Planes at 12.7 face most often agains planes that have far superior missiles(FOX-3) and struggle to do anything in matches. But there is a big upside of playing this BR that is facing the horde of 12.0 premiums.
Then there are the even bigger losers of this br bracket the 13.0 they are mostly 12.7 planes that are just bit better, some getting minimal FOX-3 cover (mostly 2 missiles) and nothing else, while playing planes like this it just gets me wondering what were the devs thinking? Kfir C.10 is a good example of this, brilliant plane with good missiles, good flight performance ext. but the major problem with the plane is that it gets 4 missiles total and 72 countermeassures ain’t too many. At this point I would say it is a nice and fun to play, but there is a glaring problem called 14.0.
Difference might aswell be night and day, while playing 14.0 plane you most commonly get over 100 countermeasures. Planes carry from 8-12 missiles at this br that are FOX-3 or IR guided, now compare those to what 13.0 planes carry. F-15A carries 8 missiles, 0 of them are FOX-3 and of them 4 are IR. SU-27 gets 10 missiles, maximium 6 FOX-1 again 0 FOX-3. There are some outliers like AV-8B, JA37DI Viggen and Kfir C.10 that get 2-4 FOX-3 missiles but mostly 13.0 is at very bad spot right now. They rarely get downtiers and mostly face 13.7 planes or even 14.0.
I don’t know how to fix this situation but I suggest to raise the max BR