I don't know about the loadout. I generally fly Lancs with squaddies, and if we are going to hit hangers, we take the 14 1000lbers. If we are going for the town, the 18 500lbers and 1 4000lber does wonders with .30 delay (keeping the 4000lber for hangers of course). The bombers in game all have their weakness (eg. B24 speed and guns make up for the loadout, Lancs loadout make up for the guns). But to agree with you, the 234 sucks IMO. That being said, we don't go for ruining peoples furballing fun. We go for strategic base takes (yes, we are the ones doing some of the map taking). It seems to be more difficult to perk the loadouts in a bird rather than perking the bird itself. I wouldn't mind having to pay some (5-10 perks) for my lancs though, just to use some of my perkies. But, then again, I don't really care about perks in a bomber.