In my humble opinion AA's should get more reward straightfoward as it will push players to spawn in them more frequently.

CAS players: This game will be all camping without CAS Also CAS players: juST HIde bEhInD BUliDiNgS

Fighter intercepters should be cheaper and air belts should reduce SP cost by a good some

I enjoy the camper argument the most because it exposes Gaijin's favorite practice. "Oh there's a problem in the game? Let's introduce an EVEN BIGGER problem that fixes the first problem but makes half a dozen other things much much worse!"

Im so tired of CAS and im tired of people denying that there is an issue with it. They deny because they don't want to admit that they really aren't that good without it.

The primary issue most people have with CAS seems to be revenge bombing, and unfortunately whether the guy who is coming back in a plane is mad or not you're usually just the easiest target because they know exactly where you are. CAS at mid to low tier has pretty much free reign if you don't have a couple competent SPAA players on the enemy team, and if you do most planes can still get bombs out on you before they lose complete control. Some people are quite effective at utilizing mounted MGs (specifically M2 Brownings) to damage planes as well at these low speeds. CAS balance at higher tiers is more dependent on the vehicles involved and experience levels of the players; some SPAAs and planes are terrible, have bad missiles or air to ground loadouts, etc, and others are absolute slaughter machines. Helicopters also come in here and can be either untouchable, unlockable slaughter machines or free RP depending on range and munitions. At the highest tiers (~10.7-12.0) any competent CAS player flying nearly any [at-tier] plane that has guided munitions can be 100% unkillable if they simply fly high enough. The Pantsir, Tor, and other SPAAs cannot viably attack you if you simply side climb to 10-15k+ and drop GBUs or other PGMs from that altitude - their missiles either can't reach you or are trivial to dodge at that point. Plenty of players will fire guided munitions even from outside render range after acquiring a stationary target (usually SPAAs in the spawn or someone capping a point) and still get the kill reasonably often.

CAS has become quite the problem for ground battles, especially so when playing against US teams as they have so many ground pounding aircraft that you'll end up with half their team in planes because the hellcats that flanked got a few kills and has enough SP to bring out their entire line up of ground pounders whereas other nations have little to no options for CAS. I don't think they should be removed, but I do believe there should be a mechanic similar to base AA that keeps constant pressure on enemy planes with semi accurate flak that blinds and hinders flight performance

The problem here is that even if you have a competent SPAA on your team at mid to low tier, getting swarmed by planes is impossible to survive. As a SPAA you have to pick an area where you can defend your teams push and that area is always where the fight is, not only do you need to listen to plane engines but you also need to keep up with your mini map and enemy tank engines noises, it gets pretty overwhelming.

Add an air mode where instead of bombing bases you exclusively play as cas against ai targets

Idk how there isn’t two game mode options for RB, being one with air spawns and one without. If you choose to play in the air spawn mode you should be fine dying to CAS, and if you don’t want to, you can switch. It’d probably make server search times a little bit longer, but honestly I’d rather wait another 20 seconds to find a match than get rushed by KA-50s and get killed within the first 2 minutes of a game

I love how CAS players say that CAS is perfectly fine and easily countered, and that without it, the game would just be campers. But when you tell them that you get bombed when you play the objective because it announces to the whole map where you are, they say “you are just a narcissist because YOU need to cap the points and be a hero. Just hide and camp all game if you want to not get CAS’ed.

I think that the number of planes simultaneously flying should be limited like in arcade where when an air battle starts only a certain number of planes can fly at the same time. Also making planes actually take off is a really good idea

That thing you said about having your agency taken away. It is like wasps, you can’t do anything because if you do, they will sting. That is the most annoying thing about them. Now I understand why some players feel CAS is so frustrating.

7:26 i would also like to add that most maps are city based, while in real life, taking a tank into a city is one of the most idiotic things you could do.

I appreciate you acknowledging that the tier I planes and tanks are interwar and not WWI era. I think it would be fun if CAS had airfield spawns like the helicopters get helipad spawns

As a low tier CAS player, I can confirm that I have severe schizophrenia and am a major masochist

6:00 The option of devs actually putting some thought behind their maps is too much of a utopia.

I hope more cas players see this video, those people are less than human. Excellent video

I think the implementation of CAS in ground gives certain planes a reason for existing and making sense for Gaijin to put in the effort to add them. Having typical fighters strap on a 500lb bomb and be effective in a CAS role is a little silly to me, even if that fighter could historically carry that payload. Now I'm usually the guy to bring in a fighter, no bombs, to counter enemy CAS but I shouldn't have to do that when I signed up to play Ground. The prevalence and OP-ness of CAS in the mid tiers is very apparent and I like the proposed ideas.

