How to use bombers?

[Kaffine]

Im really exited to use the B-29 but for now im using the B-17E just because its seems to be more or less the same as the other planes that are between it and the B-29 but at a lower BR but i never really seem to do well in it, i usually spawn in and right away i will turn off to the side or just 180 and start climbing as much as i can until im at just above 20,000 feet and then i will go bomb targets.

The thing is whenever enemy fighter aircraft decide to go on me i never really am able to put up much of a fight, if i manually shoot at them i can usually scare them off for a bit but if they get within targeting distance for my gunners to shoot on their own i am usually dead pretty much right away.

Also it doesn't seem like bombing is that profitable but at the moment i don't really have any big bomb payloads (my max is 4000 LBs). Will bombing get alot more profitable once i get bigger payloads and is there anything i can do to improve the way i play the B-17? I see other people just diving right as they spawn in a bomber.

[Jaes]

If you want to use bombers effectively in Air RB, literally don't spawn in for the first 5 minutes of the match.

By the time you spawn in and start climbing to the ideal altitude (space), fighters will be all over each other and chasing everyone down low. The bomber hunters will get bored with no bombers and go after them as well.

Free death from above.

[Pumba70]

As others have said, it is not worth playing a bomber anymore. Bombers are on the way out in this game it seems.

First they were promised cockpits years ago to only get placeholders that have never been updated except in rare instances for a few planes.

Then they were reduced to 4 bombers per RB match because people "spammed" them.

Then they increased the ever-loving crap out of the SL repair cost to make it actually impossible to play some bombers like the B-29 and Tu-4.

It really pains me to say you should stick with low-tier bombers or just abandon grinding them outright.
The B-29 is one of my favorite planes in-game, but I can't even use it because if I die like 10 times (which is easy when you try to avoid going to space because people complain even more about that), I am out of SL. Apparently, the He-177 also has a high repair cost now as well, yet another plane I was super excited for.
Unless they drastically lower the SL repair costs for bombers, it actually is a detriment to play them.

[Baron von ZinGir]

Do 335 b-2 and narval nightmare of the bombers :P

[PlumpPimp02496]

Go very low and don't get caught I guess.

[Tyso3]

My advise with any slow bombers that have a few gunners is to use your rudder quite a lot when being attacked, in RL this would make it harder for your gunners sure, but in Warthunder it makes it harder for the attacking plane to get a clean hit, while giving your gunners more time to aim.

So learn to swerve and jerk the controls a bit, even randomly and you will create sweeping arcs of fire for your gunners.

[Kaffine]

Tyso3 の投稿を引用：

My advise with any slow bombers that have a few gunners is to use your rudder quite a lot when being attacked, in RL this would make it harder for your gunners sure, but in Warthunder it makes it harder for the attacking plane to get a clean hit, while giving your gunners more time to aim.

So learn to swerve and jerk the controls a bit, even randomly and you will create sweeping arcs of fire for your gunners.

I will try that, thanks