dive bombing

[Overlag]

Originally posted by Innominate
It's a problem of gaming the game.

The most efficient way to bomb a base involves hitting the ground immediatly after your bombs hit, saving the long trip back to base.

Even with divebombing buffs 'fixed' it just means using stuff not bound to those rules. (A-20 anyone? 4000lbs of bombs...)  If you're going to stop suicide buffs, you might as well do the jabos as well.

Perk the 500/1000lb bombs and the rockets.(Excepting the bomber class planes, excepting the a-20g)  i.e. Loading 1000lb bombs turns your plane into a low-cost perk plane.  
Reduce the hardness on structures.  

Now the primary bombs used are smaller 250lb bombs.  The light bombers now have a role in the MA(Free heavy bombs)

http://www.innomi.com/jabos.html
 (the original idea, bit outdated now though)

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nice ideas there...the perk the big bombs for fighters is good too....well kinda. Perk the bombs, if they land after there jabo run, they dont lose the perks right?

but what if they DONT sucide but get shot down before, on, or after there jabo run?

too many what ifs

the way it is now, the towns are so big, that the low number side (or any side during euro prime time) just doesnt have enough numbers to take a base, while defend others, it forces people to do low level attacks in bombers SIMPLY because it takes to long to get high. All the fighter guys at the base waiting for the bombers to climb to 10k (min i like to bomb at) kinda not fun, so, most people (generaly fighter guys who dont know how to bomb) just take a lanc up, and fly in a 2k (if that).

on the subject of bombs, anyone notice that the blast radius on bombs (1000lbs more so) is far too weak in AHII? a 1000lb bomb landing next to my house would knock it over (let allone a small tank) yet in AHII they dont seem to do much. The amount of times ive seen bombs land within about 5 feet of a city building, and the building not die..........arrg

[kevykev56]

For those who disagree with low level bombers, read this story

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_nazidams/interview.html


Yes they were carrying specalized bombs but I feel some of the same rush when doing this in AH. If I get in undetected great mission accomplished. If I am seen by the enemy before I get there, then fun is to be had by both sides. These missions end in failure more times than they succeed. I am not sure why so many people are against low level bombing. I do see the problem with suicide dive bombers, Suicide anything is silly.


RHIN0

[Overlag]

Originally posted by kevykev56
For those who disagree with low level bombers, read this story

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_nazidams/interview.html


Yes they were carrying specalized bombs but I feel some of the same rush when doing this in AH. If I get in undetected great mission accomplished. If I am seen by the enemy before I get there, then fun is to be had by both sides. These missions end in failure more times than they succeed. I am not sure why so many people are against low level bombing. I do see the problem with suicide dive bombers, Suicide anything is silly.


RHIN0

yes, but thats ONE squad that did it, and its failure rate was terrible, much like in MA. id say MOST (like 97.2% lol haha) was med-high level bombing, very few was low level like this, in MA however, its the total oposite almost 2/3s of bomber uses are under 5k most of the time

[shaky1]

I dont really have a big problem with the low level bombing its the dive bombing that pisses me off somewhat.
The B-26 was a low level bomber but not a dive bomber.

I also think if the box of bombers was done away with more people would fly missions together in bombers what with the towns being so large a single B-17 isnt gonna make much of a dent in it but 10 or 20 would

I remember flying in 20 or 30 plane missions in Air Warrior with fiter escorts plus 7 gunners per plane now that was a mission!

AHHHH the good old days of bombing i miss them so

anyway thanks for all the responses to this topic some good ideas came up