My initial statement was referring to you saying attackers kill the bases before you do.
You obviously know they will when the match starts and you see them, therefore anticipate it and get a nice position and stay safe until the bases respawn.
My other comments were not directly aimed at you, moreso the general playerbase who claim bombers are useless while at the same time doing everything in their power to make sure they get shot down before they even start to bomb.
So what do you do when you’re a bomber and all 4 bases get taken out?
Yeah thats not how this actually works. A fighter usually just climbs and kills you pretty easily.
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if you fly straight at a base yes.
wait until they respawn.
Dont get me wrong i love bombing airfields and hate how they removed it in majority of maps.
But if i see attackers are gonna kill the bases before me, i’m not gonna continue to fly at the bases and enemy team.
Though Contrail overhaul and maybe reduction in spotting range for heavy bombers wouldnt go amiss and im hoping a few will get a BR drop.
That is an idea.
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Of the hundreds of games played with the heavy bombers I have never been killed before I managed to drop all the bombs, staying alive at altitude waiting for the bases to regenerate is not as easy as you say, especially since they added the contrails condensation, which detect the presence of a bomber at least 15/20km away.
ok thats you, MANY do die before bombing.
I’m simply saying that what most people do (fly direct at a base into incoming team) is hardly the best approach imo although sometimes it is but still risky.
I mean i wouldnt fly directly into the enemy team even if i was a fighter.
But i agree, waiting for bases is bs - but sometimes you gotta.
Bring back airfields i say.
You will be outclimbed in the time it takes for the bases to respawn, though.
Yeah i get that, it is far from ideal but i see no other option if all bases have been taken out before you get there.
My solution is bring back airfield bombing.
Personally, the main issues for bombers (non-attack aircraft) is that they don’t get to the bases in time, they won’t be able to climb to altitude quick enough, and they are basically defenseless due to the game not having formations modeled. To fix all those issues, they’d have to:
- Make base respawns quicker, or make bases only bomber targets, or bring back the airfields
- Make the starting altitude for the bombers much higher
- Increase the firepower of bomber MGs only, or implement formations
The airfield bombing would only really fix the first of the three major issues.
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Isn’t it already at 6.3?
I’ve been regularly playing the B-17E/E today, and killing everything that tries to trail me was easy, you you tied manual gunner mode?
What? The B-29 and Tu-4??
Af bombing making a return would be the best solution.
Putting them a bit higher would be nice. Mostly for the higher br bombers
Again, this isnt WoWP or something. This will never happen nor should it
Not sure formations would be able to be made workable. Not until they rework aa/gunner ai.
No. I don’t fly anywhere near people and climb. I still find fighters climbing after me just fine constantly. You are heavily exaggerating how easy it is to bomb nowadays.
Unless they drop the BR of bombers and so you have stronger turret armament at lower BRs
B-29, just recently looked at it today, it’s 7.3, sorry.
Oh okay.
I have almost all the bombers of six nations, I have three left to complete and they are British, Stirling B Mk III, Lincoln and Shackleton, I have been thinking about playing them in SB for a long time, because now in AirRB you have to be a risk-taker.