Does anyone have any tips for playing the f100d as a cas jet in ground rb. It seems to me like i cant get close to the battle field before i have 5 missiles coming at me. I even fly in from behind or the side and my rwr lights up and missiles start coming. I can dodge one yes but theres always a ton of them. And in order to kill the spaa i need to use bullpups but i cant seem to see them before they launch on me. This jet is unplayable.
Sometimes the rwr doesnt even light up because they just have to turn off their search radar and then i litterally cant do anything. And with the bomb nerfs i cant land bombs or agms close enough to them to destroy them. They always just launch missiles and then move. Not to mention i have zero counter measures. Ive even faced rolands with it once lol. This game is rediculously unbalanced at these mid br ranges.
There are few radar missiles at its BR (well at 9.7 but you get the point), but radar missiles suck against fast moving low flying targets.
9.7 is mostly BR with IRs as main anti air weapon and these have really low peak G pull, if you can dodge AIM-9B you can dodge MANPAD - and lets not get into details as to why gaijin thinks stingers cant pull better than igla.
So they launch a missile, i dodge. No problem. I turn in, there another one, i dodge, and another one. I dodge. Now im no where near the target and have to fly away. Repeat for the rest of the match. Its useless. And yes sometimes them locking the aircraft with radar shows up and i can get an idea of where they are but its not uncomon to have a silent rwr and then a missile just comes flying at me lol if an aircraft faces ir missiles in this game it should have counter measures.
Theres something called ballance. When theres an aircraft that can take out ground targets in the game, and in real life thats what its main role ended up being, to put it at a br where its defensless and it’s rare to get even one kill in it? How is that ballanced. People cry about cas being imballanced but then when the aa is imballanced they are silent
It would make sense that in grb the f100d is near the same br as the a4 b skyhawk. I would say placing it at 9.0 would be good. I find the br of 8.7 to be a very balalnced place for that version of skyhawk given it does take skill to use but can get a kill or 2. And given that the f100d doesnt really have much more going for it other than an rwr that barely works, it would probably work out. Very compressed and unloved br range for this game though. Gaijin as always ignore the compression though for slop content.
The only way in wich an aa can be inbalance if it is to good in killing tank, and you know why because tank cant kill plane so yes aa should be bhetter at killing air and make them feal hopless becase they are the only thing that can.
And most of the time not even aa can defend the field especialy at lower tier
For what i know manpad can hit at max 6km, roland are a joke osa can be dangerous if you dont see the launch 9km is an exageraticion. If you are not interceptig star you can always doge and rengage in a second moment