AA reward increase sounds good and paired with airfield spawn I think would alleviate a lot, when I use CAS it is usually to kill spawn campers so we can get out of spawn, and beyond that I don't quite get the physics of dropping bombs especially since drop time and airspeed vary between planes so usually dropping 100kg bombs I don't kill much (I mostly do tanks)

the fact of taking off from the ground seems pretty fair as a cas player

CAS players ready to say CAS is the hardest mechanic in WT just to press press fire secondary weapon 4 times then leave the match after getting 20 kills

Don't forget that other than the fact that planes are a completely different tech tree with thousands of points, players that want to counter cas with cas have to learn all of these things to only atempt to deal with players that not only have been doing this for ages but also most likely have a fully researched plane or a br above, so that's a neat thing! Also 5.3 to 7.7-8.0 gap in spaa is funny.

this is one of the better Videos I've see about CAS and I agree with I think all the points you made, the biggest issue I have with CAS is bomb camping spawn when half the enemy team is in CAS and just non stop bombs the spawn.

I suggested once upon a time that CAS players should not be able to see ground battle capture points, or ground battle hitmarkers (to fix the problem specifically mentioned at 4:40) and I was told that "literally what's the point, if they're using discord, or in a squad it makes no difference" even though I clearly stated that my problem was that somebody can solo queue, get a plane after 2 assists, and ruin my entire game when I want to play the M18. there's no getting through to CAS players.. don't even get me started on "Just Play SPAA," because as an American player, there is an entire 4.3-7.7 BATTLE RATING GAP IN MY SPAA LINE. it's just not viable to hinder the tanks I want to play for a chance against aircraft I don't want to play SPAA, I want. To Play. The M18. I can't do that if the game tells every single pilot in a 15km radius EXACTLY where I am.

Cas in realism annoyes me, since, as you said, it is very cheap to get into a plane (for example 720 points or so for He111 with 2500kg bomb). The only plane I take into GRB is the 109, wich I also just play if like half the enemy team is up. The issue with the sound you mentioned doesn´t only apply to the planes. I have fairly often the problem, that I can´t hear enemy engines properly if there are multiple planes nearby. The only part I love seeing cas in is in GSB, since it requires actual skill to even fly planes there in the first place. Otherwise great video! :]

I consider myself a CAS main in WT. Some of the most fun for me is taking out a first spawn AH-6 and capping points and getting kills from unexpected angles. KA-52 is fun to rush in and punish an entire team if 1 or 2 of them neglect to first spawn SPAA (which usually doesn't happen these days). P-51D5 is very fun to get HVAR kills with and killing a group of tanks with 500 pounders is satisfying. Smart weapons are fun to use and creates a unique dynamic between missile SPAA and later aircraft. Even though I love CAS so much, revenge bombing is too easy in my opinion (especially at lower tiers without easier to guide missiles). I think 3 things can be done to balance CAS in that regard.... 1: Add AI air defense around the tank battlefield that would need to be taken out before a plane can get close enough to be effective. This would include M16s, ZSU-57s, M163, and finally culminate in SA-2s and Hawks for higher tiers. Not only would this mean that to play CAS you would have to perform SEAD before attacking the enemy team, but also that would mean SEAD weapons such as shrikes could be added (I would argue that these would not be game breaking against players since they can just turn off their radar and move to defeat a missile) 2: Have different BRs for the type of weapons you carry. Want to spawn in a SU-25 with just your gun? You will be at a significant disadvantage otherwise and so I believe the BR should be lowered. This would apply to all aircraft and helis and would not only balance them out in air RB with missiles but also in ground battles with ground pound ordinance. 3: Make fighters cheaper to spawn in. This would be much harder to implement than the first option (in regards to balance) since many fighters have good enough guns to take out many ground targets. However, these vehicles are usually more effective than SPAA in repelling CAS. Maybe something like naval or arcade where you have a random fighter unlocked already? Regardless, I believe option 1 and 2 are better since aircraft and helis get new weapons and "missions" while the ground players are more protected (especially early on) With that being said, I disagree that ground RB should have separate game modes with and without CAS. This would split players and it would be harder to get games (especially if you are in a squad with different nations). CAS is fun and I very much enjoy SPAA too. Don't know why I would type something this long or you would read something this long in a gaming comment section but I suppose I enjoy WarThunder enough to give my 2 cents.

