agreed, but ive also heard that IRL it was limited to 2 9J. honestly at 10.7 id take that over 6 crappy 9E’s
I dont think 6x Aim-9J was a possible loadout.
But I do reckon 6x Aim-9E might increase the BR. and my argument for mud movers is “who cares about AAMs, the lower the BR the better. you should be dropping bombs and not trying to dogfight fighters”
It doesn’t or so little that it doesn’t matter. What you might be seeing is the effects of bringing more napalm than is enough for a single base, which drastically cuts rewards. Never bring more bombs than is needed for a single base 99% of the time its not worth it.
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you have to bring napalm for 2 bases at minimum with the F-111A
Ehhh…
As for myself, I don’t think it should and would increase BR because AIM-9E is still crappy missile for 10.7BR jet.
And F-105D in 10.0 also carries 4 of them.
But yeah, our opponents are Gaijin, the ‘hater of all mud-movers’
If that happens, Forum might go to in flames with topics about comparing F-111A with 6x 9E on 11.0 against Su-17M4 with 6x R-60M on 11.0 :/
How much score does it per base? If its not getting at least 600 thats awful ya.
RP/SL is score x time spent alive (very generalized but the gist of it).
dont recall its been a little while since i spaded it
i think 2 AIM-9J brings more defensive value than AIM-9E, and it could probably stay 10.7 with only 2
The question is. Is it worth the risk.
Because being the same BR as the Su-17/22s with 6x all-aspect would be stupid.
Id be worried for example about the GR1 if it got Aim-9M. Even if that would justify it being a higher BR than the others. In fact id rather like a Tornado with only 9Gs, just for the lower BR.
F-111A is fast, and with the gun its quite a decent gunstrafer. probably picks up a load of kills against slow things like A-10s if played right… Its overall tricky.
Not what I’ve been told, or perhaps they changed it since then. It should have been like that a year or so ago, and bases and damage to them has been changed a lot since then lmao
Do you mean for the 111A specifically? Or napalm in general
its ridiculous that gaijin give napalm napalm bomb to fighter jets
Napalm in general from what I observed (which this was a year or so ago btw)
Could’ve sworn something changed. Playing the 111A vs 111F I see no major difference besides the standard for damage potential vs. award per base and no premium account vs premium account
If you didn’t already know 111F doesn’t get napalm for some stupid reason
Yeah that is dumb, if it weren’t for the manual still being classified I’d bug report that. Still waiting on the PD multimode radar and digital RWR tho, and those are bigger priorities that we still haven’t gotten…
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That museum piece’s manual is still classified??? No one even uses them anymore 😭
You should put in one of those requests to declassify it
Id guess that by the time of the F-111F. Napalm had stopped being used in favour of CBUs?
No I think they still would have had them in inventory in the early/mid 80’s and the 111F would still ofc be compatible
I have no idea. Only thing I can think of.
Either that or it was removed for balancing reasons. Perhaps to keep the F-111F in-line with the F-111C. For example, they were going to limit the radar the Tornado F3 could get because they wanted it identical to the Italian ADV. Thankfully sources were found showing the Italian ADV also got the upgrades. So wouldnt be the first time
The F-111A is sitting unfairly at 10.7 because it had a very strong FM when it was introduced. The missiles were never useful except to farm AI.
Now it has a more realistic FM and is a complete brick that bleeds speed very fast and has terrible acceleration. The high top speed is not practical because you lose a lot of speed even in tiny turns.
It doesn’t work as a bomber either because of how slow you accelerate off the runway, F-104s will take the bases first at any BR, and phantoms will still out-accelerate you much faster in the runway. In a uptier you can add the Mig-23s that farm bases too.
The F-111A could easily go to 10.3 or remove the missiles and put it at 10.0