The Problem
I’m have nothing much against CAS, it serves a purpose and helps game dynamics overall by preventing camping and picking out tight spots in a game. The problem I’m seeing in game is how broken the KH38s are in this gamemode and nothing to prevent them from spamming and spamming over and over again (Forget LMURS for a second)
I personally have used the KH38s in Japan and can say these are hands down the most braindead and easiest missiles to use in war thunder since I started playing. Gen 2 thermals, excellent range, and if you have a mountain map it’s 100% game over as you can easily peak and spam missiles then land as your hearts content.
From one game
It’s not statshamming but merely showing how braindead these missiles next to LMURs are for these players all game.
The entire game if you decide to go watch the replay this one person merely spammed his missiles ALL game. No nuke, no caps, no assists just rushed for some kills J out and spent the entire game on the side of the mountain peeking spamming and dropping since NO missiles on the the US/Swedish side could make it for the kill in time (This is BR 12 max for me). Spawned a fighter got 1 but with the radar missiles missiles above BR 12 aircraft it’s next to impossible getting these people at a distance. Flanking no, spawn and spam. Capping no, spawn and spam. He would land and at BR 12 the aircraft simply cannot do much against the overpowered jets higher than BR 12 because of the serious compression issues gajin has with game.
Solution
Limit the range and just make the missiles identical to other nations. When I spam KH38s it’s so easy anyone can do it. peak spam and drop, when it comes to other nations the maximum mach speed of .9 usually makes it easily counter-able and with SPAA like the SM-SV it’s even more braindead at top tier when it should require more skill.
The missiles regardless of where some “proof” was found needs to be nerfed to be balanced in game and prevent a singular spam from winning the entire game for individuals. CAS should play the role of Close Air Support like most nations where the aircraft is at RISK because they NEED to approach targets closer vs peaking from a side of a mountain and dropping quickly not even allowing interception of missiles cause their speed is insanely fast.
There are still other spots where CAS can use some rework like 10.7 missiles having longer range than a majority if not all SPAA in it’s BR. But at top tier from personal usage and being on the other side this missile needs to be hands down reworked and nerfed.