As a CAS player, I agree with the idea of making us take off from the Air Field. Also adds a hint of realism ngl, as CAS wouldn't just automatically be in the AO and ready to go. It would need to be called into the AO first, usually, unless it's a preplanned operation, etc. So I agree with that idea wholeheartedly

While I do enjoy actually pulling a game back or helping my squadmates with CAS. EVERYONE will (should) agree that CAS is too easy to spawn in. of course if I wipe clean half the enemy team I should get the ability to use CAS since I built up the SP. But lately I have found some seriously stupid easy ways to farm hits/assists for insane SP potential.

Pretty level headed suggestions to tame CAS. I’ve been playing since 2018 or so and have ground & air for several nations. I like both as the main thing they do is increase time it takes for CAS to reach the battle, which decreases their effect of the course of the battle. I personally think it should be one or the other, and I have a slight preference to make the CAS sp cost higher as it would limit how quickly and frequently people spawn planes. As a CAS enjoyer myself I’ve actually seen games lost because too much of one team spawned in planes to the level that only one or two ground vehicles remained for that team and lost all objectives (especially when they don’t even bring ordinance, they spawn plain fighters with machine guns only). SPAA would become more effective if you reduce the rate that planes are spawned, but must be carefully balanced because if you make it so that very few people spawn planes then SPAA also loosed is significance.

we can all agree that CAS is the most annoying thing ever

My favorite CAS BR has to be between 3.0-3.7, where I have the LA-5 with the 60kg (if i’m not mistaken) bombs, or the early BF-109s with the 4x 50kg bombs. If you know how to bomb and land the bombs within like 1m of the target they die, so they’re hard to use. But they are in turn extremely rewarding, and can give you quite a few kills before you run out of munitions. Great video mate, keep up the good work.

One thing that might help indirectly is lowering the BR of SPAA, a lot of them are up-BRed because of their anti-tank capability and therefore less cover against the air for everyone else, a good example is the Skink; was praised for being added finally and nobody plays it cause it's at a stupid BR.

The fact that most CAS player response to a ground/ship only mode is "Might as well remove SPAA" "But where's the realism in that?!" "Tank and ship don't fight by themselves!" Talking to these shit are a waste of time

Nice video. Very detailed and informative points in the video about close air support

as a Cas player i do like this idea of spawning on the run way because it will feel better and i do agreed of how over power it is

What’s more annoying is when half of your team goes cas and you’re losing points

Just would like to say even taking off from the airfield and trying to find targets it to easy even in sim. So you could move the airfields and spawn places to about half the size of an air map for balancing.

I can’t fathom why Gajin doesn’t just add a ground vehicle only ground battles mode like it’s the simplest solution

its obnoxious to see how desperate they are for a kill , they will kamikaze into the tank they want to kill releasing the bombs 1 sec before impact

it's already a huge problem when you can talk about problems in a game and say "it probably wont be fixed because it makes them a lot of money" gajin is more of a corporation than a game dev company at this point

If we are talking skill issues, let's talk about the players that are so bad they have to resort playing something tanks physically can't fight back against to get revenge on the guy who's been dominating them the entire game.

5:40 WT has speed of sound mechanic, if you turn it off in the settings it's easy to pin point plane location

what i think they should add is a bomb warning in sniper sight (like torpedo warnings in naval in sniper sight)

The realism argruement is so stupid warthunder isn't realistic and will probably never be since there is no infrantry

I think you should be forced to choose between playing a tank OR CAS. Most actual CAS players want to ground pound and see the tank play as filler, and it’d also make it impossible to revenge bomb. Plus CAS would have to actually go back and re-arm, potentially getting better weapons based on performance maybe, instead of suiciding. It would also incentivize SPAA more because you could start being useful immediately.

Cas be like: just hide in bushes Also cas: pe 8 on top of person hiding i wonder how that happened (revenge bombing)

A third thing gaijin could do is make another set of arcade and realistic with no planes at all.

Great video! From my experience I've found that CAS is the most balanced in sim battles, its a lot more difficult to actually fly the planes, there are no markers for friendly tanks so you actually have to identify your targets and not just carpet bomb an area, you spawn on the airfield so it takes longer to get to the battle and the maps tend to be much bigger than RB and AB. I get that sim can seem pretty daunting to get into or too "sweaty" for folk and may not be what people are looking for in terms of gameplay, but for me I think it can be the most fun ground game mode apart from the chaos of bottom tier arcade. Gaijin should probably take a look at what they can incorporate from sim into RB in terms of what makes CAS more balanced. Happy to hear anyone's thoughts and suggestions on this.

