Originally posted by BaldEagl
I have only 2 base captures in goons this month yet am the 11th ranked bomber pilot.
Do you mean that when I killed LYNX' 3 Lancasters the other day going after a Bish city in a zone that no other strats were down in and none of the bases in the zone were being contested wasn't a milk run? Nothing against LYNX, he's a very good player and I do the same. Just saying I think your facts are slightly askew.
[EDIT] As to high buff scores with no shots fired it's easy flying AR234's. The will fly away from almost anything and carry plenty of payload to do a lot of damage.
Umm... I feel I must contribute although off thread topic. BaldEagle, please don't take any of the following the wrong way as I explain my actions and how the game works. No offence meant and I have taken none.
Aside the fact it's fun to bomb the chitzoid outta stuff there was method in what you perceived as a milk run. Some players know I have a rod up me arse for CV command and CV base captures. Keep that in mind as I twitter on.
You'll know about zones from playing so long and that porking strat targets actually works, all be it marginally depending on resupply. I was moving CV's from the south west / west to engage Bish fields north west / west. Cv's wont last long if ordnance is up at the target field or indeed the 2,3 or 4 local fields to it. Cv will be sunk mid attack or sooner if spotted early.
Since the old larger terrain came back (thank you HTC) I have been diligent where possible in porking Bish ords ahead of the CV's. However, Bish strat was
ALL at 100%. Not ideal for ord porking because it has a short down time with strats so strong and
automated resupply. I could be wrong but I thinks it's 30 to 40 minutes. So, a squaddie and myself went a "stratin". No point taking out your ammo factory if the zone city is full up. You can increase the factories down time by blasting the city to heck. Our target was city and ammo factory. Lancaster 50 % fuel 18 x 500's + 1 x 4,000Lb'er. We were, famous last words, going to give it to you good and proper. Make your porked ords stay down well over the hour unless your guys ran supplies. As it goes we only made one pass on the city before I lost me squaddie. Shot down or disco I can't recall which because we've done it a number of times. I opted to complete the destruction of the city with an intention of the factory secondly. Well what do you know. You bloody well show up and nicely done to
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The "milk run" in your words is "advanced planning" in mine. Na mate, I was playing the game. We did attack / take some fields with the CV but we also lost the CV's because that blasted factory was still at 100%. Had time been permitting I would have gone back for it.
One other thing fields 12 & 13 fell to our Lancaster tonight. You may recall shooting down Bravo80's Lancs at 18,000 feet then you got your engine smoked by the next set of Lancs you targeted ... well guess who 
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As for bomber ranks there's a couple of things I can say. You get good bomber rank from field captures combined with hit / damage %. Take a Nuka Stuka and hit the biggest cluster of buildings you can find then rinse repeat. This also works well in attack mode for attack score. Bit of a shame for the hard core bomber guys. Perhaps stukas should be limited to attack mode only?
Secondly some of you may have heard the phrase "Ack Star". This is when a bomber just flies around enticing fighters then shooting them down. This is why I speculate that fighter kills don't count to bomber score. It would be miss used by the "Nintendo" crowd.
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Hall of fame for me would be HTC and crew. In depth on their duties, photos and some personal stuff. Followed by contributors to the game like trainers, terrain builders and skinners. What they did etc.
My regards
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