The Yak-9K with the 45mm gun and APHE is outrageous. And the gun acts as like it was ripped off the A-10 and striped onto the Yak-9. To be accurate, the Warthunder Wiki states,
“The cannon’s high recoil produced several oil and coolant leaks. Overall, the large gun significantly reduced flight performance, particularly at high altitudes, to the point where Yak-9Ks were only assigned to heavy fighter duties and were required to be escorted by Yak-3s in case of failure. The Yak-9K saw limited use due to the unreliability of the 45 mm cannon and airframe structural instability issues caused by the recoil.”
Oh, of course you can say that the Duck with the 75mm panzer gun and the P-39s with their 37mms are also OP, but the 75mm gun on the Duck is slow firing and with huge recoil, while the P-39 only has AP-I belts for AP.
So; my goal is to give the Yak-9 structural damage (leaks, etc) whenever it fires the gun for a long time (holding the gun over 1 sec), forcing it to continuously go back for repairs in the field and/or not use it as CAS, while also increasing the APHE belts cost to 200SP (like the way it is 150SP for German 30mm AP belts) and increasing the plane spawn in general to be equivalent of those of a heavy bomber. An another way is to limit ammo count by a huge margin so that they cannot stay in the air as long as it is now.
Right, because being able to straight up destroy a team with only an aircraft cannon in 1 run is anyhow balanced at the moment. Even if someone spawns a SPAA afterwards, the plane will already have 2-3 ground kills atleast and it’s not like it’s not agile enough to dodge SPAA fire if they have to be defensive. Not to mention that we already have separate BRs for air gamemodes and ground gamemodes when it comes to planes, I really don’t see why it should stay where it is. Both Yak-9s that can take the 45mm cannon are not anyhow balanced at the moment with that APHE shell.
If anything, it should be an even bigger wake up call for Gaijin to realize that CAS in ground is still OP as always and should face some nerfs or balance. Even just making SPAAs get 2x-3x the rewards for plane destroys while maybe lowering ground kills to 0.5x rewards would solve the issue, since they aren’t supposed to be tank destroyers with less armor, there should be a reason with personal gain in mind to stay in a SPAA vehicle and actively watch the sky for planes.
6.0 is probably too extreme but every single Yak. Especially the Yak-9s need a major BR review, they have excellent FMs but were handicapped by poor gun performance. They now have some of the best guns of their respective BRs
Though in a GRB CAS role… Probably could go up higher still
We almost had that, except entitled f*cks made up all kinds of excuses about how it would break the whole game, so now we have APHE still breaking the good part of the game and having every single shell that can’t one shot stupidly like that be called bad. We don’t even know if Gaijin ever will revisit that vote.
Yeah Yeah! That’s what I mean! Most Big-shot planes either (A) have crap maneuverability HS 129 (duck),
Ju 87 G1&2 and the P.108. or (B) have only soild shot that requires really good aim and/or a lot of shots.
P 39, P 63 (the yellow one), etc.
AD-4 at least needs some skills to (A) aim the rockets (B) use the 20mils to attack tanks (C) maneuver since its not a fighter with an orbital strike cannon that fires High Velocity Anti-Tank Armor-piercing ballistic Capped Fin-Stabilized-Laser-Guided Gaijin-Bugged munitions.
dont forget P63 can also bombs and rockets so they can kill every tank and in my opinion most important, multible spaa with a short attack due to the bomb…
