Hi everyone. I’d like to ask about the aircraft mentioned above.
I use it in top tier. When is it worth deploying it as CAS in Ground RB?
I know it’s not the best plane. But I really don’t feel it yet. When is the right moment to bring it in?
I usually try to deploy it toward the end, when the enemy has no supplies left. But they can bring in a Pantsir or IRIS almost instantly and lock onto me as soon as I take off XD. Anything can shoot me down literally anything. If I fly high, I get hit; if I fly low, same story.
Still, I believe in this aircraft because I’ve seen some decent stats with it. I don’t like the laser-guided missiles. The bombs often veer off course, or the infrared locks onto the sun just like Strela does. And there’s barely any time to guide the bombs properly because anything can shoot me down.
It’s a precise strike airplane, it’s slow, not much enjoyable air-to-air capabilities being limited to only two missiles and 30 mm DEFA 554 being DEFA, the damage has much to be desired. The best place to apply this vehicle is air simulator battles and if you’re lucky ground simulator battles because you’ll take or at least have the opportunity to take advantage of not being blasted on the screen because of markers and whatnot. To sucessfully use this plane in ground realistic battles, regardless if it’s at the end you should consider if the enemy has:
Advantage in the match; meaning more offensive power (more tanks in ground than anti-air systems looking for a target, note that the chances are low but never zero, so one moment or another, someone might’ve spawned an anti-air system early in the match)
If you have air superiority and multirole fighters available to help you; meaning more options as targets for anti-air systems, take advantage of the chaos to take out some targets.
These should help you adapt to the vehicle because, AMX A-1A is one example of few vehicles that you can’t adapt to your playstyle but the opposite, you have to adapt to its position in the game.
It’s a bit overtiered, you should use it with Lizard-2 preferably in perfect conditions, in downtier or when the enemy team doesn’t have powerful/competent SAM users. Although if there are Pantsirs, Ito or Flarakrads users, it’s better to just spawn with dumb bombs and go low level or not to spawn at all.
Not sure about exact time of spawning, from my experience high tier battles are usually pretty fast, so if I wanted to play my AMX I tried to spawn it asap.
I used to play it a lot in lineup with Arietes, while was researching 2A7HU, sometimes there were pretty good battles, but sometimes my AMX was deleted from the sky few seconds after spawn, it was like 50/50.
Idk about current situation, I think uptiering it to 11.7 is a bad idea, probably it’s better to use Freccia/KF41/OTOMATIC setup.
That’s a great description for a issue I often observe here in the forums, where people very often adamantly refuse to adapt their playstyle to the vehicle, and insist on every vehicle be suitable for all playstiles.
Very often this phenomenon is observed with high tiers attackers, with people complaining how aircraft like Corsair II, Milan, Tornado IDS and AMX, etc. are unplayable because they do so poorly as fighters…