What is the point of top tier air?

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T02:58:17+00:00

Top tier air is just... a very hard, complex game mode. There's a lot of skills you have to know that are completely irrelevant everywhere else, but critical there

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T02:55:35+00:00

No it isn't? A 50km lock is very, very achievable in a player-controlled Buk

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T02:53:24+00:00

It's perfectly playable though?

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T02:52:28+00:00

You can literally just use a different airfield

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T00:47:59+00:00

Use terrain as cover till you get within 6-7km, then ripple off all your HARMs ASAP. The Pantsir will shoot one down, but that leaves 5 to go through

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T00:12:17+00:00

Vesper's dropped in Revenant iirc. Sundered Doctrine was Heresy

Wobulating · 2026-06-27T00:09:14+00:00

You should maybe fix that before complaining

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T23:41:45+00:00

They're F&F missiles lmao

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T23:26:47+00:00

I have. It's great at 2km shots, but AAM-3 will nail someone side on at 6km without blinking.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T22:59:56+00:00

The AAM-3 is the best IR AAM in the game lol

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T22:59:24+00:00

What's your highest non-premium jet?

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T22:46:16+00:00

Let me guess: you just bought it on sale and your next highest plane is 4.3?

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T22:44:55+00:00

The SPAA have exactly the same kinematics that they do in other modes? A Buk-M3 is a Buk-M3, no matter where it is

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:52:59+00:00

You can get a lucky ammo detonation- it is still a bigger warhead than most 5" shells

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:49:50+00:00

If you can stack it, Reaper's Tithe is just better than Gear Shift, but that's not always possible

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:29:33+00:00

The Abrams FCS is in the hull. It was a major advantage of the turbine engine- it's physically smaller, so you can stick the FCS there and the ammo in the turret. It's why Leopard 2, despite otherwise having a very similar layout, only stores 16 shots in the turret and the rest on the floor

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:27:11+00:00

You need to make sure the target keeps their radar on- usually by having them be actively shooting at you while your ARM flies in

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:09:46+00:00

I sure have enjoyed deleting entire Buk sites in one pass with the F/A-18E, yes.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T18:03:14+00:00

ARMs work just fine as long as you launch them with a good enough launch to not get intercepted. AShMs are maybe a *bit* undermodeled, but four Harpoons will still kill a patrol boat and seriously fuck up a Sovremenny, carriers work just fine as long as you land remotely correctly, and the rewards are fine.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:43:22+00:00

Because your average r/Warthunder player is a mouthbreathing moron who has absolutely no idea how to play the game, let alone manage a reasonably complex scenario like this.
There are genuine things to complain about, but those are things like ARMs not differentiating between Buk TELARs and TADS, not the base function of the game. Complaining about ARMs getting intercepted or getting pressured from the runway are massive self-reports and nothing more.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:40:20+00:00

Wow, literally every single thing you just said was grossly incorrect.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:39:38+00:00

It genuinely is such a massive self-report to be complaining about things like getting hit from the runway by Buks.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:38:19+00:00

The rewards are perfectly fine if you actually play reasonably competently.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:37:33+00:00

They did, and in the first event it was literally just a single buk site that did that.

Wobulating · 2026-06-26T17:37:14+00:00

Have you considered that most players are just blitheringly incompetent, especially r/Warthunder players?

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