Hello, I just got F-15A and Im not sure how to play this thing. Most of my battles are top tier battles. I dont have FOX 3 missiles, nor chaff to defend myself. whats the best strategy? I tried flying low but that doesnt really work, since you either are too passive and you wait for ideal prey for so long that there is no prey left, or you engage close enemy, but you instantly get shreded by FOX 3 missile.
Going up is also problematic because without chaff, and with only FOX1 missiles, you are in massive disadvantage in BVR.
Whats the best strategy? Going up, or hugging the ground and getting on average one kill per 5 battles, since you can just hope you will catch somebody heading to airport or something?
Hey! You did good coming here to ask. I’ll answer your question briefly.
You don’t play it. It was sub-par to decent when it came out, but now with the new ARH meta it’s just a competitive airframe with 9Ms sure, but suboptimal ordnance for BVR. Get your F-16A instead and embrace turnfighting like crazy.
Sorry if that sounds mean, but if i felt frustrated while grinding it when it was barely competitive, i cannot fathom how unsufferable is right now.
For obvious reasons, unlock the chaff mod first and foremost. Avoid flying with the crowd, and flank so you can use ambush tactics. Being a little later to the battle is far better than never making it at all.
ARH missile slingers will prefer to target the herd for more chances at kills, so using the terrain to mask your presence and multipath as much as possible until your within striking range with your all aspect missiles is almost a must. Once you unlock SARH’s you’ll have a little more breathing room to attack people further out, but while only being able to use IR missiles in this current meta, it’s going to be a little painful at first, and only gets slightly better after unlocking some radar missiles.
It’s going to feel like a fight just to get into striking range, and it is.
Thanks, Im currently researching the chaff mod as a first modification. My problem with flanking is, that the battles are so short that when you are finally in good position to surprise somebody, there is nobody left to be surprised by you. You are either alone and everybody is trying to hunt you down, or there are last 1-3 enemies that will die in few moments. You can get kills with that, but its so so inconsistent.
Also, just info, F15A and other jets got stock SARH and ARH missiles while back, so I actually have 2 Sparrows available right from the start
I just gave up. Pray and wait for decompression (max BR to something like 15.0) Fighting against active radar when you don’t at least have something fast like an R-27ER is frustrating.