Endless tales are spoken of when it comes to cannon boats, these coming with 57mm+ guns. Even more marvelous are the full automated 76mm boats. The Pr. 12412P (boat with a 30mm minigun and full auto 76mm gun in the front), the Albatros, and so on. Even Frigates that get an destroyer spawn, spawned with 76mm auto cannons, can still do amazing damage to 3.3 destroyers and fellow coastal boats.
Now imagine one of these highly powerful autocannons, throw it into a super fast package with a relatively low profile that cannot be one tapped upon spawn by destroyers.
You get the Sparviero.
With fast speed, small profile (compared to other autocannon boats), radar, SAP shells, and the ability to one shoot Arras and other armored beasts, this boat should be absolutely be amazing…right?
No. At 3.3, it is one of the worst boats. One shooting a boat via ammo rack is rare even in arcade mode due to how much the boat recoils and waves. (unless the Arras turn to your direction, exposing the waterlines)
The turret is also giant and has low HP which means any shots will destroy the turret making the boat useless. The hydrofolios is glitchy and can clip into land.
It is one of the worst boats out there. If we speak by 1km+ engagement, then boats such as VLT-2 or anything with two BOFOR (or similar guns), have a higher DPS due to more consistent accuracy and better health.
Then we have to consider that boats like Pr 186, MBK-161, which has way lower profile, cannons, and much more HP in lower BR or equal BR.
Wait until you get RN Ghibli, you will think that Sparviero is awesome)
Imo Sparviero is actually quite decent, while it can be hard to use because of poor implementation of hydrofoils in War Thunder and its stabilizer which doesn’t work as it should, it’s still a fast boat which can do a lot of damage even to destroyers.
Isn’t RN Ghibli essentially Folaga but with one extra gun and destroyer spawn?
If so, it’s a boat I’ll avoid playing. I can’t imagine something worse than M802 (a good boat, but reasonably, can’t fight destroyers). Having played the early Italian destroyers with long reload guns, yeah. No thanks.
Anyway, the spar can deal lots of damage, but it is extremely situational, within 0.5 km I guess. It’s hopeless at arcade, only slightly better in RB. Nothing torpedos can’t do at this range
Kinda, or even more like Gabbiano, because it lacks good 40 mm AA, which Folaga has.
It’s worse in everything than reserve destroyers, the funniest part is that initially Gaijin implemented it at 4.0 lol
Most of Frigates suck in general and at least need some in-between spawn point, but Ghibli is probably the worst vessel of that class.
Idk about arcade, as I only play RB. Why 0.5 km? You just have to slow it down, until its body on the surface, so you can shoot without your cannon wobbling up and down, but you also should be very careful about enemy firing at you and use environment to hide in time.
Wait till you see the japanese variant of the spaviero, the PG-02. M61A1 gattling gun that heats up faster than on the F-16
both spaviero’s lacking their ASM’s (despite not sure about italian but japans has this) having it modelled onto the physical model in the CDK. Apparently its “too high a BR jump” but stuff like the USS douglas at 4.0 coastal with effectively 4 missiles is perfectly fine
if they gave both spaviero’s their ASM’s and moved it to like 4.0-4.3 maybe even 4.7 (coastal top tier) it would make them more useful
I think the PG02, if facing reserve boats, is okay. I personally grinded the japanese coastal tree with akebono and pg02.
It’s BR is more favorable at 3.3 meaning it will fight reserve boats more (reserve destroyer players love to pair it with reserve boats because they’re new to naval)
currently its gun is less effective especially against reserve destroyers as HE can just melt it if not the AA guns, and against PT boats it just shreads the PG-02 apart cause of its low crew count. Yes it has good speed however it cannot compliment the gun that rapidly overheats compared to the exact same gun on the F-16, and the fact that other PT boats/frigates at its BR just melt it apart by sheer firepower
Not to mention the US has the USS douglas which has 2 RIM-24A missile launchers (4 missiles total) which has the ability to fight from further away ontop of the mk.34 guns (which has about a 9.5km range). Whilst both sparverio’s have to get within a 2km range for the gun to actively fire. Which at this range is just free food
A gun being cooled by near supersonic airflow and a gun on a boat are very different things. Turn the rate of fire mod on if you want to see how the PG02 Gatling actually fires, the default ROF is just another Gaijin “rule of cool” thing.
They should fix the overheating though, which breaks the gun even on the slower ROF (which it should not).
Back to OP, statistically the Spar is doing fine in RB these days, basically middle of the pack. In AB it has consistently been the worst 3.7 or very close to it.
Very bottom right is the ROF mod. You can turn it off, it still kills boats and the ammo lasts longer.
What happened was they put the PG02 out on the store and realized later they had the ROF completely wrong. So they added a mod so you could slow the rate of fire down to match the real ROF if you wanted (most people ignore it).
Last I looked, it was still bugged though, and the gun still overheated at the slow ROF as well.
AFAIK thats because autocannon overheat depends on for how long is the gun firing, not on how many round it fires.
Its part of the reason BMP-2s autocannon is better than that of the, lets say, PUMA, because they will both overheat in the same amount of time but BMP will fire more rounds in that period.
Which is kinda funny considering PUMAs ROF is so low as to prevent overheating.
