Just wanted to show some support for more events and gamemodes like this. The Deep Strike and SEAD events are some of the most fun I’ve had in warthunder.
I think it’s fun that this event is asymmetrical and heavily unbalanced. I also like the limited vehicle selection.
Can’t wait to try out the world war operations!
I’ll quote myself ad-verbatim, since this is the appropiate thread:
Some asymmetrical escort missions would be cool too, it gives people both fighter/attacker roles. Tornado and F-16A vs MiG-29 or something like that. I didn’t like the F-4 vs MiG-21 flavor, it got stale and felt pretty unbalanced, given that the air defenses, once again, were extremely accurate and overpowered and having to do BOTH Strike/Fighter roles at once felt extremely overwhelming. Which resulted in just ignoring the main objective and just going after MiGs which was 100% more effective.
That’s why the attacker side needs both a fighter and strike role on the team. Trying to do everything at once felt exhausting and not rewarding in the slightest, playing the defending side felt like a breeze since the AA did most of the work, and you had no bombs or rockets slowing you down.
Introducing DEAD before you can strike the main facility would also be a better way to enhance the game mode, as the air defenses surrounding the facility make no sense and is extremely difficult to deal with. They should be spread out and placed in layers around the map.
And lastly, helicopters could be straight up removed, or move the time period up to allow for Hellfires…
Why don’t we swap the attacking side and the defending side? The mig-21 provides cover for the Su-17 during bombing, while the F-4E carries out interception missions.
That sounds good too, we really need more airplane variety. It’s just copy & paste from last year’s event.