I PAID $70 FOR PURE DISAPPOINTMENT - A-6E TRAM Intruder in War Thunder 

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I use to work on the A-6's while I was in the Navy and the tram is older but they dumbed it down a lot... It could use many different bombs and missiles. I hate to see if they come out with a swip and how bad they would dumb it down... The swip could drop all ordinance the usa used at the time... You can down load the Natops for the A-6E TRAM/SWIP for free on line... I know what there excuse is but really the russian sam's had a difficult time with them in vietnam so I think it's just bias... Heck, they had a difficult time with the A-6E's during the gulf war too...

it was amazing for the first 2 weeks, then they nerfed maneuvering to the point where a cruise ship can turn faster. and the wing rips like paper. plus it doesn't have the radar that the real thing gets.

Gotta love Gaijin for giving every other nation a premium fighter being either a phantom or a MiG then America gets a damn Intruder.

Nah you are wrong on this one. This thing is phenomenal CAS. I would say its the best CAS for 10.0, 10.3, and arguably even 10.7 aswell. Its simple to fly and if you know what you are doing, and are used to your targeting controls, this aircraft is pretty much untouchable by SPAA. The targeting pod on this A6E is more capable than anything at its BR or higher, with high resolution thermals for easy spotting. I am not a tanker, but in ground rb, the A6E has allowed an aircraft main like me to single handedly change the tide of battle. Unfortunately though, its too expensive, even if it is this good.

Thanks for the amazing vids always Odd! Makes my day at work much brighter!

2 aim 9Js?! What? That thing can carry 4 AIM-9L's making it terrifying in ARB. See, part of the problem is you only play combined battles and don't ever play the vehicles in ARB. Played right with 3 9L's and a gunpod this plane can be pretty lethal in ARB.

Soft terrain wheel performance buffed, but just try to drive in cities with cobbled streets (Port Novo, Breslau, etc) - it is like driving through mud from some reason. Great video, as usual - whenever you say you had bad games you do better than most... it is scary to face you in a game that goes well for you

who's soup? I'm soup! that was me in the M1128 I remember making the enemy team upset by taking the stryker into the hill flank beside A 🤣

We really got screwed on the A6. On the dev server it had a radar capable of air and ground tracking. It currently has neither on the live server

6:00 You asked "Who's Soup?" The answer was your random team mate.

So its kinda like the Maus in that you cannot really balance it Stomps in any br lower, gets stomped in any be higher

i make 7, sometimes 10 frags per round on SB with this one first battle opened entire first level of US plane, and i got second level till evening end in SB you'll face tunguska, but if you spend 3 minutes to gain altitude out of their view, they can't see you on radar and you can drop your nine bombs again and again and again. if it is a map with 2 cap points and everybody but you are dead - you still can ban it from capping

Did you know if you go about 800kph with the gbu’s that you can carry nine of with a set loadout, they act almost like cruise missiles

i really wish that prices for one singular thing in the game would go down like way down not like 5$ like 40$ down

use anti radiation missiles because that is what the intruder was designed for killing sam sights

The intruder is a low altitude attack aircraft, in and out before they can do anything.

Should definitely try this thing in ARB too instead

the title sums up war thunder as a whole rly well

Use A-10 with as many gun pods as you can

All lasers are like that, snapping to different target if they get too close. Even in drones.

The A-6 was a Vietnam era attack aurcraft and top tier night attack plane. Later the DIANE system was replaced with the TRAM starting in 1979. The A-6 later installed the SWIP system was introduced that Mavericks, Walleyes, HARMs, and Harpoons. The markings on your plane is for VMFA-212 Lancers of the Carrier Air Wing 15. But VMFA-212 never flew the A-6 Intruder. You had a fun video, but you were dealing with Gaijin's NERFS and connection problems. Also, I suspect you were upteired as well. The A-6 was never meant to fight the Saab JAS-39 Grippen and similiar aircraft. Yeah, $70 is a lot of money for a flawed (by design) aircraft. Sorry, if I got preachy.

its on sale right now and i need something to grind US air tree so maybe i will buy it because the a10 is free in the tt so i dont really wanna pay for it and the a6e looks viable for air rb

Man if this is how the general public plays the TRAM, no wonder we get to enjoy it at 10.0. This gameplay was pretty brutal to watch Odd, but thank you for helping to keep it at a lower BR for those of us who can use it properly!

this man is so irish that even the subtitles are confused

A T-72B Surviving a impact from M900... yeah ok gaijin.

