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:
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Put more bushes on top of your turret dome, so CAS will think you are one of the palm tree in Colombia
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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.
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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.
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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 :-)
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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.
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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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Also SPAA is so incredibly overpowered.
What do you mean I shouldn’t be doing level flight under 800 meters as if I was in an Il-2 doing level bombing of factories? (if you’re actually in an IL-2, flying at 340 km/h at 200 meters altitude to bomb is actually correct, if mismatched to the situation)
Side climbing and dive bombing is boring! I want action now!
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Totally balanced - used only in GRB
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Avg wt CAS strength. That only plane made everything else unnoticed and eventually unusable.
Laughs at unguided weapon attackers of 9.x-10.x, maybe include 8.x for gepard radar was buffed back
Could you… I mean not have spawned a slow tank on such a map or perhaps gone for a different strategy?
WT gods are deaf to this issue. I’m don’t mind combined battles but there should be a ground only option. To the OP’s point, at least get rid of strategic bombers dropping nukes in BR ranges where historically it took fleets of them dropping thousands of bombs to hit a single factory much less a little cap point with four tanks on it.
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Just give tanks a chance… Planes are way too OP and dominant. Dropping 2 ton bombs on helpless targets is a broken game mechanic. No other game lets one particular class dominate.
Way back in the BF2 days the Blackhawk was OP and lethal, the ground pounders complained and it was nerfed to make it more fair, the WT Devs just don’t care that a plane can drive through falling snow, completely invisible to the slow firing, exposed crew SPAA that was trying to engage it, drop a 2000kg bomb 50m from its target and still kill it. Yep, that’s a balanced game mechanic.
Yeah, exit to hangar is the best strategy in War Thunder nowadays.