An impossible task if you actually want to play the game
Is winning as first of your team “not playing the game”?
Yeah. balancing vehicles based purely or primarily on player performance is never a good idea, just look at the Ju 87 D-5 and it’s entirely unreasonable BR of 3.3/3.7(I can’t remember which is AB at the moment), regardless of which one is for AB, it’s far too high for what is largely just a basic Stuka
If you are somehow doing that without getting targeted by at least 2-3 fighters on the enemy team you must be getting the most stupid of enemy players to fight.
It’s not impossible - but it does take a lot of skill to pull off relatively consistently.
I’ve not gotten first place, but definitely top three in a bomber, even with fighters on me.
… I just haven’t been able to pull it off again.
This is quite normal:
This is rare indeed. And while the red team was relatively stupid, my team was even more so.
I’ve gotten first place while using bombers, but IIRC not with bombers with 2 or more engines
Depends whether they have fighters that decide to go high or not - undefended base bombing is a fabulous way to make huge scores, and @Dodo_Dud 's screenshots show.
But it only takes 1 fighter to spoil it - and that’s not something you get to decide.
Somehow I suspect Dodo’s screenshots only apply to high level crews since I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone reach 10k points in one normal match
Yeah that is exceptional - but I regularly get 4-5k bombing with the Swedish T18B or the French MB162 when unopposed - the Swedish one of course can also shoot down incautious fighters struggling to reach it :) (both in AB)
Also use the Me 264 occasionally - but the Swedish and French are my current go-to’s for both base bombing and also “get Anti-mech” tasks - killing light tanks and AA in those 3 x airfield domination matches is a good earner :)
by the way there is awesome easy 500k SL wager for doing Thunderer/Antimech, or Tsunami/Rogue wave
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Ironically, I’m better at using these as heavy fighters than bombers. It’s gotten to the point where I just have an empty secondary load!
yeah I can sometimes get 3 or 4 kills just playing as a bomber at low level killing AI units. Then can follow up with the other B18B and the JU-88 doing whatever seems appropriate.
Buffalo and J-22, Myrsky and Hurricane of Fokker D-XXI to fill in the lineup.
It’s a great plane and I’ll be using it a lot for the 106 :)
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Regarding bombers in Doms: the second spoiler above shows a B-18A in a domination, with 12 air kills.
True. But the higher you are when the fighter notices you, the better your end result will be. If you are at 6km, few enemies will climb for you. Their profit analysis tells them, that they will earn more below, than with minutes of climbing for one target.
For new nations, “reload” is the first crew skill I push to the top, after having enough crew skill to allow for “expert”. Reload decides how fast you can kill a field. And “Expert” is a must. Ace comes quickly on its own. Weapon maintenance is also important, the rest much less so.
Your chances of wrecking this much havoc in the time you have decreases if your bombs take longer to reload. But the strategy works just as fine.
Yes bomb reload time is the most important factor here.