Given the Cricket now has access to the AGR-18 lynchpin guided rockets, does the Cricket deserve a second look? After all, it went from being quite frankly a joke of a plane to becoming something you really do not want to get anywhere near your allied convoys or forward airbases.
I don't think so. Lynchpins don't change the basic strategy behind using the Cricket. It's meant to be a low flying and ground focused ambush or close support platform. It feels crappy because we don't currently have a propeller driven dogfighter, and so it gets shoehorned into dogfighting when it's meant to be a tank buster.
The Cricket is now by far the cheapest aircraft in the game, costing only $11.5 million while even the Compass costs almost double. This extremely low price makes it a good fallback aircraft for when you can't afford anything better.
Given the Cricket now has access to the AGR-18 lynchpin guided rockets, does the Cricket deserve a second look? After all, it went from being quite frankly a joke of a plane to becoming something you really do not want to get anywhere near your allied convoys or forward airbases.
I don't think so. Lynchpins don't change the basic strategy behind using the Cricket. It's meant to be a low flying and ground focused ambush or close support platform.
It feels crappy because we don't currently have a propeller driven dogfighter, and so it gets shoehorned into dogfighting when it's meant to be a tank buster.
If you fly it low like a helicopter, you can get very close to the enemy base and surprise them with a volley of 40 something rockets.
Brilliant work, really enjoyable, keep the great work up
The Cricket is now by far the cheapest aircraft in the game, costing only $11.5 million while even the Compass costs almost double. This extremely low price makes it a good fallback aircraft for when you can't afford anything better.