Decided to grind the Su25SM3 in ARB, quickly realized that this would be nothing short of one of the most unproductive and torturous ideas I’d ever had.
Initially, the idea was to grind by bombing or using rocket spam, but that doesn’t really work out when you’ve got multiple F4Ss and you’re multiple times slower than them.
Okay, how about air to air combat? Surely that would work…
Sorta. You get 2 r73s and no helmet mounted sight and depend on the stupidity of the enemy team… Either they dont pay attention to their surroundings or they try and gun you down, fail and overshoot, at which point you can attempt to fling an r73, but no guarantee it’ll hit. They’re as flare hungry as R60s and with no HMS you cant make full use of the thrust vectoring capabilities.
You’ve got a MAW and plenty of CMs which are helpful, but it’s like a bandaid thats barely holding a rusted car together.
The problem…
It’s not a bad aircraft, it’s a bad environment. I admit, it’s a ground attacker and meant to be used as such, but it has almost zero opportunity to do so. You’ve got rabid premium phantoms to your left and phoenix-lobbing tomcats to your right, both of them see you as free lunch (which you essentially are). These recent ARB BR changes reduced the load on the lower brackets BRs but at the cost of compressing certain top tier brackets. You have the misfortune of even being able to see AIM120s. Your worst predators, though, are the following.
Spoiler
With two measly r73s, the SM3 doesn’t really compare, nor does it warrant such a high BR… The Su25T is in a similar position, however at least has a slightly lower BR.
Possible solutions?
One would be to lower the SM3’s BR, however that doesn’t really address the issue, nor would it solve the actual problem - the inability to consistently grind.
I propose instead, that the strike aircraft airspawn should return for SELECT subsonic aircraft in the rank VII-VIII range (such as the A10s and Su25s). This would give them a brief grace period and a chance to hit bases or ground targets before the rest of the supersonic aircraft move in and bulldoze them.
- Should receive old strike aircraft airspawn
- Should NOT receive old strike aircraft airspawn
I want to know what you guys think about it!