Cas needs to be fixed in grb similarly to how bombers/attackers need to be fixed in air rb. The game has played like it was early access for the past decade.

So how to fix, Wheater, bad visibility. low clouds, AI Anti Air, AIrfield spawning, no markers on air, no kill cam

The other day, I was playing 5.3 Ground RB and a Pe-8 dropped a 5000kg bomb. It killed only me or maybe one other player. I decided to check the player out. The fella had spawned in a 5000kg bomb with 0 kills, 1 death, 0 assists, and 1 capture... But yeah. CAS is balanced.

I feel like there should be a specific game mode for cas that makes them hunt bots in tanks and aa, rather then against players in tanks. Make it where killing tanks gives a lot more sl and rp then killing plane and decrease sl and rp for killing planes as an incentive to keep players for just joining to hunt other planes. And remove planes from ground rb and make the planes bots that attack eachother over the battle field

They oughta do CAS more like enlisted, make it more difficult for the plane and definitely require more communication with ground units to be able to find targets, make it so that planes don’t have as much information on what’s where compared to what the tanks have map wise essentially

I agree with alot of your points, Recently only found your channel and so far ive loved every video. Hugely from how much of your idea's arent one sided as clearly seen in the video you also play a good bit of CAS, and your comentary is also really nice. I do agree that CAS should remain in game as it does combat some things, but it shouldnt be as easy as just point and click basically. Love your channel man, keep up the great work!

3:50 Instead of working with cas, make spaa super rewarding. I got 8 air kills and it was less rewarding than capping a point. Also free fighters. Planes are the best way to kill planes.

At least in top tier CAS you need to use some brain cells to kill somebody and to try to not get clapped by a Pantsir

idea: playing cas requires that an airfield is still active on the map, airfields can be destroyed and if so, respawning in cas is impossible, though planes already flying get to stay flying. Howitzers and some anti-tank turrets guard the airfield to prevent it from being super easily destroyed

And it gets worse at higher br sense jets and helis can stay back 10-15kl and just lock u with a rocket and move on. Most aa tanks even at high br lock distance from the front of the jet or heli is short , so u have to wait till they pass the battle and by then it’s to late they got the free kills

The only thing I can think of would be a new game mode like world war or strictly have planes in arcade battles

They should make 2 game modes. 1 with cas and 1 without cas

Im a delusional CAS player, I do love me some AirRB battles though, granted I agree with it being boring as hell at times. I love being a fighter in air RB, I enjoy the low altitude dogfights as both allied and hostile SPAA shoots you down, most fun ive had in WT to date. I would like to see a change with CAS players needing to takeoff from the runway, and marginal increases in SP cost

5:07 Another issue with the 'Just hide' excuse is that when you spawn in, you have TWO choices at most as to where you are starting from. Moving out of the obvious spawn points means moving towards the enemy, which can not be defended against in most SPAA. Youre stuck with either CAS spotting you easily or a ground vehicle doing the same.

I have an idea how about the way to identify the friendly and enemy is giving friendly tanks a hard to spot blue outlines so when u go for a bombing run you need to focus to see if it’s friendly or not

I played way too much time into War thunder and yeah cas is op as hell but at the same time i do find it necessary for certain situations for example fighting germany and its infinite panthers and tigers when all the tanks in your nation that can fight them are at higher BR. But one of the solutions i though of was to just forced them to use first person therefore limiting what they can see and react to.

I think they should make the crews abilities more crucial for pilots in ground combat maybe making it way harder to spot ground targets if you don’t have good vision and awareness

I play a lot of CAS in ground sim because I started the game mainly for sim aviation. There you spawn cold on the runway and in flight you have zero indication to identify friends or enemies tanks. Also a lot of players spawn first with AAA (at least 2), so maybe some pre-planning should help for now.

just wondering am i shit for killing a Churchill mark 7 with a fab50? (in a la5fn)

I play CAS ONLY as last result when I see that 3 or more enemies hold an angle on the objective and my teammates doesn't work as a team. And I still didn't learn how to throw bombs properly so I just Fancy mark™ them with bombs most of the time. And yeah, CAS should be nerfed

cas is fun to play

Im starting the 4.0 BR grind in SPAA and its so damn hard. Id be nice to get some type of radar for the lower BR's to at least know where the planes are. Cant tell you how many times Im shooting at one plane too to just get shit on from behind by another when its 5 planes vs 1 SPAA

