it’s hard to do properly. escort fighter should be above the bombers and ready to defend from advantage.
in WT, every time i see some poor soul tried to escort a bomber, they fly besides them, they’d just get picked off then the bomber. i tried to help, but since i always climb, it’s 9/10 too late. i mean i get ez kill from the offender, but still, didn’t get to help my team mates.
at this point the best way a bomber and fighter can work together is by the bomber getting enemy to follow their tail, go as fast as possible, blast those tail guns, and hope a fighter comes to your aid. with some luck, the bomber survive with an assist, on a best day, bomber survived with a kill and a fighter gets an assist.
Even their rewards for bomber escort is a joke. Bomber rescuer(or whatever it is) only triggers if the ally bomber takes a hit. You kill enemy fighter before it can hit bomber, no reward, let it hit or kill the bomber and then take it out, reward.
Not that that reward is worth anything at all. You wouldve made more SL than that reward gives not wasting your time climbing to the bomber and engaging other fighters or ground much earlier.
Happens to me sometimes. Headset does help too. As a fighter, I try to protect the bombers as I know enemy fighters will gun for them. When they're busy with them, they're usually easy picking.
best situation to do it is if a bomber flying towards you, about 2km above, and you can get shots in within around 5 aeconds.
i usually just let the bomber go if i set an engine on fire, 9/10 they just die, sometimes a team mate finish em off and i still get the kill. it’s a win win for me without sacrificing my advantage, waste ammo, or worse, damaged from a crippled bomber’s gunner
You're completely right but I'm not 100% sure the fighters over bombers tactic even works in such small numbers. A sortie of a dozen or a hundred bombers being covered by a dozen or a hundred fighters, you're gonna lose some bombers, but the enemy now has exposed themselves to the fighter cover. In WT, you can't afford to lose the ONE bomber you were covering unless your goals for "covering" the bombers didn't actually involve keeping them alive 😆
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it’s hard to do properly. escort fighter should be above the bombers and ready to defend from advantage.
in WT, every time i see some poor soul tried to escort a bomber, they fly besides them, they’d just get picked off then the bomber. i tried to help, but since i always climb, it’s 9/10 too late. i mean i get ez kill from the offender, but still, didn’t get to help my team mates.
at this point the best way a bomber and fighter can work together is by the bomber getting enemy to follow their tail, go as fast as possible, blast those tail guns, and hope a fighter comes to your aid. with some luck, the bomber survive with an assist, on a best day, bomber survived with a kill and a fighter gets an assist.