Bombing carriers

[vafiii]

Make it harder for high altitude bombers to take out a carrier from 15,000 feet. No way you can hit a moving carrier from that altitude. Leave the bombing of carriers to dive bombers and torpedo planes and let the fight rage on!

[Karnak]

Make it harder for high altitude bombers to take out a carrier from 15,000 feet. No way you can hit a moving carrier from that altitude. Leave the bombing of carriers to dive bombers and torpedo planes and let the fight rage on!

Move the carrier.

[ttflier]

It is already difficult to bomb a carrier from 15K feet, calculating the lead, allowing for bomb spread and anticipating the carrier's turn radius.  Most successful bomber pilots will usually bomb from 10K feet or less, making us far more accessable to low alt. fighters and puffy ack.

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[Jayhawk]

You've got how many seconds to turn the carrier when dropping from that height?

10k is not that hard to drop a carrier, 15k is more difficult, but when the ship is traveling strait and at a constant speed, its not hard to predict where it's gonna be.

[guncrasher]

I drop from 6k any higher than that and it is just a waste of time.  and even at 6k I find that sometimes some wise crack will move the cv just in time to make me miss.  imagine how easy it is to avoid from 15k.

sorry but if a single bomb falls on the cv from 15k it deserves to be sunk.


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[vafiii]

Every carrier fight ends with high altitude bombers taking out a moving, turning carrier. I watch a lot of WW2 films and footage and have never seen B-17's or B-25's bomb carriers. No way you can hit a moving, turning carrier with a bomb from 10,000 feet in real life. No way!

[APDrone]

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... No way you can hit a moving carrier from that altitude.
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The bomber doesn't hit the CV.  The bomber drops bombs and the CV runs into them.  

No different than airplanes fighting each other.. just a lot slower.

[Jayhawk]

Every carrier fight ends with high altitude bombers taking out a moving, turning carrier. I watch a lot of WW2 films and footage and have never seen B-17's or B-25's bomb carriers. No way you can hit a moving, turning carrier with a bomb from 10,000 feet in real life. No way!

Well it's a good thing this is a GAME.

p.s. See quote below.

[whiteman]

Every carrier fight ends with high altitude bombers taking out a moving, turning carrier. I watch a lot of WW2 films and footage and have never seen B-17's or B-25's bomb carriers. No way you can hit a moving, turning carrier with a bomb from 10,000 feet in real life. No way!

if they got rid of the easy mode bomb site bombers would be flying low enough to easily intercept and those that did stay high would have a harder time calibrating over water with the manual site. I've tried the manual site over water in the AVA, not the easiest thing for the average person.

[LLogann]

If somebody is buffing at 15k and drops on a cv, the only reason that cv sank is because of the cv Commander.  

But your whine has been noted........  

[RTHolmes]

Make it harder for high altitude bombers to take out a carrier from 15,000 feet. No way you can hit a moving carrier from that altitude. Leave the bombing of carriers to dive bombers and torpedo planes and let the fight rage on!

+1

[guncrasher]

Every carrier fight ends with high altitude bombers taking out a moving, turning carrier. I watch a lot of WW2 films and footage and have never seen B-17's or B-25's bomb carriers. No way you can hit a moving, turning carrier with a bomb from 10,000 feet in real life. No way!

did you see any bases taken over by a cv during world war 2?  were the landing craft part of the fleet?

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[HawkerMKII]

Go on and make it harder for some one to hit cv from 15k. I'll just do what I always do.....B-26's noe, pop up when ack flies....by bye cv

[EDO43]

hehehehe....I hit one the other night from 30,000 ft while it was in a turn.  Probably once in a lifetime feat but had I more eggs left, it probably would've sunk.  (Had just finished dropping the FH's at A2 on Uterus Map).  I should've saved the film but didn't since I did not sink it.

[bj229r]

Did any of our B17 runs from Midway even SCRATCH a cv?