ALL of the SPAA need nerfed. Their accuracy is insane, and there are way too many of them. Im not sure who thought it was a good idea but NE was an amazing game mode during beta but right now its horrendously unbalanced with the SPAA killing everyone.
This needs addressed, a huge majority are refusing to play what should be the best thing to come to gaming in a long time.
2S6, M163, Z23…BMP…theyre all cracked and need nerfed.
most AA are ok/manageable, except the insane amount of SHORAD spam on the front lines which is very annoying
It bothers me that vehicles like the BMP and thr 2S6 do not miss…the 2S6 especially cant be chaffed or flared off.
I know the NATO equivalent on the other side is just as broken and oppresive too.
which planes and br range do you play at?
11.3 to 14.3
nation?
USA, GRB, and Israel
ok for the USA the best aircraft that you can use in nuclear thunder is the f-18E since it has the best loadout of things that you can bring.
Those are the loadouts i am running, i also bring the f-15GE if i want to do some patrol.
Well how you should play basically try to either use the AGM88G or the JSOW to take down the enemy LONG RANGE AA, you can use this to make your life easier using the JSOW. Nuclear Escalation Full Map with all POI (SAM, DEPO, ...)
After you have done that or your team is doing it you can use the ANTICONVOY/v2 loadout and once you see a enemy outpost or convoy shot both of your anti-rad missiles at the AA that is there because most of the time it will take down one of your missiles, then use your ground weapons to finish the outpost and go to the next target, it could be a supply depo where you will need to use the ANTI-RAD loadout to first take down the AA and once you have that you can go with the JSOW’S and finish the depo.
one thing you have to think is that you will have to always have your radar up search for enemies since the situacional awareness is critical in this game mode to know where to attack and where to push with either your team or in a solo run.
For Britain is literally the same since you also get the f-18E, the only difference is that you can go for much better patrol runs with the Eurofighter.
Now for Israel it’s where things get complicated since the best anti-rad carrier that you have is the F-16C with only 4 missiles you can’t really go for long range AA hunting, now you have the F-15I that can carry a shit ton of air to ground ordinance with both the spice 250 and the spice 2000 but can’t carry any anti-rad so you either have a teammate to do that or try to overload the AA with the booms to the point that you have a window to kill them it is easy against convoys and outpost but i wouldn’t recommend to go and get the supply depos in that.
And finally the RAFALE the best or at lest top3 best plane to go on patrol runs and that is it, you can try to get some things with the hammers but that is on you since only can carry 6 of them
I didn’t mention any ship related missions because the rewards are so bad that the only reason you could do them is if you want to LARP.
Thanks a ton, im F/A-18E is stock and i tried progressing in it today and it really seems the Aim-120D is busyed right now. 1 time i even fire at 6kms away with a great angle and speed and it still didnt hit…so thats odd.
Thank you for the write up though. The 11.3 to 12.3 is still very insane with the SPAA though.
Tornado GR4 deals with them okay but outside of that, yeah, Britain has basically nothing decent for SEAD below the top tier
Yeah i mean, wtf is wrong with the Ito90M and 2S6, they are literally most OP vehicles in nuclear thunder
Whats really infuriating about ITOs is that therir effective range is 15-16ish km, and they start engaging you at around 10.
However, the problem is that IR munitions, namely LS-6, gbu-53 and such, struggle to get a lock at 16km, which you 100% want against moving targets. And to add to that, as of lately I noticed that firing two ARMs at them from 12-15km is often not enough, they casually intercept both. Which REALLY sucks for planes like toptier f-16’s.
I noticrd today i needed 3 AGM88s to take 1 down.
Remove SAMs or radar guided SPAA from convoys. static companies of tanks with an SPAA is fine enough.
the SHORAD spam is just too much
With how affective the IFVs are, the convoys literally dont need any SPAA I think
I would be fine with them replacing convoy AAs with LAV-AD and manpads shilkas
I personally only need 2 of them to take them down, tho my tactic is more risky since I wait for the ITO/2s6 to shot first and then shot both the anti-rad since it will try to target the missiles with the one it shot first and fail, then it will only have time to shot one of them down.
I might try to post a video of the tactic once i am at home.
Here is how i do that=
I hope they reduce the ITO/2S6 at the depots since 4 is to many
Also I hope they change the type of AA that are in the convoys maybe replace them with MANPAD units or something
