Russian Bias: Raw MBT access in the 9.7-10.3BR region

Abrams is good, but the BVM is better overall. The Abrams, to be effective, has to hide its turret ring. The T-80BVM zips around and has incredibly dodgy volumetric. The ERA also carries the thing immensely.

Eurocopter Tiger has 8 PARS, which are inferior to Spike-LR 2 and the AH-60 has 16 of those, plus an MAW and a gun to defend itself.

The only good thing about Israel’s current top tier is the AH-60. Everything else is incredibly underwhelming.

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Generally, i’ll prefer the M1A2 SEP. However, the teams make the experience incredibly bad, leading to many concluding the Abrams is bad.

I meant to say it came in second over the Ka-52.

I’m very fond of the Abrams as well and it’s an amazing sniper, however, the Abrams was horrific until recent patches. It took a long time before the Abrams actually became good.

The Ka-52 is mid. I don’t know why everyone is so scared of it these days. The Mil-28NM is better in every way.

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lolwat? What kind of Russia glazing is this post…
Best helicopters: NATO; France, Germany, Israel…
Best IFV: NATO, specifically the CV9040 series. And ALL IFVs are like bringing an M22 into top BR… well not THAT bad for the team, but pretty bad.
Best light tanks: CV90120, HSTVL, and VT5.
Best CAS: NATO by far; France and USA are #1. USSR comes up behind with their Kh-38 platforms. ALL are OP, NONE can die to SPAA at this stage in the game.
Soon SPAA may out-range AGM-65s though.
There is no best AA.
Top 5 MBTs: USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Japan.

Soviets have exactly 1 “top 10” MBT: T-90M, and it’s in the latter half of the 10. #1 is tied between Abrams and Leopard 2.

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I dunno man, blackhawks are really chonky (more exposition time), the ammount of spikes is awesome but they are very slow, I mean, at 8km a spike becames a sausage that maybe hits or maybe dont the ka52 after 3 labour days of flight.

Mmmmm no, great armour but againts planes or helis better to have a fast cannon that a spike.

Anyone decent in a helicopter would hide at that point, as relying on AA mistakes to survive isn’t really something that you should trust.

Kamovs only edge out FnF helicopters when there are no AAs around, otherwise they are better, especially that Israeli one with 16 Spikes.

Why though ?
I think Freccia outshine Namers pretty easily.

Considering your entire argument is based off of vehicles you’ve never played, it’s null and void.

All the nations have good tanks in those regions, MBT-70 is a very good tank, along with others.

And I find this particularly funny, because I feel you’re going to say Russian air in sim is also OP, when it’s not even close to being decent.

There is no Russian bias…. SMH.

It’s amazing the mods haven’t closed this

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I would love to see you bring up “historical matchmaking”

There was a chance of Russian bias when Mig-23MLD was put into the game until F-4J was added, as that was the LAST time Soviets had an OP aircraft that other tech trees couldn’t compete with.

That was over 4 years ago now, and ever since F-4J almost no tech tree has been OP.
Even when AIM-120 F-15s released, Israel, USA, and Japan were all OP, but they also could face each other.

Soviets have never been OP on ground, and the helicopter nonsense was fixed when 10km SPAA was added for most tech trees.

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Freccia’s great. Didn’t think of it.

I’d rather not jump into an actual match, but it takes other helicopters a significant amount of time to engage even a single target. The Battlehawk can do up to 16 at once without a line of sight during the missile’s flight path.

I’ve never had issues with the speed of the cannon. And there’s no objective best IFV when you have the Namer and Freccia which are great at separate tasks.

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My favorite IFVs are the TOW ones personally.
Though I will play the Chinese one around BR 10.0.

I haven’t used any Soviet IFV in well over a year at this point, and I’ve seen them about as often.
BMP-2Ms are rare… I miss those free frags.

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Helicopter gameplay is awful unless you’re in a certain hand full of them.

People aren’t interested in buying an OP Squadron vehicle when the Overpowered Premium 2S38 and T-80UD exist.

True that. Even with the Premium Ka-50, it’s taking a TON of hours to grind in PvE helicopter matches for even a single helicopter.

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2S38 isn’t OP; when I almost got a nuke when it was 9.7? Sure, arguable. Today at 10.3 to where it no longer sees even 9.0s? It’s fine.
Most of the time it’s a free frag anyway.
T-80UD is just a T-72B that’s slightly faster accelerating in the forward direction.

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Honestly Namer only has hull armor over it’s contemporaries, which isn’t that special considering how easy you’re to disable by shooting the turret. It’s also chunky and slow which is not something you’d expect from a “light” vehicle.

Personally that cannon shoots way too slow for the environment, as you’ll meet tanks that have amazing gun handling and agility, so you might not shoot enough rounds to kill things in time. Freccia has more than double fire rate.

While true, the armor isn’t even that great due to Gaijin’s stupidity. 105mm shells from even 8.0 and above pose a threat due to the poor modeling and modifiers of the tank. What it really shines at is having the ability to sit hull down and be nearly invincible.

And I’ll repeat that I don’t think the Bushmaster II is unusable with its speed. Sure, it’s not fast, but that rate of fire helps you aim proper shots and not burn through ammunition instantly.

Plus, the second Namer has a Trophy system (although it’s bugged and hasn’t worked properly for awhile now).

It is very Overpowered for a 10.3 and it got buffed in this patch. It and the BMP-2M should not be a lower BR than the Namer.

Kontakt-5 should not be anywhere below 11.0. Mobility and Thermals aren’t much of importance when shells often don’t penetrate even your side armor. 9.3 tanks should not have to fight that thing.

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No

If you take appart fnf missiles, Ka52 can do anything better and faster than all other helicopters and has a better damage model.

some CV9040 series should have air target racking (UTAAS, but it is hard to implement) and lacks lws ,anyway, everything CV9040´s can do (unless BILL and spikes) it is donne better by the 2s38.

I´ll give you that.

No, Rafale is by far a better airframe and Hammers are really good, But kh38´s are better at speed and explosive charge, and those where added a year ago, before rafale and even before Fox3+s, They have only added better kh38 slingers then.

Yes it is, it is the pantsir, it has a missile with 40% more range that VT1 and guns.

No it isn´t like that, before the strv´s and leo 2a7 the best mbt was BVM. Rn T series tanks still having that weird damage model that gives them an advantage in the reaction and action time, due to having the smallest weakpoints, that is why mbt´s are top 3.

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