Guys, here’s my take and recommendation on the new SEAD event.
Overall, I think this event is bad, not well-thought. Take this with a grain of salt please.
You ask me why it’s bad? Let’s start with the Soviet part since it’s simpler
Tatics: Rush enemy spawn and that’s it
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Fly low and spots the black dots (mostly enemy jet, rarely helis)
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Get pass them and then go to their 6, if you’re low enough they won’t see you, why? because finding SAM is already overwhelming for them (discuss later)
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Missile them down, or continue to follow until you get into guns dogfight (you win the 1v1 fight 9/10, discuss later)
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From 2., get pass them and rush their spawn, camp in the vincinity
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Pick and kill unaware targets, if your whole team do this as a pack, don’t pick target just rush in and Turkey shoot
US side:
Tatics: Rush in to the known places of SAM and try rocket run, try not to die because it’s almost your only chance
1.Heli are useless since you need to get some alt (500 m?) to get eyes on SAM sites, where you will get locked by S-75 even though you are slow, and worse, gunned down by ZSU if not careful enough about your positioning
1.1 If you take your time in your heli, sooner or later the migs will spot your black dot when you are aiming at SAM; or they hunt you down since all your team died when you are slowly flying
1.2 Don’t get me started on people who only unlocks FFAR on their heli, you won’t get close to SAM site and get in the range of the FFARs
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Fly low, hug the ground
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open map, click on map to set target point (middle mouse button by default, to let you know where the general direction to fly to)
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Occasionally pitch up to where the SAM sites are locking you, use RWR as direction to look, let them fire at you and you will spot the big white smoke of the S-75
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Use your keybind of “Activate target point”, on your screen look at the launch smoke and lock that ground
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Open map and you should see the target point (red square), please Left click that location to use radio channel to tell your teammate about the site’s location, i.e. “Attention to the designated grid square!”
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Select rockets (Zuni or FFAR, your choice), climb up to see if your CCIP seems in range
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Launch without a doubt because you will get shot at by the S-75, try spread the rockets a bit to ensure best coverage
Until Step 8. it should be the first few minutes from match start, now prepare to die, cough, prevent death
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RTB, try hunt down another site, or go hunt migs, at this point it doesn’t matter, anything else done is just cherry on top (sadly)
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Be aware of low flying migs (black dots), they should be here at this point, do whatever you can to kill them
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Die
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Try again but this time the enemies are already near your spawn, 10 times harder to perfrom these steps
IMPORTANT: I found that SAM site locations are not randomly generated
Just remember the location from one match, go to the next match and begin doing US tatic Step 2. to 8. except Step 4.
Q: Wait. You say you can’t even get to Step 8.?
Oh because when you try to do all this (dodging SAM and ZSU, finding sites, looking for enemy jets…) the Soviets just need to stare at the screen and find your moving black dots (+ smoke trail if they have good graphics)
Q: Bro what about flying high?
Not a chance, you get killed by S-75 in no time, or your black dot or radar signiture get spotted by every mig looking in the sky, you’ll get swarmed
Don’t even mention how easy it is to kill you when you are in contrail altitude
Q: What about other factors affecting the US?
You mean Allied teams always crash into ground for no reason? Yea it affects but in a bad way
Q: Bro, skill issue, just fly fast and go straight into the SAM site…
ZSU: Here’s my aimbot death ray
You: lucky enough to kill something but you died, losing precious chance (yes, stay alive is important. Though you get 3 spawns, the next spawns will be way harder)
Q: Just pure AA loadout and fly at the boarder of the map, go past SAM area to the other half of the map to spawn camp migs
Not a chance. You need to pitch up for your primitive radar to lock on spawned migs. See what’s happening? You get shot at by S-75.
Even if you shoot 1 down, either other Migs swarm you down, or that enemy just spawn right back, go low, and hunt you down. You won’t be able to use AIM-7 since he’s low.
He’ll just flare + beat your heavy airframe in 1v1. Winning that dogfight in F4 will be a wet dream.
Q: Is that all of the rant?
No, in Golan Heights, Gaijin actually placed TWO SAM sites at the left-most SAM area and ONE OF THEM IS OUTSIDE THE MAP BOARDER
And where’s the HARM ???
If you decided to do what I recommended, pick below 20 min of fuel
No, I changed my mind, I recommend you NOT TO PLAY THIS EVENT