Yeah, they’ve dropped the ball again on timely new aircraft.
My fear is they are waiting to add the Gr9A alongside MMW Brimstones because she did use Brimstones but only the single-mode Brimstone 1s before the dual-mode upgrade.
Though id argue it should just come with SAL and replaced when they can
Are there any plans to add BOL to the American F/A-18C late or American F-15’s?
Makes sense- I hope accuracy is modelled at least, then!
High accuracy and rate of fire would be Bismarck’s strengths, then. Without either of these, it may be too “meh” to live up to her legend.
If they are being… pedantic, then she wont have SALs because she never used them. But with Britain, they seem to want later variants to have every single upgrade possible (looking at GR1 to GR4). But
Would all be quite a major upgrade. So MMW wouldnt necessarily be a deal breaker imo
Currently there is no information that they were integrated to US F/A-18Cs, only plans for evaluation (though its not clear that came off).
AIM-120C is being added for the F-15E. Its performance will be evaluated from there.
Any word on whether BOL is going be fixed/modeled historically accurate (or as close as game limitaitons allow) this major or soon after?
Specifically this with nearly 700 votes and 95% approval:
Yeah Bismarck would do well to have her draft be low as it should be, good accuracy (still behind the British 15" and 14" but probably the runner up to those), as well as good RoF and loading angles, and very good gun handling.
She will for all intents and purposes, hopefully be a repeat of the playstyle of Scharnhorst, but with more reasonable (still good) armour.
Will AIM-120C be added to Typhoons?
I wonder if she will pop like Scharn does. I have only faced an Iowa so far on the dev server
Currently its for the F/A-18C Late, F-15E and F-15I RA’AM. Though as always, thats subject to change.
Likely will be just as vulnerable as Scharn to barbette shots, but barbettes are stronger
Though I find that the unreliable way to kill them, too much RNG. instead I wonder about fire propergation down the ammo lifts
Bismarcks turtleback is not curved but flat, so it should have less resistance, scharnhorst turtleback is closer to parallel than bismarck and therefore the critical angle, bismarcks is thicker but not as angled. You may remember me moaning earlier than the pen calculator checks if a shell ricochets, before it checks if it has enough residual pen to go through.
Well now you are more likely not to ricochet, and therefore pen becomes an actual factor now.
Yep! That way, Germany’s signature quirck would be flexibility and handling.
Japan’s would be high power firepower and U.S would be… I don’t know, Iowa seems actually like a decent all-rounder!
U.K, survivability and decent firepower.
Italy, extremely good armor and firepower on a low BR in exchange for impractically slow reloads.
France, obvious.
Ah nice. Yeah fingers crossed those shots will be reliable then
It was never going to get AIM-120Bs though.
Reliable I still don’t think so, but doable much more than scharn where you literally need a miracle to pen to the magazines.
This is kind of a shame for Bismarck, hahah. To think that, in terms of protection and survivability, it’s actually a DOWNgrade to the current top dog, Scharnhorst, which it’s succeeding, sitting a full BR higher.
The firepower is a HUGE improvement, though!
Well the TB is thicker, I just haven’t had a chance to test her to see if the thickness compensates for the lower angle. I doubt it will but thats an assumption.
Also, Scharns magazines are not pennable. Even by a railgun at the speed of light with a superheavy projectile. The question is how much of a downgrade is bismarck :p
Yeah, fingers crossed. By the sounds of it, the only one to fear is the Kronstadt 2.0 I mean, the Soyuz. None of the other top tier ships sounds all that scary even in Rodney or Hood, let alone Vanguard