It might not be popular, but it is factually the best at 13.0 and either the F3 Late needs to join it at 13.3 or it needs a BR increase to 13.3. Simple
Okay, Im in my FA2, you are in your F-18C. I fire an AMRAAM at you. you easily notch and defeat it. I fire my second, same again, I fire my third, same again. I usually run 1+3 missiles with no guns.
What do I do now?
I cant run away. I cant dogfight. My only option is to J out or let you kill me.
If you know what you are doing ARH missiles are easily dealt with.
im not the one against it. they can delete it for all i care. it wasnt the popular plane even before eurofighters.
why cant you? you are quite far. and ill gamble big, if ill try to just fly towards you in multipath. on many maps, where surface is not entirely flat, its hard to maintain the alt. so yeah. you can launch a missile and go higher, so it will be AT LEAST we both dead, if ill try to lock you and will get my face off of the ground.
yeah they are. but you have to do it. and if you are flying with SARHs against ARHs you will always be in a defense.
also we somehow now talking about some 1x1 perfect duel, which is not the case in the game, is it? we have other players, we have close or far airfields, we have different terrain and all that.
so in your example: yes, you can run away. f18 is not the exemplarily fast and when ill catch up to you after defeating all the missiles, ill probably die from airfield AA or will get into another fight.
only if you want to fight alone and far away from your field.
but anyway. im kinda getting tired of battling with you imagination, dude. we strayed far from the topic id say. people are not flying harriers. they are flying f14, c10 and JA39
i dont have a problem with harriers. i do with a horde of f14 and c10. and its not 1x1 either.
Though jsut as much as you dislike dealing with stronger aircraft when trying to play a 12.7 aircraft in 13.0, so do I trying to play a 12.3 in a 12.7 bracket. Which until recently, Was all they could face.
tornado against anything SARH carrying is not a fair fight. just as SARH against ARH.
lets phrase it that way: ARH carrying should be much more of a br difference, than 0.3
its whole another way of battle.
OR
at least would be great to get a permanent rooms with all against all. so it wont be that one sided.
As it stands, the F-18, especially those with Aim-7Ps are under BRed and should be higher than they are currently.
If/when there is a decompression, I could still see the F-18C being the same or similar BR to the weakest of the ARH slingers like the F-14A and Sea Harrier FA2. Such as in this suggested decompression
ARH shouldnt automatically mean that they should be BRed to death. Just like how all-aspect IR slingers dont automatically mean a higher BR than anything with only rear-aspect, or SARH, or PD radar, etc etc. Thats not how game balance works.
As it stands, FA2 should probably be 12.7 and the F-18C should get Aim-9M and move to 13.0
These suck in anything that doesnt have a radar. Which is more common than you think at 12.3/12.7 and even then, Same aircraft vs same aircraft gets really dull fast