Bomber Guns

[Seadog36]

Bomber's defensive guns should be enabled the moment you spawn and after you land to keep vulchers at bay to some extent. I don't see why fighters can fifr from the ground and bombers cant

[Soulyss]

They used to be and it was changed, I forget why it was now but I don't think we'll be seeing it anytime soon.

[cobia38]

 I think it was changed because peeps would spawn bombers and use them for field defence

[Ghastly]

It was disabled before I began playing AH, but given the problems in "that other sim" with ackstars I suspect that it's very likely to prevent people from launching them simply as a stationary gun platform to shoot at attacking fighters.

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[Shuffler]

Park them next to the maproom when the maprooms were on the air base.

[dirtdart]

Hey man, not with the intent of hijacking, merely not starting a similar thread on the theme....

Convergence settings should be enabled for bomber guns. 

[Shuffler]

Hey man, not with the intent of hijacking, merely not starting a similar thread on the theme....

Convergence settings should be enabled for bomber guns. 

A bombers guns are in-line at each position... no correction necessary. If your thinking all gun positions to one point... that was not available on the buffs.

[ImADot]

I don't see why fighters can fifr from the ground and bombers cant

Because you can't move a fighter's guns around, but can move them on bombers.  Who's going to fly in front of you at the right angle for you to kill them while sitting in a fighter? 

[BiPoLaR]

Who's going to fly in front of you at the right angle for you to kill them while sitting in a fighter? 

[Seadog36]

I've killed many a would be vulcher coming down the runway for a HO shot while newly spawned or on ground roll. 110s, Hurris, Il2s and B-25s have a pretty good chance against this attack, doesn't happen often.  

If that's the case, of map room camping with bombers when the m.r. was on the field, shouldn't it be revisited now? Even if bombers were used for airfield defense that should be acceptable. Bombers on the runway would still be very vulnerable.

[dirtdart]

A bombers guns are in-line at each position... no correction necessary. If your thinking all gun positions to one point... that was not available on the buffs.

So, they track the same point, regardless of range?  How would the know the range at the object they are shooting at, does the system automatically adjust the convergence of the guns relative to the actual range of it?   It looks to me like sometimes they are very dispersed at range and very tight in close. 

[Rino]

Hey man, not with the intent of hijacking, merely not starting a similar thread on the theme....

Convergence settings should be enabled for bomber guns. 

     You have a spread of maybe 2 foot maximum in a turret mount.  Disregarding the vast
majority of defensive positions that are single guns, how much dispersion do you really get?

[SEraider]

If you take off from an other base other than the one that is being capped.........solved. 

[Spikes]

Because you can't move a fighter's guns around, but can move them on bombers.  Who's going to fly in front of you at the right angle for you to kill them while sitting in a fighter? 

Spawned a K4 otr a while back, niki coming down the field, fired a short tater burst and down he went. Chewie it was.

[cooldued]

I want to work bombers on ground spawn the B25 gun  the h*!! out of the bish spawn shoting us i am (or if youd rather was) getting sick of it or set it so planes that kill more then three guys on the runway just go poof dead