Bombing run rework

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Here’s some changes that I think we need

  • Better Armament:
    Bombers now carry 100kg bombs like in old Stalingrad

  • Harder to reach:
    Bombers now fly higher or faster so It will be unlikely to do both CAS and Interception

  • New timer mechanism
    Bomber now have 5/10 minutes of basic cool down for perked/non perk radio man, will get +30s for every bomber get shot down

  • More concealed
    Players won’t be able to see the bomber all across the map, apply the normal aircraft detection range

  • Interactivity
    When bomber gets shot down, radio man will receive message just like the rally and APC

Of course, the most important

  • No longer block artillery
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thats a cool concept

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I would suggest making the bomber planes be heavy bombers. It would give these famous planes representation

US: B-17
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Theoretically in the Pacific the US Heavy Bomber could be the B-29 since it was exclusively used in the Pacific and is so iconic
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UK: Avro-Lancaster
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USSR: PE-8
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Germany: He 177 Greif
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Italy: P.108
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Japan: G8N
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Let’s face it, the airstrike call-in was only introduced to give fighter pilots at a time a half-decent way to grind their squads out under the pretense that they’re intercepting bombers (which they also get points for even if the bomber was shot down after they already dropped their bombs)

Instead of making airstrikes work by making them do their existing jobs a bit better, I’d rather that they offer a utility that can’t already be done with existing artillery strikes, like calling an AI recon plane to circle and automatically spot vehicles in a spot for a given period until it gets shot down or the radio squad dies.

The way airstrikes right now are basically exp pinatas with each individual bomber covering a misleadingly smaller area than the 5 circles that appear on the map. Removing the linked cooldown helps, but it still wouldn’t be as useful as someone with map knowledge dropping arty where needed.

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Bombing runs should be buffed so they feel like a worthwhile ability. They should be something worth defending and attacking for both teams. They should be strong that they are justified as a call-in for their role that the enemy team should fear and actually want to shoot down as well as giving your teams pilots a reason for defending them because they are so valuable

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If you want power, fly the CAS yourself.

I’ve already said it to you in a different thread of yours, but a guy clicking on the map shouldn’t be able to unilaterally affect the battlefield without any additional input.

The effort-to-reward ratio must be commensurate, and the best way to ensure results while keeping things fair is to make the player who intended to call the CAS runs perform it himself.

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What’s the effort of play as CAS?
point at the zone and perss R and space?

To me, the effort they put in is no different than camping.

In enlisted we haven’t have the “commander” class, so now we just let radioman to that job.

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That person in the plane has to know where to dump ordnance and fly the entire time.

The entire time, that person isn’t on the ground attacking the objective on behalf of the team.

It is a commitment in terms of skill, effort and presence.

Clicking on shit with rockets is “easy” relative to other CAS options, but the entire time, the player is out there in the plane doing something and not just clicking on a map, free to do anything else they want as they wait for the strike to occur.

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