Bring it back, I really want it
Italy urgently needs to have a better premium aircraft, the US has the F-4, the F-20 and now the F-18.
Eh, i`d say you can be happy saving your money tbh.
Its shit in the current meta and you would be a free kill
Trust me you don’t want to waste money on that thing, it’s horrible, I would even go as far as to say it’s unplayable in it’s current state
Strongly agree, TAF is one of the worst planes in it’s BR: Non-ironically it turns worse than the WW1 bomber and most if not all WW2 bombers too, has only AIM-9Ps, it has 2 AIM7Es but the radar on the plane is so bad it’s not worth to bring them, and IF you bring them you can’t bring your 20mm cannon for some reason.
It is a F104 with a better engine, with means it is really only decent at Boom and Zoom, but at 11.3 you face F4Es that if they climb and are bringing AIM7Es too, you will die, and at the slightt uptier you are facing MIG23ML with R24R, uptiers to 12.0 facing F4S with AIM7F and excelent radars, and Mirage 1FC with Magic 2s.
Because of the amount of Premium Vehicles at 12.0/12.3, around 80% or more of your games will be uptiers, but don’t worry… even in downtiers this thing is not good, it has a slightly better acceleration than most planes at 10.7 - 12.0, but it’s not that much, and you are still flying a F104 airframe post-nerf against all the threats i just named.
If by some miracle it ever goes down to 11.0 or 10.7 where it would truly belong, them i’d say it would be a somewhat average plane to get if you want to grind italy
The reason is that’s how it operated in reality. They use the space from the removed gun for the extra electronics needed for AIM-7.
Meanwhile , we have MiG 21MF/SMT , J-7D , F-8s etc. in lower BR than it…
i don’t know how GJ compares things. It can sure go lower…
Even the F-4EJs (not the Kais) are better yet lower in BR. I just can’t find an excuse for it being 11,3 .
True, but since the snail has added some non-historical things for other planes, such as F5C, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to have both AIM7Es and the cannon on the F104 to make it a bit more bearable.
Still, i can only pray that with this sale right now, lots of people will play the TAF and make it’s stats even worse than they already are, that it will finally go down in BR