Another USAF Bomber Test
Since the F-16 CLU got a buff where they added a pair of Rockeyes, I decided to test it out. I've been doing and occasionally recording these tests just to get more of the ins and outs of the bomber gap (I may try the arty gap when I get bored of this). Unlike last time, where I mostly stuck with CLU bombers, I tried to test each of a certain type of bomber within a price range and I included the results.
**Planes used + price:**
**NATO:**
F-111E (HE): 175 points
F-15E: 315 points
F-16C (CLU): 240 points
**Pact:**
Su-25 (CLU): 185 points
Su-25 (HE): 175 points
Su-24 (LGB1): 275 points
**Notes (edited because of butter fingers posting this before I finished typing, whoops):**
So, the F-16C (CLU) can actually kill tanks now! Sometimes. Here it took out the pair of T-80s thanks to how it drops the Rockeyes. That said, I've actually had one test where it takes out *four* T-80s, which shocked me. Other times, it won't take out any of them, though, even if the tank blob is as tight as it could be, so... RNG? Definitely better than the previous test where you needed two of them to kill even a pair of T-80s. By contrast, the Su-25 (CLU) took out a lot more a lot more consistently despite the cost difference, which is the same as the previous test.
Simiarly, the F-111 will sometimes kill a squad or two, though in this test it failed to score any kills, while the SU-25 would almost certainly clean house consistently, as seen here, despite the prices being the same.
What really shocked me here was the Su-24, though.
I'd always seen it easily take out tanks and infantry, but I'd never seen it THAT much damage in one go! Notice it took out both the Abrams platoon, the Bradleys, and the infantry, while the Strike Eagle, which drops two bombs at once, by the way, by contrast left two of the heavy tanks alive. That might actually explains what happened in an early game of mine against 119th, where I lost a whole tank blob and couldn't figure out what killed it!
So, uh... yeah.
Give us more Mk 84s and add the CBU-87, Eugen.
Please?
Mod used to make the combined deck: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3788647789