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Title: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: badhorse on March 08, 2011, 08:04:46 PM
Now that the strats have been combined, I see bombers in orbit dropping a couple of bombs on the center cluster of buildings in towns and then moving on to the next one.
Is this the new milk run?
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Beefcake on March 08, 2011, 08:07:46 PM
Would you prefer I drop the hangers at your base and then move on?  :D
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: BillyD on March 08, 2011, 08:09:28 PM
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milk run
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Jayhawk on March 08, 2011, 08:16:17 PM
Bombers have been doing this for a while.

Strats are usually the most well defended targets on the map, and don't pay off in terms of perkies or game impact that much.  If you want to go perk farming, taking some high OBJ bombers and hitting a couple town centers is where the money is at.  I'd love to have a more strategic aspect to the game but currently think the strat system is a joke.  My goal lately is to see how many points I can run in a single run with the B-29.  Not a score thing, just personal challenge.  Did my best run this afternoon, 80,800 damage in a B-29 run.
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: GNucks on March 08, 2011, 08:19:20 PM
Bombers have been doing this for a while.

Strats are usually the most well defended targets on the map, and don't pay off in terms of perkies or game impact that much.  If you want to go perk farming, taking some high OBJ bombers and hitting a couple town centers is where the money is at.  I'd love to have a more strategic aspect to the game but currently think the strat system is a joke.  My goal lately is to see how many points I can run in a single run with the B-29.  Not a score thing, just personal challenge.  Did my best run this afternoon, 80,800 damage in a B-29 run.

Ooh, that's a good run. How many towns was that? 20K loadout I assume?
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: badhorse on March 08, 2011, 08:20:25 PM
Bombers have been doing this for a while.

Strats are usually the most well defended targets on the map, and don't pay off in terms of perkies or game impact that much.  If you want to go perk farming, taking some high OBJ bombers and hitting a couple town centers is where the money is at.  I'd love to have a more strategic aspect to the game but currently think the strat system is a joke.  My goal lately is to see how many points I can run in a single run with the B-29.  Not a score thing, just personal challenge.  Did my best run this afternoon, 80,800 damage in a B-29 run.

Yeah Jayhawk. That was kind of my point.

Way to go on the score though.   :)
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Jayhawk on March 08, 2011, 08:32:54 PM
Thank you.

It was the 40 x 500lbs loadout.

2 bombs per town center.

17 town centers hit (14 hit good, first 3 were way off).

1 CV missed with 3 bombs, 1 CV hit with 3 bombs (at 30,000ft  :D).

I actually only hit about 75% what I was going for, so if I get another 2.5 hours another afternoon, I may try again.
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: ariansworld on March 08, 2011, 09:39:07 PM
Take the 4 4k bombs and hit 4 town centers.  See how you do then  :D.
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Jayhawk on March 08, 2011, 10:38:27 PM
Take the 4 4k bombs and hit 4 town centers.  See how you do then  :D.

Overkill, I did 8x 2000lbers (with formation) and that was plenty to kill town centers.  That was about 50,000 damage landed.
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: guncrasher on March 09, 2011, 03:16:01 AM
just for kicks i upped the new mossie with 1 4k bomb, i dropped over center of a virgin town.  i got from 100k to 500k bomber points.  i looked at the films and couldnt say why the big difference with one bomb.

semp
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: LLogann on March 09, 2011, 07:11:10 AM
What did you just say brotha?


just for kicks i upped the new mossie with 1 4k bomb, i dropped over center of a virgin town.  i got from 100k to 500k bomber points.  i looked at the films and couldnt say why the big difference with one bomb.

semp
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Lusche on March 09, 2011, 07:29:23 AM
The two biggest reasons to go out and bomb something are game impact and score/perks
So a player goes either to bomb hangars or town on an enemy base to help his country... or he is going to bomb a couple of towns to help himself, to get most "boom" for his time invested.

For a single player, there is no real "reason" to go for the most obvious and best defended target in game, other than "just because it's there".
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: WWhiskey on March 09, 2011, 07:54:19 AM
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/game%20stuff%20and%20other/Aldo1.jpg)
 Yep   The strats are not worth the time and are very well defended!  hopefully there will be new strat targets soon, or the ones we have will pay off relative to the amount of protection they have!
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: LLogann on March 09, 2011, 08:28:55 AM
Approx 38 town centers.....................
(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6087/bigdamage.jpg)

Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Kazaa on March 09, 2011, 08:34:52 AM
The guy above me has no life... :D
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: Yarbles on March 09, 2011, 08:49:41 AM
Now that the strats have been combined, I see bombers in orbit dropping a couple of bombs on the center cluster of buildings in towns and then moving on to the next one.
Is this the new milk run?

The new milking run is shooting them down in my Spit 14.

The correct opinion is that the Strats should have significance but if HTC don't think this matters what do you do. Having a flow of bombers to shoot at is fun anyway but I would bomb more if there was a reason when not capturing a base other than score. If bombing strats effected front line activities people would not only bomb them but also defend them.

I hope the guy above me doesn't think I posted becase he did. Unlike him I dont go around trolling other peoples posts  :uhoh (Did anyone see what I did there  :lol)


Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: LLogann on March 09, 2011, 09:48:02 AM
QFT   :D

The guy above me has no life... :D
Title: Re: Is this the new milk run?
Post by: MachFly on March 09, 2011, 10:26:26 AM
The new milking run is shooting them down in my Spit 14.

That's the way it's done!  :aok