Absolutely not. It will cost the Su-24M 60M of fuel from Main airfield to Enemy Main airfield and return in full Afterburner. The MiG-23M can reach there but it’s going to turn in to an suicide mission…
I honestly prefer the center forward airfield’s existence precisely because it frees up the flanks for nuke carriers and ground attackers.
Its not a bad idea to accommodate PVP in the center and make the life of PVE easier on the flanks
It’s still too slow, and the game ends when it reaches the enemy main airfield, and I doubt that it can even return to the main airfield it took off from.
it is tho, if you remove the su24 then soviets would have a 30kt carrier… and if you add a 30kt carrier equivalent to the su 24 or arguably better then there is no reason for the f4e to retain it either.
The whole gamemode is based on asymmetry and the main point of the post was to add the F-111, not to remove anything. It would be much better for the gamemode to just add the F-111 than to remove Su-24.
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Again if you add the f111 then there is no reason for the f4e to keep the 30kt nuke.
Doesn’t look like today’s update has been posted in replies here yet: Update 2.55.1.36
Thank you snail! 🐌 What a glorious day, hopefully the SPAA’s are less oppressive now 🙏
Full change log:
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I tried multiple times to bomb the main bases in the B-52H/Tu-95M, but every time I spawn, I die within seconds from the enemy SAMs.
I enable the IRCM, I chaff, I also try to get perpendicular to enemy SAMs but I can never reach a base before getting swatted out of the sky by buks or hawks within seconds of spawning.
I see people just calmly flying to the bases and nuking them without being attacked. What am I missing?
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Yes but roland dont even use there radar half the time
I think a very important first step is taking out advanced radar sites on the map! Someone mentioned that the range of the Patriot and S300 can be reduced by taking them out. I have not tried yet but will!
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All long range SAM’s should be taken out before trying to end the game, Farming SP to spawn the big nuke right away will only end with getting shoot down
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Check out these maps if you have not seen them yet, will help to make your way to those radar sites: Nuclear Thunder! - #5911 by SilentTracker
US Advanced Radar sites = “AN/TPS-59”
RU Advanced Radar sites = “NEBO”
Check out the maps above. Also, do you have “periodic countermeasures” keybinds setup? Check my previous post for screenshots and suggestions:
Still follow the advice from D4nger_CLO5E and TheKnightOfZero above: Nuclear Thunder! - #6231 by D4nger_CLO5E Nuclear Thunder! - #6232 by TheKnightOfZero
I have been able to drop the big nuke with the B-52 without the big SPAA’s or Radars being taken out, buuuuut the big SPAA’s were lobbing missiles at me the entire flight. I am pretty sure I just got lucky.
I did have Periodic Countermeasures on, set to Chaff only (to save flares for interceptors, which I did need), then I also spammed 3 or 4 chaff every time I got a launch alert from my RWR. You have ~1,000 chaff in both the B-52 and Tu-95, go ahead and spam them some the moment you see a launch alert. The launch alert usually faded after 3 or 4 spammed chaff. You should not run out before you get to their main airfield.
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Outstanding o7…people saying this new game mode is bunk should go be kill joys some where else :/ Looks like it will be adjusted and can’t wait to run my Gripen E and others :) also ARM for top tier air will be very nice in this mode :D
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Honestly it’s not so bad. Once you are at about 9km high just altering your trajectory by 10-15 degrees once you see smoke in the air is usually enough to evade the missiles. If you properly notch you won’t ever be hit. I figured this out when I flew my yak141 from our main airfield defending against multiple b52s to go cover our tu95, who successfully bombed the enemy airfield post fighter to fighter sortie
Its still impossible beyond belief to notch OSA or Roland, pathetic
Ngl, it was quite a missing opportunity to not add MiG-25BM with it anti-rad missiles
(just a vid of MiG-25BM doing SEAD in WARNO and, somehow, succeeding)
The soviet free lineup is so outrageously bad compared to the US free lineup its making me want to skip a day of the event and bother with it tomorrow, if this is what the Soviets had to offer it’s no wonder they lost the cold war
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Eeeh… I dont know. If I need to choose between MiG-23MLD with it somewhat useable radar vs F-4E “I cant see anything, so use AIM-9Ls… which are not present on most premade louadouts”… I would go for MiG-23.
SEAD wise Id go with Soviets too. Su-25T is bad (same as A-10), but Su-24M at least is supersonic. It can pull out out of force reconning enemy AA. TRAM and Corsair however… yeeeeah
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I use the AIM-7s all the time and constantly get locks tbh