I'm happy sams make Cas useless its no fun when your getting curb stomped by Cas and also keeps your team in tanks rather then half of them trying to play a plane failing and leaving cause they wasted there spawn points

1:23 this is so sad can we hit 2 likes

All I can think of while watching this is; how many people would lose their minds, good or bad, if SEAD aircraft like the EA-6B and the F4G Wild Weasel equipped with radar jammers and ARMs were introduced given the current state of radar-guided AA in the game?

I have been having trouble with snow maps for example the new artic pier, where the white of the snow everywhere is just washing out all of the definition, how do I fix that to make it easy to see on snow maps on PC?

Maybe you should also try the plane in air rb not ground rb

I have a question, when you used range finder the adjusment of fire queickly turn to it, how? Can you please tell me

Gaijin isn't happy about this

the TUNGUSKA is 11.0 but a great vid bawzdad :D

If it's the Soup I know he's a RU-vidr but It might not be him

How do you make the thermals black=hot and not the other way

Remember back when you paid 30$ for an entire video game on disk with a bible-esque manual? Now you pay 70$ for a *one* 3D plane on a game you have stored on a cloud.

Anno 1800 is a great game.

Excuse me but how can you have black thermals?

How do you tell if you're top/bottom tiered from the map/spawn screen?

What happens if you fired two bombs at once ?

How can you tell if its an up teir by looking at the loadout screen

Someone touches a cap point Oddbawz- shame

Almost 200k!!

Still better than event tornado

honestly im only gonna get it bc i do not want to grind an entire other tech tree after they moved the f14, pls dont hate me

17:10 yeah they're so stupid, how dare they go straight without even stopping for you, smh

i have a 55% winrate on that thing and 3 times more kills than deaths, idk what yall do wrong

AA is too good, so no reason to play any top tier in Tank RB.

4 aim-9Ls and ur good

no brain damage I promise. LOL. Anno is a good game.

I miss white rock fortress

Its sad cuz the Intruder was actually quite terrifying in reality when it was used. The snail strikes again

thank you for being a content creator that tells it how it is

7:14 If they implement weight physics to bombs soon, that would just go right through the tank, probably killing him instantly, and the explosion would just be a party piece at that point.

It’s incredible that you don’t get one shot across the map at 1km+ every single life. Maybe it’s just a skill issue on my part 😂

Day 5 of asking OddBawZ to play USSR 6.3

I bought this and its a beast when used properly

A lot of that frustration can be attributed to game mechanics, not the aircraft itself.

Contrary to your opinion, I found intruder best premium vehicle for grinding. I play ARB and most of the time I have minimum 1 kill per match, but most of the time 2-4 kills. Aim-9L is such a good missile. I dont use guided bombs, my setup is 3x aim9L, canon or 4x am9L. I also take 3 mk83 bombs so i can drop on the base and finish someone elses job. If the area is pretty clear i use canon to destroy some groud targets and return to base to rearm. on the way home if there is any aim9L left i usually hunt for some bots. Yes you are slow, but not as slow as A-10 and countermeasures most of the time do their job. I was dissapointed when i purchased premium F-5C. It only have Aim9E that are much worst than L and you also can carry only 2 of them. I got way more kills flying slow intruder that F-5C. The intruder is much better for grinding both RP and silver lions and for me, its actually most fun aircraft to play and i got F-14 and F-16 now 😂😂

17:12 "What is _wrong_ with you people!"... says the guy who gets rear-ended after stopping suddenly and unexpectedly in the middle of a busy fast-moving thoroughfare. 😄

I love how Bawz laughs at people or himself getting sent back to spawn. The laugh is pure joy 🤣

The annoying thing is every other toptier sam except the tunguska got moved to 11.3 so you are constantly facing the tunguska with 10.0 planes

Bawz, the content is always entertaining, but you know you're under a lot of scrutiny for details because of your viewer count. The A-6 carries 4x AIM-9L, not 2x AIM-9J, and custom loadouts also enable you to sacrifice one missile for a gunpod. The plane is capable the same way Su-25s are in air RB due to the all aspect missiles.

