Oh so You are good with it?
Factually ridiculously wrong.
The number 1 killer of airplanes is…… ground based anti aircraft guns until after Vietnam.
Then it became missiles….
Lol spoken like someone who doesn’t play SPAA 🤣
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I’ve decided to CAS out of frustration at battlepass tasks.
APHE yak-9k.
“100% instant win 1vs3 of 500 sp vehicles”
I clicked on SPAA and it exploded without it being able to get any sort of 100% instant win in return. Turret traverse is a bitch, vertical guidance is also a bitch. Any return fire while flying away from the strafing run was quite easily dodged using lazy maneuvering.
Yep, Yak-9K is pretty ridiculous, but players choose not to complain about it, and Gajin chooses not to balance it, because it’s Russian and not American.
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I don’t have american ground to test SPAA evasion with, but I’m pretty confident a corsair wouldn’t have any issues either with evading SPAA fire based on my experience flying them in other modes. Strafing is less viable, but you got rockets instead and 1000 lbs bombs.
SPAA have painfully slow turret traverse without maxed/expert crews, lacking often 20-30 degrees compared to max potential.
Facts, just got downvoted to hell on Reddit when posted a video of Su-34 being able to fire 6x Kh-38’s with it’s great zoom and gen 3 thermals on top of having ground radar and PESA radar. They still said stfu and it’s not OP and no bias.
I’ve never had any issues shooting down planes due to turret traverse, even with tanks like Ostwind
Is the plane flying in a straight, predictable line? Are they flying towards you?
With the Bosvark, I find unless I heard the plane well ahead of time and pointed my gun to intercept them, I will not be able to catch up with them. Especially if they fly over me and circle around.
Or you’re watching towards the right, you hear a plane coming around your left so you begin traversing. Plane drops bomb and has sped away by the time you rotate around.
I’m not sure how 30-40 degrees/second traverse will react and track planes flying at 400-500 km/h it’s not already looking at. Stuff that drops to 200 or maybe 300 sure - most of my bosvark kills are planes that decided to go vertical and stall themselves out or fly low, straight and slow.
it’s prolly cause you’re doing exactly what they expect you to do, and just sit in spawn
I usually drive near heavy tanks ± few sectors behind them, usually trying to park in a way that my non-existent forward depression doesn’t cause issues (ram the truck into a wall or sth). Only time I sit in spawn is if there’s a plane strafing/bombing it and I want to avoid dying instantly.
So You have good stats on SPAA?
Yak-9 was increased in BR last BR changes.
Problem is, on a scale of 1 - 10 where planes and helis are absolutely 10 , most ground is at 1 maybe 2 some few aa at 3.
basiclly , you agree to a fist fight and when you get knocked out, you come walking the gantries with shotguns , out of reach, mostly safe.
so if there is still to be CAS we need too unnerf the AA. IE better aiming computers and proximity fuses.
AA is so neglected by gajin someone should be jailed.
Basolfse
No , just no. ground forces was more fun before revengebombing became the standard.
Do you have the crew and vehicle maxed?
Because the Bos is one of my favorite SPAAs and I routinely catch planes wheeling overhead. Because of its quick handling elevated gun deck and the amount of HE in a shell only requiring 1-2 hits for a catastrophic kill, coupled with a rate of fire that nearly always provides 2 or more hits, very few planes escape me.
It also depends on how you’re playing. I generally hold fire and anchor up against a building or some other cover that prevents one side of my vehicle from being attacked, and then try to ambush planes coming to bomb or attack other SPAAs.
Another good tactic if you see a plane coming is to fire a string off 45-90 degrees from his heading. Make him think you’re not watching him and when he comes to pounce on what he thinks is an unsuspecting AA gun, you shred him because you’re partially obscured behind a rock that blocks fragments/bullets.
Vehicle is spaded, crew is…
And yeah on ambushing planes. That’s the best bet for the guns to actually be able to hit them before they run away.
It’s still only 4.3 in GRB tho
nice strawman argument I never said that. And you forget SPAA can only shoot in one direction at a time, so if your are outnumbered by planes another plane will attack you from your dead angle and because every non-rocket SPAA has tracer rounds you are revealing your position to every aircraft in the sky.
Strawman no.2 never hear someone demands SPAA to be untouchable. And why do you think it’s 0 effort to use SPAA? Ever tryed to shoot down plane on BR7.0 with the SPAA Wiesel? Most WW2 SPAAs shoot rounds at ~ 800m/s and even modern SPAAs like the Gepard reaches ~1000 m/s you have to pre-aim pretty far most times and have luck that you predicted the movement right. Otherwise your shots will miss the target, but you revealed your position, what is very risky.
The other option would be to only shoot at very close traget, which would result in a lower impact in the match if not taking the mentioned risk. Moving closer to the capture points is no good idea as well, because of the other tanks who can take you out easily.
Are we still talking about a videogame? For me I say a PvP Game must be good balanced to ensure a fair competition. And right now CAS has an unfair advantage simply to the fact that most ground vehicles can’t defend themselves against them. And those vehicles who are supposed to protect them end up most times dying invain by trying to do that. The average time I am alive with a SPAA is around 30 seconds (record was only 7), because it draws so much attention the enemy CAS players.
… You don’t say.
And here I thought my Type 81C was a tank destroyer. Man… No wonder nothing was happening when I tried to fire the missiles at the tanks.
/s