Battle rating: Strf 9040B →10.0, Strf 9040 BILL and Lvkv 9040C stay 10.3
Loadout change: slpprj m/01 to all 9040s
Reason: Currently with the state of the 10.3 BR bracket seeing more modern vehicles being added to the game with increased capabilities etc I see it fit to give the rest of the 9040s there proper round to keep up with other vehicles recently added to the BR bracket. With these changes each vehicle will retain their uniqueness.
The 9040B will still be a lower BR then the rest but without the increased armor of the 9040C and the 9040 BILL and Lvkv9040c will also still have their unique roles.
Buc S2 does okay, Its fast enough to get around and has the defensive suite to deal with missiles.
Buc S1 is just sad though with the far weaker engines, Could easily be 8.3 or have air spawn
Buc S2B… Its a 9.7 with 2x Aim-9Ls. Could be 10.3 could be 10.7, really on the fence about it, but with the sheer compression at that BR it should be 10.3. As a ground attacker, its pretty poor, But few ground attakers at that BR do well in their primary role. So nothing new there.
So they can be a really tricky aircraft to balance at the moment.
But if they removed the diminishing returns mechanics and added objectives where their sheer weapons load actually could be used… Theyd be very good.
In ASB I cant be bothered with the S1, but had very good success with the S2 and S2B. Especially since they modeled their wings to be made out of something other than wet paper mache
since F-15A/J downtiers to 12.7, should be fair to give some jet IRCCM (cough cough MIG-29) unless both of those lose AIM-9M and made AIM-9L as main IR missile, heck why Yak-141 not get R-73 if it just 4 like they already have 4 IRCCM R-27T+27ET possible
Yes it has a 1s reload, and a commander sight, and good speed. But it has gen 1 thermals at 12.0, which are useless, very poor penetration relying almost entirely on tracking and barelling vehicles then flanking, and only having a whopping 26 rounds of ammo is absolutely miserable, all of which combining to make a worse RDF/LT with no premium bonuses
So 2S38, is 11.0 vehicle, slow, one shot, with no gun depression, which got nerfed many times. But nobody’s gonna talk about Strf90, with less penetration, but way faster fire rate, much better survivability, better gun depression/reverse, and even missiles, on 10.3… I see totally balanced and not biased opinion.
Reason: Currently the hq-11 is in the same boat as the spyder, which is being limited to 8 missiles ready and only being a single system while being very large.
this ends up putting it at a great disadvantage compared to the other 12.7 sam systems and one that builds onto the original issues.
there are two separate solutions to this, either bring it down in br to 12.3 or keep it 12.7 and give it a secondary launcher (maybe even the ciws gun it should have) as this would help both survivability and effectiveness.
Shouldn’t the Japanese A-7e also be move with its American tree counterpart?
also move the Sea Hawk mk.50 and mk.100 back down to 9.0, that’s the only thing that made them worth using.
