Number 1 priority for CAS is effective weaponry. Which can mean carrying a high amount of weapons or the weapons having particular features such as functional guidance (basically anything but MCLOS) or CCIP. This is why you see planes with 20+ weapons or unfair features all the goddamn time, like the hunter F58, SAAB105s, MB326s, F117s…
Yes, and there are plenty of aircraft around the BR with 0 countermeasures whatsoever or nonsense like 18 total flares. You are also completely ignoring available HE rockets that you have CCIP for.
And the 250kg bombs are almost twice as powerful as slightly lighter 500lb bombs, you are not at all limited to 3 600kg bombs unless you really want to use the heaviest available munitions.
Nearly irrelevant nonsense, unless you are specifically out intercepting enemy planes which the A32 isn’t made for at all.
When did I mention this tornado? But yeah, it’s a 11.3 anti-everything plane at 10.0 in GRB and probably should be ~10.7. Rather weird for sure, but also it’s a 70€ premium so really not that surprising.
@Kallu609 A high amount of weapons? You know the A32A can’t carry that much on its pylons right? It has a lot of hard points but can’t even carry the ordinance the SAAB 105 has lol.
The SAP HE rockets aren’t that great as any SPAA will prevent you from doing your accurate shots which are needed. You’re better off with only 3x 600kg bombs for fast attacks.
Also you know Italy has a TT tornado IDS also right? It’s not just an event and premium on Germany.
Additionally we’re skipping the multitude of supior CAS aircraft below and at 10.0 like the Ayit with its flares, 9G equivalent missiles and 2x walleye and 3x mavericks at 10.0 or the A4E with its flares and 2x Walleye and 2000lb bomb with CCRP which people always forget which is why it’s so easy for me to pull nukes on the US 9.3 lineup
Again we could go on and on but the fact is moving the inferior and mediocre A32A up solely makes you sound ridiculous alongside the fact you clearly didn’t bother to mention that your argument was a all CAS matter. Rather you only wanted the A32 up which is one of the weaker platforms for its BR given it’s lack of flight performance.
Well, I don’t see a funny bomb crosshair anywhere so I don’t think it is even close to being comparable. But 48 HEAT rockets or 8 HE rockets with CCIP is pretty goddamn strong for 8.3. Looks like a solid GRB 9.3 to me.
Okay, so you’re just daft. Go ahead, buy it. I want your first game, and if it is so easy and OP, you should have zero problem racking up multiple elims. Do it. Do it now.
Well unless the game is straight up lying, you could carry 7 250kg bombs which is quite a lot, that’s what custom loadouts are for. The SAAB caps at 6 and I don’t think it has the power to haul 6 1000lbs bombs which would be the only way for it to beat the A32 in firepower.
So basically SPAA is doing half it’s job, nice. Can’t exactly disagree that you are better off with bombs, though why wouldn’t you just use the lighter more efficient bombs that are just slightly weaker.
Indeed. A lot of these vehicles should have received their big GRB BR bump when that was added to the game, but they didn’t for some unholy reason.
Well this isn’t the “CAS stinky” general thread so naturally I would at least start with something related to the main topic instead of immediately bringing up every bad aircraft ever.
Well if I actually played russia maybe I would. Also I never said it’s easy, almost no one chooses rockets over bombs because they are hard to use effectively and you end up wasting at least half of them even with CCIP.
I can tell you right now that the S-5 and S-21 rockets are not as good as you think, and that also the way they are mounted at a canted 45 degree angle also makes it more difficult
Xou can in fact not carry 7 250s IDK where you got that from. The max number of 250kg bombs carried by the A32A is 5. You can supplement them with 120kg ones but the point still stands
It is well within the maximum and wing weight limits, but I guess the plane has it’s loadout slots restricted to specific weapons.
Oh well, with a stack of rather weak 120kg bombs it still does remain more powerful than the SAAB, though you can’t really rely on them to destroy anything with thicker armor than a leopard. We could also count in the cannons, but I don’t see them doing very much without you dying.