The way things going on right now, there is 2 kind of top tier nightmare.
Plane with more than 8 ARH.
Plane that flies mach jesus and turn like UAP.
That said there is certain ease when it comes to balancing these mach jesus AE86, that is with either bad weapon suite or FM nerf that puts its number closer to it’s IRL performance than the 1.4x G pull ability buff that Gaijin planted on their planes.
However, these Flying ammo depots are a new problem altogether. There is no amount of skill to evade a barrage of 4 ARH flying at you. notching the first one does not guarantee you to notch the other 3, And then there is no guarantee that reducing the missile number will somehow makes it more balanced, it could just fell off because that missile count is bandaid to other problem their airframe has.
That said, is there anything that can be done to deal with these winged full-load truck beyond just playing well?
‘Skill’ went out the window when you can simply unload missiles on someone if it misses the first 1-2 times or (and this is my favourite part about missile trucks /s) they do the thing where they fly straight, high above ground, you fire thinking “ok there’s no way they have time to notch/defend against this” and then you watch them shoot down your missile(s) when statistically speaking it shouldn’t even be that successful every time. IR missiles intercepting them shortly after launch I get, but radar?
It’s like trying to shoot a bullet with another bullet–it really shouldn’t be that successful every single time and to ‘defend’ against this you have to launch a second or even third missile, anticipating that they’d shoot yours down so as to oversaturate them and hopefully one gets through (but even this doesn’t happen all the time and they get shot down too) but now you’re left with… what, 2-3 missiles? RB might be different, but this is especially rampant in sim.
Personally speaking, I’d rather have to deal with multipathers than deal with missile spammers because at least then some skill is involved in evading missiles other than clicking away threats because your airframe can’t defend in time because you’re caught in a bad position
(Rant aside, I think the ‘solution’ to such an issue or issues is to simply wait for the nation you play to also get a missile truck and fight fire with even more fire. I for one cannot WAIT for the F-15EX for USA)