What makes a Bomber Pilot good?

[999000]

Thanks guys, but almost all of you have owned me!!!!!!!!!!If I ever land kills count it as just dumb luck.
Like many have said just play the game for fun........I have never ever even been close to top bomber status...but I do have lots of fun and thats what always brings me back. kill or being killed really doesn't matter its the individual personalities that make whatever is happening great fun!!!!!
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[1pLUs44]

You got the points from the city, not from bombing hangars.

Someone playing strictly for bomber score will never attack fields. Bombing hangars or porking bases will "ruin" his bombing hit % and damage/sortie.

Huh, I only got the bombs on the very edge. Guess I got lucky?

[BigPlay]

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.

Dead is what makes a bomber good ! At least from my point of view. Bombing is the easiest part of this game. You can become with the correct fundamentals good in a very short time. It may take a little practice to become a good gunner but that also doesn't take the time that other aspects of this game does.

[TonyJoey]

ahhh buffs, nice targets for 110 rockets

[Becinhu]

The only "kills" that show in bomber score are GVs. Fighters are just to increase perks and get your name in lights. Heck I even slow down when I see a lone fighter closing unless its a g-14...friggin snails. It's even more fun to let a guy get close when in 26s, allow him to try to "duck under" since you have no ball turret. While he is diving nose up hard, hit autopilot and wonder what he's thinking when the tail laser waxes him when he thought he wasn't in range of it.

[Rolex]

The only "kills" that show in bomber score are GVs.

Actually, you have that backwards. Those are aircraft kills you see in score. Vehicle kills are not recorded in score, but do show in text after landing. Kills are not used in calculating bomber rank.

[WWhiskey]

a good bomber pilot can drop a medium size Field with one set of lancs ,, or a small Field and a town together, he can take out the manned gun, standalone hanger, map room hanger, and auto ack, in his first pass, do a short, stalled, turn and get the main hanger and the other gun, in less than a minute! on a vehicle field. 
 a good scoring bomber pilot can get 1,000,000 damage points in the same one set of lancs!
i used to play bombers for score and once got 6,000,000 (roughly)damage points and multiple captures, no deaths in one month, of course it was in midwar.#1 that month

 i also used too take out cv's with arado's at 350 feet with ease until they rearmed those darn boat's, now there is only one way to do it, and that remains classified ( and it doesn't always work like before)

now i just try to get the hangers down, me and my squaddies rarely miss, but it does happen on occasion
when i go bombing , i like to be with other bombers that know there stuff, so i don't have to go back and cleanup the mess,    we all have shot clocks as well so as to know exactly when the Field will come up again, once i drop ed a vh, because of fierce resistance, i had to drop it again, i turned the bombs loose before the hanger popped, it popped right before they hit, two uppers both died in the drop, base captured!

 i know I'm bragging a bit, but i really can't fly fighters all that well, so i kind of like to take pride in the few things i can do well in this game!
i also will ditch them sometimes,, but only if i am not being chased, i figure if you went to the trouble of upping to get me, i should stay and fight, if you win great , if you lose i will usually ditch before you get a second chance, just don't think i want to give anybody more than one chance to kill my bombers!

[Tr0jan]

Score Potatoe   

[TwentyFo]

I don't mean to brag, but I'm the 2nd best bomber gunner.

[crazyivan]

I don't mean to brag, but I'm the 2nd best bomber gunner.

guess that would make me third than.

[bj229r]

Idk, I think bombing hangars is easiest for score. During december, I bombed once (shows as 6 sorties though, I took up a B-25C for attack and it was marked as bomber), in a set of B-24s. Took down hangars as I saw them in front of me, and I think I got like 400K points. I made a pass on a city, but I only got a corner of it.

Hangars (at alt) are the hardest things to kill, most defended, and award the fewest points, compared to cities, etc

[Becinhu]

Actually, you have that backwards. Those are aircraft kills you see in score. Vehicle kills are not recorded in score, but do show in text after landing. Kills are not used in calculating bomber rank.

Let me rephrase then. The only kills that show in stats are gvs. I misspoke by saying score. And by stats I mean if you check your stats while in game it only lists gv kills. I've never checked in extended format on the website to see if fighters are on there as well. Forgive me..don't bring out the thumbscrews.

[SmokinLoon]

Now your talking about two different things. Are we talking about good buff pilots, or are you talking about scores? Good buff pilots, much like good fighter pilots and good GVers don't give a crap about score. They are in the game to have fun fighting.

Score potatos are just that, people who ONLY go after scores and of course won't stray out of that optimum scoring zone for anything.

If you ask me, it sounds more like you are a "win the war type" of player and are here to complain about those who are NOT and won't help you win the war. Stop worrying about what other people are doing. If they weren't helping you then, much like in the real war, you didn't have those resources anyway. Use what you have to accomplish what you want to do. Don't both trying to change how people play the game.

Wrong.

Wrong again.

Yeap, wrong again.

People can play thier game as they wish, I dont care.  I'm not trying to change them, I'm tyring to change the scoring.  What I care about more is how the lack of a legit use of certain historical tactics are void due to the monkey on your back ways of scoring.  Lots of good players would relax a bit and use bombers for carpet bombing, etc vs just using them to deliver a bomb or 2 to a city for max OBJ destroyed.  I dont play to "winz warz" and I certinaly dont cry like some when a CV is sunk, a base capture opportunity is missed, or a "chk six" is not called, etc.  I play to have fun and when I see dive bombing lancs, milk runnin' nook Stukas, and a lack of what should be normalized bombing tactics due to a scoring issues (and yes, it is because of scoring issues those good enough to accurate carpet bombing dont)... I speak up.

Actually, the whole bomber scoring/perk situation is AH2 is screwy.  There is nothing to spend perk points on for how easily the points are earned (the Ar234 is quite a minimal cost).  In the LW MA, the Lancs, B24's, B17's, and B26's should all be perked to a small degree.  Scoring is based too heavily on bombing %, not high enough on dmg delievered, not high enough for landing, not low enough for bailing, getting shot down, etc.  There is no repercussion for bombing and bailing.  Perk the bombers above and that will drastically be reduced.  No doubt about it.  Increase the importance for landing, increase the perk/scoring penalty for not landing,  decrease the importance of accuracy %, etc.         

[Getback]

I think we need to settle this buff shooting contest. We should set up a snapshot or KOTH buffs and let's get it on!

[Rolex]

Let me rephrase then. The only kills that show in stats are gvs. I misspoke by saying score. And by stats I mean if you check your stats while in game it only lists gv kills. I've never checked in extended format on the website to see if fighters are on there as well. Forgive me..don't bring out the thumbscrews.

Sorry, but I think you still misunderstand. To be consistent, let's not use the word "stats." The data in game is "score." You can call it up from the roster or type ".score" in text.

There are only two score modes where your GV kills are recorded - when you select Attack Mode in the hanger, and when you select a vehicle/boat.

If you select "Fighter" or "Bomber" scoring modes in the hanger, you receive no credit for GV kills. None at all. They are not recorded or listed anywhere. The "kills" you see listed under Bomber scoring are aircraft kills, not GV kills. They will show up in the text buffer when you land, but are not recorded after that.

I hope this clears it up.