stratobuffs

[Tac]

Cute picture of them gaining speed and getting to an alt where they could see the HQ on max zoom on the nordenlaserbombsight.

Avoid all the possible danger en-route by going 35k, dive to target visible alt, drop bombs, climb back up or use the buff turn ability at high alt to deathstar anyone to death. Gaming the game, in all its pathetic glory.

[Moose11]

Guys...


It's fricken 5k of altitude.. and the buff's were humiliated anyway.

So it's probably best to just give up on this thread because is it getting anyone anywhere?

[Soda]

I simply can't understand why they don't institute some real bombing accuracy issues in AH to deal with all this.  The argument "Well they invested all that time to get that high" doesn't wash with me, who cares, so they put it on autoclimb off the map, had a beer, watched some tv and came back, that's not really sufferring.

Some of these high alt wonders in 1.06 might have something to do to change that, but who is going to really want to risk their Ta152 to shoot down a bomber that has a 50/50 chance of shooting them down.  As it is the bombers handle far better up that high than a fighter... ever tried a 109 above 30K.. geez, turn, what's that....  First pass you make you'll blow 7K recovering.

-Soda

[Moose11]

If the clouds roll in then bombing a target from 30 won't happen.

It might be fair to put a terminal layer at about 25k over the HQs to be fair. That would force the bombers down lower.

[Soda]

It wouldn't be fair to have too many clouds Moose, or high alt bombing would be boring.  I'd hate to fly all the way to a target at reasonable alt and find it totally obscured and not be able to bomb.  Accurate, yep, fun in AH, nope.  I sure hope they don't do that, you'll never see any bombers flying around for the possibility that they'll fly for 45 minutes only to rtb with their bombs still hanging from the racks.  They'd better put in weather reports if that's the case  

I'm just saying, from 30+K you should be lucky to be able to land a bomb within the perimeter of the airfield let alone hit a solitary ack.

-Soda

[Thunder]

Tac,
LOL
You seem to be enjoying making up and modifing events as you go. You are really a peace of work.

We killed all the evil buffs but I can't stand them going so high! WAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

WHINER!
 

Thunder

[lazs]

I agree with soda... The real issue is accuracy.   I don't think they should be able to hit a lone ack at any alt.    They should be luky to hit anywhere within the fiels at 20K.   It is very annoying to see a buff go over at even 15 or 20 k and know that he will close the field you are using.

The way buffs accuracy is right now it would not bother me if I never saw another one online.
lazs

[loser]

takes any decent intercept fighter like 6 or 7 minutes to climb to 30k, buffs take damn near an hour.  If some buffer wants to take the time to do this, with still a good chance of getting shot down before the target, then more power to him.  Watch yer dar (if you still have it  ) and send a fighter or 2 up to intercept rather than panic and cry because a buff is in the progress of egging you HQ .  Lil' forsight is all it takes guys  

[lazs]

loser, i think you miss the point.   the buffs have nothing better to do with their time than climb.   Most fighters would rather fight other fighters and simply ignore bombers.  I certainly do not want to miss out on fighting simply to keep some unrealistic buff from ruining the game.

We have more fun things to do than hunt and kill or be killed by buffs.  Who wants to hunt buffs when there are fights to be had.  Killing buffs is something that, at best, we are forced into.  Not something most do as a choice.   If accuraccy were reduced to a realistic level then we could ignore the buffs just that much longer before they ruined our game.
lazs

[Kratzer]

That sounds fun... You guys should attack Knitland like that so we can intercept you.  It would be nice to be high enough for a 109 to shine.

Getting attacked by an organized group is as fun as attacking with an organized group.

[Soda]

I really wonder how many of these strato-buffers really sit around and watch their computer for the 45 minutes it takes to climb to 30K anyway, I doubt many of them.  they're probably sitting somewhere else or chatting on the open channel to take up the time.  The argument that "if they invest the time to get that high they should be safe" is weak to non-existent.  Many of them have a pretty good chance of survival at 15-20K if they can convince a friend to come along for escort for part of the way.

I can accept increase, over realistic, accuracy as a gameplay issue, no problem there, but this pinpoint, safe bombing from 30+K is silly.  Who's going to risk their precious Ta152 up that high against a 50/50 attack on a bomber... I wouldn't, to risky.  It's like attacking an Ostie 1 on 1, 50 percent of the time you'll die.

-Soda