Hello… Although the game is great in my opinion, there is one thing I can’t get my head around. Why do bomber-only presets of mine tend to get into Air Domination battles quite frequently? What am I supposed to do there except being cannon fodder? There are some planes I have that “have no offensive capability” at all. This makes very little sense to me. I can’t "opt out " of Air Domination either, can I?
If you are playing bombers, I would suggest playing Realistic Battles. There are always something tl bomb like bases or convoys and you don’t get out in battles where you are more cannon fodder than usual. There is also increased rewards.
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Thank you, Hurlalala! I’ve now tried every type of vehicle the game can offer and that was the only thing that puzzled me - and although I don’t feel experienced enough to go realistic yet, that is a great suggestion for later - thank you!
I agree, RB is the best place for bombing. WWII guaranteed bombing target. In the jet era, some fighters like to bomb so there’s more competition. My favorite bomber was the german tornado. Get in fast, take a fat dookie, flare and chaff your way back to base.
In case you want to play realistic:
There are from my pov just 3 prop bombers (TT) worth to be played:
- B7A2 at 3.7
- B-18B at 4.0
- G8N1 at 6.7
All others are basically just free kills for fighters.
As soon as you feel confident enough - ask in the Academy section how to use them. F.e. most guys are not aware of basic things like small bomb bonus (=9x60kg of the B7A2 kills every base, even in full uptiers) or different TNT requirements at various BR ranges.
What ever you do: Ensure that you spend crew XP mainly for reload times, especially for the B-18B and the G8N1 everything else is secondary…
Edit:
- Example of a relaxing bomb run with a B-18B: Replay link MS: 2.997
- Example of a 5 kill match in the B7A2: Replay link MS: 3.757
These mission scores are just possible if you have a bad team - and offensive armament.
This is whole point of bombers in war thunder. They are slow, fragile, defensive armament has annoying parallax and ai gunners have some horrid range even with maxed crew. If you want to bomb ground stuff you should just use strike aircraft which at least could bait enemies for head on and win those head ons. Its better to have a chance to survive, get a frag and bomb base than dont have any chances and hope enemy just ignores you.
Correct.
But - the exceptions i listed are quite good to complete daily & special tasks like killing 6 or 20 bases in order to progress within the BP.
The B-18B is basically a heavy fighter (with a single 13.2 mm cannon) able to kill 2 bases (up to BR 4.7) and the B7A2 is a very stiff A6M2 with 2 x 20mm cannons😂 I added 2 replay links in my last post - just to demonstrate that mission scores (MS) of 3.000 points are possible - if you have some experience.
To all who replied: THANKS A MILLION for the great advice ! Very kind of you! I’ll try to put them to good use. (And I guess - I’ll still be selected into Air Domination battles when using bombers :( )