That huge bombload has no use, if you can only hit bases after waiting for 10 minutes or however long it takes for bases to respawn
Also, if the Zeppelin reaches the enemy airport, it can wipe it in one go.
If there are 4 bombers in your team, the other 3 will get likely bases, so you’ll probably manage to reach the airport before they can rearm and come back to finish the job.
I thought they got rid of that mechanic some time ago
since when?
Sometimes it’s like this, others is the respawning bases iirc, but the point is that the Zeppelin can loiter and bomb bases without turning back for far longer than other bombers, even if it takes a while to get there.
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So it’s still just specific maps
I vaguely remember reading about them getting rid of the ability to destroy airfields in ARB entirely
bumber
Looks like I was misremembering it
It’s just for the initial AI battles, but it’s still just specific maps that have airfields that can actually be destroyed
If i already have these then do I get the SPAD for the first stage or do i just get screwed?
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Again, even with respawning bases, you’re carrying 5x the bombload of the other bombers, so you can stay over there and destroy bases while your team’s other bombers have to do dangerous round trips to rearm. It is niche, sure, but it’s not useless.
They would have to increase the ticket impact of base destruction for me to consider that as useful in battles without airfield destruction.
I feel like the real niche would be to hope for people to land on their airfield and then to drop bombs on them lol
Is there an error in the description here?
One stage per side can be completed each day, with 6 stages total. You get all vehicles by completing 5 stages per side.However the dates at the bottom suggest a total of 7 stages in total.
Triple Entente has 7 stages listed, to get all vehicles you need to complete all 7
German Empire also has 7 stages listed, to get all vehicles you again need to complete all 7
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I hope we can eventually get proper WWI air battles with more aircraft from the era and maps sized to make them actually usable.
There is a lot of potential, even from nations you wouldn’t necessarily expect. For example Greece had quite a few aircraft during this time, so even the Israeli tree would have options here.
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You need to complete 7 stages, but the vehicles are rewards of 5 of them
Technically they are right by saying that you get the vehicles by completing 5 stages
edit: actually, it’s not even right then, there are 4 vehicles, so 4 stages with vehicle rewards
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I think 5 was right already, but only for the Entente.
But it’s probably only a mistake left over from copying the old event text
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Would be nice, but I can’t see Gaijin putting in the effort required for that anytime soon, if ever
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Of course, that is also an option hahahahah.
Look at it this way: the Zeppelin has a way better throughput of explosives compared to anything else on the battlefield, because even if, say, a Do-17 can carry 500kg of bombs at 350kph or so, it has to do 8 drops to drop as much explosive as you can, meaning that by the time you do get there, the Do-17 has dropped two loads (1000kg total) and is on its way back, while you can drop 4x its load without RTBing.
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so the usual cant even copy paste right shenannigans
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I get what you mean, the problem is that Gaijin has nerfed the impact of bombing so much that the impact of even destroying 5 bases is negligible
In a world where Gaijin never nerfed base bombing impact and enabled the airfield destruction mechanic on all maps, I would 100% agree that the zeppelin has a legitimate use in ARB, even if it relies on the enemy not having anything that can easily pop the balloon
Now I have to go, but tomorrow I’ll test the TB-3M’s performance, as it’s the closest comparison I can find.
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