Large snowy maps

…is large snowy maps in a slow, heavy tank, driving for ages to finally get to a cap area only to have a jet bomber fly past drop a 2000kg bomb in the vague area of my tank and blow me up, zero warning (no whistle). Time alive 6m 35 seconds, shots fired, zero, enemies seen, zero, score 70… Respawn and repeat? No.

At least if there is a bomb whistle (or I actually see them coming) I can suicide my tank and deny the bomber the easy kill (the only effective defence).

I know the mods will lock this thread but please get the dam bombers out of the tank game, they are too powerful. Or at least cap the bombs they can carry, its stupid having them dropping 4000kg bombs in a mid tier game that wipe out multiple tanks in a single pass.

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The only reason I particularly hate snow maps is that the tree textures are god awful.

Nah, the guy in a bomber earned it by getting a cap and an assist!

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My fv4005

Time alive: 1:51

Shot fired: 0

Killed by: enemy fighter’s 20mm

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Aren’t you enjoying the combined aspect ?

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Not a great argument for the bomb whistle…

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I would enjoy it 10x more if SPAA were more effective and planes could not carry massive ordinance loadouts.

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Imagine a mode where You could just play tanks without having to die in order to have a chance against aircrafts

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But what about all those CAS players, they are going to lose so many easy targets and get CAP’d more often.
You have to think about that protected species.

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This is definitely due to skill issue on tankers, as a competent CAS main like myself, I can teach you how to not die by CAS when you play tanks:

  1. Put more bushes on top of your turret dome, so CAS will think you are one of the palm tree in Colombia

  2. Open your eyes and unclogging your ears, you will be able to hear and see there is 5-6 enemy planes approaching and quickly hide yourself behind buildings in desert or hide behind rocks.

  3. Buy good headphones like artis nova or whatever the f names that is and listen to planes and watch the sky the entire game with your tank, better yet don’t move an inch and don’t shoot, maybe CAS wouldn’t notice you are there.

  4. Just play SPAA bro they are very effective, the most effective SPAAs imo is M19A1, M42, Skink, ZSU-57-2(not the Chinese one, it is useless please don’t spawn that one), ostwinds and the best super AA is the premium ZUT-37 bro please spawn more of these to clear the sky :-)

  5. Use a reserve like M2A2 to rush objective points then J out to spawn a CAP, this way you cannot be bombed by CAS since you already die by suicide.

  6. If you have good headphones you will be able to hear bomb whistle and quickly dodge the bombs by driving away from them.

Told you so CAS is not a problem, to me dying to CAS is the same as dying to tank bro

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Ah yes, radar less SPAAs are amazing, totally don’t use radars and proxy rounds. The best 6.0-7.0 SPAA is the heavy artillery with proxy rounds. Absolutely love it when they work.

Another one is having a 700sp cold war CAS or a 600sp cold war CAP, and get shot sown by the energy drain of 90sp stingers, inevidable strelas/osa when trying to find a way towards bombing a conscious gepard-copy with nerfed unguided bombs and rockets.

Another one is a 300sp low tier Heli with no CCIP. 0 protection, 0 chance to approach a roof mg, 0 chance to live 10secs when there’s a first spawn AAA. Got nerfed with avionics damage for Kamov is too strong. Easy waste of sp. Yes I play AB205A1 and Brit 8.3 Full-Auto AAA lineup at the same time.

Have you tried playing Ground on GROUND battles? Maybe don’t be a pansy and hide in the sky.

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You know, there are air battles for the reason.

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Fun Fact: I have to earn my 800sp for a flight

There are Attackers at high ARB br for a reason

Doesn’t change anything when it comes to being able to play planes from a start in air modes.

If only tankers had such a chance to play in a mode without air vehicles in it.

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I hate snow maps because of the whiteness. It hurts my eyes too much it actually throws off my spotting

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Gaijin said F117. There are other examples but this is the best illustration =D

Well I’d have player SPAA in arb lol

So again it doesn’t change anything in what I have said

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