100 AI B-17s vs. one Knight HQ

[hitech]

Today HiTech had me send 100 AI B-17s from A65 to pay the Knight HQ a visit in Melee.

As you can see, they did a fantastic job of plowing the field around it. The HQ itself came through with barely a scratch.

I've investigated, and I can now report the cause. The bombsight code was written by HiTech himself, many years ago, apparently in a single evening, apparently while flying a Pony, and apparently without ever having seen a bomb. It includes a deliberate random error of plus or minus 600 feet. When I asked him why, he said it was "for realism". When I pointed out that the HQ is about 200 feet across, he went quiet and then changed the subject to how good the AI gunners were.

To be fair, the AI gunners did do just fine, as a few of you found out.

The bombardiers have been sent back to school, and HiTech has been sent to sit in the corner and think about what he did. The vees are also learning to fly closer together. They'll be back, and next time they'll bring the HQ's insurance agent.

Thanks to everyone who came up to meet them!

Claude

[steely07]

LMAO!

[Shane]

LoL   

[-gg-]

that's cool!

[Dadtallica]

Tell it who the boss is!!!

[Animl-AW]

Ya know, <looks away> I can’t even look at you right now.
I hope you’ve learned something from this.

[Animl-AW]

Alternative/aid to ENY?

[AKKuya]

This proves my preaching on AI missions in the MA.

Thank you HiTech!!!!!

 

[Eagler]

AI with varying degrees of accuracy and playing styles in what it's tasked to do is the ticket imo...

Some boom and zoom with Skyyr accuracy and some t&b with Lil Mak abilities ... and some without any SA or fighting skills to fill in low numbers..

Possibilities seem endless..

Eagler

[fudgums]

There were some names that shot me down that I thought were Ai, then they responded on 200 and I am still not sure 

[Dadtallica]

There were some names that shot me down that I thought were Ai, then they responded on 200 and I am still not sure 

Oh no, I’ve been discovered… system overloading… eeep orp booo clang doing…

[-gg-]

Big bomber raid like that is a lot of fun. I've seen a couple of big bomber raids but nothing probably that had 100 bombers in it. The closest thing recently was when maybe the AKs I think it was? They had a big mission going to our strats a few weeks ago. And that was a total blast. I got torn up by them twice. But you could see them coming and it was really exciting getting up to altitude and trying to find a vector point to intercept them. And then once you see them in the air it's really an awesome sight.

I don't care if it's AI or whatever but that's cool. That will create some fun in the game just even that alone doing a bomber strat rate like that

There's so much potential in this. Keep people engaged and involved with other parts of the map where they wouldn't normally be going because nothing's going on.

Good job on trying new things and breathing life back into the game. Exciting.