yeah, another example is my experience while I was spading that second B-17 bomber which sits at BR 5.0 and it was really bad with attackers rushing the bases and then I was waiting to be unceremoniously taken down by superprops at 6500 + meters with 0 bombs dropped.
As an addendum, at BR 4.0 and under this problem wasn’t so bad. Not many would go so high (so you can just wait for base respawn), or they would have fragile planes, or attackers don’t seem to bomb as much or have more limited payload. So only at 5.0 and above seems to be a real problem with bombing in RB.
There is a huge difference in points for bases compared to frag or ground target. Bombing one base gives more RP and SL. And theoretically it’s easier to bomb a base than make frag or destroy ground AI with bomb.
Playing a b-57 is pointless, because after bases are destroyed, the game is long over before next one spawns. basically, if you didn’t bomb an base, you should land and quit. And often you left no bases, because attackers are faster and suicide bomb them first. Which means many battles for you are just start, then land and quit. Or wait until you are last one and then killed via “blind hunt” . It should be changed.
Just take us back to the days where you had 3 bases + airfield. Rarely were you ever able to actually destroy the airfield but it offered a fun objective for bombers. Now bombers have next to no incentive to stay out of space and rearm with bombs.
I have no idea why Gaijin removed one of the most fun parts of ARB
You can thank those that flew full TU-4 squads back then for that and the Gaijin’s laziness to adjust the airfield health to counter those squads. That’s why you still get the OG 3 bases and airfield at low BR.
Tu-4 is total ass now. Literally gets radar missiled half the games it’s in lmao. They’re never going to move the BR down so we can safely go back to the 3-base system at all tiers in my opinion
Gaijin’s inability to create dynamic airfield HPs is one reason.
Besides that: The F-4Es appearing in March 2020 killed enemy airfields way faster - in just a few minutes. So respawning bases since May 2020 has nothing to do with Tu-4s.