9.7 stingers SPAA are better than 8.7 and 9.0 CAS aswell.
Literally nothing between 8.3 and 9.0 can compete with Ozelot and Gepard. Even 9.3s and 9.7s fair poorly against them, with the only plane even standing a chance being the A-4E. Even the A-4E is pretty limited in the CAS role having only 2 Walleyes.
You can’t attack AAs when they’re hiding.
No, F-84F has insanely shit energy retention and acceleration. You’re going to have to make a turn at some point.
You need to be well within stinger distance to lock onto enemies, outside of that you only lock onto the ground, which defeats the whole purpose.
They used to track enemies from further away, but Gajin for whatever reason decided to nerf, and move the A-4E up at the same time.
The nerf alone, or the BR change alone woulda balanced it.
F11F-1 is pretty damn nimble and can carry 4 bombs at 9.0.
What did you expect, half a dozen of TV bombs at 9.3 ?
That’s why you find them.
Plan to do your hard turns in places where you’re safe, not directly above the battlefield.
Stingers and other early IRs turn into a wet noodle after a couple of seconds going vertical, so dodging that should be far from hard. TV guided bombs have much larger effective range than dumb bombs or rockets found on other vehicles at that BR.
8.7 and 9.0 CAS are at those BRs because they are worse than 9.7 SPAA, if they were direct equivalents they would be 9.7. That’s the whole reason BRs exist, better vehicles are higher than worse ones.
Since you need to be babied, here you go. When you have two vehicles within a BR range of differing SP, the one that costs more SP should be more powerful (this is obvious to 99% of Warthunder players).
They do. Any plane that is in the air when there is no spaa will be able to kill all the tanks they want with no competition. While stingers on the other hand cannot kill any.
Most? You mean one situation, and that situation is when there’s no SPAA, and that almost never happens. It happens on occasion, and boy is it amazing, but it’s rare, and you called it “most situations” is just a load of crap.
Sorry, but pointing out something that 99% of users already know isn’t ragebait.
Guess what, there is only one situation when stingers can get kills, that is when there is planes up. But of course stingers are very bad unless used on a player who isn’t paying attention. I think you just need to improve at playing cas and then form your opinion again.
Yes, you need to pay attention to your surroundings. I know it might be hard not to tunnel vision on the target you’re trying to kill, but it is possible and I believe you can do it sometime!
