You are so right. Low level buffs avoid the hoards and furball clusters. But most of the time, that is where all the fighters are. If I am flying Buffs, I fly around enemy cons so as to give me the best chance for a successful drop on my objective.
As for the one bomb drop skill, let us take a look at that for a moment.
In a ground vehicle, I am sending a 37mm projectile towards a vehicle traveling from 200 to 500 miles per hour in varying directions. This projectile must come into contact with the vehicle to damage or destroy it.
In a Bomber, in the worst case, I am dropping a bomb on a vehicle that might be moving at best 25 miles per hour. Now I don't need to hit this vehicle, just get anywhere near it, say 50 to maybe 250 foot or more kill radius.
Now a skilled armor driver can sometimes maneuver enough to avoid the kill zone, just as a skilled buff driver can avoid Flak rounds. One major difference is the Ostwind can't get above falling bombs but a buff can easily get above Ostwind fire. Buffs have 3 vehicles with which to drop thousands of pounds of bombs and armor has only one chance.
Now lets address the low-level dweebs. They are easy to shoot down with planes. Come in, strafe and egress. Ground vehicles have no egress. Sit and take it. Knowing this, every no skill looser of a tank battle will go get a box of Lamecasters and carpet bomb the battlefield. Our ground defense against Bombers is so lame it isn't funny.
Now for the tactical low level bombing, that is somewhat different in that there is precedence for that other than "I can't hit crap with a Tank so I will just carpet bomb them" mentality. If I am defending a base and low-level buffs come in to destroy the VHs or other tactical target salute to you mate. If I am alone I might get one or maybe two on the first pass if they are low. I can kill two of them and they can still drop bombs. Hummm.
We need better ground defense.
Nothing is going to change the dweebs carpet bombing GVs with heavy bombers. Nothing is going to stop dive bombing Lamecasters doing the pop and drop. As long as HTC allows it, the no skill dweebs will use it.
My posts are from the point of view of a ground vehicle player. Most if not all the other posts are from people that are primarily flyers. So I am a bit more annoyed at the lame use of bombers. It has less of an effect on flyers. Usually the first building destroyed at an airfield is the VH hanger. And we only have one of them, not 3 or more. At a V-Base we have 3 hangers and two auto flaks and one manned flak. All of which can be taken down by the worst pilot in the air with 1 microburst of cannon fire. After all, Flak batteries have paper armor and are not entrenched or in any way protected.
We need better ground defenses period. That will solve the Buff problem.
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