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Originally Posted by Azathoth
My issue with thermal... You cannot identify clearly friend/for, Its difficult to aim (non fusion systems), price, You can't read a map (or read for that matter), or drive a car on the highway at night (you can walk your cat), or stargaze. At night games I usually spend a disproportionate amount of my time laying down staring up into the night sky.
TNVC did an excellent video series on the limitations of both standard I^2 vs Thermal under various situations.
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What do you mean its difficult to aim? A well zeroed thermal sight is just as easy to aim as a well zeroed regular optic.
For everything else you said (at least the points that are actually airsoft related) the idea is that you have both at your disposal NVG to work around the shortcomings of thermal and thermal to work around the shortcomings of NVG.
Having said that, if i could only pick one; if i am in a static defensive position I think I would choose thermal over NVG and depending on the terrain and the light conditions, damn might even pick thermal over NVG in an on the move type situation.