Categorize B26 As "Attack"

[Krusty]

It's a level bomber. Not an attacker. It's not strafing those CVs down... 9/10 times it's bombing them level with a bombsight.....


Guess what that makes it?

[FBCrabby]

a Bomber/Attack   

[Ack-Ack]

do attack mode give you fighter or bomber perks?


semp

scoring in attack mode gives you fighter perks.

ack-ack

[Krusty]

Comparing a B-26 to the A-20G is a bit of a farce, innit? The A-20 handles like a heavy fighter, say a 110G or some such. The B-26 doesn't handle like anything but a bloated heavy bomber. Guns in the nose don't mean much. They were for deterring head-on attacks as much as for strafing ground targets. They don't automatically mean it's an air to air platform.

It's a bomber, through and through. What it bombs can be varied and sundry. But it is a bomber nonetheless.

[guncrasher]

Comparing a B-26 to the A-20G is a bit of a farce, innit? The A-20 handles like a heavy fighter, say a 110G or some such. The B-26 doesn't handle like anything but a bloated heavy bomber. Guns in the nose don't mean much. They were for deterring head-on attacks as much as for strafing ground targets. They don't automatically mean it's an air to air platform.

It's a bomber, through and through. What it bombs can be varied and sundry. But it is a bomber nonetheless.

well I usually kill the vh at a port then use the main guns to deack, i can get at least 4 or 5 guns before i run out of ammo unless i get the lucky golden bb that sends me to the tower.  I have a couple of pretty cool films where I use it to dogfight fighters somewhere.  hell I am trying to find the one where I roped a p38.

still it is stupid to think of it as an attack the way ah defines "attack".  it is used as a level bomber 99.99% of the time, the rest as a dive bomber.

semp

[SmokinLoon]

It's a level bomber. Not an attacker. It's not strafing those CVs down... 9/10 times it's bombing them level with a bombsight.....


Guess what that makes it?

What it does in game, and was it was designed to do are two different things.  I'm not vouching to have the B26 classified as "attack" only, I'm on the bandwagon to allow it it be scored under the Attack category in addition to the Bomber category.

 

[RTHolmes]

is the motivation behind this to earn bomber perks for carpet bombing GV fights?

[Lusche]

scoring in attack mode gives you fighter perks.

ack-ack

Not necessarily. It depends on the plan's primary role, not on the scoring choice made by the player.

Fighter/attack planes always gain fighter perks
Bomber/attack planes always gain bomber perks.

The selection by the player in hangar is just for scoring

Note that the Il-2 only seems to be the only pure "attack" plane, but it's a fighter/attack in wich the fighter scoring option has just been hidden. With this trick (changing  from bomber/attack to fighter/attack) HTC  did remove the F3 capability, which is currently tied to the plane category and not individual planes.

Just adding the "attack" category to the B-26 won't mean you will gain fighter persk in it - it would still be bomber perks.  

[guncrasher]

just have 3 categories:


fighter/bomber/gv

and split all planes/vehicles among those 3.

semp

[Tank-Ace]

Well the 'attack' category lets you earn perks based on the primary purpose of your sortie. If you select 'fighter', you get more perks for kills, but fewer for objects destroyed and damage done. If you select 'attack', the opposite is true.

I'm not sure how the "bomber"/"attack" is divided, and what the difference is though.

[Lusche]

Well the 'attack' category lets you earn perks based on the primary purpose of your sortie. If you select 'fighter', you get more perks for kills, but fewer for objects destroyed and damage done. If you select 'attack', the opposite is true.

I'm not sure how the "bomber"/"attack" is divided, and what the difference is though.

You haven't read my post at all, I guess...

[Karnak]

Well the 'attack' category lets you earn perks based on the primary purpose of your sortie. If you select 'fighter', you get more perks for kills, but fewer for objects destroyed and damage done. If you select 'attack', the opposite is true.

I'm not sure how the "bomber"/"attack" is divided, and what the difference is though.

Selecting Fighter, Attack or Bomber has absolutely no effect on the type of perk points gained nor the number of perk points gained from destroying a particular thing.  Those buttons only affect scoring.

Aircraft spawning out of the fighter hangars always gain fighter perks, aircraft spawning out of the bomber hangar always gain bomber perks.

[Tank-Ace]

So really, they just added another category of score, even though there was no need? Seems a little pointless.

[Lusche]

So really, they just added another category of score, even though there was no need? Seems a little pointless.

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huh? what are you talking about?

[Tank-Ace]

If selecting bomber/attack or fighter/attacker only affects which category your score counts towards (fighter, bomber, attacker, vehicle/boat) then that means they just kind of created the 'attack' score category without need.