posting this here because I didn’t find a thread about this concerning SB,
To me the airfield aa is way too powerful in low tier. especially for dive bombers. I understand why it is the way it is in air rb but in EC players have to spawn on any airfield they want and if they choose to spawn on an airfield that is under attack it is their choice (and they knew it was under attack beforehand because the aifield will have been flashing on the map) so there is no need to make stupidly powerful aa that will score a guaranteed kill on anything that gets within 4km of the airfield. With jets this isn’t really an issue but with slow props with poor climbing performance it really is.
In my hours playing prop tier air SB, I’ve never had to deal with enemy airfields or anti-air of such.
You mention using a dive bomber:
How about attacking the “Arrows” (ground-battles) with enemy tanks, howitzers and SPAA? You know, the thing that will give us tickets to win. Attacking enemy airfield until you destroy the module does no ticket damage and even then it’s miniscule for the effort expended compared to much better targets.
There’s enemy CAP and AAA to contest with, but I’ve seen enemy Ju 87, Il-2 and even F6F-5s make very succesful attack runs and swing ticket balances around on arrows
More targets advised: Enemy bases - there’s no AAA either!
Convoys/Caravans you have a valid argument. Caravan AAA is stupidly accurate for an objective that automatically bleeds tickets if left undisturbed and is clearly balanced around guided/stand-off weaponry. Caravan/Convoy AAA needs to be nerfed to be on par with arrow/battlefield AAA (say gepard level at 8.7).
Maybe I’m too used to other combat flight sims where attack enemy airfields are actual objectives to destroy, not just spawn points. It’s just a bit silly to me that a gamemode called “simulator battles” relies on unrealistically powerful aa to keep players away from airfields. As for bombing enemy ground units, I do this sometimes but it’s often an enemy fighter hotspot so I prefer not to unless I’m in an attacker plane that can somewhat hold it’s own.
Your mistake is thinking this is a simulator game and not a more complicated version of air arcade.
If it was a ‘sim’ players would fly to the airfields, kill the spaa/AI fighters, kill players spawning in, destroy the AF and move on to the next one… and the game would be full of bots… again.
