Why we can first spawn in a helicopter with rocket in GRB ? I’m “Ok” with CAS but that is no sense for me… Do am I missing something or it s just unfair ?
Why would you bother
first spawn helis only get dumb rockets or their cannon.
You can shoot them down with mgs.
You only need situational awareness.
Most mbts even got air tracking at this point,1 single IFV shuts them down completly as well,
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You can still spawn helicopters only become ODL instead because you get shot dow very quickly.
CAS has always been something pretty much ‘earned’ by playing well on the Ground, I mean in Arcade you can only spawn CAS by getting atleast two kills. You don’t really need to “earn” the ability to use Heli w/ Rockets since they’re extremely easy to kill in comparison.
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Fortunate son
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“Some folks are born
Made to raise the flag”,
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First spawn helis only get dumb rockets and are honestly terrible even as a first spawn. You can run in and get maybe 1-2 kills if you are lucky before being MGd to death.
A later spawn when people have got SPAAs up would render them virtually unable to get to the battlefield at all.
I do agree its kind of not fun being killed by a heli rush at the start, but on the flipside it is also very much not fun for the heli pilot in most cases as well. They really suck and its the only way to grind them in realistic. Heli PVE is the only other option.
One time managed to gunned down three with puma’s ahead lol hope there was more since it’s >1km
First spawn helis at 7.7/8.0 in particular are extremely bad since they have no CCIP and can easily be gunned down by anything since you’re slow and loud. It’s practically impossible to get good damaging hits from afar without CCIP so you’re forced to get into very close range strikes where anything including 30 cals can easily gun you down. Autocannon vehicles are also very common which nullifies your effectiveness.
For today, cuz it’s useless, or too useless considering 300sp