Because ground battles are the only place where bombers can attack real human targets. It’s even worse when a few attackers have the new damage model making them extremely powerful
I saw an impressive kill by p-40, Iirc, after spending all ammo he rammed my tail and cut it in half. We both crashed.
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A spitfire lit my engine on fire in a Do 217. He then crashed into me, broke his propeller and then proceeded to crash into the ground. I crashed later because I couldn’t get to the airfield in time with one engine.
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Is there a list of planes which might be used in a fighter role and have this new DM?
Something like a Mosquito with guns, TIS MA and stuff like this.
I kinda wish enemy planes that ram you could stuck to your fuselage and weight it down even after being killed. It would be sick, trying to RTB with a spitfire partly stuck in your fuselage.
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Someone could argue the Do 217s but those handle horribly, fly like a brick, engines ignite easily, they’re very slow, and have a horrible turn time. Do 217 is the only one I know of tho
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Pe-3, Do-217, A-20, Ki-109, Tis Ma, Tu-1
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I’ve landed with my engine entirely burning and it is very cool.
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No, not Do217, they can’t be used in this way.
Well, yeah, they are quite bad, destroyed them on my pe-3
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From what I can see looking at the list in the changelog (War Thunder "Sky Odyssey" - Changelog), basically any bomber with offensive guns is there, and anything derived from a bomber has the new DM.
I mean I’m so slow and bombers spawn so high up I kinda have to lol. I just head on everything since it has great frontal armament and bullet proof glass. So not for dog fights but rather head ons
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I’ve landed without one engine and half a tail’s surfaces, iirc. It was a hard landing. One screenshot I saw from a guy who said that his bomber ripped in half just above the airfield, so he landed half of the bomber and had to wait 1:30 until repair.
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From scanning the list I’d say:
Pe-2
Tis-MA
Swedish T18 bombers
Was flying the low-rank Do217 fighter versions last night to get them respaded, they were quite tanky. Only deaths were collisions.
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Mine were from losing an engine and not being able to land
So dev was 52% for bombers 48 against, and now we’re at 60% for bombers and 40 against
I was doing some Ju-88A4 base bomb runs for an arcade task. I survived a heavy fighter’s barrage. Lost one engine to a fire, but one engine is sufficient to keep going. The enemy fighter was crippled and went down.
Wounder how Ju-288 will do now.
Bombers were too fragile. They always broke into pieces cause of some 50cal hits. So a buff was neccessary. For sure it was. But Gajin pushed it a bit too far :)
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I like how heavy fighters like the Do 217 NJ and Ju 88 C-6 now have a meaningful role, as they are the only ones capable of engaging bombers due to their comparable durability.
I would gladly take a meta where specialized interceptors are the main option for taking down bombers, instead of being overshadowed by any high-climb-rate fighters.
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