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Vehicle: Ju 88 A-1
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Mode Air Realistic battles

BR revision: 2.0 → 2.7 / 3.0

Reason: The weakened defensive armament doesn’t justify a 1.0 BR difference with the Ju 88 A-4 and said variant performs just fine at 3.0.
Take into account Ju-88 A-1 is a fast bomber, that climbs very well, is able to simply open up radiators to 100% and WEP all the way to 5km altitude, AT 2.0, most bombers require to plan routes in order to avoid interception and those that don’t have very weak payloads for the BR (Ar 234 or M.B.162) But Ju-88 on a fully loaded loadout of SC50 bombs and FC250s can destroy TEN ENTIRE BASES.

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I really disagree with the JA37DI / F12 being raised in BR.

It’s taking a comparatively slow airframe with horrific energy retention (the worst at the BR?), a 10km ACM radar (no HMD), AIM-9L (rb74)/no IRCCM, and making that equal BR to an Su-30MK2 ? A MiG-29 SMT? J-11A?

I understand it has 120s, but this is probably the easiest aircraft to beat in pretty much any airframe at this BR already.

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̶V̶e̶h̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ Armament: 7.5 mm MAC 31 machine gun / 7.5 mm Darne 1933 machine gun
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Change: Add Armored targets belt

Reason: The lack of damage of the French 7.5mm machineguns towards aircraft is very exaggerated, the main way to shoot down aircraft are AP / Ball ammunition and even then these rounds will take 3-4 hits to kill a pilot.

Spoiler

AP 7.5mm
AP 7.5mm1366×423 759 KB

This makes the French reserve aircraft undesired to new players despite the superior firerate , quantity and ammo pools of the 7.5mm armaments.
This also isn’t helped by the fact the normal Incendiary rounds cannot even penetrate the fabric skin of biplanes, take up a lot of belt space and will only cause a fire if shot at an exposed radial engine during a head-on attack.

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HMCS Brantford (Flower-class corvette)

Naval Arcade & Realistic Battles:

  • 2.3 → 3.0
  • Rank II → Rank III

Reasoning: Highly overperforming due to high survivability, strong armament, and a detailed damage model. Far exceeds peers at 2.3 with higher efficiency.

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Aconit (Flower-class corvette)

Naval Arcade & Realistic Battles:

  • 2.3 → 3.0
  • Rank II → Rank III

Reasoning: Grossly overperforming due to high survivability, better armament, and a detailed damage model. It outclasses all 2.3 peers with higher efficiency, so it must be raised.

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Air

Mosquito FB.VI

3.7=3.7 but add wing bombs (250lb>500lb).

The wing bombs were common features for FB. VI mosquitoes in all nations. There is an existing bug report with photos and details for British, Chinese and Israeli use.

Increasing the maximum load from 2x500lb to 4x500lb (via 250lb) would not only be more representative of the real life vehicle it would also close that gap with the Firefly variants that can carry 2x1000lb albeit a little slower. [Although 1000lb wing bombs were (unsuccessfully) tested on at least one Mozzie sufficient details are lacking and I’m happy to let these remain unavailable.]

These wing pylons/Universal Carriers, are already in use on the B.XVI* so why not all variants that were fitted with the wing mounts?

*note: I’ve yet to see any reference for B. XVI, FB.XVII or TR.33 carrying bombs on these pylons despite the UC being present, only fuel tanks. Whilst they were theoretically capable these types valued longer range and endurance over load. Thus the B.XVI should have wing bombs removed, at least when 4000lb is carried.

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It would be a reason to lower them, if it wasn’t evident that each of these vehicles performed similarly at their respective BR. Again, even the 20mm vehicles with ATGMs and the BTR-80 have such low stats.

Let’s say the U-SH 204 GK is the baseline for wheeled autocannon vehicles and the SUB-I-II is the baseline for tracked ones. Every improvement a vehicle gets over these baseline vehicles is worth a BR increase of varying degrees.

All 20mm armed vehicles have their own advantages over these two baseline vehicles, some have more, some have less.

The U-SH lacks APDS, is the slowest of the wheeled 20mm vehicles, no smokes and has only 2 crew members while being vulnerable to 7mm machine gus, so it has no survivability at all.
The SUB-I-II is slow, has an exposed gunner and it’s hull is vulnerable to 7mm machine guns.

All of the 20mm vehicles at higher BRs have better survivability, better mobility, extra features (thermals, ATGMs or stabilizers). It’s not just slight improvements either.

The R3 and AMX-10P have significantly worse survivability than the Luchs.
Compared to the R3 the Luchs gets a reverse gearbox, so while it is slower, it has more mobility overall and it gets APDS.
Compared to the AMX-10P the Luchs is a lot faster and thanks to its wheel layout, it isn’t much less maneuverable.
On top of that, it has a second driver, it gets thermals and scouting. (It also has better gun depression, but I don’t know if that ever really comes into play).

