Most ground sim battles go like this:
- Spawn
- 3-6 top-tier planes from each team get up with their whole load being AGMs
- Half or even 2/3 of each team tanks get wiped
- Planes either get shot down or get back to base for a rearm
+The experience is even worse for NATO, because of players having mindset of “Others will pick the SPAA or a plane” and don’t forget the fact that NATO doesn’t have the same level of counter for planes as USSR and China against planes with their SPAA. This cycle of games drops player count even more for this forgotten game mode. I really like sim for its way of drastically changing gameplay for lots of vehicles and adding value to such things as commander view on your tank, I also like that there are more experienced people who are ready for good teamplay to win the game and less chance of getting half your team wiped in the start because of them playing with 1 vehicle setup. Besides that many people want to play the gamemode for it’s good rewards and multipliers for marathons, but in the end they get to understand that tanks in ground sim battles are just free exp for plane players.