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Offline ZANZIBAR

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Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« on: Yesterday at 04:50:13 AM »
Just curious. What’s the most damage you’ve gotten or seen someone land in one sortie in a bomber? :headscratch: :)

I tried to look up a record, but couldn’t find anything.




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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 07:21:40 AM »
My personal record was 76300 in a one sortie milkrun in Lancs years ago. Then I did one attempt later to break my own record, but got chased by fighters and messed up my calibration at the last drops, and only landed 65+k.


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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 10:17:31 AM »
Just curious. What’s the most damage you’ve gotten or seen someone land in one sortie in a bomber? :headscratch: :)

When you say "sortie" do you mean one real sortie or one AH3 sortie with unlimited rearms?

Back in the day I would take a single mossie with a 4k bomb and 2 500lbers. I would bomb a city, rearm, and bomb another city for a couple hours and rack up some ridiculous damage totals. I'm not sure if this is the "sortie" you're talking about or if you mean a single run with drones.

I remember a specific one where I got intercepted by 2 262s that appeared to not like me bringing milk to the babies. I climbed as high as I could and they were having problems getting up to me. I headed for a base near our strats (with 163s available) The 262s ended up chasing me for something like 6 sectors during which my fuel state became critical. I even shut down one engine in route. I don't remember the specifics but I know I was very close to the base but out of fuel when they got me. As soon as I died I grabbed a 163 and took off. One of the 262s was no longer there. I'm not sure if he was out of fuel or just didn't want to fly the 6 sectors back to base. I chased the other one down with my 163 and killed him in a brief fight. Was a bunch of fun.

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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 02:22:26 PM »

Landed 50k damage and 4 kills in a TU2 fighter plane.   

2 buffs were easy but both of the two fighters forced me to work hard.

Offline ZANZIBAR

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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 04:46:44 PM »
When you say "sortie" do you mean one real sortie or one AH3 sortie with unlimited rearms?

Back in the day I would take a single mossie with a 4k bomb and 2 500lbers. I would bomb a city, rearm, and bomb another city for a couple hours and rack up some ridiculous damage totals. I'm not sure if this is the "sortie" you're talking about or if you mean a single run with drones.

I remember a specific one where I got intercepted by 2 262s that appeared to not like me bringing milk to the babies. I climbed as high as I could and they were having problems getting up to me. I headed for a base near our strats (with 163s available) The 262s ended up chasing me for something like 6 sectors during which my fuel state became critical. I even shut down one engine in route. I don't remember the specifics but I know I was very close to the base but out of fuel when they got me. As soon as I died I grabbed a 163 and took off. One of the 262s was no longer there. I'm not sure if he was out of fuel or just didn't want to fly the 6 sectors back to base. I chased the other one down with my 163 and killed him in a brief fight. Was a bunch of fun.

I meant by rearming in a single bomber as well. :airplane:

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Offline hazmatt

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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 06:45:38 PM »
I meant by rearming in a single bomber as well. :airplane:

I don't remember my exact numbers but I'm pretty sure if your luck holds out you could reasonably get over 100k. It would take hours though.

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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 01:45:55 AM »
I meant by rearming in a single bomber as well. :airplane:
My 76300 and 65+k score in Lancs was a no rearm, one long 100% fuel round trip around the map. 14x1k bombs, 14 towns hit. Think I spent over 4 hours in those flights if I remember correctly. Not something I have ever bothered to try again, now I like to shoot down bombers instead.
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Re: Highest Damage in 1 Sortie in a Bomber?
« Reply #7 on: Today at 06:26:04 AM »
I'm not sure what my damage would have been on this but I found one from tour 281 where I did 2 sorties with a bomber (one was a base capture) and got:

Bomber Scores
                                 Score          Rank 
Damage per Death   1596938.84   9
Damage per Sortie   798469.42   2
Damage Hit Percentage   3420.00   8
Damage Points   1596938.84   198
Field Captures              1                   133
 
This probably isn't one of my better ones as it only took: 01:57:43 and I was ranked 2 in damage per sortie so somebody did better then me.