Remove bomber raids

[MissingMayhem13]

I agree. Bombers should be reworked to both benefit the team as a whole and the individual who called the bombers in. The timer should be limited around the team as a whole. If John calls in a bombing run, he can NOT call another in for 8 minutes (or insert time restriction) and the team can call another bombing run in 4 minutes. It prevents spamming by the whole team, and prevents an individual from spamming. Artillery strikes should have a team cooldown of 4 minutes and an individual cool down of 6 minutes.

In reality it would allow the artillery to feel much more “realistic*”. What I mean by realistic that in reality, artillery crews would have to load the cannons, refill their on hand supply of shells and munitions, while also recalibrating for their new designated strike zone.

The artillery call should last an extra 5 seconds, while ALSO being more powerful (buffed).

Airstrikes, and Bombing runs should be buffed and brought back to being a devastating, effective and DEADLY resource.

Buff Arty and bombing runs. Add MORE bombers to the bombing run and remove the artificial “flak” explosions. Replace them with better and more realistic flak explosions (different altitudes and MORE/LARGER explosions.

[Josephs_Piano]

No.

[GeneralBrus]

The most ridiculous thing about bombers - people that intercept them gain so many points for it, that it isn’t rare to see those pilots on top of the scoreboard, despite them doing practically nothing for the team.

[IceySmooth]

@Wieloglow

give enemy team easy 1300 points

I think you meant they remove 1-2 enemy players from CAS/CAP for about 2 minutes. Thats the actual benefit of bombers.

Im all for buffing them further personally. Give radio squad even more reason to live!

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[CaptainSebekel]

I was always promoting in the old times that shooting down the planes should matter as more dropped planes would increase their call-in time by x-seconds.
That way, it would reward people for shooting them down in terms of “tactics” while still being lethal if not being taken care of on the ground, being able to respond better against enemy fighters, as well for morons who call them when the enemies have air superiority.
Yet, they shouldn’t be flying AA snipers.

[robihr]

@Myrm1don

Double or triple the amount of planes.

get more score per bomber run? count me in.

@regismauro

i remenber when bombers could destroy tanks…good times

they can destroy them now. it is just rng cause they drop 50kg bombs that have 3-4m effective radius.

[Myrm1don]

@robihr

get more score per bomber run? count me in.

Not necessarily. Would be good for events BUT more likely to split the current score now, but across more planes

[IceySmooth]

Yep actually use bomber runs often enough personally, even have a few Tiger kills with radio squad.

They work, just time enough to look at them in terms of buffs.

[GeneralBrus]

@CaptainSebekel

I was always promoting in the old times that shooting down the planes should matter as more dropped planes would increase their call-in time by x-seconds.

Or, taking out bombers reduces the amount of bombers for the next bombing run, which then slowly regenerates

If then bombers would be potent enough, people would not only want to take them out - pilots would also actively try to protect their bombers.

But yeah, as long as bombers are terribly weak, the entire mechanic is pointless.