Sure I own premium and have purchased slots yes, but with that, it also has let me notice that even with premium account, I pretty much now have the bare minimum of squads that let me be able to change around and adapt to most situations.
Later on in campaigns, I can barely imagine what my squad setup would be if I didn’t have that extra infantry / vehicle slot as I would have to go back to picking either a tank to deal with other tanks, or a plane to be able to provide air support and take out enemy planes. Some would say oh just use an engineer squad, but what if I want to use my 9 man rifleman squad for general use? What if I also want to be able to use flametroopers as well for more aggressive rushes to clear a point or indoor area? Now what if I also want to have a radio operator squad so I can have access to smoke artillery to give us safer movement from Point A to Point B or if I want to use a squad to level them up? I’d have to pick one or the other and I’d be left kind of weak in one area and basically forced to have to swap to a squad that’s not too good for a situation since I’m not allowed to spawn anything else.
How do you all feel about how slots currently are?
Now we only have 3 infantry slot, it only just fulfill the squad cycle requirement, meaning that we can only have 1 infantry choice when you are dead. The negative impact of it is it discourage people to use new squad when you had fully upgrade 3 squad. When the fight is intense you have no choice but to use the new squad and it will greatly effect your combat effectiveness possibly causing you to lost the match.
We have only 1 vehicle slot, the negative impact are:
Only little people want to use fighter.
Grey zone tank can live a long time because most people bring tank instead of plane.
Some battle with zero air support because of same reason.
I wouldn’t mind 12 spots max (including premium and unlocks). But the current set up I can make do with. Currently I run 6 vehicles and 4 infantry squads for all campaigns/factions (some premium for vehicles). I like flying but sometimes I’ll switch some planes for more tanks.
I don’t every really use AT gunners, I find explosive packs to be more effective or bringing out a tank or attacker plane.
With all of that said, I think free to players should receive two more spots. It’s already an uphill battle facing someone like me who has plenty of choices available. Of course that would end up giving me two more spots, but it really wouldn’t change many options for me. I could throw in maybe an AT/Gunner/dedicated engineer or something like that which I already have options for. Just my thoughts.
I use them at start of game against defending points. Right at start I sometimes got 20 or so kills, just lob all mortars into capture point. lol. All I use them for. I mainly keep them in rotation because it’s a unique class.
And my line up varies depending on the Daily Challenge.
If for example I need to get 40 MG kills I will run both of my MG’s sections.
The top 4 slots are Planes/Tanks, but I actually rarely use them, as they are rarely required for the challenges.
I did kind of agonize over buying the second slot, as I was not sure I would ever really use it, or need it, I am still not convinced it was necessary, but it is nice …
That’s such an unneeded amount of vehicles, why not use more infantry? This game DOES rely on infantry to win games, not kills so you’re basically limited to Assaulters, Flametroopers, and Radiomen if you’re going to be attacking
I mainly fly. It’s what I personally like doing. I played WarThunder for many years on PC. I’ll switch to infantry if people are not putting down spawn points and advancing or if I get a map with a lot of bots.
But why swap to Enlisted to play like it’s War Thunder? Why not just play Enlisted with infantry and War Thunder with your planes? That’s just an unnecessary amount of planes at this point.
Because Warthunder doesn’t have players running around to bomb. Also, I prefer to play this game on my console as I have a theater setup and this game is more immersive that way to me. Getting 100-200 kills, blowing up 3-10 tanks and a few air kills is satisfying to me.
But it’s more of the idea that it’s an unneeded amount of vehicles, when really you would only need like 4 vehicles at most, since that’s plenty for a bit of variety and to cycle if you’re going to be like that.
I agree more slots would be nice, I maxed out my slots + premium and still sometimes I still wish I had more slots. I mainly use it for variety. For example in Tunisia for allies I wanna run Crusader, Matilda and my premium Crusier tank. I pull which ever one out depending on my mood or if the enemy is noobish or more skillful. Plus more infantry squad variety to follow.
If it was not him using the plane it would just be someone else, I occasionally use a plane for an entire match, but if I do I rarely lose one, I cant get my head around needing more than 1 or two of them, apart from wanting to select the one you want to use, like a BA 88 or a 110 as the mood strikes you, that’s the real advantage the slots give you the ability to choose mid game what is next for you.