Hello everyone,
I’m looking for recommendations on the best maps for Air Simulator Battles (EC) in the 12.3+ to top tier bracket according to these specific criteria:
Very large maps (the bigger the better)
Hard to spawn-kill on airfields (long distance between spawns and airfields, or natural cover)
Varied terrain (not flat, with mountains, valleys, hills, etc.)
Multiple possible routes to objectives (not just one straight line)
Preferably water areas so naval units can be involved
Maximum variety of objectives (bases, airfields, convoys, ground units, etc.)
I want maps where you can actually fly for a long time, choose your own path, and where spawn camping is difficult at high BR.
Which maps do you think best match these points in 12.3+ to top tier?
Afghanistan, Sinai, Spain, Denmark, or others?
Thanks in advance!
Sorry if my post looks a bit messy or has bad formatting. I’m writing this from my phone and the War Thunder forum is currently bugging out quite badly, making it difficult to write and edit things properly.
Vietnam, Spain, Rocky Canyon
Every map fails this critiria
This is personal choice btw
Same as first point
Afghanistan or Spain.
But it’s 80% Denmark anyway…
The biggest - Denmark, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Rocky Canyon
Hard to spawn-kill - This depends of sportsmanship of players
Varied terrain - Vietnam, Afghanistan
Multiple possible routes - every not flat map on ground level
Water units - Denmark is the only one big map with ships, Dover is small map.
variety of obj. - Denmark,
top tier EC (12.0++) is hard because of the small maps, there is only Denmark played the most (the biggest map), easiest map becuase it is flat. The issue with high tier jest/modern is that game is not ready for them. Most of a time there is a PVP. Game is that easy to play at simulator mods that everyone can master it and use missiles to spam the airspace (radar should be operate only as relative control not a mouse clicking at sim battles). The best balance between PVP and PVE you can find just below 12.0. No missiles to shoot across the maps, bigger maps gives more routes of sneaky fly just above a ground level - poor radars. More dogfighting than BVR.
You can just check “iron dome meta” topic and you will see how top tier games looking. Still propellers and jets up to 12.0 are the best in game. Most balanced (overall) but… Maps are still too small for jets in this game and no variety of objectives to play PvPvE.