Should I try to grind the F4J to get the F18 since they are going to be foldered or should I continue grinding the F15A for the F-15GE.
Im about 20k in for the F15A and 50k in for the F4J.
I also want a better CAS plane at 12.7 US thats not the AV-8B NA.
Im also thinking about buying the Prem F18 to use to grind and use for CAS bc I would have the money by the time of the Spring Sales.
I prefer the f18a over the f15a because of the br difference, but the golden eagle is infinitely better than the barely supersonic hornets. Additionally, I don’t think there is any reason to get a us premium if you already are at rank 8. Might as well get a premium for a different tree.
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Im only at rank 8 for the F15A F4J for naval and Im at rank 5 for all the other lines.
I spent my 22 months playing finishing the US ground tree and getting to rank 6 Ground for USSR and Germany.
I have the F4S and the prem AV8B (NA).
I also want teh F18 prem so I can grind the rank 9’s better and so I have a good plane for CAS in grb 12.7 .
But what do you think for CAS F15’s or F18’s? I still think I should finish the F15 before doing the F4J to do the F18 though.
I have little experience with CAS, but I can tell you the hornets have much better CAS loadouts. At 12.3 for ground, the premium hornet doesn’t even have a lineup, so I would think you wouldn’t even touch it once you get the f18c late. If you really want a premium hornet, the Swiss hornet would let you grind the German air tree. But i think if you want a premium, you might as well just get one of the su-30s and enjoy them while they are grossly under-tiered.
Before i began i would like to advise you to grind F-16 and F-15E line up as well.
F-15A and F-15C/C GE are more focused towards air superiority and are not made for CAS, though they still do have CAS weapons like GBU 8 which are present in all F-15 and other guided weapons which are only present in F-15C/E/C GE.
However F-18 are more of strike aircraft than they are of air superiority fighters and hence have better CAS weapons than F-15A/C/C GE. F-18A (the only which you will unlock first) does not have the best CAS weapons as compared to other F-18. Since in the next update F-18C late would be foldered with F-18A you could grind that as well since it would be far better in CAS than both F-15A/C/C GE and F-18A. And later in the same line you would get F-18E which is better in CAS then F-18C late/early
You can do that as well since both would have agm 65 which are kinda then mains weapon for CAS in American tech tree though you would still be missing few guided and glide weapons. With F-18C early you would also be lacking HMD and ARH missiles. But it will increase the speed of your grind for air tree
So ultimate, F-15 and F-18 line
In terms of CAS: F-18E > F-18C late > F-18C early > F-15C/C GE > F-18A = F-15A
In terms of Air superiority: F-15C GE > F-15C > F-18E > F-18C late > F-18C early > F-15A > F-18A
Now in terms of all line up
In terms of CAS: F-15E> F-16C> F-16A> F-18E> F-18C late> AV-8B > F-18C early > F-15C/C GE> F-14B = F-18A = F-15A
Also if you enjoy CAS and just want to do CAS and don’t mind playing a lower br than top tier then you could also try F-4E which IMO is a great CAS plane for its BR. Though still be careful about pantsir
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The F-18 is the clearly better aircraft. A F-18 from Kuwait ended the 104-0 run of F-15s with 3 kills with 3 sidewinders a few days ago.
Haha. Enemy in blue lol
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That lvl 1 who bought a prem F18 with 1 match on his account and doesnt know that you have teamates.
I dont think the Venz SU-30 would be on sale this summer sale.
and if I do Im at 11.7 Russia ground with the T80UK and T72B3AE.