Have been frustrated beyond belief trying to unlock modifications for the GR.1A. The poor airframe and only two missiles have left me feeling completely useless most games. How is the BR comparable to even a Sea Harrier? Or an F-8E? Or a J-7D for crying out loud. The missiles are average at best and borderline useless in most cases given everything has flares and you have so few to use. And don’t get me started on the Buccaneer S.2B. These are interesting aircraft with real world merit and they deserve to be treated as such. Is there any way to use these consistently at all? Or am I fighting a losing battle no matter what.
Air RB sucks for ground attackers, The maps are too small, the ground targets are often taken by fighters with Napalm and you have markers telling the world where you are and that you are probably a free kill.
The only place where Ive found these aircraft work well, and others like it such as the AMX and Tornado, is ASB. Its pretty much the only gamemode for mud movers due to much larger maps, consistant ground targets and most importantly, the ability to be sneaky.
Now the Jaguar GR1A should probably be 10.3 these days, it is very underpowered at 10.7, but the Buc S2B is stuck due to the 9Ls. I dont think they would be a major issue at 10.3, but its tricky nonetheless
…pretty much
the only jag that is somewhat useful is at 9.7 (9g is one hell of a missile), but the other ones are pretty much free frags since they are incredibly overtiered
Recently I’ve been playing the Su 39 as an air superiority fighter, and it’s surprisingly effective. It’s making me wonder if some of the attackers might actually be half effective in that way*.
On the topic of jaguar though, I feel this could be addressed with having an early (low br) and late (all the bells and whistles at a higher br) if going off of the one in the French tree. Current jags really should go down and we should see the proper kit on a later version, as some of us would be content with that terrible situation and still use them.
*I do not hold this thought for Jaguars. In the current state, they’re abysmal.
Both France and Britain are missing stuff from their jags (or entire jaguars) but having some of them dropped with additions of more well kitted ones would be nice. I would play them at the higher BRs, but would not wish that on others.
Aye, kind of count that one as an exception or try to ignore it on account of not getting a jag with magic 2s in the French tree when should have.
They originally were going to increase the BR of the Jag Gr1A and Buc S2B but we successfully pointed out that if they did that, we would have 0 ground vehicles to use as part of that line-up (this was before the “ground decompression” and so what is now our 10.7 lineup was only 10.3)
They could in theory move up now, but it would leave our 10.3 lineup with basically no CAS at all. So unless they added something decent for that BR. Like Tonka GR1 Early, I hope they dont move them. Though neither are actually all that strong
