Originally posted by SuperDud
I think you are confused chop. Bombing has been made much easier since AH1. No more wind or calibration. Just hold down the Y button for 3 seconds and you're good. Also, the guns on a buff have always been lazer accurate. Furthermore, you get 3 aircraft all firing as 1. This means at any one time(and I'll be conservative) you can have 12 .50cal MGs shooting at you. Also you get to lose 3 aircraft before you have to return to the tower.
Poor bomber pilots lol.
This has just turned into another furballer vs toolshedder thread. Basically toolshedders will continue to kill FHs for no reason and furballers will continue to whine about it. Does that basically sum it all up?
Since I fly bombers a lot, almost exclusively, I’m not the least confused on this issue. Since I’m sure you do not fly bombers very often, let me clue you in to a couple of items.
First, the only thing easier in bombing is the bomb sight calibration. What’s more important for the calibration than the actual process of calibration is the incorporation of the E6B computer. We can now compare an actual ground speed with that which is calibrated. That having been said, the easier calibration method has very little impact. I was able to calibrate very well in AH1 without the easier method and without the E6B computer. Six salvos equaled six hangers. Every time. Now with the bomb dispersion set up the way it is you need to drop two salvos. Just for the record, holding that Y button down for a mere 3 seconds doesn’t give a good calibration. You need to hold it down a lot longer.
Second, the wind only effected bombing in AH1 if you went above 15K. I can’t remember the exact altitude but it was around there that it kicked in. Even so, I could calibrate and hit an HQ from 30,000 feet. Every time. No, we don’t have the wind anymore. What we do have are those two cloud layers between 14K and 16K altitude. The higher of the two layers is often so thick you can’t pick out targets. That means we’re flying lower and wouldn’t be effected by the old wind model anyway.
Third, bomber guns; Lasers’? Really? Let me show you what Skuzzy wrote me about that recently. Skuzzy writes: “The whole gun solution for bombers was changed. They sort of auto-converge now, but not focused on one point, so there is more of a dispersal
pattern.” I also told him that it seemed the guns converged at 500 instead of the 600 that seems to be the consensus on the BBS. Skuzzy replied, “Been that way since AHII was released.” In AH1 I could ping a plane at 1.4. Not damage him at that range, but let him know I was there and aware. At distance 1.0 I could make his plane dissolve if he was silly enough to be on my six at co-altitude holding steady. I always had my convergence set at 650. In AH2, I cannot touch an aircraft at 1.4. At 1.0 I can barely touch him and have to use half my ammo to get any effect. At the same time the fighter plane can hit me with cannons and/or machine guns with enough effect to damage my bombers if not take them out. This has led to newbie’s coming up on my six at co-alt with a more than fair chance of hurting me. Slightly more experienced pilot’s are coming up on my six, throttling back to hold the 1.0 distance and dumping all their ammo into my bombers, knowing I won’t be able to do much to them in return and also knowing I’m spending a lot of ammo to do it. Sure doesn’t sound like lasers’ to me. In AH1 I couldn’t and in AH2 I can’t hit a fighter pilot who knows what he’s doing. A fighter pilot that knows how to take down bombers will do it and barely get a scratch. Doesn’t matter if it’s AH1 or AH2.
Fourth, losing a bomber or two before returning to hanger: Even losing one bomber effects my ability to accomplish what I came up there to do. What I spent 20 minutes getting up to altitude and speed to do. Yes, I do get three planes before I have to go back to the tower, but the fighters also get three nice big, slow moving, slow maneuvering , juicy targets to claim kills off of.
Finally; I at least do not kill FH’s for no reason. If I do it, it’s because I have a reason and that reason is never just to spoil someone’s fun. I don’t have time for that and it’s difficult for me to understand anyone that does or how they could avoid becoming bored by doing it.