With all due respect: I believe you're wrong about this one. As someone who owns the A6e I can tell you that, not only is it a very consistent grinder in air rb, it also is a great cas plane. Having laser guided bombs at 10.0 is actually very powerfull in the hands of an experienced cas player. The reason I believe it wasn't working particularly well for you is that you are getting way too close to the AO. These bombs can glide quite far if you have enough altitude. this enables you to drop them from at least around 7-8 km and you can drop them from even further away however this isn't quite as consitent as your target might move too much or be dead before the bomb reaches it. Another thing I would recommend is bringing 2 AIM9Ls instead of the gunpod as I believe that is a more effective counter to enemy planes however that might just be personal preference. Now is it worth 70 bucks well for the price of a brand new triple A title game this is a very steep price but I don't think the plane itself is the issue there. I would love to see you giving this plane another shot I can also really recommend watching Hunter's videos on it he shows how in the hands of a great CAS player this plane is absolutely lethal. Now just to be clear I mean no hate here. I realy respect you as a creator and enjoy your content. I just believe that your critique of this plane isn't entirely justified.

i love how odd says bad vehicle yet still racks up more kills than i get in a day

2x AIM-9J? Try 4x all-aspect AIM-9L, this thing is an absolute menace in ARB

Tbh it’s better in ARB with the 4 AIM-9Ls or 3 AIM-9s and a gun pod it works

Hey odd hope your well. Ill be honest I hate this plane. I consider myself a very good CAS player. Hell it's what my channel is built around. And I can't get this to work for me.The constant random target the laser jumps too sucks. Unless I side climb for 15 min then re enter the battle field. But then I'm forced to guide the paveway in BC YOU CANT TRUST THE LASER!! and THEN re climb and turn back in. Or just YOLO it at low altitude but very risky. I'd much rather have the dumb bombs on the f4 phantom.

this thing is so OP if played right. Bombs dont have sound when they drop. its slow and white so under the sun is fcking invisible. and then nothing can reach it if it goes up

I watch all of Phly and yours videos everyday, y'all are the whole reason I started playing War Thunder. Enemies disappearing while I was trying to bomb them is the reason I quit.

Not gonna lie this is kinda boring and it's not because of you odd it's because war thunders gameplay is really stale, other than the matches where some absolutely bizzare and fun stuff happens the *TARGET DESTROYED* no longer satisfys me, I don't wanna see people being good at the game anymore I wanna see some fun sh!t and while there are vehicles that are fun those same vehicles can grow stale over time, I see this not as Odd's falut nore the game I see this as Gaijins fault for making a game so toxic and frustraiting for profit that the casual playerbase connot enjoy the game anymore, maybe some gamemodes and a bit of care sprinkled in may result in something that you an the playerbase enjoy as a whole - StaghoundAA Sorry for the rant Odd, keep doing your thing! :D

Like the Harrier GR.1 and 3 :/ love the harrier but the battlerating is so broken for them

Imagine living in Finland and having to pay 70.00 euros. (75 USD)

He used it wrongly, the TRAM has become my default CAS plane at this BR now. You need to be careful with the laser lock or not use it at all. Because it is just too prone to switching lock, for example to a wreck or a close by vehicle. This kept messing up my attacks, also on the Ka-50. Don't lock the laser or immediately decouple it from your target when wrecks or anyone else is nearby it.

25:19 Nah, you can't buy Anno 1800 with all DLCs for that. Because somebody preordered Steam copy, which was later cancelled, but you still got it and now have to buy DLCs through forums links, which no longer work, because your country was used as staging ground for invasion of Ukraine by Russia, no matter what you think about it, how you acted in 2020 or how you feel about Anno 1800 being still available in same circumstances in -Tencent's CCP loyalty shop- EGS \/(-_-)\/ The world is burning down and I'm just watching...

