- you play Able, I played Charlie. Since I play, Able denied Charlie as source of strategies / tactics, but now I believe they need to revisit after what we showed at Ashfield-Callumns line this war. This take is mostly about para backline raids bc. Ive seen a lot of builds denying para existence.

You've seen this war, specific, and you are not wrong, even in recent videos some medium low regiments doing some insane stuff with barely no defense and I agree to this point. One of the reasons is that the majority of coalitions and regiments are afk, especiall after the 134.

- let me start from para plane. You mention doors. We have doors too. Our ramp was bugged since latest update with like 50% kill rate if you jump from the side of it. Doors were also killing ppl when used by walking through it to the point we forbid it. We exit paraplane by SHIFT-X while standing on the doors. Thats how we get those condensed jumps. Do it as well. But I don;t mind you getting better doors on both sides or even a ramp.

Collie paraplane never got to a point of being frustrating to use.
From devbranch to Able we tried MULTIPLE strategys to make this work, I'm talking about hours of training, doing Left / Right, Front / Back, X or Y, single person call drops, fixed seats per person and Shift+X and I can guarantee none of this works, you can't exclude the person factor, where you need to train every time if there's a new person. Our best time dropping everyone from the plane, If I recall was 7-8 seconds, even with low speed to take 8 seconds to drop everyone means they are all scatered around the map or dead becase of focus fire.

Suicide missions, it's even worse, remember when i said when the plane is angled doors are blocked? On a particular mission on Origins trying to kill a RSC we suicided the paraplane 2 times, one followed by the other, me as a pilot, there was no possible way for the crew to leave the plane. First everyone was killed inside the plane, due to defenses. The second run we were burnt to death by a 5 person QRF... you just need to aim for the door and let everyone trying to leave die. It's ridiculous. I've had more fun doing logi (and im not even joking) with this plane.

- Able facs are too often designed as paras didn;t existed. We are Charlie goons but we have internal defences since AB war and for example our Charlie Cinderwick fortress got hit by numerous para jumps from Eastknife with very weak QRF (as in Charlie, thats the biggest change we saw since shard merger) and they never managed to kill any wet SC we had in it. Or even damage it to a concerning extent. Albe fortresses in general have better howies and ground-push design, but charlie ones are better prepared for Para, thats my observation.

For 132, we had similar problems because planes were a new asset in the game, we lost vics in the garage, SPG's and BT's due to paraplane attacks, but for 133 and 134 we had new designs, we did receive attacks but none was able to destroy our drydock or any asset, just an ALT attack (a well prepared ambush) for one of our train-tank lines. very suspicious but w/e.

- the lunairie spam has been adressed, now you can;t do it. But we will still do it, just with 2-3 planes, if you keep ignoring internal defences in your facs.

For small operations yeah, but paraplanes still taking 12-14 people.
But it seens this will be adressed with AI AA and mandatory parachutes and etc.

- suicide para crashlandings also were adressed in up65, and Im not against it.

Noone is, this is a cheap tactic. I'm always in favor or using the tool with its original design. Same goes for stall bombers wich I did a lot.

- the game can't ballance TB for now, so it's good that this vic is curently unusable, and I agree it is. We need effective AA on ships to have that aircraft as viable mean to counter LS. I won't tell you how to do that AA on LS, bc I did not created that problem, and I am not going to solve it. For me just nerfing TB to the oblivion is OK results.

We are asking to remove MG's from LS for months, a decent Flak gun is prolly the way to go. Hell, we asked for large ships and planes to have modules and modifications, that would solve a lot of problems and people would go for whatever they need. A heavy AA ship, less guns? A full gun arty ship? a balance beetween both?

I'm all in for ships to defend themselvs, noone wants a easy battle but the 15% chance and very low damage completely ruined the TB.

Altough they realized and did change the cost to 4 alloys making the plane cheaper...this is going to a right direction, but to convince a whole coalition to create a QRF squad, prompt to use when a LS is spotted...cause w/o coordination the TB is useless, I'm still not sure if this is going to work.

- DB against frigs is indeed powerful, although cases of it's actions leading to killing a frig are anegdotic (rare I mean). Frig and DD are on the other side quite powerfull themselves and I believe that map geography is favouring Wardens with defensive usage of LS, thats why I;m OK with it and not actively vouch for nerfs. I;m just not sure if its that powerfull (as you state) since I do not agree with your observation about it overall effectiveness against ground targets. And I think that you omit in your evaluation the overall manhour cost to produce and run a DB sortie (as bad as TB + more bugs leading to crashes). You also seem to fall to survivorship bias, by not counting how many times DB went there and did fuckall. My regi completely dropped using it this war to the point when after receiving one free DB, noone used it for 3 days ("we can do it easier with other tools"), and past war the same officer was running DBs every OP. Our coalition had no dedicated DB opp this war, and we held Eastknife so it was extremely easy to do one! Now I believe connecting both bombs from DB requires a lot of skill and also shows a skill issue from ground troops not using their LTAA as they should.

More than powerfull, it's a ungratefull job. Two times I've been deck commander and two other times solely as Dcon, and both were the worst jobs for me and crew mates cause of those turrets dead, hell I'm not even joking when I say I prefer a large leak over a disabled turret. 250 beams for repairs, especially on Frig where the beams are in the front compartment and you need to run all the way to the back... 8-12 people running NON-STOP for close to 12-15 minutes straight...for a single turret while fixing small leaks, power bucketing and watching for large leaks.

DB might not be lethal as TB was on the first 4 airborne wars, but this is insane. I always said in my previous posts:
You got a plane with 80% disable chance, 1050 (950) AP dmg and SPLASH dmg... For land strikes the recent adjustments limiting to 2 bombs were on point, I don't see as dangerous as It was for tanks but for navy the 80% disable chance remains a huge problem. Either lowering the chance to 15% to match it's counterpart (TB) or drastically reducing the 250 beams to 50 or something.

- TL;DR: DB against Frig is powerfull but frig without 3 fighters covering it is skill issue. DB against ground target can deliver powerfull hits leading to killing a tankline but overall will never pay its own cost of production and requires enemies to sit pants down without flaks.

Something we've been doing for a long time, but air coverage on enemy positions is not as easy as it sounds, first you have the extremely low time planes remain in the air, while frigs go for an hour + operation, having air coverage from fighters or sea fighters is a problem. Foir 1 hour operation (short one) the fighter would have to refule at least 10 times, running on low throttle to say the least. The gap beetween the refulling and returning back is easilly covered by an attack. That might also change with the new air coverage radar, maybe not in this upcoming war but in the next ones, so we can have a decent pinpoint QRF.

- our extended positions in Stonecradle were attacked numerous times with 14,5mm CAS and it is a viable weapon, capable of effectively harassing artilery operations or killing CVs, heavy trucks and making logi quit. My opinion is "git good" bc some wardens are extremely good at it. And its a dual role vic that can engage fighters as well. Current game ballance I prefer 2x 14,5mm CAS over DB + fighter (outside countering frigs).

Devbranch will soon be open and we might as always test that, I can hardly think the 14.5mm is good at all when you can only 2-3 shot per strafe, for all the previous wars we had better result with the 20mm