Originally posted by Tony Williams
If you want to make bomber fire realistic, the simplest thing to do is to load the guns with blanks. They fired tens of thousands of rounds for every plane shot down.
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Mr. Williams is exactly correct.
However, if HT did that you would see no more bombers in the main. Which as I said isn't necessarily a bad thing considering how they are employed.
Angus and bunch I have plenty of films. Its only the expert shots that were effective in making head on runs. The average pilot was not that skilled.
Head-on passes are the least effective way to ensure hits. The best way is slow closure from 6 o'clock and getting in close. Which is how 90% of the bombers shot down by LW fighters were killed.
I can post kill claims that show pilot jumping from one bomber after another shooting them down in minutes of each other. You can't do that head on. While a head-on attack may appear less threatening to the attacker it's effectively a one pass solution.
Sturmgruppe pilots were ordered not to return to base unless they expended all their ammo. They would run of fuel making multiple head on pases before they ran out of ammo.
The whole 'head-on' thing is just nothing more then hype. Some of the least experienced LW pilots were attacking bombers.
Bombers are more difficult (I am not saying they are hard to kill, because they are not) in AH because of game play not because its 'realistic'. No amount of rationalizing will change that.
