Come on....
The purpose of bombers is not now nor has it ever been to engage fighters. Yes yes of course, there's always someone(s) who's going to do their own thing. However, having 0 regard for the sim aspect of AH is no excuse to claim bombers using bomber tactics is somehow not acceptable (or... removed from game play). I don't up bombers to get in a fight, draw fighters for fun, or test my skillz. I employ bombers to do bomber stuff, which is to bomb things... hence the descriptive name "bomber". Doing what I can do to reduce the risk of fighters tearing up my bombers is common sense. I don't understand why that's a difficult concept, OTHER than looking from the view of not giving a toot about the strategic (war-game) aspect of AH. This is why I also find it odd that hitting targets is worth garbage as perks go... effectively hitting targets SHOULD be where the perks are, for bombers.
First of all, hitting targets IS where the perks are for bombers. Of course, just like with fighters, some bombers get more perks for that than others. So the B-29 is just a bad bomber to
generate perks, same as the Me 262 to the Tempest are bad choices to generate perks when flying fighters. It's the price you pay for flying a monster.
Besides, bomber perks are the most easy ones to gain in AH.
Second, don't try to make it look like I did say someone shouldn't fly the bombers like he wants or even "play my way". I just commented that flying B-29s at 33 k is "effectively removing you from gameplay", which it actually is. At 33k in such a fast plane you hardly ever run into any opposition at all. More security can only be found in tower or offline or by doing resupply runs to your strats.
I am kind of a 'safety flyer' myself, I tend to be very careful when selecting routes and altitudes when flying bombers. I'm not a 999000 screaming "COME AT ME" when flying over an busy hostile base at 8k.
But I found that flying at 33k in a B-29 is quite unnecessary, given all the firepower and speed. Yes, there's a slightly increased chance someone will fire at me when flying at 27k, but that's been countered by a an increased chance of having fun for both (until one goes down.)
And I'm not too sure if it's all that good for the game when during off hours, when there are only few people on, the only hostile con in the area is flying at 33,000 feet...
And, as I'm often falsely depicted as being exclusively a "bomber killer looking for weak prey", just for the record: While I do have 310 kills
of the B-29, I have also almost the same amount, 293 kills,
in the B-29...
