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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger
I've changed my opinion about 'Sniper' AI gunners since I started flying a few bomber missions and jumping to the back seat.
Despite controlling the aircraft with my right hand and the gun with the mouse in my left hand, I found it surprisingly consistant hitting attacking fighters as they attack at relatively shallow angles and slow closing speeds as they climb up to attack me from the rear.
And I'm not an expert and haven't been trained in arial gunnery
I think the old tailer gunner AI's need to be given a break, and pilots need to re-assess their tactics attacking bombers!
Cheers!
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Personally, I don't like to fly bombers or use turret guns, but my kid brother does, so I set him up with a QMB mission in a B-24 vs 16 Normal AI Zeros on full realism settings. I was fully expecting him to get annihilated but he shot down 5 Zeros with the tail gun before running out of ammo, then switched to the belly turret and shot down another 3, finally limping back to base on only two engines but with a tally of 10 Zeros killed, and the remaining 6 having all taken varying degrees of damage.
Given those results, I would agree that maybe the gunner AI isn't so unfairly overpowered, but it still seems to get me everytime I'm feeling lazy and can't be bothered to set up an attack run properly.
Anyway, if I ever do fly a bomber online, I know who I want covering my ass
