“Major” and “Minor” are just words that mean nothing here.
Skilled players flocked to Soviets from USA.
I know because I was playing the game when that happened.
Sweden was the most powerful nation in the game at the time and had no playerbase, and the little playerbase it had wasn’t notably skilled. “Minor” nation.
Being a “major” or “minor” nation is irrelevant, in reality they don’t exist. They’re fictions.
France players aren’t notably more skilled than other tech trees, yet that myth has persisted into the Statshark era that disproves that myth.
This has never been the case. Statshark also disproves that wild claim.
Win rates are only ever an indicator of team skill. And CAS cannot positively impact win rates for the CAS side.
When USSR had the alleged 70% win rate, they had no CAS options. None. USA had OP CAS, Germany had nothing, and Britain just got a Harrier GR7.
In-fact, CAS spawning has caused teams to lose the vast majority of matches due to what’s known as spawn point drain + no pressure on the ground.
If I am a player and there are 5 CAS players up, and 5 ground players, and there are 10 ground players on my team. I know for a fact my team can control the entire map and get into hidden positions that CAS can’t see. CAS has been OP individually, but for a team CAS reliance is a loss sentence.
Edit:
To further drive CAS saturation ruins the team playing CAS.
USA had super high skill performance with no good top BR CAS options same as everyone else really from 2019 - 2021.
The T-80BVM gets added, and for the first year nothing interesting happens. But when USA gets OP CAS, and when the skilled players flock to Soviets… a ruined win rate occurs.
I don’t bring fixed wing CAS to top BR anymore. I stopped before it got balanced because I was burnt out after the achievement, and I was bored of never dying to SPAA. Then I decided to act on my knowledge.
Spending 900SP, or 600SP on 4 - 6 frags per sortie, especially now that it’s not guaranteed.
That 200 - 300SP 2nd spawn tank is just objectively better in every situation.
CAS is cool, CAS use to be OP, and even when CAS was OP it didn’t increase win-rates and there’s at least some evidence that CAS reduced win rates.