Why would I ever play GRB if it just devolves into “Oh, you’re annoyed at being farmed by CAS killing you before your slow big heavy tank even gets into position? Spawn CAP”
I have a mode dedicated for flying planes in.
If GRB forces you to play planes, which it does - that’s literally the primary counter CAS defenders bring up: “Just spawn CAP” - then there’s zero reason to play GRB because other modes are better for flying planes in.
The reason I decide to play GRB is because I wanna drive around in a tiger/t-34/sherman/funny british death traps. If I wanted to fly bf109s/yaks/corsairs/spitfires, I’d just stay playing what I already do.
Yes, I strongly prefer flying propeller planes on 64x64 kmxkm maps with actual air objectives and multiple airfields over potentially 2 hours and controls that I find fun and engaging over brawling in a tiny sandpit where trying to engage in a prolonged fight might get interrupted by the match ending 10-15 minutes in (but sometimes the enemy team/your team ditches in a mere 6 minutes).
Can’t, because Yak-9K and F4U-4B and buddies go crazy and drop bombs/nukeshells on me before we’re 5 minutes into the match.
People are literally spawning dominant CAS aircraft a mere 5 minutes into the match and I have heard the sound of props as low as 3 minutes too.
Do you know what you CAS lovers advise?
“Spawn CAP to counter CAS.”
ergo: “Play a plane with controls you find annoying, in a tiny sandpit with airspawns and airfields a mere 7 km from the conflict zone leading to people running to said airfield and hiding under AAA fire.”
I don’t play that BR enough to have a valid opinion, but i guess its exaggerated like always.
And if you don’t want to play a plane, you can always spawn an AA.
Yea you probably like the people more which pretend to know everything on a BR they never play instead of saying right away they don’t play it often.
And speaking from experience from the top BR’s, where people indeed exaggerate, it’s not far fetched to think it’s the same down there.
I’m tempted to go do some CAS in GSB for footage, but -
Properly flown, a prop tier dive bomber is quite capable of evading gun SPAA.
Proper flight being (from sim/il-2 perspective)
~approach at 2km
Line up target at the inner third of your wing
Tighten turn keeping target in this position until on top of enemy and ease into a dive ~70 degree (steeper if your bomb release permits it)
Line up target with bottom of your gunsight/on top of your nose depending on aircraft
Release bomb at ~600-900 meter altitude when at release speed, level out into an unloaded extension to maintain speed until out of “AAA cone”
Climb back to 2km.
Doing this approach in the Iwo Jima re-enactment Krabb ran doing CAS in my f6f-5, I only died once we went into “night battles” and I flew at 500 meters due to lack of visibility.
Hardest part is not teamkilling your friendlies/identifying targets.
So you perform even better then, which only says you are not the right person to measure anything, because you are clearly way more succesful than average joe.
Does that say you shouldn’t talk about something ? I said you are not the standard to measure performance of whatever vehicle, because you are way better then the timmies.
you dont want tank-only because its “bad for the game”.
which means you want air RB removed as well presumably, since its a plane-only gamemode instead of mixed.
pretty big part actually. and anyway what do you care? keep playing mixed battles and forget about whos playing tank-only.
If you are right and it is a big part (which we don’t know unless there is a global poll, which wont happen anyway) then i care because it will massively increase waiting times.
