Then maybe SEAD/DEAD should be worthwhile. Hawks are easy to hit, but the Buk sites are far more difficult because the F-4E is slower and can’t toss bomb, and the OSAs are better and longer ranged than US SAMs. Getting to the BUKs is insufferable, getting Hawks is easy.
Attacking OSAs is pointless because they respawn 12 minutes later. By the time you finish your sortie the OSAs you just destroyed are back.
Heck, getting Patriots is easy in the MiG-23MLD, you can just fly a straight line from the far airfield and toss bomb them at high alt. S300s have to be taken down flying low and have a second radar which the Patriots don’t have. At least the S300s are easier to get to with the adjusted base positions.
Technically shouldn’t the second radar that they have be the 2x AN/TPS-59 (forgot if this is the name) that are in front of the patriots in addition to linking to the HAWKs?
I’ve been ignoring the radar sites in front of the S300/Patriots. The S300 get 2 radar on the S300 site while the Patriot gets 1, ignoring the forward radar in both cases. I’m not sure how much the AN/TPS-59 affects things, but I’ve just been toss bombing patriots in the MiG and getting rid of the launchers and radar both in one go. I tried taking out the USSR forward radar positions in the A-7E and it had no affect as far as I could tell
What he means to say is dodging one roland isn’t too bad.
Dodging the other 5 immediately coming your way is the problem. I can dodge one most of the time, but when I see 2 others and HAWK’s coming my direction, there isn’t anything you can do.
right? I had 30 kills before i had the SP to get in the bomber, then got shot down by a hornet camping the bomber spawn. The air kill reward nerf makes it much harder
Sure it has nothing to do with OSA/strelas countering ARMs flawlessly, defeating the whole purpose of the weapon system.
Not to mention equipping them hinders any plane loadout who carries them.
In War Thunder, the incentive is so perverse that, eventually, launching an ARM will reveal the general location of the aircraft carrying them in ARB, when in reality, there was a reason why radar operators had to turn their radars off until they had visual confirmation of the aircraft.
That’s how poor realism is in-game and its implications around RCS.
That would be nice if the front lines ever changed. But the spawn rate of the outposts/forts with the ammo/fuel/vehicle spawn is insane. I’ve blown one up and because supply trucks were right behind it built a new one immediately.
Spawning AA constantly. Yes I know you can go around the sides.
You can flank from the sides. In my case I always go over the sea and strike the buk site.
You can do the same at the other side of the map because of cover with hills, now if you want to take the middle airfield/buk sites, just choose a flank side and go deep behind enemy lines to the middle.
The B-52 just needs to mash countermeasures and it doesn’t really matter. I did just dedicate a game to figuring out how to effectively clear the long range SAMs, and I think I have it figured out. I managed to wipe all the S300 radars at the 3 S300 sites with a single A-7E using HARMs and the gun, approaching from the ocean and multipathing the BUK, then suicide bombed the BUKs at high alt with 5kt nukes. It’s just so much easier to do in the MiG-23 because it’s quite literally nearly twice as fast at those alts.
And the fact it’s impossible to find a match. They said they did something to decrease matchmaking times…seems like they killed it. At this point I’m just gonna wait and pay for the steps
The rewards for destroying player vehicles and AI vehicles should be the same. Before a nuke is obtained, frontline anti-air vehicles are noticeably harder to destroy than player vehicles.
Ive been grinding for hours and just cant get any fucking points. Respawn after respawn without getting any fucking points. And trying CAS is pointless as i cant get any of the fucking bombs to work because of AA.
they genuinely fucking murdered this mode. they made nukes harder to get AND made air kills give less points. it’s even worse for U.S because they can’t find matches AND the Osa’s don’t miss so it is genuinely impossible to do anything in these matches right now.
