Air Arcade Capture Airfield shouldn't exist as mode

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As a bomber loadout with battle pass task “Destroy 32 ground targets” getting repeatedly capture maps with NPCs that shoot each other before they can be reached or when they are all located right below enemy team should not exist.

It takes ridiculously long time compared to same task in Air Realistic where each battle has enough NPCs to progress.

It is extremely “Fun” to have ability to spawn one bomber, do something once at the start of battle and not being able to progress the rest of battle because whole map is covered by enemy players at all heights.

Therefore, capture the airfield should not exist as game mode and only mode where all types of planes can progress their tasks thorought the battle should exist.

This is a problem since earliest War Thunder days.

P.S. This is intended as “laugh at this”. Because obviously developers won’t do anything about it.

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you do bad because have bad loadout. All you need is fast figher or attacker and some 1000pnd to drop on bunkers. I did that battle pass task with “destyoy 100 grounds” within 5 matches, two of which were airfield.

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No, not the task “Destroy 100 ground targets”. The task “Destroy 32 ground targets AS BOMBER” medium difficulty (second one)

Weapon Of Mass Destruction. Daily.

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ah, then you better get yourself something like B-25 and do the same.

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True. But American B-25 works only for Easy Battle pass task, Tier 2 plane.
China has one at Tier 3.
Other B-25 is PBJ, which is an Attacker. Won’t count towards progress B-25 "Mitchell" | Vehicle families | War Thunder Wiki

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uh, thats bad for sure. Tho i do believe you can find some stuff, like swedish bombers, which are capable of such. Its just that strategic bombers arent made for ground targets.

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The problem is in the task itself. It can work with Tier 2 bombers. But requires Tier 3
Most tier 3 bombers (especially lineups) turn into sets of strategic bombers that require cover. They can kill a LOT of ground if there is no enemies up high. But, coincidentaly, that never happens.

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well, at rank 3 there are B-26, Do 217, Pe-2 and Yer-2 (wow, there are like 7 planes total plus the B-25 premium), the Brigand, them Ki-49 and B7 and Gnga (japan is also great pick)

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Then i would suggest the Ar 234 b-2 or c-3

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Obviously it doesnt solve the problem of the ground targets being limited and far from the spawn, but by far the best vehicles to do dailies like this are the SB2C-4’s that are still rank 3 (SB2C-5 (France) | War Thunder Wiki , SB2C-5 (Japan) | War Thunder Wiki), the B7A2 (B7A2 | War Thunder Wiki , B7A2 (Homare 23) | War Thunder Wiki)and the Brigand B1 (Brigand B 1 | War Thunder Wiki) isnt too bad. This is still an issue in some maps for air RB too, it would be nice to see some of the older maps updated to the standard of the newer maps with new ground targets being added.

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You said nothing for “Destroy n bases” in Air Arcade…

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Queue a rank 3 first, then spawn the rank 2 bomber. Do the 32 kill task.

Actually airfield dominations are often great maps to get ground kills with bombers!

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I think it doesn’t work. No rank 3 trigger for bombers.

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Iirc that only works for games where you need a certain score/award/activity percent or for event grinding.

As for OP, best shot is to grab a light bomber or to essentially keep doing beelines towards the ground units and try lead your bombs.

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You can play the Swedish B18B or T18B (both versions) they are all rank 3 and really good for killing ground targets witht e 13.2 or 20mm

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Fortunately, the game doesn’t give a damn. ;-)

It works for all tasks.

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Bomber at arcade air capture map, just flown. The 32 target task would be half done. Also caps and air kills. Game ended as win with me still first place. Just added one airkill and the final cap with my second spawn.
One can argue about the mode in general, but the presented reasoning can’t be taken serious.

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If you don’t want to be targeted by the games reeducation program, don’t bring bomber heavy/only lineups. And don’t quit dominations.

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That was the intention, yes.

That was the most useful bit of info. Excellent!

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Game is biased against bombers.

  • two of the three air modes are much better for fighters / attackers
  • the bot gunners on bombers have been castrated and are almost useless in many cases
  • bombers have to go player vs player from scratch while fighters / attackers can ear some modules in Air Assault.

I stopped playing air, and only do so for specific battle pass missions like Ostrich Feathers.

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That Bomber is only rank II and would not qualify for the “medium” mission.