Fire Bomb Fuel Tanks Need Buff

got around 20 bombings now in a handful games with the new fighter planes and the two 60kg bombs are weak as expected, but the fuel tanks are especially weak. with lots of experience in bombing, i can clearly state that the fuel tanks are too weak to be relevant.

also bugreport: since the recent update bombs in general almost never blow up tanks, i went a full 35 min game with perfect bombings on tanks without any damage, even 20mm cannons made the tank yellow whereas bombs hitting a tank directly didnt do anything :smiley:

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Ive noticed that, Tiger IIs can now tank 2 100 kg bombs on direct hits which is just stupid.

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casue you hit armored part not the side

I won’t disagree that 60kg bombs can be disappointing, but I’m going to go ahead and doubt this statement.

I went ahead and watched a few of your replays in the Pacific to check out your perfect bombing technique, and the one time I saw you miss a tank you dropped early and the bombs hit at the bottom of a ridge the tank was on top of. That was out of the two times you even bombed armored vehicles. Maybe spend a little more time on the practice range.

The fire bombs already explode into a large radius, burning anyone caught in the flames just like a molotov. What else do you want them to do?

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Not really since I watched that game you have in mind.

Clipped from 10.55


“okey let’s see if bombs work or still are bugged. Because these bombs are really perfectly placed. Uh, bombs don’t do anything. Alright bombs are bugged …”

It would be better if people actually improved and became better rather than screaming about stealth nerfs/bugs and in general blaming the game for their own lack of skill.

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I have killed a lot of tanks with the Japanese 60 KG bombs recently.

So our millage Varys on that one.

But, ya the drop tanks are more a curiosity than a functional weapon, I get a lot of assists with them though.

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@7104608 made a nice gameplay video about it.

And I believe this is a reasonable result you can expect:

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Bombs are as they should be. 20 mm will shred almost every Allies vehicle anyway.

no see im perfect so if something doesnt work 100% of the time then it has to be bugged

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So is your complaint about the flame bombs or standard bombs?

Your title says one thing but the body of the post says another.

The fire bombs seem plenty effective to me!

I get more kills with the small 60kg bombs than with the large fuel tank.

the fire bombs are too weak and bombs in general are bugged since some days, as multiple of people told me from their experience.
its 2 problems that came simultaneously.
the 60 kg bombs are weak but thats fair, since they are supposed to be weak, otherwise the plane had 100 kg bombs.

I made screenshots, how effective this bomb fuel tank:


That’s it.
Fire zone small, and disappear fast.

Fire zone from fuel tank, should stay longer.

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What angle are you guys dropping the bombs from? From what I’ve seen personally, it seems like the pool of flame is considerably longer than what you are showing in these screenshots.

Have you tried coming in at a flatter, more horizontal angle, rather than dive-bombing?

Yeah when I approach flying low and fast, not divebombing, the fire spreads narrow and long.
Not a large round pool of flames.