well at top tier you are right most AA can only get kills up to a max of 23k feet away while the su34 it can target lock and drop bombs from over 30k away. most of the time with russian CAS in top tier thier plane dose not even load into the game before you die from it not even the radar system can pick up the planes.
so yes russian bias CAS is BS but we just need to deal with the people who use them and laugh at them for having no brain or skill
France is pretty much the best top tier nation at this point. Best CAS, best Heli (once it comes this update, and even still the current Eurocopter is very good), 2nd best SPAA, and 6 different 12.0 MBTs.
Not to be nit-picky but if speed is a downside for the AGM-65 it is also a downside for the AASM, considering they only fly at 0.1 Mach faster. Not saying the AASMs aren’t better or that all FnF CAS at top tier isn’t OP.
Its the slow speed + no IOG that counts. You have loads of time to smoke and defeat an AGM-65 if spotted. but an AASM’s IOG helps mitigate its slower nature. Also once the GNSS+IR guidance stuff is fixed, you’ll be able to lob them from quite far
I think the core difference here though is that I cant even remember the last time I saw someone playing france in GRB, let alone more than a handful to a team. Meanwhile I fairly routinely see matches made up of 90% soviets due to their popularity.
France would be very annoying to deal wiht, if teams were made up of 90% france, but they arent
cough cough Rafale, F-15E, EFT, F-16C, and more. All can do great CAS, just not as braindead as the Su-34, albeit still braindead.
CAS is a horrible problem sure, but its not like other nations don’t get great CAS as well.