Delay fuse bombs

[tuton25]

Make it so they don't kill airplanes
less historicaly acurate but will improve gameplay

[RngFndr]

Of course they used delay fuses in the war, and parachutes up to 500lbs.. There are pics and combat films that show it..
Dropping from treetop level was common.. Skeeters and Bostons did what they called "Ramrod" missions into France and low Countries..
Americans in the south pacific, goes without sayin..

The advantage is, with lower angles of fire, you are a harder target for the flack, only appearing over gaps in the trees..
Depends if you have trees, lol.. Also, many heavy AA guns couldn't traverse fast enough to track on you..

Drawback, Actually I think it is much less accurate than a dive bomb attack.. Because the bombs bounce too much, skidding tumbling.. With the delay, you really couldn't say where they would go off.. Like rolling dice.. More like an area attack method than pinpoint..

[gyrene81]

Not saying there isn't any foreseeable issue, but yours (and apparently many other's) is not one of them (at least, in a unilateral sense... it takes two to HO after all).

Seriously, listen to you guys, you're all too incapable and untalented to see a large bomb dangling off a plane like... well... like you guys couldn't tell the difference between a cow and bull if we removed all their horns?... or what if you were persuing him on the deck and saw him drop it?... aparently you're all really easy kills too because none of you can react to avoid a delay blast radius (ontop of it's actual airborne drop time) fast enough to a visual que directly in your tunelled-down vision off your nose?  Lets meet in the DA tonight, I'll even buy an extra 6-pack tonight to dumb down my reaction time to yours.

happened in warbirds a lot. once i learned the trick it was easy to lure someone down low in a dive and frag em with a bomb.

[tuton25]

This seems to be the only consern with some players
Make it so they don't kill airplanes
less historicaly acurate but will improve gameplay

also could be used to skip bomb

[tuton25]

I don't know whats up but I run low in a mossie and I die every time I go near a town.....
With these I would get lower

[Tank-Ace]

I don't know whats up but I run low in a mossie and I die every time I go near a town.....
With these I would get lower

I bet if you get low enough to avoid being spotted, you also crash.


Stop bumping.

[gyrene81]

Here is more proof that it was used extensivly. If you fast forward to about 12:40 you will see that they were not more than 100ft off the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQn2shAH4sE&feature=BFa&list=PLEF44F53CBA5BACAF
I would take formations of Mossie 16's 25-50 AGL and bomb towns with it.

Mossie pilots used to say that this tactic was "like putting bombs in Hitler's front door"

since you keep ressurecting this...your video doesn't show skip bombing on ground targets, nor does it show aircraft dropping bombs from 100ft off the ground. it shows a series of frames stitched together to make it look like a mossie crew dropped a single 250lbs bomb directly on a locomotive from more than 500ft. try again.

[SmokinLoon]

If HTC would make it so that bombs damage would not be destructive to self and allied players, then there would be no problem.      

I wonder if the "coad" would allow for it?   

[bortas1]

  i like the idea. make it so they dont blow up 70 years later that would be cool.