I am a bomber enjoyer, and want to grind only bombers, but the game gives me always air domination, I don’t play air domination, I want to play ground strike
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welcome to War thunder
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Air Sim is your only hope
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There is no airdom above 3.0 or so iirc. So just grind on and bring some fighters too. The game knows if you only want chocolate cake for breakfast and responds.
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As someone who has been playing arcade for at least the first 90% of my play time, I advise you drop arcade and switch to realistic. I know it will be painful at first, it was painful for me to switch to realistic as well, but the earlier the better. In air realistic there’s only one mode, operation, where every plane has something to do and bombers have things to bomb.
And bombers suffer less in realistic as well
As a bomber player, realistic is the most pointless game to play.
(few OP bombers excepted)
I agree that you feel less important as a teammate, but that does prevent ending up in battles with nothing to do
At least in realistic there’s always ground targets
Playing your average bomber in RB is like playing hockey with a trumpet instead of a stick. You will be heard but you won’t cause a win.
Above 3.0 in arcade, bombers have stuff to do. No more airdoms.
I do agree we shouldn’t be getting domination matches when we have a full bomber lineup indeed
You should not have a full bomber lineup in arcade. The game will respond if you do.
Besides, airfield domination almost requires bombers. (the chinese and the pacific map do not)
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My advice if you like flying bombers is to give Air Sim a try. There’s an LFG discord with a stickied link on /r/WarthunderSim.
It may seem daunting, but bombers avoid the common difficulties fighters have by having two big engines and a tricycle landing gear.
In Air Sim, it’s objectives that win the match not TDM. TDM bleeds tickets, yes but pretty slowly. Bombers are also at an advantage against fighters with gunners having an easier time landing shots than the average fighter plane (there’s a few crack pilots who can snipe from far out but most of the time expect to engage at 100-400 meters ish).
I’ve recently had a game of mostly Bf109F4s versus a swarm of Il2, Yers, Yak-2 Kabbs and we lost despite dominating in the air by virtue of just how many tanks and bases the enemy could wipe out with us being spread too thin to stop them all.
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Had the same problem.
I used to just exit when matchmaker gave me the two non-ground-pound modes. Not interested in capture points or dog-fighting.
Now I don’t play it at all.
Game should let us choose the sub-mode within air arcade.
Tried realistic in bombers. Battles were over before I could land and re-arm.
That’s one of the problems yeah, realistic battles rarely last more than 10 minutes. Sim doesn’t have this issue, I don’t play it only because I don’t have the skills
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+1 on the Air Sim suggestion. Bombers are very strong there due to how the mode works and 3rd person shooting carrying over from Arcade and Realistic.