Author Topic: please, PLEASE bomb that VH!  (Read 524 times)

Offline Innominate

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please, PLEASE bomb that VH!
« on: January 17, 2003, 01:32:17 PM »
I'm posting this in the hopes that one or two people who havn't previously figured it out will listen to this advice.  I'm aware that most people, especially most newbies don't read these boards, but if I can get through to one person it's worth it.

When you're attacking a base, the single most important target is the vehicle hangar(VH).  As long as it is standing, there is the potential for the defenders to launch swarms of ostwinds, and cripple any oncoming attack.

So please, I beg of you, when you have ordnance, and you're trying to help attack a field.  Don't waste it on a fighter hangar, or strat, or even the town.  Kill the VH FIRST.  Once the VH is down, bomb whatever you like, but the VH is by far the most important target.

A field covered in ostwinds is not easy to capture.  It means enemy fighters can get AIRBORN and kill your team.(as opposed to vulched)  It means ostwinds can roll into the town and stop troops from getting in.

For those of you who don't know what the VH is, refer to the picture below.  They're easy to spot, being right next to the airfield.

Offline snocone

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please, PLEASE bomb that VH!
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2003, 11:53:06 PM »
amen brother

Offline ccvi

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Re: please, PLEASE bomb that VH!
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2003, 03:14:59 AM »
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Originally posted by Innominate
... Once the VH is down, bomb whatever you like...


If it's just down and not smoking, keep your ord and stay high. It will popup in no more than 5 minutes. (the average time waiting for it to pop up is 150 seconds).

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please, PLEASE bomb that VH!
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2003, 04:42:12 AM »
Innom - my pleasure. I did about eight of them on Friday when the pizza map was still there.  You might have wanted to add that the best plane in which to do it is possibly the P47D30, with 2x1000# bombs. These should be dropped together (.salvo 2) else the plane becomes unbalanced and difficult to fly. The remaining 500# bomb can be used on any GVs that did get out.

I'm finding that since the GVs have been beefed up (1.11?) I have been unable to kill Ostwinds, Tigers and Panzers with rockets. :(

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please, PLEASE bomb that VH!
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2003, 05:10:37 AM »
Killing armored vehicles with rockets has never been easy, just disabling them. Killing usually required a direct hit, and I think a direct hit will still kill them now. Just damaging them by near misses got harder.

Just use the rockets on the VH and keep the bombs for the GVs ;)

For killing GVs with bombs the p38, 110 and other planes that carry the bombs under the fuselage work better than the p47, because the can safley drop single bombs.