@ buckshot - I know you will enjoy it better flying in a squad. It makes the hunt enjoyable.
From the Bomber NAV lead perspective on most of the runs, I did everything I could to use that 2 minute delay to my advantage. Try to show a DARBAR pattern going in one direction only to go another way. By design this was to attempt to give the bombers a chance to get in a good manual calibration so they only needed to worry about matching up the speeds. Then they could focus on the timing to drop while gunning when possible.
Having hanger hardness bumped up to x6 and manual calibrations made it a very realistic scenario for us. As taught in the Marine Corps Infantry, shoot, move, & communicate. Both sides did really well doing this and made for non stop action.
Even climbing out and movement to target was always stressful as you are ALWAYS head on a swivel because that DARBAR works both ways. We found ourselves getting jumped more than once with no DARBAR in the area. You had to pay attention if you wanted a chance to use your guns! LOL
It was a great adventure for me. Regardless of scores when they do come out.
We all win!
SlipKnoT