when I'm chasing down enemy planes. I have a good plane (any one of my three lvl 9 F-22s wtih lvl 5 QAAMs or lvl 5 4AAMs), but I'm a terrible dogfighter. I usually only opt for defense if my team is just not balanced enough to do it (everyone wants to be an attacker). But when I'm an attacker, I'm always at 40,000 or above and my team rarely loses (lvl 9 FB-22, lvl 5 GPB).

But, that's just me. I've tried a few different planes with a few different weapons. Even tried the SFFS with my FB-22, and still couldn't beat my own scores with the GPB. Still scored well, over 30,000 each time, but had to work a lot harder to do it, and the middle of this tournament when I'm trying to save fuel while going for top 1000 isn't exactly the best time for me to start traing on the SFFS (training in terms of my use of it, as I already have it at lvl 5). If you're more comfortable already using the LASM and don't necessarily have much experience using either the SFFS or GPB, you should probably stick to the LASM since I don't think any other anti-ground/sea weapon does as much damage against ships.

Lastly, because even though it's a little obvious such that no one mentioned it, try to up the levels of your planes and weapons as much as you can.