if you have to go to capture point, which many times is highly contested, then they arent that disposable.
and every single option to guide can be countered.
Imagine the best AA in your lineup is… idk… LAVAD.
You’ve got a Tornado up in low earth orbit (who you can’t hit) being guided in by a Lynx (who you can’t hit).
Would you enjoy this?
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can LAV-AD not shoot down missiles with the big 25mm?
maybe restrict it to modern vehicles for ground buddy lasing, but jet-jet should be a thing at all BR since at least one has to expose themselves
Mate, you start out with a drone and losing that drone doesn’t mean you lose your entire vehicle. The drones cost nothing, can be replenished and let you sit behind cover. They are disposable.
Yes, you can destroy the guiding vehicles, and in case of scout drones, that would be easy enough, but good luck finding a light tank at the map border hiding behind cover.
how would said LT get another drone after his first is shot down?
Said LT can either go to a cap, or you know, stay in a safe position and use its own laser?
if it can use the laser, it has LOS, which means other things would have LOS right back at it, not to mention enemy CAS
if it goes to a cap it is exposed to ground and air attack
No, lmao
Okay, let me paint another scenario for you
Your best AA is ADATS. There is a Ka52 sat 20km away (twice your max range) guiding in a GBU from a Su34 who’s up at 12,000m that you can hit either.
Would you enjoy playing tanks in this environment?
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they will add better AA so this wont be an issue soon hopefully. there is CAP too
At the same time, China needs a good CAS aircraft, since their JH-7 has long been outdated and has even become inferior in BR to the air defense systems against which it was once introduced
Although they have options to provide something adequate right now
sure, but what if duo on enemy team is using this strategy as well? and what about lone CAS aircraft, with mavericks or Kh-38
Then you get the shitty top tier GRB gameplay that we currently have, where everyone has to rush to get into a plane because they can’t use their tanks due to the amount of CAS completely annihilating everything on the ground
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Air additions are plenty I’m sure China will get some more CAS before more top tier SPAA are added
They have glide bombs on the J-10 and JF-17, don’t they?
i dont know why buddy lasing is your main concern, when the GBU-53 has been datamined. The F-15E can carry 28 of these, they are GPS, Laser, IIR, and MMW ARH guided
buddy lasing would only be really good for laser mavericks, LJDAM, and Paveways. everyone brings IR mavericks anyways so buddy lasing will be still quite niche since you need 2 cooperative squadmates for it to work well
I hope so
But China could have received a container for the F-16 and had at least something for a long time (in real life this plane should be ± similar to the F-16AM)
2 bombs on a J-10 at 12.3? That’s on par with a Jaguar at 10.3
and the JF-17 has worse CAS capabilities than the JH-7A + has the same class of attack aircraft(BR is higher)
its not main concern, its just that ground battles is already an overflowing sewer, and buddy lazing would be putting more poop in that it can’t handle
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so add CIWS truck, add better SPAA and then itll work, since ingame ground battles is much more tame for tanks compared to IRL
Just like several AShMs, the Ruhrstahl X-4, a T-90 for the US, etc?
Oh, you mean like the Brimstone? lol
Again, buddy lasing isn’t just a thing for planes, it is a mechanic that works for tanks too. A player having to choose between low risk FnF for safe gameplay or high risk SALH for a higher precision and a potentially higher reward is a good thing.
Letting people bypass risk by having another person that isn’t really at risk either guide their SALH weapons or even indirect artillery fire is not a good thing.
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