I am literally sick of not being able to get my bombs off because some dude can just zoom climb to my altitude and I have to pay the cost of heavily relying on my defences (basically none) from enemy planes, you know why? Because when you hit an aircraft from a FRONT aspect, it counts as a “hit” not like bullets going directly into your plane from the FRONT where your PROPELLERS are would totally not set them on fire or at the very least disable you controls right? Am I tripping or do bombers just tickle enemy fighters with their defence guns head on from the rear while when I get hit by a single bullet my wing just decides to go on vacation to Honolulu?
Whilst your general topic (defensive guns vs offensive guns) is actually an issue and an increase of spawn altitude might help to increase the chances to drop - i am not sure if your overall problems are not mainly a result of your lack of experience as bomber pilot.
I mean if you are unable to drop bombs in a Halifax on the easiest map (Frontline Korsun) in the game, you won’t get better results even if your spawn alt is higher of gaijin would reduce the artifical spread of gunner fire.
No offense (i watched a single replay - link). Watching it from your pilot perspective i saw multiple things which got you killed:
- You flew to the left base, despite it was clear the T-18B would be there first.
- You continued to fly straight - direct towards the enemy interceptor spawn
- You did not see the contrail of an approaching XP-50 and reacted way too late with a wrong maneuver and got killed by absolute noob stall climbing up to you.
Next time on this map (which has imho a drop guarantee for a fast bomber with good climb like your Halifax) i recommend the following:
- Do not go for the left base, it will be destroyed either by strike aircraft or a bomber not climbing.
- Fly towards middle or right base and keep an eye on the enemy interceptor spawn.
- Your climbing was good, but on this map the only plane which can intercept you before you drop is a B7A2 - the map is (like Frontline Mozdok and the other Frontline maps) too small that any interceptor can be at co-alt (if you climb and stay fast). Even the usual clowns in SB2Cs are no threat as they lack climb and speed to catch a Halifax.
For your shown defensive gunnery:
Your 7.7s are effective up to 1.3 to 1.4 km. Instead of trying to climb above the stall climbing XP-50 i recommend next time to you turn away from him whilst keeping your alt.
Most XP-50s are rookies and can nothing else than going for bombers; by turning and flying away from him you maximize the time for your tail gunner whilst 95% of the XP-50 continue stall climbing and are therefore lower and slower - easy prey.
Have a good one!
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Appreciate this feedback and information, usually don’t have problems with other bombers I fly, But long range ones are really just a hit or miss. Going to try your stuff out into practice, thanks again!
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