That’s not 0.3 higher than the R3 or same BR as the AMX-10P, that’s definitely enough to warrant the 7.3 BR.

The RCV (P), again, gets a stabilizer. That combined with better survivability than the R3 also is worth a lot more than 0.7 over the R3. Considering that the XM800T does better at 8.7, that should be a good sign that its BR is warranted as well.

Spoiler

If you want to get more kills with the RCV (P), bring it into higher BRs. Modern tanks have less side armour than the ones around 8.0.

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Collectors can go for it. The whole point is its optional but still available. We should not be removing these vehicles.

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…Sure, i know enough not to argue with you but if you want to get in the death box 2000 then be my guest.

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no not really cause they could bring them back in the future they was their for gap fillers

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These Ho-Ris will never return.

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the missiles have man in the loop now.
if you use it they actually hit unlike what happened before, and you can actually use its very long range very effectively.

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The one I am referring to is the T-64a(1972). Your point about M1 Abrams being the best 10.7, maybe if it’s top tier against 11.7 which it so often is in my region, it’s next to worthless especially if the 774 shell isn’t unlocked.

I am not the best player and rn I am playing with controller on a 16 oled with 160 ping. All of which won’t be an issue soon. I just feel like when I’ve played T72 M1 my best Soviet tank I’ve been able to cheese players and when I see my team that may still be winning but with 5 deaths each and most ussr players with a premium or something just racking up a ton of kills before losing because they don’t have respawns.

I may have never played a single up down tier game with the M1. Routine killers of me are t72m2, t64 1972, turms t t72, t80, t90s. Most I get multiple weak spots bounces due to era or something unknown and any of them one shot often.

A lot of maps cater to them as well. I think ranges play will be much better when I am back to a big screen and low ping but I am unsure how much that will chang.

As far as German tree, just damn teams and then I will always have at least one death with a premium leopard on any nation it’s seems damn OTCO and STRV. I wish there was more in between for German or realistic mode that simply allows arcade style balancing. Make it a different mode but just let it be tank warfare so Russian teams would win more but it didn’t always guarantee that you get killed by them because you are usually against them.

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the problem is the mitl is still bugged on it meaning most of the time it refuses to go where youve marked and simply flies over. Or it misses due to the tank not actually being where its being shown so it just hits next to them on their screen. Compared to other mitl munitions ive used so far these seem to be the most buggy for some reason.

All this not to mention how slow and obvious the martels are, the fact i have to fire 3 for a 2s6 just to even have a chance of getting anything past them should tell you how easy to is to intercept. Moving this thing up wont do anything but take away our ONLY fnf cas bellow 10.7.

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Ya, but maybe slow the reload or add some nuance. It’s painful to get 2 shots only to be killed by the first one you aren’t able to dodge.

Does that make sense? It felt like a suicide simulation just to earn the out dated 774 agains t80 t90s.

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Or even just regular tanks, I have around 60% of AJ168s intercepted by roof mounted MGs

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i mean i mostly agree, but the thing is not large. its tiny,
just drive next to any other tank and youll see,
its the size a standard civilian light truck with a added radar & missile post on the bed.

also its a godlike scouting vehicle, probably the best in the game, the binoculars view is hilariously high.

it would be pretty good if it could lock further away.

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The MITL update both buffed and nerfed the AJ168s.

The buffs:

The AJ168s feel like they have better overall range performance and they dont miss as often. MITL allows for AJ168s to be fired from very long range and guided onto a specific target well outside of the range of any SPAA, keeping the Buc S2B safe.

The Nerfs:

The seekers no longer have any zoom (AGM-65B has virtually 10x the zoom the AJ168 has 29.46x vs 3.53x) , and so spotting anything beyond a few KM away is virtually impossible, this means you cannot ripple fire multiple AJ168s at multiple targets or even the same target. You can ripple fire and guide teh last one, but then the other 2 are just decoys.

With how easy the AJ168s are too intercept by basically anything, let alone an actual SPAA… the increased effective range isnt necessarily that big of a deal, and even if it was, the SP cost is much much higher than say, using the Jaguar GR1B with GBU-12s.

I dont mind the changes to the AJ168, its more realistic overall, but I dont think its current state justifies being 10.7. Alternatively though, they could add AS.37s

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Not to mention even when you do hit someone its usually just “hit” due to the recent nerfs… I kinda preferred it before mitl was added tbh as it had a pretty good loal ability when fired from 6km. Now i can barely see whats going on at all.

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Yeah, what little ive used it, its been okay on that front. But I usually just got go for the much cheaper Jaguar GR1B