Like Dowding says, there was a reason they had to fly straight and level...so that the Norden was accurate. If the Norden worked in RL like it did in AH, they wouldn't have had to maintain course. So if you want some sort of realism, fix the Norden. WBs had a good implementation, you had to maintain course for a certain amount of time to calibrate the Norden, otherwise it was inaccurate. Don't know why they don't do that here. If they had to maintain course over target, the fighters would be happier. If they want to turn elsewhere, who cares, let them. You can just ignore them, they're not doing damage.
Also, they had to have huge formations to get enough bombs on target to do worthwhile damage. Another thing not reproduced in AH. One bomber can do plenty of damage stratwise. If you have huge formations, you sure don't want people turning all over the place, you would have mass chaos.
Lastly, the huge formations served as self-protection. With the current guns, etc. not needed in AH.
Not really much in common between RL and AH when it comes to bombers is there?
bowser
[ 09-22-2001: Message edited by: bowser ]