Hi Coalz101, thanks for the feedback.
Firstly when you say "CAS (Close Air Support)", what do you actually mean? The actual definition of CAS is for jets to provide ordinance on enemy targets close to friendly units, in support to those friendly units. However, PR players use of the term "CAS" is often very broad, often used to describe to provide a Combat Air Patrol (CAP), aka "dogfighting" cover over an area and so on.
As for "Argentina having better jets", I would have to disagree there. Although I wouldn't call them worse either, they are simply vastly different from the British Harriers. The Mirage IIIEA is possibly slightly better than the Sea Harrier as not only is it far faster, allowing a good pilot to control the engagement, and it's main AtA missile, The R.530 has a longer range and is more powerful than the AIM-9L, it has a slower turning circle, allowing for harriers to dodge it more easily, and only one is carried by the Mirage, then it's down to the R.550 Magic Missiles are worse than the AIM-9L on basically all counts. But overall, Argentina only has two of these Mirage IIIEAs to the British having 4 Sea Harriers, which also has a faster turnaround time with the carrier being closer to the combat area. Yes Argentina have a few IAI Daggers as well, which are basically the same as the Mirage IIIEA but they only carry the short-range R.550 Magic AtA missiles, with all the other jets Argentina have, only having a cannon as their only AtA weapons (as do the British Harrier GR.3s and the CAS Sea Harriers that spawn at the start of the game), other than the A-4Q Skyhawk which the Skyhawk has similar flight stats to the Harrier but very slightly worse, but the Naval Q version only has a couple of AIM-9Bs, but they are far worse than the Lima version the Brits have of the sidewinder, and are worse than the R.550 Magic missiles even.
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Anyways basically I wouldn't say either side has a clear advantage in the air, Argentina has the numbers of aircraft but they don't have as many ASF (Air Superiority Fighters) and they also have to travel much further to get into combat. If they coordinate all their forces to hit the Brits at once then yes, they can easily overwhelm the Brits if they wanted to but the Brits can do the same and that takes quite a lot of teamwork. Each jet needs to be flown in the way which makes the best use of its strengths and really at the end of the day, it comes mostly down to who is flying the jets and how they are flown more than anything to who is going to win. I am more than happy to fly either side when I play.
As for your point about Argentina having too much Air Defence, ye I can see how having the Tigercat SAM at Pebble Island (G4) can give Argentina a big advantage if they use them well, will look at that when I come to update the map.
One thing to factor in is once the
Type 21 Frigate comes, that will totally change the air balance of this map as that itself will be a mobile Anti-Air platform, as well being a massive target for jets that they will want to try and destroy themselves and I plan on totally changing the air balance of the map to accommodate for that, with historical sympathy too of course. But with it, Argentine will be more focused on CAS jets (ie, ones with Air to Ground weapons) and the Brits will have fewer CAS jets too.
