Air support question

[poesel]

I haven't seen any air missions in my QBs so far. Also I can't remember much of a discussion here.

Its nice to have it and its surely useful for making scenarios. But the questions is: is air support useful for QBs? In which situations would I rather use it instead of artillery?

[winkelried]

I haven't seen any air missions in my QBs so far. Also I can't remember much of a discussion here.

Its nice to have it and its surely useful for making scenarios. But the questions is: is air support useful for QBs? In which situations would I rather use it instead of artillery?

IMHO CAS is pretty useless. It take ages to call (2-3x it takes to call artillery), therefore its rarely accurate and the effect often is relatively nimble - this seems to have been reality too - most of the effect of airpower was achieved on interdiction missions. Exceptions may confirm the rule.

[Ranger33]

In one of my first H2H games my opponent bought some air support. It strafed one of my empty trucks then bombed one of his tanks. From that day forward I have let my enemies have all the air support they want.