Auto bomb release

[Karnak]

Id be willing to bet that we, the Vtards that you speak of, can be just as precise with the bomb sight as your squad can. The bomb sight is far to easy to use. If anything, it should go back to the old way. Like how it is in the special events.

Remember to think of side effects.  While I did enjoy the more complex sight and was able to obtain the same results with it that I get with the current system, for most people it just caused them to abandon trying to use the site at all and rely on dive bombing with the heavies.

[guncrasher]

I'm an ex-football star and I can bench press a car....

and yet it takes very little strength to push a button.


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[Eric19]

Id be willing to bet that we, the Vtards that you speak of, can be just as precise with the bomb sight as your squad can. The bomb sight is far to easy to use. If anything, it should go back to the old way. Like how it is in the special events.

I was in no way insulting the vtards it just seems the few bomb runs I have done with you guys have all been in lancs on the deck and just climbing to 1k and dropping your bombs as you get over the target and I said MAYBE for the simple reason that I do know you guys occasionally climb and bomb then I respect the Vtards as I am bish and with out you guys there would be no captures on our bish side

[BowHTR]

I was in no way insulting the vtards it just seems the few bomb runs I have done with you guys have all been in lancs on the deck and just climbing to 1k and dropping your bombs as you get over the target and I said MAYBE for the simple reason that I do know you guys occasionally climb and bomb then I respect the Vtards as I am bish and with out you guys there would be no captures on our bish side

This would be chuwies missions. Not to be confused with ours.

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[4Prop]

I was in no way insulting the vtards it just seems the few bomb runs I have done with you guys have all been in lancs on the deck and just climbing to 1k and dropping your bombs as you get over the target and I said MAYBE for the simple reason that I do know you guys occasionally climb and bomb then I respect the Vtards as I am bish and with out you guys there would be no captures on our bish side

They insult themselves with their way of flying and tactics. no one even needs to say a word about it. everytime a Vtard presses the runway spawn button its an insult

[DMGOD]

They insult themselves with their way of flying and tactics. no one even needs to say a word about it. everytime a Vtard presses the runway spawn button its an insult

+1000000000000000000
couldn't have said it better 

[Rob52240]

+1000000000000000000
couldn't have said it better 

Ha!
Even though 2 nights ago Jarbo and I were in heavy P-47's, we took out your vh, ords and radar before killing your A-hog and your squaddie's spitfire.
Stop being so lame.

[Nathan60]

Ha!
Even though 2 nights ago Jarbo and I were in heavy P-47's, we took out your vh, ords and radar before killing your A-hog and your squaddie's spitfire.
Stop being so lame.

What did the other 20 vtards do?

[Rob52240]

What did the other 20 vtards do?

It was just the 2 of us.

[Zoney]

-1 Fighters wait to knock bombers out of the air precisely when they are busy in the bomb sight.

-1 same reason.  Now they have to choose, shoot at me, or drop on the target and lose a plane.  Bombers also have the option of having a gunner fly with them so if you really want to make sure you are in the bombsight when it is critically important, you all could have a gunner with you from your squad.  That might mean half as many buffs of course if you all had gunners but I'm pretty sure most of the time that is still more than enough.

I do not want to discourage buff pilots.  I, along with fighter pilots like Chalenge, invest the time and practice our techniques to intercept and kill them.  I think we have a pretty good balance already with the way it is setup.  After all, buff pilots now have 3 chances to make it to and drop on their targets because of the 2 AI wingman.  It is not often I can get more than 1 when the "in the bombsight" timing is in my favor.

[guncrasher]

Ha!
Even though 2 nights ago Jarbo and I were in heavy P-47's, we took out your vh, ords and radar before killing your A-hog and your squaddie's spitfire.
Stop being so lame.

hey dont forget the time I shot down 8 of your comrades as you were heavy and refused to move out of the way.  it was literally 1 after the other.  I was actually amazed that i shot so many as everybody knows I cant shoot a plane that goes straight.  now that  I think about it, you guys probably knew it was me  .

you guys have 1 or 2 guys that can bomb.  the rest just count on numbers, so many times there's been 2 or 3 of us attacking you and the only reason you took the base was that we ran out of ammo.  several times I have been so disgusted with the lack of fighting from your part when you narrowly focus on just killing the hangars that I just augured and went to play wot.

there was a time when we used to have 5 or 6 guys just waiting for you noe missions.  we busted so many of them that the word came that you guys thought we had spies.  but the truth was the we killed the ords so we knew exactly which base you were coming from.  then we got bored with just easy kills so we went to fight the rooks.  at least the will drop the bombs and try to engage when attacked.  most bishop's idea of evading is keep going straight.


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[DMGOD]

Ha!
Even though 2 nights ago Jarbo and I were in heavy P-47's, we took out your vh, ords and radar before killing your A-hog and your squaddie's spitfire.
Stop being so lame.

lol yup we had just upped and you came in from like 15k. yup you are awesome
i wonder if you would be willing to da
lets see who is lame

[Scotty55OEFVet]

I'm an ex-football star and I can bench press a car....

Ok now Rob, those Hot Wheels in your old toybox do not count...neither do Power Wheels or cars made of foam...

[ozrocker]

Seems people want to take every task away from the game. It's easy enough to do now.
If you have trouble with calibrating, keep practicing, keep your E-6 open while in bombsight to match current
airspeed to cal airspeed. Most likely your plane has sped up since calibration. Throttle to match
E-6 to calibrated- Voila tgt hit.
Altitude doesn't seem to make too much difference on 2nd pass (Drop alt.)
Just match E-6 (actual airspeed) to calibrated.
I want to continue to drop bombs myself, not automatic.
Killing fighters on my 6, or getting killed is the fun part.
-10
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[Old Sport]

From what I've read about the Norden, once the bombardier opened the bomb bay doors, set the Norden sight on the target and then corrected for drift, etc, the autopilot flew the plane and the Norden automatically dropped the bombs. 'Course they were not flying at full throttle either, and R/L accuracy was less I think than what a good bomber jock in AH can achieve.

Anyway, this thread and others have given me an interesting thought. How 'bout a dot command [maybe .dropwith....] for dropping your bombs when someone else's plane does. For example, you type in .dropwith Rob52240 and your bombs drop when Rob's do. You still have to open bomb bay doors, and if you are not near the target your bombs will drop and be wasted. But if you have a tight formation...might be interesting...   

best.