I’m grinding the French air tree, and I just realized that the reshuffles and addition of rank 9 mean I’ll need to research 5 jets at rank 8 before I can get the Rafales. That means I need to grind either the Mirage 2000Ds, or the Belgian F-16s.
While keeping in mind I have not grinded USA and have never touched an F-16 (which removes the question of copypaste and gameplay variety in my case), what do you guys advise me to grind?
I haven’t played the mirages, but I’ve heard pretty good things about them, the matras ire quite good ir missiles and they excel in short-range fighting. I’d also grind France for the mirages rather than the F-16s cuz that’s what makes France unique
What’s different about the 2000D compared to the 2000C though?
Other than no gun, less missiles and heavier
didnt smin say only 3 would be needed?
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The 2kD is for ground strike while the 2kC are superiority fighter.
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2000D is a ground attack plane and only gets 2 magics, and an underbelly dualgunpod gun, the 12.3 one is actually pretty decent, but the 12.7 only gets an HMS extra and is a bit sad
Get the 2kD line, i heard the Etandard are quite good and the 2kDs are under tiered 2k airframe.
first eterndard is pretty mid but super etendard is amazing
Also the 2k CS5 gets around 200 cm instead of the 36 on the CS4.
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does the cs5 get maws? because both 2000Ds do
Yes also.
Well that’s bonkers, one less problem for me I guess
Already got those yeah. Good to know, will give the D-R1 a go then at least
good thing about d-r1 is you get 2 magics stock, bad thing thats all you get,
youll get pretty good with defas, and your radar is just barely good enough to use eegs for them
if you want to have fun take the targeting pod and 1 as30l and try to kill f14s that are rearming, you can just barely eek out the range
youll also suffer on any maps without terrain as you kinda need to be sneaky
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Stona said the jets needed for rank 9 are most likely gonna be 3
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I’d go with the mirage 2000 CS-5 to be honest. But I did grind the whole tree out playing the Mirage IIIC so I guess that does not really count
Where’d you get that? Stona said they’re looking at 3~, which is quite fair considering its late game. You could just grind the two left-most lines honestly.
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I just deduced it from others ranks as I didn’t hear anything about it. Great news though
i confirm the superetendard in his niche bracket has the possibility to get good kills with the ASL nord. In realistic ground battle.
What i like to do is to get up to 4-6k high and launch them from 10-15km…which is safe for you, no AAA could get you. Your only problem is to turn and see your target (ask for help in the team radio…i wish we had the laser team guided ordonnance like in ARMA sigh ).
And ATGM long range require training, once you understand how it work, it is one missile one kill.
Only thing i regret is it has not the thermics ; which was why the jaguar was better before, but now you can get 2 BGL and 2 ASL which is better even with the BR bracket 10.3-11.00…you wont get much 10.3 match lol and the lineup is easier in 11.0.
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The Etendard is absolute dogshit, the Super Etendard ive heard is good, never used it myself.
Etendard is… weird, very weird to fly. Once you understand how to use the flaps it can work in turnfights though, I’ve sometimes managed to give opponents very bad surprises because of this. The guns are also really nice most of the time, and the access to 9Bs helps a bit (for whatever reason people actually die to them sometimes lol).
But surely not a remarkably good fighter