OK, how is any of this fun? Frustrated with WT.

{Rant mode}

At this point I'm playing WT because it's the only wargame I've found so far that will run on my crappy laptop. I've enjoyed it for a few times at a stretch but at this point I'm almost on the verge of uninstalling it I'm so frustrated.

In ground combat for the past two days I've been going through all three respawns in five to eight minutes. On average I hit an enemy target in the flank / quartering 3-7 times with AP before I get a kill with a Pz IV G & F2, while I usually get one-shot killed against side & frontal armor, sometimes from rounds that would NEVER go through a IV (37mm, etc?)

I've straight given up on air combat for the time being: The planes are virtually uncontrollable in any mode (mouse, keyboard, or joystick) and getting my LCOS in position long enough to hit anything much less kill it seems impossible, while there seems to be no shortage of MFers with airplanes that should be MUCH LESS manouverable (P-26A vs. Polikarpov I-15) that can glue themselves to my rudder and hose me with ease, over and over again. Oh yeah, I can't fly sim mode because I keep timing out and the 'anti cheat' system kicks me out.

For how much trash talking of naval combat goes on here, my Hatsuzuki actually makes it about 1/3 - 3/4 the time but the giant line-battle style PvP scenarios are garbage for anyone commanding a tin-can. Sticking a destroyer in a mass combat situation is as suicidal as flying a lone bomber into PvP fighter combat.

Dear God there are a lot of things I LIKE about War Thunder, and even more that I WANT to like about it but so often it's like Gaijin just put cool looking historical vehicle skins on a PvP MARIO BROTHERS game for how balanced and realistic it is.

{End rant}

I'm OK being an FNG. I'm okay with losing. But when its because of stuff like THIS, it REALLY ticks me off...

CB