If you’re getting downed by a bomber, that’s on you. The guns are not effective, even manually aimed. If you’re scared of them, that’s a self indictment of your competency and generally disqualifies you from commenting frankly. There is a singular bomber with an effective defensive armament and that is the Tu 4.
That isn’t entirely true. Some bombers are quite well defended, but are still quite weak overall. The only exception is the Ju-288 or IL-28 if you don’t have AAMs. Acting like non British bombers are completely defenceless is as accurate as saying they are too powerful IMO.
My experience while trying to use bombers is the exact opposite, just one or two hits from a cannon instantly rips the tail off or disables the controls in some other way
I’m not expecting them to create a death bubble. What I’m trying to say is that their engagement distance is way too small.
The gunners don’t have to be snipers, but they should open fire at a reasonable distance and not at breathing distance.
Funnily enough, the gunners on turret fighters open fire at much longer distances because they aren’t nerfed to hell
I’d rather they fix the accuracy of bomber guns so the bullets don’t have worse accuracy than any other gun in the game. It’s quite funny how a Ju-288 can fail to hit a fighter because the bullets all went around.
What are you on about? Every bomber is afflicted with dispersion that is so poor you can’t hit the target until 500m with any number of effective rounds, aside the Tu 4. Whilst being such large targets that you can reasonably engage them out to 2km. British bombers just have to suffer the absolute most. Ju 288’s defensive armament is positioned in a less than useful manner, but you’re correct that it is decently defended. But you also won’t need it on account of it being a schnellbomber. IL 28 is poorly defended, but benefits from being at a rating where the speed it has actually can outdo much that would chase it.
I know those situations very well :(
I’m not gonna hide it, I’m one of those guys that likes using the Ju 288 and I actually work a lot with the turret, but the accuracy really is abyssmal
Aside that y’know, I have. Even made a caveat for the Tu 4. But go off, sunshine.
I play ground attackers. Generally play aircraft primarily for ground attack, find air to air to be generally mind numbing. I’d say calling you bad for getting downed by the classes of aircraft I’ve notable familiarity with is a pretty fair call :p
Not to mention, if you’re taking the game that seriously that you care about that front, you really should not be scared of a bomber lol
(To highlight how unseriously I take this, my favourite air to air platform is a frogfoot)