There already is one.......bombs must travel at least 1000 feet.
While i will agree heavies should only be able to drop from F6 (ie level) I'll fly at any altitude i like.
As far as your BS "vermin" comment goes you can jam that one.
Funny how we have such different reactions to low buffs. When i see low buffs i think "easy kills"
where as when you see low buffs you think "this is an outrage! HTC make this go away".
To each is own i say but please leave your 1 stroke covers all paint brush at the door.
Oh the level of cognitive thinking in these forums just overwhelm me.
Sure thing, if you want to fly hvy bombers at 500ft and do the snap turn to circle back and carpet bomb that single gv. Go ahead. You'll be grouped in with the other *vermin*, evidently you dont hear the chorus of sighs, joshing, and other snide comments when someone in a lanc performs the stuka menouver and then bails immediately thereafter? I too think easy kills when I see buffs are low level, but that isnt the point now is it? It is about limiting the abuse of bomb-n-bail and the abuse of the "game gaming" bomb-n- bail lanc-stuka tactics.
I'm far from a "one stroke paint brush covers all" type of guy. Far from it. I am however opposed to sims being "gamed". Flying hvy bombers at 500ft, dropping 7k of ord, pulling up hard and doing a snap turn and making a second drop of 7k worth of ord vs a single gv or two... is in fact gaming the game and I'll put $100 on the table it didnt happen in WWII. Yeah, there were low level buff runs. Yeah, there were low level buff runs vs gv installations or defensive positions... but no, a Lanc pilot wasnt ignorant nor stupid enough to get to 500ft at low speed, drop the ord, pull up/snap turn, make a second pass and drop 14k of ord vs a single gv. There are so many reasons it didnt happen. Logistics. RoE. AA/enemy fighter interecept, etc.
Oh.. and fwiw, the 1000ft a bomb has to travel has less to do with the alt of the aircraft than most think.
I've said it once, and obviously I'll say it many more times until the problem is fixed.... those pics of the low level (3k or below) bombers in WWII were a product of one of three things: First, minimal chance of AA defenses. Two, minimal chances of fighter intercept. Three, they were fabricated. The allies simply did not throw their bombers out as sacrificial lambs. In the fall of 1942, my g'pa hit Jap shipping up and down the "slot" in the PTO in a B24 and the lowest level he ever dropped his ord was 5k and the threat of either Jap fighter intercept or AA was minimal. They didnt make a second pass but rarely either, much depended on the weather and time of day.
This low level-multiple pass-lanc stuka-bomb n bail "tactic" in AH2 is a travesty and I hope HTC acts upon their own voiced accord (evidently, HTC has been quoted as saying they recognise it as an issue) and fix the problem.
