I mean you’re right, but you have to trade - going high basically screams “i’m here!!!”
Or you have to run the gauntlet of low level runs. If you arced away at low level you, if memory served, stood a reasonable chance.
yea out of 20 games you may get 1 good game in with the b-29. The only thing to do is side climb and try to hit bases toward the end of the match and hope you got high enough and the enemy was playing at tree top level and doesnt want to take the time to come and get you.
No idea how the Tu 4 is even a high br… it could be that i dont have the mods unlocked but that thing does not want to climb or maintain altitude with a full bomb load.
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The B-29’s BR is completely unacceptable. It needs to move to 6.0/6.3 where it has even the slightest chance to bomb or defend itself.
Absolutely!!! Gaijin STOP it! You KNOW the problem! Enough is enough! There is no excuse keeping B29 BR so high! It is not real life simulator, there is no fighter support as it was in real life, it is game where everyone fights for their individual kills and personal survival! And now, when attack planes bomb the bases instead of ground units, playing B29 is pointless! It is waste of time, SL and bad to mental health
Dude, you can imagine i tried everything. Including turning engines off (no contrails) and side gliding, taking U turn and hiding behind/midst our fighters (do not hope they protect you intentionally, LOL, but you may act as a bait) , low flying spawning from base and etc. Survival rate goes from worse to less worse, but it remains awful and you die most often before you can bomb the base or before new bases spawned. You can only survive if your team stomps the enemy before enemy can spot and attack you. It is impossible to whitewash this detrimental situation - B29 BR is way too high!
Your quote is misleading regarding fighter support for B-29s:
- During WW 2 attacks flown by B-29 fleets had no fighter cover - the combat reports i read never mentioned own escort fighters (somehow comprehensible if you check the distances).
- The fighter cover in the Korean war was useless against MiG 15s, that’s why B-29s were withdrawn from daylight attacks
But - i would see no problem to have the B-29s at 6.3 (like years ago):
So the currently too high B-29 BR is mix of gaijin’s dislike of (prop) bomber game play and the severe skill deterioration of the average fighter pilot as the overwhelming majority lacks the necessary skill and patience to kill a B-29 in a contemporary aircraft.
Fine then, let B29’s fly only in nighttime. In real darkness and radar guided level bombing. (It was joke). In current situation B29 is just a way how Gaijin is trolling bombers.
Btw, escorts weren’t useless, they had no range enough to follow B29’s to everywhere.
By the time that the bases for escorts were set up (Mainly on okinawa and iwo jima from from what I have read) or arrived in theater (P-47N) the threat to the B-29 from Japanese fighters was basically nil. and before that B-29’s were able to effectively fend off fighters due to their speed and altitude. Most B-29 losses occurred from mechanical failure and running out of fuel. This is the main reason that nighttime bombing was adopted, was to allow the B-29 to relaibly reach japan. However with he capture of iwo jima, emergency landings could finally be done and B-29 losses fell drastically.
Hmh - you might check your sources.
Iirc the main point for going for night time attacks against JP was the lack of accuracy from very high alt bombing attacks and the total absence (very few exceptions) of functional JP night fighters. The goal of these attacks were just to wipe out cities / population centers with more effective attacks due increased accuracy.
Technically seen the attack profile Hi-Lo-Hi needs way more fuel than Hi-Hi-Hi so i am not sure if your quoted assumption is correct.
Imho you mix things up.
Even as there is a difference between having no escorts due to the lack of range of escort fighters and having useless escorts as these fighter could not protect bombers - at the end of the day B-29s were relegated to night time raids; so the outcome is the same.
There are some combats described in the web - it boils down that MiG 15s could easy penetrate the fighter screen (early provided by F-84 Es) and kill a B-29.
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Initially they where still escorted by P-51s
From William F. (Bill) Welch — 31st and 91st SRS
Recollections:
“we got the pictures just before being jumped by Mig-15s (The left scanner had watched them with binoculars all the way from take-off). The P-51 pilots also did a superb job of flying. They attacked the Migs head on and kept them busy while we peeled off and headed for the Yellow Sea.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20160622040317/http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/29wfw.htm
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how about the poor Tu-4?
How they calculate the BR of anything that bombs needs to be overhauled. If they do that. a LOT of aircraft would shift about. I think pretty much every single heavy bomber would drop a nice chunk. 80% of them would probably drop by at least 1 full BR
Naturally, they should both go down in BR.