What makes a Bomber Pilot good?

[WWhiskey]

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!

 compete with formations winner must have all drones at the end or maybe an obsticle race of some sort complete with ords,  needing to be droped on target!! or you must go around all the while gunners firing at one another   

[Coogan]

What makes a bomber pilot good.

1. Accuracy.
2. Coolness under fire from enemy cons.
3. The patience to get to a reasonable drop alt.
4. Not bailing from a perfectly good aircraft, just to re-up to pad the score.
5. The ability to abort a strat run, if someone asks for help within' your range.

my $.02

Coogan

 

[Getback]

 compete with formations winner must have all drones at the end or maybe an obsticle race of some sort complete with ords,  needing to be droped on target!! or you must go around all the while gunners firing at one another   

Hey, this may catch on. I'd like to try it.

[vonKrimm]

For the Rooks, my top three for accuracy of drop, willingness to go in harms way, good gunning, able to kill CV, & will answer the call for help:

1) Cobra521 

2)DOM 

3)CptDell (formerly SumyFly) 

For those that can't hit a CV for love nor money:

1)  Yours Truely 

2)  Kamando 

3)  BudGrey 

[Shuffler]

The 80th once upped single B24s and met another Squad off the map to dogfight. Was some great fun and lasted a long time.

I fly a bomber almost exclusively.

[Becinhu]

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.

I pulled up some stat info on myself for reference Rolex. I do not want for this to look like an arguement, I just want to show how I came to the conclusion of my statements before.  I just logged in game to late war and checked my pilot score and it shows zero kills in a bomber and zero assists with a bombing percentage of 124.5%. Now when I go to the score page on the website and pull up the current tour in LW it shows 1 kill of a seafire flown by moops. That is why my statement was that only gv kills show up. Feel free to reference me yourself...but there aren't any impressive stats since it is well known that I stink.  sir.

[chewie86]

What makes a bomber pilot good.

1. Accuracy.
2. Coolness under fire from enemy cons.
3. The patience to get to a reasonable drop alt.
4. Not bailing from a perfectly good aircraft, just to re-up to pad the score.
5. The ability to abort a strat run, if someone asks for help within' your range.

my $.02

Coogan

6. Good course choice, very few bearings corrections OTW to tgt.
7. Keeping the formation (if winging with someone) before and after the drop.

I would like to add that a good couple of b-17s set bombers can take down a strat much below 15% in 2 passes  

my €.02
 

[whels]

Bomber stats need a redo, an addition or change i would put it is. Separate
Bomb hit% from Bomb damage%,  Bomb hit % should never ever be greater
then 100%, and for a hit to be considered a hit, it should actually have to
hit the target building/GV/hanger/Ship its self.

Bombs that miss the target structure/GV but hit close enough to inflict damage,
goes to bomb damage % and this can go over 100% since 1 bomb can damage multiple
things.

[BigPlay]

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!

  even if one of you guys do miss there's 5 more sets of Lancs on the way in.

[LLogann]

You still havent been shot down by the best gunner though!

Some good bomber gunners that I have run into-
999000,
Serenity,
Floatsup,

[WWhiskey]

even if one of you guys do miss there's 5 more sets of Lancs on the way in.

  lol

[rod367th]

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.



its a shame old days u had to practice to bomb. most wouldn't defend HQ because alot couldn't bomb from 30k. Till Kev367th and I use to come to HQ at 34k take out 3/4 hq which couldn't be rebuilt by supplies. Then u had alot of raids to HQ and alot of defenders. Now with instant calbration anyone that takes time to learn simple 3 rules can bomb from any alt. But hqs now safe untill its bases near by in enemy hands, 183 stop alot of bomber guys takeing time to go to hq. Kev and I would beg for uppers. record was 7 kills for kev as gunner and 3 for me as pilot and hq useless for 2 hrs.

[MaSonZ]

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.

same here. I can bomb fields (hangars, ord, and the such) effectivly, I just prefer not to as its so boring. and the bombers are so slow at climbing and then you level and your lucky to 300 mph, takes for ever to get some place.

[Lazerr]

I brought the b26 so I could run...

[viper215]

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

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