The B-29 Superfortress is currently placed at 7.0–7.3 in Air RB, but in its current state, it is significantly up-tiered and struggles to perform effectively at that BR. At 7.0+, the B-29 is consistently matched against early jet aircraft such as the Me 262 and Yak-15. These jets have a massive speed advantage, allowing them to easily intercept and destroy the B-29 before it can meaningfully contribute to the match. Unlike earlier BR ranges, where piston-engine interceptors at least require time and positioning to engage, jets can climb and reach the B-29 with little difficulty. Additionally, while the B-29 historically had strong defensive armament, in-game this is far less effective against jet aircraft. The high closure speeds of jets make defensive gunners less reliable, and even minor mistakes by the B-29 pilot are heavily punished due to its large size and lack of maneuverability. Another key issue is the time-to-impact factor. At its current BR, many matches are effectively decided before the B-29 can reach bombing altitude or deliver its payload. This makes its primary role strategic bombing far less impactful than intended.
Lowering the B-29 to 6.0 would:
make it where it rarely facing early jets
Place it in a more appropriate environment against late-war piston fighters
At 6.0, the B-29 would still have clear weaknesses (large size, poor maneuverability, reliance on altitude), but it would no longer be consistently outclassed by aircraft from a completely different technological generation. Overall, a BR of 6.0 would provide a more balanced and historically appropriate experience for the B-29 without making it overpowered.
6.0 is too low, it’ll be facing enemies that can barely climb to its altitude if even. Just being an annoying AFK bomber that you’re going to spend ages hunting down and killing.
There are a lot of threads dealing with the BR of B-29s. Most people forget that B-29s were for years at 6.3 in Air RB and it was no problem for an experienced pilot to kill them with a plain 190 D-9.
Unfortunately the overall player quality decreased and gaijin reacted with higher BRs in order to allow easier kills for less experiencdd players - u will find on yt even the famous BO TIME vid with a 4 men squad burning SL whilst flying them.
A BR of 6.3 would be adequate - but gaijin sees this different…
This vid is from 2019 - the B-29s were 6.3 and were ez kills:
ironically, the b29 is almost better off facing very early jets because they climb so poorly and suffocate at high alt. I remember when it was 6.0-6.3 and those late war interceptors are a nightmare for b29. b29 becomes tu152 fodder, that thing will outclimb most aircraft in the game lol
That BR range has horrible compression though to the point where it will usually die to an Su-11 / MB-236 / some other airspawned strike aircraft that it doesn’t really matter whether it’s at 6.7 or 7.0
Too low, and you fight Hornets and Ki-83 and Ta-152’s. Too high, and it’s La-200, Su-11, and about 10 other undertired jets at that BR that will intercept it like it’s nothing.
getting shredded by Mig-15s IS perfectly historically accurate as they where deployed in the Korean war, so not the best argument.
Personally I want to see the changes that Gaijin is supposedly making to bomber damage models before things get moved around.
Also add it the turret lead computers:
yeah, I retired my b29 shortly after the su11 was added. really nothing you can do against it unless you get lucky and snipe the pilot. Still cant believe that thing is at 7.3 with the climb rate of a mig15.
→ The dude that only grinded 1 tree will complain about getting killed by the “aimbotting B-29 /Tu-4” by standing behind it for +5 seconds
→ bombers are reverted back to their current state and / or removed from all roles in WT