Recently, I started playing the A-4B on GRB and I’m in love with this little plane, literaly a low-cortisol gameplay when it’s paired with the XM800T.
This made me consider researching the A-4E early, but since it’s at a higher B.R of 9.3, witch puts it on Osa and Strela territory, I know it gets 2 FnF bombs + 3 bullpups that you can guide with the bomb seeker, but i’m not sure if it’s worth it.
On ARB I think it would basically be a better version of the A-4B, since it gets a better engine, flares and RWR at the same B.R.
So I would like to know form those who own the plane, is it worth it (not just the plane but the 9.3 american linup)? Or I’m better off going for some other thing?
Unrelated note, IMO the A-4’s have the coolest skins in the game:
Unrelated note²: being limited to 6k RP/Day for squad vehicles is ridiculous
Yes, it’s a fantastic fighter and kinda busted in ground since its bombs outrange most SPAA it faces
The A-4s are one of the best aircraft families in the game and it’s a shame the US only has one TT (where A-4F and A-4M Gaijib?)
1 month is maybe 30 days 200k per month if you play every 3 days if not then you wont get much also depends on your squadron if they aren’t active you cant get full 20k per 3 days join a
Grinding Arena like my squadron or a really active squardron (I’ve made 540,000 sq RP since I joined it 82 days ago (that’s usually most of a top tier squad vehicle))
but since you said 6k per day that would be 18k every cycle so you squadron might not be that bad
it will take you about 67 days if you squadron is consistent with 18k per cycle but It can take you a whole week less (60 days ) if you join a squadron that gets 20K per cycle
Yes, it’s worth it. You’re devaluing the vehicle because of uptier, that happens with every single vehicle in the game. I laugh when people say the T58 would be bad if it ever got a higher battle rating—you can destroy nearly anything shooting the tracks or roadwheels with T152 HESH. The squadron A-4E Early is the best Skyhawk in the american tech tree and the fourth best in the game behind only the israelis A-4E (M), A-4E (premium) and A-4N aka. Ayit. The recently implemented A-4PTM is just modified A-4Ls (which is remanufactured A-4Cs) that’s a A-4B at the end of the day with some thingmabobs on it.
Thanks a lot to everyone (I wont be able to reply every comment, sry)!
You are correct, but 20k every 3 days equato to arround 6,666 every day, just 2 ways to say the same thing.
It suffers from what i like to call “F-5 syndrome”, where an american plane is more common in the tech tree of another country.
I rounded down for simplicity, in my squadron we get the full 20k every cycle. But in my opinion with the addition of vehicles like Su-33, M1A1 SA, MiG-29M, that are all above the 550k mark (the MiG being above 600k), the max reward should be increased to 30-35k. And ofc, the max activity points should also be increased to encourage people to play the game more, if you play well you can get the full 360 activity points in one afternoon and in that time you most likely recived more than 7k regular research points (depending on the vehicle).
I havent really unlocked all of 9.0-9.3 USA so I mainly use this with XM800T and XM803. I don’t have any 9.3 tank yet but even 9.3 the XM803 is pretty fun. I haven’t played too many games in it but I have yet to see an OSA. Gepards, Strelas and shilkas are more common enemies.
2 agm62s is good but it should have 3 walleyes as in real life. It should also have access to upto 4 anti radiation missiles (Shrike A). These changes have not yet been implemented but I hope they will soon.
I mainly use 2-agm12, 2-agm62, an M117 or agm12. Sometimes bring a big bullpup instead of a walleye. Its very fun but takes skill to use. If you already have practice using the bullpups on the B model then it will be really fun.
All in all a fun plane. Not OP but definitely worth it compared to the other squadron vehicles.
Shrikes at 9.3 would be nasty, basically a mini F-4C.
Dos it have CCIP/CCRP?
I really hated the bullpups, then my friend sugested that I changed the keybinds to the arrow keys instead of Alt+WASD, this made a world of diference.
It has CCRP but no CCIP. The CCRP has a weird issue where it wont place the target point where my plane is aiming and instead places it below so its hard to place it exactly on target. SO ANNOYING I JUST WISH THEY WOULD FIX IT
I use the M117 because i havent unlocked the 2000lb. High drag bombs are usually more accurate with CCRP because CCRP doesn’t account for terrain and high drag allows it to fall more vertical. I don’t know why there isn’t a high drag version of 1000lb because that would be best imo.
