I am referring specifically to the A26B-10, A26B-50, P61-C1, PBJ, and PBJ-1H strike aircraft, clearly omitting AD/AMs, which are practically fighter planes with bombs.
These planes aren’t bad in themselves, I just think they serve no purpose and are practically invisible to players.
-They have a large bomb capacity, even more than normal American bombers, but they don’t have a bombsight, so you can’t really bomb with them. You’d have to do dive bombing, but this is extremely difficult with such large and clumsy planes.
-They have great weaponry, but this is only useful if the enemy player is foolish enough to engage in a head-to-head battle with you or to hunt distracted planes, something that cannot be done in AIR RB, because the planes glow like fireflies.
-They are faster and more agile than normal bombers, but not fast enough to pose a threat to fighters or shot-and-zoom tactics. They have defensive weaponry, but some, such as the A26B, have worse defensive weaponry than normal bombers.
So they really have no place in the game, you can’t even use them as CAS because naval aircraft already fulfill this purpose very well,
American bombers are huge and useless, and the truth is that they don’t even have a good payload to bother using them, so why not give the role of bomber to American striker aircraft? That way, America would have useful bombers that wouldn’t just be piñatas for fighter jets, and it would also bring these planes out of obscurity…