Ground Attack unrealistic for medium bombers

[Tolwyn]

Create a new attackTimeOut option for the GAttack waypoint.

Set an attackTimeOut (in minutes or seconds or both) for any waypoint that has a target or GAttack waypoint.

For level bombing, don't use it of course, but for A20 and such, they will continue to attack the area until:

percentage is destroyed
or timeout reached

then proceed to next waypoint.

[shelby]

can someone rework the old dgen bomber campaigns? it is not realistic the medium bombers to attack enemy collumns...

[RPS69]

Originally Posted by shelby

can someone rework the old dgen bomber campaigns? it is not realistic the medium bombers to attack enemy collumns...

You really know nothing about the eastern front, do you?

Read a bit about Pe2 exploits over there.

[Sapper]

Originally Posted by RPS69

You really know nothing about the eastern front, do you?

Read a bit about Pe2 exploits over there.

Or the SB2.

[dimlee]

Originally Posted by Sapper

Or the SB2.

Or DB-3.
Or TB-3.
Or MBR-2 - yes, they were used over land as well (with disastrous results for themselves).
Etc, etc.

[Jack_Aubrey]

The way i would do this is setting several ground attacks to the same position with a low flight path that try to use the terrain for cover between every ground attack, also set the damage to low percentage for every ground attack.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Jack_Aubrey

The way i would do this is setting several ground attacks to the same position with a low flight path that try to use the terrain for cover between every ground attack, also set the damage to low percentage for every ground attack.

Using terrain to optimal effect - unless you do it using waypoints in the FMB - requires lots of AI programming.

[shelby]

Originally Posted by RPS69

You really know nothing about the eastern front, do you? Read a bit about Pe2 exploits over there.

the pe2 had airbrakes the he111 not

[_1SMV_Gitano]

Originally Posted by shelby

the pe2 had airbrakes the he111 not

In some (many?) occasions the Luftwaffe was forced to use medium bombers to attack troop and tank concentrations, see for example the books of C. Bergstrom on the Eastern Front air war.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by RPS69

You really know nothing about the eastern front, do you?

Read a bit about Pe2 exploits over there.

Air war on the Eastern Front covered such a huge area, involved so many planes, and was so desperate, that at this point almost nothing would surprise me about unusual variants and tactics.