Enduring Confrontation is back up for 24 hours!

I'm personally enjoying the SB EC but I have some gripes.

1.) I love flying Germany and boom'n'zoom technique but the USA is a thorn in my side at the tier 1 EC, and in particular I talk about the F2A. This plane is not only keeping up with whatever I throw at it, even my 109s but it also manages to out-turn whatever turnfighters I throw at it such as the HE-112 or even my CR.42s/HE-51s. I watched a guy go 11-2 with it before he changed to his premium KI-43 (yay...)

2.) The current map favors the UK/USA in airfield placement. Sure, the Germans get to climb and man we need that but the front-line airfield for the UK/USA forces us to dive down and unless we play it real smart, they're energy-trapping up right after they take off assuming we aren't picked off by flak.

3.) Uh, what bomber escorts? 6 hours of EC gameplay this week and I only saw one moment where it said to escort bombers and I didn't even get a glimpse of them. Now, this might just be my lack of situational awareness but I never could find them nor do they seem to make any difference concerning objectives? (Or are they adding points)

4.) Bombing was justifiable in the objective sense but not in any other way. I get 98rp for cutting that poor sod's wing off but 11rp for hitting the base with a 250lb and finishing it? I dragged my Stuka out all that way and ended up emergency landing thanks to my engine dying for 11rp? Come on, you can do so much better than that. There's no reason to play a bomber as an objective, you're actually ENFORCING the GUNSHIP behavior with that absolutely trash reward for bombing the objective.

Overall, fun mode, but as a SB player, the already difficult to manage (And inaccurate at times) flight models with the inherently flawed airfield design makes winning as Germany difficult. The short queue times makes me extremely happy as a SB player as well. Also, I don't seem to have issues with rewards at the low tiers at least concerning the nerf. Sure I would love them to be higher but it's not ground forces level. I believe I received 10k RP for a 4 hour tier 1 SB EC game (Fun fact: rudder pedals make your legs tired after 4 hours) and this was after the penalty for researching a tier 4 plane with a tier 1 set of craft (Was MVP of the game with 17,000 points) which I was satisfied with seeing the tier difference of research. This mode needs work, so I am glad to see lots of test phases, but there's a very definite imbalance here.

/r/Warthunder Thread