I am glad you brought up these points, I HATE having to grind 2 tech trees to even stand a CHANCE at higher brs and then THE CONSTANT BOMBINGS (even at low teir) make me feel like I'm in VEITNAM in a tiny M22! Sorry for that I've had some pent up rage from the last couple games and wanted to see a video if they were doing something about CAS, and you really bring up some good points with the planes spawning at the air feild so there is time for some people who are on the move, or costing more spawn points so a little gremlin dosen't race to the enemie's spawn scout as many as they can and then J out can get a plane with 3 500KG bombs. Have an awesome day :)

Cas is fine how it is maybe aa players need to get better at aiming and not shooting at a plane 3 miles out giving away position.

CAS isn’t a problem if you have competent AA or teammates who will go up and intercept. I do think that you got a point with the mid tiers, but the people who say CAS makes the game unplayable are just exaggerating and lying.

I think that they should limit the amount of aircraft in the sky at one, sort of like they do in arcade

I also think they should just remove all hud markers for planes like tank spot markers and objective markers and have the cas genuinely search for the battle front

in my opinion it would help the problem that you could spawn in to an AA the same way you could spawn in to a plane in arcade where you wouldn't have to j out your tank to get rid of a few planes before it gets overwhelming, because my main problem with AA is the cost of the contribution to winning is way too high if you are locked it an AA

finally! you hit the nail right on the head for me. couldn't have said it better.

there was this very neat spot on the kuban map. only a very small number of vehicles could reach it and even then it took a considerable time to do so. it's main use was to protect the spawn point from spawn campers. gaijin made it a "red area" and now you will blow up if you go there. which would be cool if it didn't render the spawn point completely defenseless and with that half the map unfeasible.

They should increase the SP for their loudout based on efficiency of the plane and the loadout. Like small bombs small SP, big bombs big sp. Big clunky bomber small SP, small fighter with huge bombs big SP.

There should be NPC Spaa at spawns.

At Hightier it's the helis hovering outside the effective range of Guns/SAM I literally had to travel acrose the Ruins of berlin to hit a Heli with the FIM92 because i couldn't attackin him beyond 2km which i find really bad design being unable to get a Lock with the SAM on the Ocelot while they can Hover some 6km out and attack unpunished

Gaigin looked at low tier spas and determined the aa part meant anti-armor

I say we put A.I aa in areas near spawns to protect players like in air fields but they would only appear either by numbers of certain fighters, bombers, or dive bombers or when a number of friendly players are killed and no more spaa can be spawn then they would appear and cover players leaving and as well increased the distance and time for the protection to stop large bo,bs to just kill people being spawned camped in the air

They should add infantry with MANPADS that are even cheaper to spawn than planes and AA batteries like they used in WW2 or even better, SAM batteries like, IDK S-400 missiles that can track and shoot planes down at 72 nautical miles. They want realism, let's give them realism and let's see who cries after that.

As someone who plays CAS and AA and normal tanks it really depends on how good your AA is if you have good aa planes won’t be able to come close to the battlefield but if you lack aa or have bad aa planes basically can do whatever they want that’s why in top tier planes aren’t able to really fly near the battlefield without having to dodge 7 missiles and usually die before they reach it

Why do we get such little reward for shooting down aircraft in Ground RB anyways?

I recently unlocked Ar 234 C-3, the german 7.3 jet bomber. While at this br you start to get a couple AAs with radar tracking, most of them are still just based on ability to calculate the lead you gotta put in your shots. Thus, when I play this bomber, I feel how unbalanced it is. It is rare that I get shot down at all unless I do a dumb mistake like flying straight towards and SPAA. On top of that, with three 500kg bombs, I can easily get 3 kills or more if the targets are grouped. I have had many games in which I was able to bomb enemies, make it safely back to the airfield and go for one or two more bombing run. Also needed to add that having a jet bomber in 7.3 means you can outrun almost all prop planes apart from a few. So yeah, CAS is the most OP between rank 4 and 5 in my opinion.

there should just be a limit as to how many planes can spawn in a game in total, like a team has like 3-5 air spawns total and once obviously they've been used the team can't spawn any more planes but i can see how this can be bad because if one side just completely dominates the air when the other side has no planes can become a problem unless AA does it's job which is unlikely

Maybe the way to balance both CAS and SPAA is to add AI fighters in the air that attack CAS. More targets for the SPAA, and CAS doesnt get to stomp around like they own the place.

