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Suhiir said:
Trouble is I want to keep the Sidewinders.
What I'll probably do is pull them from the Attack version and give the COIN version only TOW's.
Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make a bunker buster version of the Hellfire. To be honest I'm not all that impressed with them anti-tank wise in SPMBT, the advanced multi-charge and top-attack TOWs are much more effective.
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Question: what do you plan on using your COIN versions for? For instance, the ones COIN variants I have created in some OOBs are nearly bereft of any AT weaponry. I have given e.g. some HE (FAE) ATGMs to some fictional Hind variants, and some BB Hellfires would make sense for MC choppers. You'd have to set the variants straight, of course. But I mean, I have stripped down COIN Cobras even down to their AP 20mm rounds. In exchange they get more HE Hydras.
Also, I have stuck to AAMs only when it was more or less built in in the helo default loadout (see Tigers) or didn't lose hardpoints or weapon slots to more important stuff.
Most of the time, and characteristically in operations were COIN loadouts are to be preferred to tank hunters, the AA ability is moot, and a waste of lots of points, because you are not going to come across much air in the first place.
Regarding the Hellfire, it's true you can't model its main advantage in Marines terms, i.e. that it can be fired over large expenses of water without losing signal
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Because of a much higher speed, it should also be significantly more accurate than a TOW in game terms. Warhead is larger, range higher, there are a numer of factors that should make them better than the TOWs.
Agreed now, I just checked my modded OOBs and the baseline Hellfire returns a cost value 2 points lower than the TOW-2A...