Hi. Do you also think that War Thunder lacks such iconic machines as e.g. B47, B52, B58 and TU-16, TU-22 ? Are there any plans to introduce them to War Thunder? These could be very interesting machines not only in realistic battles, but also on large simulation maps.
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They would get put in MU’s where all SPAA and air would crush them instantly. Bombers don’t really belong in this game and Gaijin only begrudgingly adds a few now and then.
Yes it does miss them. The problem is in the current set up we play, they won’t go anywhere.
Fast fighters equipped for A-G, will take bases before you think going there (except if you arm them with cruise missiles). You will be in a worse state than flying lower tiers with WW2 bombers and Korean era bombers.
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I think that by placing them at rank V with BR around 8.0-8.3, it would be possible to nice play simulation and ground realistic battles (without uptier). Currently, rank V bombers such as the IL-28 have too little payload to make much sense. They are not suitable, for example, for airstrikes on airports, and in realistic ground battles they are a waste of time, because it is difficult to destroy more than 1-2 vehicles with such a little TNT payload.
On realistics 8.0, the B29 or He177 will often do more damage than the IL-28, but they are so slow that they have almost no chance against jet fighters in longer flights in SB.
I think that strategic jet bombers should be included in the game and let the players decide whether it makes sense to use them. Anyway, for me it’s not always about the result. Sometimes it’s just nice to have fun with a cool machine.
In realistic air battles, they could take off from the airport together with fighters to allow them to be intercepted by the enemy.
I don’t know, just specific vehicles can be bad or OP. For example…B-58 is 60s however i don’t think anything else than a Starfighter can intercept it…Tu-16 is used even now as H-6 from China, yet you have to place it with very early jets to actually have a chance . B-47 is even worse.
They can always add it for variety purposes, though.
Would like them, if not for players to at least make another level of Air Assault. Both for 13.0+ planes and to decompress them so Sabres aren’t teamed with F-16’s.
I would kill for the Avro Vulcan. But its a question of where the hell do you place them.
Vulcan for example is faster than the Canberras, with 3x the bomb load. Naturally, they should be a higher BR than that.
But the Buc S2 is much smaller, but equally fast, so overall much more suvivable, with a very decent bomb load (about 3/4 of the Vulcan) so the Vulcan should be roughly below it. But that places it about 9.0.
At that BR it would pretty much only ever face Mig-21s and F-104s that would shoot you down long before you ever got close to a base and even if you made it to the bases, no guarantee there would be something to bomb.
To introduce them, its gunna take a fundemental overhaul of ARB or the intro of RB EC and a full decompress of the tree to create adequate space within the trees. They would be great fun and highly inconic aircraft. But likely free kills for anyone they face
Now that separate ground BRs exist we can have a later B-52H put into the game for 8.0 - 8.7 air RB as the later ones can’t use dumb-bomb racks, rotary racks only.
Has the same bomb load as B-29 while being faster.
Sadly more bombers added to the game would just suffer with how much they’ve nerfed bombers. Like their ai gunners being useless, the planes being made from paper, player AA would destroy them. Sadly I personally just don’t think they fit in this game anymore.