Everyone here who is saying that you’ll have adequate cover because tour friendly fighters will already be in the fight never actually plays fighters. Most players will go for the guaranteed kill over the harder kill that might get them shot down first.
If I’m grinding, why would I go for the fighter that might out dogfight me and shoot me down over just diving on an attack aircraft I can almost guarantee I’ll shoot down. One will give me RP for sure and one I risk getting almoat nothing for the match and waste the time climbing.
I’ll tell all you people supporting this, go grind out the PBJs, HS129s, A26Bs, or PE3s and tell me how many fights decide to go for you over dogfighting the fights on your team. This is completely ignoring the fact that aircraft like the XA38, P.108, and KI109 exists. Amd it seems like how taking away some aircrafts air spawn made then unusable, like the Vautours.
I have played those heavier attackers out, like the PBJ and A26 and make it to bases to drop ordnance fine. And doing this now, without this change inplemented, has went fine. I play fighters, strikers, and bombers of all types. I have almost every US attack aircraft spaded, and every US bomber, plus multiple spaded attackers and bombers in Sweden, Isreal, Germany, Russia, and Britain. Moving these aircraft to the airfield also gives a chance for rerouting to objectives and allows you to adjust when you get there as well. Being 7k ahead of your fighters allows other strike aircraft and fighters to reach you sooner with no hope of doing anything. With the fighter cover thing, if everyone knows you’re staying lower to intercept an attacker then YOU come a prime target for others. If you go for an attacker on my team, I can provide cover for and escort that attack, something that can’t realisticly happen now. I’ve even done that with the B-29 and other level bombers to great success because those fighter players know that fighters will come for the bomber and will provide resistance.
The Vautours are far from being unusable, they just aren’t the airspawn missile truck that they were and require more effort to take advantage of that. I’m honesty surprised they haven’t grounded all of the jet bombers because their airspawn gives them an absolutely massive advantage. Diving towards a base and making a successful attack is almost garunteed for the jet bombers.