Well it was really never “somewhat” CAS still steamrolls the new additions if the pilot knows what theyre doing.
This vehicle is pretty much the only counter to the unchecked power of everyone being able tonsling 9-10 bombs, then drop back down to keep you distracted then come in low and strafe you. Or the belis that sling 10-12 agms from a heli, land and then do it again within a minute
Not to mention the. SACLOS missiles are currently the most optimal counter to helis, but yknow, western nations gave up on SACLOS.
Not to mention before this new Pantsir was added this is exactly what competent pilots would do to defeat Pantsirs.
Pop up, drop like 10-12 glide or dumb bombs, drop back down, then leave you to decide youre gonna try and see where theyre gonna pop up from or take out all the munitions heading to your team.
Ethier way, you cant focus on multiple things at once.
Not gonna lie, the Flakpanzer never needed that aphe ammo, most SPAA dont need it. Because the concept of “use it for defense” is lost amongst the playerbase and is instead.
“Use it as a psuedo TD”
Because doing SPAA thing is too boring for the average player, so they go around blowing up everything, and when we actually need them they arent there because they died, or too busy playing tank
Do you see how statistically speaking the Mi28NM spawns 3-4 times more than the AH-64E? In many of my games, all i face against are Mi-28MN while I rarely have AH-64E. Its even worse when my team just has small nations like Japan and france?
they are but the russian one for 8 missiles will get 8 kills while the ah64-e variant will get 50% less kills for 100% more missiles and with the new pantsir it will get even less…
I wasn’t referring to it being an AT powerhouse, I meant that it was a “non-functioning” prototype, but Gaijin did not deem it completed enough to justify it staying in the TT. So no, to be elligible for this game a design has to have reached at least a partially constructed functional prototype.
Obviously player count can’t be balanced. But as long as Russia keeps adding more op vehicles like BMPT and broken missiles like LMUR and KH38, the problem just gets worse and worse
