Get in , play 5 mins,don’t even get time to bomb anything,get tail cut by 20mm canons,get out
Rinse and repeat,what is the point of low tier bombers?
I thought 3.7 was quite safe from terrifying 20mm guns but it seems not.
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Could you perhaps be a bit more specific?
If you consult the tree, you will find that even rank I vehicles carry them.
nah man, bombers(atleast lower BR ones) were always been neglected by gaijin for years, just wanted to put my 2 cents up there.
I enjoyed playing bombers in air arcade to some extent naval arcade and realistic. I don’t think I have ever bothered using them in air realistic thanks for the constant reminders that something always outplays bombers or strike aircraft depending on the br.
What mode are you mostly using bombers? What battle rating?
True, I completely stopped playing large bombers at 4.0 because I was systematically sliced by fighters like the fw-190, and this no matter how high I climbed (even 6km…)
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I just wanted to bomb objectives , it has been ages since i’ve done it like back in 2015-2016, so i took the BV 238 that I used to enjoy playing back then but now it’s even more dreading than before. Atleast back then you used to take heavy damage, engines out, you had to struggle to stay alive.
Right now its just go in, get hammered by some 20 mm ( i have no problems with them) and just have you tail break off.
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lmao yeah it’s always the tail going to live its own life as soon as you get hit
look i have no problem with being attacked,infact i would love to engage with enemy fighters, but when i die to a tail strike within 2 seconds of being engaged, that is just not fun
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one of the problem always was the altitude bombers spawn, they spawn on a altitude easy to reach for fighters and bomb hunters, you will get shot down before reaching an enemy base on some cases
and even if you try to win more altitude (which is slow af on bombers) you cant save yourself because they climb faster anyways.
they should make bombers spawn waay higher
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at 5.0 i find the bomber spawns to be just right, for planes. It’s what I experienced atleast, you would be 1.5 to 2.5 km below the bomber and you had to work to get behind it while taking fire.
But at lower BR the planes/interceptors get air spawn more often and it’s extremely easy for them to climb above bomber levels.
I’ll just give you a tip its very simple actually. Don’t waste your time on bombers they are an easy target due to ai gunner nerf into the floor, they are too slow and cannons in this game are super unrealistic. Cannons will one tap a bomber tearing its entire wing of magically with a 20mm shot the bv-238 is the perfect example the most vulnerable part of the plane … is the tail you know the GIGANTIC TAIL.
Don’t forget bombing almost never nets almost any rp/sl.
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exactly, idk why the tail breaks so easily, weren’t ww2 planes heavily armored? Like, literally flying fortresses???
It didn’t use to be like this before, also i manually aim my gunners, but now i don’t even have time to do that before tail gets cut off
I am not doing it to farm haha,i’m just trying to have something different than dogfighting
And you know what the worst thing is? you being the bait at higher altitude going towards a bombing objective point, then you see 3-4 other faster,low to mid altitude bombers going for it meanwhile the enemy team are all going for you as the easy kill. You get to the bomb point and your faster allies already destroyed it anyway.
It’s the little things that annoy me the most,like gunners going to default position (straight) when out of range .
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Honestly the only real tip to stop this from happening is side climb like your life depends on it wait until the fighters go for the lower bombers then go bomb the bases that are left.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if you want to play bombers, you’d use a different game. WT is a fighter game.
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You are correct.
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Actually, you only need to do a different mode. Bombers work fine in arcade.
I may be part of the problem, hammering bombers with B7A2 homare is stupidly easy.
What is even the point of bombers if there are some dedicated bomber hunters with bomber spawn in the game?