Yes, one fighter bomber. And F-111F & Mirage 2000D are faster than that.
When it comes to napalm, it is not always better than bombs — it does not always provide more points than conventional bombs.
In situations where an aircraft carries enough napalm to destroy a base, while its bomb load is insufficient to do so, napalm becomes the better option.
Napalm in large quantities is also quite effective in Simulator Battles for destroying airfields.
Currently, I am testing various aircraft to determine how many damage points napalm inflicts, what multiplier it provides, and whether it is a better choice than bombs.
The durability (HP) of bases also depends on BR, but from BR 8.0 and above, the required damage to destroy a base does not seem to change.
What does decrease, however, is the number of points awarded for destroying a base as you move closer to top-tier BRs.
Overall, I agree that this mechanic should be removed, but kept in place for fighters and multirole fighters.
Funny thing is high end us strike aircraft don’t even get napalm at all
F111f and f15e while every other plane gets it
In the us tree
gripen? viggen? tornado? there are even more
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Sorry should have said in the us tree
The viggens are just sad in general
There should be an aj37 with ja37 engines and avionics
But AFAIK the Swedes never thought about that
So you have to choose between a pure fighter
And a weaker attacker(without radar missiles)
Those ones voting No are definitely premium fighters users rushing with napalm.
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Please explain the term “multirole”… ;-)
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It’s less about reward and more about FM impact. 3x Napalm on a Harrier Gr1s has significantly less of a negative impact than 5x Mk13s on the same airframe. Yet both loadouts comfortably kill a base.
Probably because they don’t use it, Britain only just got it’s first napalm equipped aircraft that weren’t premiums with the F18s, not even our Phantoms get napalm, despite technical compatibility rules or 3 to 4 year old reports for the Buc S2
And that’s where the issue starts. I feel bomber boys because not only they’re cannon fodder for enemy interceptors, they have to beat friendly multiroles in the race for the base.
Also between ground targets destruction and base there’s to much difference in terms of earning (no napalm involved in this case :D )
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And then you have people say to wait for bases to respawn. In high tier ARB? Wait? LMAO
Match is over before the first bases spawn, maybe one in ten games you get a base respawn and then you have to actually survive that long too.
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Good post and good reasoning but gaijin will not do anything positive for the playerbase in this regard
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This is just another one of those features, up there with no map voting/selection, seeing nametags spotted by allies, EAC, or ground attack drones, that’s just completely insane and stupid, however the player base has simply accepted it into the game for some reason.
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Yeah, that period of time where we had fast respawn was kinda nice. Maybe a tad too fast, but the current timer is definetly too long. I also don’t understand why they don’t just make the forward AF modular like we have in ASB, it’s a mechanic that already exists and it enables a guaranteed target to attack
Even at 11.0 the game doesn’t last enough for bases to respawn and, as you already said, even if it’s the case you probably die before that. High tier matches last few minutes and bombers and strike fighters are usually the first victims.
It is wrong the concept of base bombing being more rewarding than destroying ground targets.
To think that at the early stage of EC we had airfields respawning after being destroyed (not modular at that time), this feature was removed because spawn position was totally random, so sometimes you could have an airfield spawning right below you leading to an insta death because of af defense lol
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This does sound like a good idea and would add more depth to arb, especially at top tier, instead of fox 3 spam from space. But looking at how Gaijin have implemented new things recently, even the simplest things like the new free vehicles and the free backups, they are done horrifically bad and with the free backups just bugged. So although it would be nice i wouldnt have high hopes theyd do it correctly.