The trick i like for anti cas is to play italy. the R3 at 4:20 does a horrible job at using gods best spaa. Rounds are fast accurate and the vehicle can relocate quickly. Or a dedicated fighter like the ki84 for china or japan or something like a corsair or yak 9. Great turn fighter with decent speed can easily wipe enemy air.

He is correct plus there should be a battle mode only for tanks if planes get to have one why don't tanks get one.😢

I’m making a game in beta, not open sadly, it I have some interesting CAS options. Also, all of my maps are 20x20 kilometer and planes take off from runways. 1: Realistic mode. You need to enter 1st person to use the bombs or rockets. Guided missles have to be used with the internal computer in the cockpit, so you need more skill. Dive bombing is also kinda hard in 1st person. 2: Arcade. No name tags for a plane to see tanks. You basicly can only see plane nametags. You now have to spend time and fly low to find targets and tanks will have time and an opportunity to shoot you because the plane is lower and closer to you, within a max range of 600 meters. 3: The best idea I have. Make grass visible to planes, even at high altitude. Grass only disappears when you are so far away, you can’t tell a tank apart from a shed. This makes the tanks much more camouflaged and planes have to fly lower and slower to give enough time to spot.

I always tinkered around with the thought of a ground only mode and stumbled upon this one thing that makes it feel a bit sad, that thing wouldnt be rather not using CAS, but rather what would of happen with the SPAA you grinded all along? Do they get repurposed, turned into legacy vehicles, players getting their invested ressouces back, like compensation? I really like some of those SPAA aesthetically really much or having them, t make a line up feel more complete. I for example really adore the Type 93, its being one of my recent most fun cars to drive around with. I agree that CAS basically provides you with a main character syndrome type power, completely throwing out the equilibrium. Just we always had these two things added leading to the question, what would happen to helicopters and spaa. When a ground only mode happens, where do those two classes go? If I still had hope for new aspiring gamemodes that would somehow gives these vehicles in any shape or form a new home, then the ground only mode could gladly come. I still would also dream of more gamemodes, maybe a bigger ground EC campagin mode with a more wider decentralized range, apart from your now regular only ground mode, in the hypothetical new EC-ish mode you could see all those vehicles come back. Maybe make that greater campaign mode a phase enduring pve and pvp mode where CAS could be also rather a key in PvE roles to lessen the frustration, letting them bomb some bots instead of players. Imho it always intertwines to this age old outdated existing field of what gamemodes we right now have, that CAS feels like a lil boost of seratonine once in a while from the mundane outdated, but also not really the replacement.... The reward system should also definitely get adjusted for anti CAS duties.

there should be a limit as to how many planes there can be in the sky and planes need to takeoff from the runway

I'm a huge CAS player and it's my favourite way to play, but I'll wholeheartedly concede that you're right about the BRs you're talking about. Being able to consistently take out a Skyraider with enough ordnance to dominate an entire team feels wild. My most commonly played BRs are around 8.7 and imo it's the most fun tier to CAS in. Early strike jets like the Scimitar with *manual* guided missiles that you have to steer using your arrow keys. Hard to learn but immensely satisfying to use. Meanwhile the enemy often has radar-guided gun AA, which can easily deny you an area of the map and kill you if you fly straight for more than a few seconds. Trying to put a missile on them while dodging fire is intense as hell

I completely agree I play France ground and now I’m being forced to research air to just counter every cas in my matches

something that might work: having some ai fighters over every ground battle, duking it out through the battle, or spawning as people start to spawn cas, and will try to provide anti cas play would work, as theres little incentive to spawn as a fighter to stop the enemy cas, due to their quiet often suicide runs that or maybe make suicide runs stupidly expensive, lock your crew for more then a few minutes, maybe a half hour for diving into the ground with a bomb fresh after spawning and/or making it so that you can only bring 1 plane per battle, this way you dont experience something ive had to fight on multiple occasions: kill someone, they come back in cas, kill them in cas, they come back 2 times more in cas, these times even more vindictive to kill you simply because they got a few kills in their first life, or some good assists in the planes

I think that they should rename the current ground rb mode into mixed rb and make a new one thats ACTUALLY a ground mode where you cant spawn a plane.

The only spaa I ever found op is the m15... It gets a 37mm cannon and 2x 12.7 machine guns and at high tier it gives very little thermal