Should all SPAA’s receive their best anti-air armament stock?
- Yes
- No
Its not new that Gaijin likes to make playing stock vehicles as hard as possible - mainly this affects MBT’s and top tier jets but it also includes some SPAA’s. The main problem is that it only includes SOME SPAA’s. Unlike MBT’s that all use HEAT stock, more than a half of top-tier SPAA’s have their best armament available in stock and some have to suffer with severely underpowered missiles for their B.r.
What makes this issue even worse is the fact that Gaijin recently added free vehicles and all of them come stock. Free SPAA’s right now are the main counter to CAS for some nations and it gives some them a huge advantage in air defence.
For example US team that wasn’t blessed by Gaijin with some foreign OSA has a Roland as its main SPAA and it comes with Roland 1 missile stock - it has only 6 km range, abysmal speed and maneuverability.
OSA on the other hand has its best missile - more than 10km range, a lot of speed and more consistent pull.
It makes no sense that SPAA’s that got placed on a specific B.r based on their best missile gets a missile that is a lot worse and it’s expected to compete with SPAA’s that are at their best.
I suggest giving all SPAA’s all it’s available missiles stock since Gaijin can’t make it same for all vehicles like with HEAT for MBT’s. It shouldn’t be like it is right now for balance reasons.
Here is a list of SPAA's 9.0+ B.r that have a nerfed stock anti-air loadouts
US:
M247 - no RF round
Chaparral - no all-aspect missile
LAV-AD - no RF stinger
XM975 - no Roland 3 missile
NASAMS - no AMRAAM ER
Germany:
Ozelot, Gepard_1A2 - no RF stinger
FlaRakPz - no Roland 3 missile
USSR:
ZSU-23-M4 - no RF missile
2S6 - worse missile
SM-SV - only Pantsir missile stock
GB:
Rapier - worse missile
Stormer AD - no RF stinger
Sky Sabre - much worse stock missile
Japan:
All 4 SPAA’s come with best loadouts
China:
PGZ-09 - no AHEAD round
SA5 - worse missile
Italy:
All 5 SPAA’s come with best loadouts
France:
Roland - no Roland 3 missile
Sweden:
701 - much worse missile
9040C - doesn’t get RF round
ASRAD - much worse missile
NASAMS - no AMRAAM-ER
Israel:
Machbet - no RF stinger
Chaparral - no IRCCM Aim-9
Spyder - no Derby ER
Out of all 9.0+ SPAA’s about 40% are nerfed. Some nations have most of their SPAA’s nerfed in stock and some have almost all SPAA’s come with their best loadout stock.