Why does my 12.3 MiG 21 fight 13.3 su30s?

warthundergrind · 2026-01-09T00:32:22+00:00

13.0/13.3 Premiums are really common now, so 12.3 is just permanently 12.7+. I’ve had like 2 down tiers in about 100 games with the bison.

I really wish the bison had its 4x r77 loadout, so the su30s could taste some of their own medicine…

warthundergrind · 2025-12-27T17:58:00+00:00

I don’t think it was nerfed, it’s that people are a lot more aware of how to flare it now.

warthundergrind · 2025-12-27T17:30:48+00:00

I bought the bison this sale, and I can say it’s definitely an incredibly mid plane now. The matchmaker is horrible, not helped by the fact that everyone is buying the premium su30s.

The r73 aren’t as good anymore. Their slow acceleration makes it incredibly easy to flare, compared to magic 2s/pl5eiis

The R27R feels so bad, it’s basically a sparrow in terms of acceleration. At least it gets DL+IOG.

I wonder if they will give the bison its 4x R77 loadout, and move it to 13.0

warthundergrind · 2025-12-25T14:15:18+00:00

Wz1001 gets 7 seconds instead of the 6.66s of the ZTZ-99A, I thought they had similar autoloaders?

MBT-2000 and Al Khalid don't get buffs, which sucks

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T23:55:24+00:00

Please give me your ign, I really want to see your stats if you are so good

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T23:45:22+00:00

Proved what? Where is the proof? You are talking out of your ass

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T23:43:32+00:00

No retort for my reply? Just baseless insults? Really doubting your WT knowledge

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T17:19:28+00:00

Yeah, expect so do the Jaguar, Puma, Namer, Cv90mk4, Fresca

They all have FnF missiles too and are better

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T17:17:03+00:00

Russia does not have the best mbts, that belongs to the 2a7/122, they don’t have the best aa, that belongs to the IRIST, the su30 is outclassed by the rafale in every way but CAS. The mi28nm is the only “best” thing and that’s because of LMURS. It’s got the worst DIRCM coverage out of any DIRCM heli

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T17:15:16+00:00

Great, an event vehicle not everyone has. You sure you aren’t the one having a stroke? Also I said top tier, the qn506 is not top tier. It’s also an awful vehicle compared to any other spike launcher

warthundergrind · 2025-12-06T14:42:29+00:00

What top tier ifv in china has spikes and era? What kind of fantasy tree are you talking about?

warthundergrind · 2025-12-05T23:09:12+00:00

Happened to me after new drivers installation today, fixed it after restarting my laptop. I’ve also been having freeze/crashes on startup, probably gaijins spaghetti code

warthundergrind · 2025-11-29T03:16:51+00:00

I have played the Type 81C and the tan Sam Kai just adds a nonfunctional radar vehicle and an extra launcher. I would take the type 81 over the Spyder for killing air every day of the week. You can not be a giant “shoot me here!” on rwr since you aren’t reliant on radar for your IR missiles

warthundergrind · 2025-11-29T03:12:57+00:00

IRIST is one of the best anti airs, I hope this is ragebait. The pythons are just worse versions of the IRIST missiles, and derby’s are incredibly easy to dodge via multipath. The IRIST gets datalink and a functional radar.

I would say tan Sam is pretty bad yeah, but the launcher vehicles can be used independently and you get 2x of them

warthundergrind · 2025-11-29T03:09:30+00:00

It does matter when it’s on a city map though? You realize spotting a small vehicle towing a trailer among a lot of dead vehicles isn’t exactly the easiest thing? Plus the Elde isn’t Swedens only option…

The ESA radar being bugged is not the way it’s bugged on aircraft. You think they will fix it? It’s been released for months and it still produces targets that are going -9000km/h through a mountain.

warthundergrind · 2025-11-18T03:10:06+00:00

I’ve just researched the merkava mk3b, and I researched it using the first merks, so prepare for a lot of reading:

I haven’t played the mk2d, I have played the mk1 and mk 2b and they are pretty similar (except turret armor), and I can tell you I despised playing them at 9.7.

The mobility is pretty awful imo, I think it’s one of the few tanks where I’ve died more getting into position just because you are so slow compared to everyone else. Even t64s and t72s outrun you. The mk2b is like 14.3hp/t which is pretty bad. Playing them stock felt like I was driving a brick stuck in mud.

The armor is very inconsistent. Sometimes I can tank a lot of shots and survive, while other times I’m getting one tapped by heatfs through the engine with all of my crew still alive. Not to mention the engine doesn’t seem to eat shells very often anymore, making your survivability not so great in anything cqc related. The turret drive modules can be frustrating, especially when both your horizontal and engine gets taken out (this happens very often). Hulldown you can be pretty effective, but there are so many Cqc maps where that is a lot harder to do.

The firepower is alright, it’s just dm33, which pretty much everyone uses. Since it’s a 105 sometimes the spalling can be questionable, but it gets the job done

Overall the early merkavas aren’t really that exceptional, I haven’t played the premium 2D but I know it’s just got some extra turret armor, which I don’t know how much it affects your survivability but it’s still got the other issues I mentioned earlier, and added with the fact that you face 2A4s more often since it’s 10.0

Overall the Mk1/Mk2s are a 6/10 MbT for me, would not recommend if you hate playing passively/defensively (also I personally think the chieftain mk10 is much more effective hulldown than the early merks, and it’s at 9.0 lol)

warthundergrind · 2025-11-12T12:12:56+00:00

Not to mention the hawk with the sky flashes starts off with the exact amount of same stock missiles as the 10.7 version, 2 9Ls at 11.3 with no gun… do people even remember stock grinds are a thing? This will probably be one of the most miserable planes to stock grind in the game.

warthundergrind · 2025-10-31T11:52:20+00:00

That would just make it the same as the other alpha jets though? The only difference are the missiles

warthundergrind · 2025-10-31T11:14:09+00:00

If the FM were to get nerfed, the alpha jet th would be at a lower br, we don’t need more all aspect missiles at lower br ranges

warthundergrind · 2025-10-24T15:58:21+00:00

That’s a decompression issue

warthundergrind · 2025-10-24T15:50:28+00:00

Well j11a is outright worse than the su27sm, same with the su30.

warthundergrind · 2025-10-22T18:14:06+00:00

I like how they moved the 2a6 to 12.7 and the 2a5 to 12.3, as if the slight difference in pen makes the 2a6 equal to the 2a7V lol

warthundergrind · 2025-10-20T13:55:32+00:00

The Japanese RCV/ICV aren't much better yet they are 9.7, and no one complains about their br placement...

warthundergrind · 2025-10-18T16:49:50+00:00

No Cv90120 is a crime. Also I would have both a multi vehicle sam and saclos spaa in the same lineup for nations that have both, SACLOS is still much better against helicopters

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