What I am saying is if these dive bombing buff drivers have to sit in the sight for a second, they won't be able to set salvo for 20, .05 delay and dive, then hit F6, and the bomb drop switch. Yes, going to F6 will make the buffs level out, but not before these carpet bombers would be able to release their ords. These guys don't want the challenge of High altitude bombing, they want to bomb, get kills and get more buffs. It is very rare that they go home. They don't care. They carpet bomb a V-Base get 3 kills to the cost of their one life (3 Planes, one life) and if they die, so what?
Dive bombing buffs are a no skill way to get kills. What kind of skill does it take to fly 3 planes into a base and carpet bomb? You get 3 planes, by the time they shoot down 2, you can still drop. Lancasters can take up to 7 hits from an Ostwind. A 37mm projectile hitting a aircraft moving 300 miles per hour verses 3 Lancaster’s dropping 9, 1000 lb. bombs and 1, 4000 lb. bomb. Thus creating a kill zone that is about 100 yards wide by about 1000 yards long. And dropping on a vehicle that if not stopped is doing at best 25 miles per hour. Gee, what skill that must take. Oooohhh. What a stud that buff driver is. He just dropped 39,000 lbs. of bombs directly onto some virtually stationary vehicles. That is skill. His mother is so proud of him. He has move up from his Nintendo.
Or is the buff driver that drops from 10,000 feet and predicts where a vehicle will be to kill it. Or has to swing wide to line up for his drop and hit each target in one pass. That buff driver earns my respect. That takes some time and skill. Not only to hit the target, but to survive the hordes of fighters trying to kill ya. You might make it back, Skippy just lost all his buffs and went back for more. He doesn't care. Instant gratification. No skill.
That I think is what is a major problem with this game. Give me a vehicle or weapon that will allow me to defend against that lame tactic. Or fix the problem by making the Buff drivers have to use the bomber as it was intended.
I just think that if the F6 is the only thing they have to do, they will just pop and drop. Still dive-bombing.
For those that spend 90% of their time in the air, they probably think this is a dumb thread and could care less. For those that do it, they will defend there right to dive bomb no matter how lame it is. For those that spend time on the ground, or have Lancaster’s dive bombing the runways and looping over to do it again, it is a problem. As I recall, Jimmy Stewart was a B-25 driver, not a Lancaster driver and I am sure he never dove in and looped his buffs in formation 500 feet off the ground.
OK, My 2 cents.
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