What makes a Bomber Pilot good?

[Getback]

If I ever make a pass on bombers and get a kill to see it was 999000 I just leave and assume I got lucky.  He's a great shot.

Put me in a bomber and I'll hit anything.  It's just knowing how to get a good calibration.  I'm not the best of shots though.  I find the gameplay rather boring in a bomber.  I'd much rather be dropping a 30mm shell from a 109K on its wing roots than being the one in the bomber.

Me too!! I can tell even before that. If you give him even a millisecond of a shot you will at least lose 2 guns. It's time for a secondary target.

[LYNX]

What makes a Bomber Pilot good?

The guy that can land his sortie with the knowledge that before he set off he could accomplish his mission premise and defend himself adequately as he did so.

Some thoughts on bombering.

Rightly so in my opinion that fighters kills are NOT in the bomber equation.  From other sims I have seen bomber pilots use formations as "ack stars".  Flying through furballs for the sake of a few points.  The idea of a bomber is to bomb.  The reason bombers have guns is for defence NOT offence or to furball.

Bomber score is skewed and in my opinion really needs looking at.  If we are to award rank in bomber mode it should be done with a heavy leniency towards damaged caused.  It's unfair that a few nuker stuker sorties achieve a higher rank than say the equal amount of B17's sorties.  If a regular B17 bomber pilot damages 70% of a factory surely he's contributing to his sides effort more so than a nuker stuker that causes 18%.  Is that not a fair assessment?

Perhaps damage caused could be based like this for points and perks with reference to percentage there of.
Cities, Factories, HQ, Towns, Cv's, cruisers, BH's, FH's, VH's, escorts ships, SB's, ammo bunkers, radar towers, barracks, fuel bunkers, trains / barges / convoys, ack.

Also GV kills in bomber mode should be set the same as fighters are now.  Infact I could suggest some draconian messure to diswade the "score don't matter", "what ever it takes" bomb n bail crowd but I would only be ranting on 

[CAP1]

Look at bomber ranks.  Can you trust some of them to Drop a hanger at 15K alt.  Probably not.  This is the weakest scoring category of all.  One could have just 5 sorties and probably make #1.  I don't consider myself a great buff pilot but at least I'll get my hangers down.  Cmon how tough is it to put ords down onto a city.  Not to hard.  Guys that can shoot you from every gun station from top, tail, and ball.  You know as a fighter that this guy is pinging me constantly from 800-1000 out from his waist gun, that your in trouble.  Then when they kill you or knock out an engine they take out whatever they wanted.  These guys may not have the Bombing % or Damage % but they are truly the best of the best of Bomber Pilots.  I know guys on my side like Floatsup and some other (+) fellers.  How about your thoughts as to what makes a good bomber pilot, and who they are.

hitting his intended target. patience. bringing his ships home. it's about the only time i REALLY worry 'bout gettin home.

[FiLtH]

   I like to bomb. Mainly I like hittin CVs especially when you have a Captain Buckmaster at the helm doin crazy evasives. I like hiiting towns more than bases because they stay down longer. Hangars are a waste of time unless its timed right for a capture and needed.


   The thing is though, unless I have plenty to shoot at, I generally release the eggs on the town and drop to the deck and gunship the rest of the town down. Gamey? Ya you betcha, but its fun and normally someone ups to try to kill ya. It saves a long trip home.

    Bomber events? Now thats where I try to get all realistic and stuff and survive the battle and get home. MA play is just about cramming as much fun into the time I plan to be on.

[LYNX]

To illustrate this:

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That picture unavoidably shows a fighter attacking the wrong way and deserves what he gets.  Should the fighter approach from above at 400MPH not only would he draw less guns from the bomber, he'd make the slower lumbering bomber go boom.

Fire all guns should stay because bombers are no match for a fighter or swarms there of.

[Lusche]

That picture unavoidably shows a fighter attacking the wrong way and deserves what he gets.  Should the fighter approach from above at 400MPH not only would he draw less guns from the bomber, he'd make the slower lumbering bomber go boom.

Fire all guns should stay because bombers are no match for a fighter or swarms there of.

I don't think anybody has asked for this in this thread so far...

[Getback]

Mostly I go after strats and usually it will be an isolated base or maybe two linked bases. Last night I took out a cv at 13 and then bombed ord or what was left plus radar. If I had enough eggs I would have taken out troops. As a bonus I got a couple of kills. Nice 13 perkie run. Oh they left that cv going nice and straight for ol Getback.

[Morpheus]

LMAO when they gave us the "New" bomb site calibration stuff a few years back, I was at 25K bombing ACK on feilds with 100lb bombs just to try and prove a point as to how rediculously easy bombing was... TOO easy. Hangers are in no way "tough" to kill at any alt in a lvl bomber.

This is one old horse.

Take a Ju87 with its MOAB and drop on city, get score up... yadda yadda yadda.... Score schmore.

[CAP1]

LMAO when they gave us the "New" bomb site calibration stuff a few years back, I was at 25K bombing ACK on feilds with 100lb bombs just to try and prove a point as to how rediculously easy bombing was... TOO easy. Hangers are in no way "tough" to kill at any alt in a lvl bomber.

This is one old horse.

Take a Ju87 with its MOAB and drop on city, get score up... yadda yadda yadda.... Score schmore.

YA......killing hangars is really easy....but worthless really, as they're back up in 15 minutes.
i have gone, and flown runway heading at enemy bases, to de-ack from the safety of my altitude. a small base only requires a couple passes.

[lyric1]

Having tried 1 time to go for the top bomber rank in Late war (a miserable experience to I might add) & ended up second. All you have to do is hit the city strat with the bigest bomb & this will you get the most damage, keep your death's to a minimum. Then get 20 plus goon captures to get the number 1 rank. The bomber capture needs to be changed when you have nothing but guys running m3's with troops to v-bases in the unpopulated arenas & bailing then upping bombers waiting for the troops to take is a joke. This practice in my opinion should never count to the bomber score. If you want rank in bombers though you will have to do it.

[Shuffler]

It's my humble opinion that to be a good bomber pilot you need to know how to make great margaritas.

[thndregg]

When I fly my favorite B17's, either by myself or in a mission, it is with the intention of getting home after I complete my objective(s). Much the same as in WW2. Aces High has that realism incorporated in the game, and I treat it that way. It takes patience. There's still a fight to be had if the other side of the fence is watching the darbar migrate across the map. That is where the fun is. All sides benefit- bombers, escorts, and enemy intercept.

[iTunes]

I can see why some folks would be into flying buffs, You have a dog for example, you can up, go on auto climb and take your dog for a long walk, come back, drop some eggs, fly back to rtb, make some coffee and so on.

[uptown]

It's my humble opinion that to be a good bomber pilot you need to know how to make great margaritas.

  best advice I've seen so far 

[CAP1]

I can see why some folks would be into flying buffs, You have a dog for example, you can up, go on auto climb and take your dog for a long walk, come back, drop some eggs, fly back to rtb, make some coffee and so on.

i use my climbout for 2 things.

1) bs with squaddies, and catch up on stuff i've missed...i don't get on much.

2)take note of the poopoo on 200, and stir to a nice simmer when needed.