All other options for subtrees have been denied. Switzerland was the only viable one left. And Switzerland’s Hornet is in the perfect gray area for Gaijin when it comes their ambiguity with ordinance.
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Lets be real the only CAS anyone needs is a boi with floaties of course this is swedish bias and makes it impossible to kill so gaijin will need to smite these players.
I mean just use your floaties to stop any damage. (Until they fall of and leave you vulnerable…)
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There literally is no ambiguity with ordnance going on. They opted against equipping the Hornets with A2G ordnances.
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I think the Tornado is highly overrated. I never understood why it arrived along with the F-16 and the MiG-29.
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Yet their capability wasn’t removed. That’s the whole point. Following Gaijin’s precedents means that per their own rules, it should receive the ordinance.
Doesn’t matter if it’s overrated, it still is capable of performing CAS duties.
Should have been added at least a year before them
Eh, they could go down the route i saw some british players. Because the Finnish Hawk Mk.66 can mount Aim 9M they thought they could try to reason that their model could get that.
With that the germans could just use the finnish MLU 2 for cas since the fins weren’t allowed ordnance on their aircraft due to their treaty from the 40’s also cause export hornets didnt have CAS.
Except that Gaijin has no precedents and rules. They’ll just decide to do whatever they want, based on whatever they feel like.
Screw bombs anyway! 10 AMRAAMS and 2 Aim-9 Whetever version. The ones the swiss use is probably somewhere above the 9L anyway so fine with me
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Its a game, in some cases id rather have balance than perfect historical accuracy. (I mean…this game can claim to be realistic but we’re just playing less fun ace combat lol)
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A combination of Asia Pacific nations has been confirmed as Japans subtree. We do know Thailand is a part of that with the existing F-5E FCU already being in game, bit we don’t know the exact nations.
But it’s pretty clear that it can really only be ASEAN nations, and in my opinion most likely not all, but only some like Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, with them having a lot of unique vehicles and modifications.
It’s speculation still obviously, but I’m more than willing to bet that we’ll see more than just speculation sometime soon in the future.
Swiss on the other hand have been heavily implied as a possible German subtree as well, and considering there is a gap right now and India was also added in a similarly sudden way as a confirmed subtree I can see it being added now.
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Why don’t the vehicles in the game have accurate stats?
Because they’re too busy being better than their Russian counterparts to sit still for measurements! 😂
This is a joke btw, but there is some truth to it, you can’t deny this…
Again, the SAAF Gripen shouldnt have gotten the Mavericks either.
However, if South Africa could afford to put Sidewinders, Mavericks, AMRAAMs, etc on their Gripens, they definitely would.
Switzerland deliberately decided against getting A2G ordnances for their Hornets. A large portion of Swiss people were against the purchase of the Hornet, their government deliberately decided against getting A2G ordnances for their planes.
The Swiss Hornet shouldn’t have access to A2G ordnances ingame.
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Any new leaks/leak updates?
With the Napalm buff (2x napalm bombs destroying a base), I noticed China doesn’t really have much incendiary bombs.
Is this accurate, or simply hasn’t been added yet?
Sadly only German one has Litening II in WT. I enjoy AMX A-1 a lot because of better thermals, using guided bombs becomes way more enjoyable.
I mean, sure, it can do CAS if there are no SPAA’s and CAP jets to immediately shoot it down from the sky.
However that’s a tough request to fulfill when most nations get both CAS & CAP as a bundle (Gripen C [3 nations], F-16C [1 nation], and maybeee Mirage 2K?).
There’s also CAS jets that cannot be touched by any SPAA due to the excessive range of their weapons, so all they have to worry about are CAP capable jets (Su-25SM3).
Unironically the F-4F KWS is currently the most capable CAS jet Germany has at its disposal, which in itself is pretty pathetic as it gets only 2x65Gs and no TPOD so good luck distinguishing a destroyed AFV from an alive one at any range beyond 6km.
The Swiss Hornet shouldn’t have access to A2G ordnances ingame.
Gaijin will decide that, but they’ve given out ordnance(s) before that nations didn’t use/couldn’t use (or never even had) for the sake of preserving the game’s already shaky inter-nation balance.
That aside, the Swiss did purchase TPODs for their F-18Cs during the Upgrade 25 program, and Germany has had AGM-65D/Gs in their inventory; put the two together and viola :)
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Main problem is, Gaijin doesn’t do balance either.
I mean, look at the 2A7s and Strv 122 being busted for 8-9 months now and the former even getting a buff next update. They have yet to do anything to bring the other nations up to par.
It’s not really capable of performing CAS duties. Unlike a fighter you can’t take any evasive to avoid SAMs because the Tornado is a bus.
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