PSA!!!! THE BEST WAY TO PLAY THIS PLANE IS AT ABOUT 2K METERS ALTITUDE LETTING BOMBS GO ABOUT 7.5-8 KM AWAY THEN TURNING AWAY. YOUR CAMERA WILL KEEP TRACK SINCE ITS ON THE BOTTOM AND YOU WILL PUT YOURSELF TOO FAR FOR RADAR MISSLES TO HIT YOU(excluding rakflag[10km] and patsir[20km])

yea its not amazing for cas but as someone who has around at least 150 hours in it it's actually amazing for air rb, 3 aim-9ls, 1 gunpod, 3 1k bombs and i average 2-4 kills .8 tons of bombs around 12ksl a match good plane once you know how to use it

"It's a weird plane to add" Yea its weird to have CAS in GROUND RB battle in general.. Kills the whole fucking game for me.. I stopped playing completely after drone age because I want tank to tank combat and not some cheese drone shit or op jets/planes that just basically get a free kill on me because we dont have an SPAA or because I was dumb enough to spawn in a second tank into the battle.. Mig27k is incredible difficult to track/lock on radar because it's basically out of render distance all the time and the Ka50-52 just needs to guide 3 missile towards my roland or flarakrad because they each only have 2 missile.. I hate it! Also why the fuck does the SPAA's have the same spawn as tanks? Make it spawn outside the battlefield away from Tank to Tank combat! Also just limited the amount of people able to spawn in with jets and helicopter alrdy and increase the spawnpoints for cas at least remove that dumbass airstrike perk for IFV's!

It’s day (actually 198 whoops) of writing comments for the algorithm No.5 We definitely need more videos on disappointing premium vehicles ! :)

A6E Intruders were primarily used for SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) missions and low level bombing sorties against strategic hardened targets. dont think many were used as a high altitude strike fighter/bomber. 1000ft or below. 500feet primarily over the deserts of Iraq and Euphrates rivers during Desert Storm in 1991.

"He' not rendering...that' unbelievable..." No good sir that's Gaijunk. ;)

As a gunsmith, and someone who's hobby and career is about military tech, i don't think laser aim works the way that Gaijin thinks it works...

Goes to show once again, first rule of WT is dont feed the snail. Learned my lesson with the A2D premium years ago.

Yea 70 dollars for a ground attack jet yea hell no id rather burn my money thats probably a better option tbh

Only if the Intruder had it's radar jamming capabilities 🙃

I know the button night vision is L but what the hell is the button for thermal on and off? Someone please tell me I can't find it

can you run british 7.0 lineout, attacker, avre, fv4202 etc pls thx

Why are u called "Player"? Also i noticed, when u try to land on a ground forces map with a VTOL plane or a heli, some of the details (fences, signs) wont render no matter how high u set the graphics, BUT even those "invisible" objects still has a shadow, even on low shadow setting, (that's the only help u get where not to land).

I cannot believe that people actually pay that kind of money to one of the worst games as for as development that is out there.

Yes, a $70 insanely OP CAS plane. Thanks Gaijin.

Thanx Odd, enjoyed the video a lot. I saw this trainwreck coming when they put it out. At $70 it's just a rip-off at it's BR and that's what Gaijin planned from the start, much like the A-10 Tech tree variant. But of course the Su-25 is down in the 9's...whatever snail...whatever. 😏 I mean seriously, it's NOT designed as a CAS aircraft...

Running the a6 as a pure bomber is very fun 2 counter pods and as much bombs as you can carry just as intended Would recommend you have a friend to fight for you

I guess you didn't see the Phly video where he uses the laser guided bombs as cruise missiles

Despite what you may think, I've actually had good luck with the Intruder in Air RB. Enough Su-25's to keep me out of 11.0-10.7, enough jets faster than the Su-25's to get there first and eat 3x9L's, and a nasty gunpod to mop up what you can. Got my 4th ever ace in this plane, and it only took me about 7 games or so. Situational, sure, but as far as situational planes go, it doesn't disappoint. For the price though, it's rough, and easily arguable that it's not worth it. However, as a massive fan of the A-6, I planned on buying it since day one. I don't regret it, but in an odd turn of events, I definitely use it more in Air RB than ground.

Not like there's a premium jet on the US tree that actually good....

Considering the A-10 is cheaper and at the same BR, it's a stupid plane to buy 😁

The way Gaijin handled the intruder is depressing. It had to be one of the U.S's best aircraft at the time. My grandpa worked on the deck of the Nimitz just after the Vietnam war ended. He was one of the "Red Shirts" and re-armed the planes massive amount of ordinance. ( around 17-18,000 LBS I think? ) When I told him about how this game featured it I swear he almost has a stroke.

"The E-6E Entruder"💀

Just my opinion, but I really like your other videos but this video just didn’t really hit the same. I think it’s just because you’re making something you don’t really like anyway, I do love most your other videos, and look forward to watching more❤