Playing with bombers is simply painful, whether it’s because they’re all made of paper, or because fighter can reach the same altitude in seconds, or because of high BR
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In short, it’s best to just remove the bombers from the game because playing with them is simply impossible.
Play them in arcade. Most of them work nicely in arcade. (Or sim perhaps too?)
Realistic air is a team deathmatch, for which (most) bombers are simply not suited.
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the b-17g is 6.3 im sim (is simply over)
They were when 30mm cannons were as effective as 20mm cannons now.
Now even a single 20mm will easily shred a bomber by just hitting tail or wings a few times.
While 20mm cannons carry way more ammo and have superior ballistics.
37mm cannons are supposed to be bomber killing guns but even they don’t blow bombers to pieces but just cause lethal fuel fires.
You could trade a N-37 for a 20mm Hispano and you effectively have a better weapon now with higher RoF, better ballistics and 4-5 times the ammo.
Seeing a B-17 getting demolished by a Yak-3 in a single pass is just comical.
playing bomber is just pain.
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They said there would be a buff but who knows when
No, they could only be effective when they have a legitimate way to win matches. Even if they get to bomb the base, it doesn’t matter. And if you turn it into GunshipThunder, you are no longer realistic.
So without changing the victory conditions in realistic, they will remain unsuited.
That is why I point to arcade. There you can win reliably with using bombers. Not with all bombers, but with many of them.
Whilst i agree from a general perspective i am not sure why you needed 25k battles to come to this conclusion 😂👍
Flying exclusively WW 2 BRs in Air RB my first friendly advice would be to avoid using bombers during grinding events. The lobbies are full of (often squadded) tankers with rather poor skills flying aircraft with IC spawn focusing exclusively on bombers - trying to score whatever it takes.
In addition the flood of untrained grinding pilots (lootbox grinding on top of event) causes way shorter matches than usual. As a result you might have no chance to drop as you were forced to fly a detour to avoid the masses of BP Mosquitos and masses of strike aircraft wiped out all bases and the enemy team is killed in 6-8 minutes - or your team got killed equally fast and the whole enemy team is hunting you…
If you like the B-17s - use the 4.7 version and hope you got paired with JP (B7A2s) AND Sweden (BP Mossie spam) AND a full downtier. If you want to use higher BRs use the G8N1 - solid damage model and highly effective defensive 20mm turrets.
If you just want to relax - use the 4.0 B-18B. Up to BR 4.7 matches you score almost guaranteed 888 points mission score as a single 600kg M50 kills every base. Sideclimb 90 degrees away from center map and come in high (8km) and fast. I haven’t lost a single B-18B in the last 6 months.
Have a good one!
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