Having had a few days break, I felt it was time to do a guide on one area that I haven't really covered yet, bombing, as well as general hints and tips on which aircraft to use.
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00:00Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder.
00:04Took a few days break to play some other games but I'm back with a guide on bombing.
00:09Something that I usually do, I've always considered myself quite more of a bomber
00:14pilot than a fighter pilot on this game. I consider myself okay at it, I think I'm
00:20quite good at bombing especially in realistic battles but I mean I can bombing arcade battles
00:26as well. I think it's rather an underappreciated role in the game, I mean usually when, well
00:32lately it has got a bit out of hand with everyone taking bombers and I think that's mainly
00:37because fighters don't always try and stop them which is understandable, I've tried
00:41stopping bombers at high heights myself, it isn't worth it a lot of the time. This
00:45is just to help maybe some of the newer people who aren't, who are just sort of getting
00:51into bombers or have not played it that much. One of the first things you sort of have to
00:56think about with bombers is well, which one to choose. I won't go through every single
01:02bomber but I'll try and go through like the general how most bombers work for different
01:08nations. Germany tends to have two lots of bombers, you have the Heinkel bombers which
01:14are slow, they don't have the greatest defence but you know an okay defence and they have
01:21an okay-ish bomb load. The H6, yeah the H6, 2000kg bombs and the 250kg bomb, not great
01:33but that's basically how the Heinkels work. They get not the best bomb loads in the world,
01:40okay for tactical bombing I suppose against ground targets like tanks, not so good for
01:47attacks against ground bases. Then you've got the Dornier 217s that rely on their speed
01:53rather than defensive armament and can carry very good bomb loads. Goes up from four 250kg
02:01bombs to four 1000kg bombs which is different to most nations because it's usually 1250kg
02:07bombs then four 250kg bombs then a 1000kg bomb, more powerful bombs but they're losing
02:14the amount of bombs they can carry. America, again two lines of bombers, well not two lines
02:20but two lines of bombers, J-20s and B-25s. Fast, decent bomb load, well armed. B-17s
02:31slow, well actually the B-17 is actually faster than the B-25 according to this but in practice
02:38it doesn't really work like that but well armed, decent, very good bomb load and it's
02:43got a tonne of armour and a lot of hits to take down. The Russians, they tend to go for
02:49fast bombers, not particularly well armed but extremely hard to catch up and take down.
02:56The Ir-2 sort of changes that, very big bomb load, quite slow but that's sort of a one
03:02off exception, the rest are all quite fast. I'm not entirely sure how their bomb loads
03:07are because I haven't gone that far. The P-2, not the greatest of bomb loads, it's
03:13still mainly a tactical bomber, the Soviets are mainly tactical bombing against tanks
03:21and units like that. The British, they have a few tactical bombers, the Blenheim and the
03:27Beaufort. The Blenheim, it's not particularly well armed but the way the turrets are put
03:37does give it very good, well I'll quickly show you, customisation. It's got one on the
03:44top with 360 degree view and can aim pretty much all the way up and one on the bottom
03:48that can aim pretty much all the way down plus 360 view. Two turrets but it can cover
03:54basically the entire aircraft. In theory it should be knocked out very easily, I've
04:01actually found it very hard to be knocked out while flying this aircraft in some cases.
04:06Japanese, got the heavy bombs, the G5N1s and G8N1s, not the best bomb loads in the world,
04:13I think the best they get is four 800kg bombs. But the G5N1 and G8N1, extremely well armed,
04:21fairly fast, decent speed. Then we've got the H6K which also, well that sort of fits
04:30in the same way as the G5N1, two 800kg bombs, well armed, well armoured. Used to be a pain
04:36to take these out when the War Thunder first came out because I think this was tier 1 along
04:42with the Catalina which, or it was rank 1, it was basically the same place as reserves
04:48so you had biplanes going against this and they could basically end the game much slower.
04:52The airfield was very fast and it was a pain to deal with. But the other bombers, G4N1
04:58and Ki-49s, fast bombers, they're basically the same, the G4N1's a bit, or quite a bit
05:04slower but because it's armament, it's 20mm cannons actually in the back, not in the turret,
05:10rather than on the top flight with the Ki-49s, as we can see here. And they carry the same
05:17bomb loads so in some cases the G4N1 can actually be better. We've also got the Italians
05:22before I forget, very good bomb loads, 5 250kg bombs which is good for tier 2, decent defensive
05:30armament, 12.7mm machine guns in the tail and, I can't remember where the other one
05:38is but yeah, two 12.7mm machine guns, decent speed and it has one on the front that can
05:46fire forward, it's got one on the back, one on the bottom and a player controlled one
05:50at the front. So down to personal preference which one you want to choose, if you're going
05:55for base bombing, go American, possibly some of the German aircraft like the Dornier 217,
06:04plus the British, not the best armament in the world, but they carry very good bombs,
06:12not very fast but very good bomb load, I think one of the best in the game. So yeah, for
06:20base bombing, Britain's quite good, Germany, America like I've already said, tactical bombing,
06:27go Japan or Soviet Union, some of the German bombers. But like I said, down to personal
06:34preference, you may want to look these up yourself. I'm not going to really deal with
06:39attackers in this, well a lot of the guide will sort of apply to attackers as well, but
06:45I don't want to get this video to be too big, but basically a lot of these lessons and tips
06:50will sort of apply to attackers as well, so I hope it will help a little bit in that regards,
06:55but mainly focusing on bombers. Now there is one other thing to remember before you
07:00actually take your bomber into flight, quickly go to test flight, I'm not actually going
07:03to go and test flight, but you got bomb activation in time, seconds here, basically you can put
07:11a delay on your bombs up to 10 seconds, wouldn't use this personally, I've never gone above
07:160.5 seconds, there have been cases where people have put a little delay, dropped a bomb while
07:21being chased by enemy aircraft that are quite near to them, it hits the ground, a second
07:27later the enemy fighters above it and it explodes destroying it, but I wouldn't rely on that,
07:31it's extremely rare, I can't think of any other time it would actually be useful, against
07:36naval vessels it actually makes it harder to destroy them, it usually takes one 250kg
07:42bomb to sink a destroyer, with time delay that won't happen, you'll just get hit, at
07:47least in my experience, wouldn't use it, wouldn't even touch it, if you are no more than 0.5
07:54seconds, it just doesn't seem worth the time or effort to use it, but just letting you
07:58know it's there sort of thing. Now here's a quick match I was doing earlier,
08:04you can see I've been playing in the B-17, this is the E-Late, for those of you who are
08:10wondering the E-Late is different than the E because of the turret, the E has a slightly
08:16flatter turret, the EL has the standard ball turret, not sure if it makes any difference,
08:23someone said it allows you to shoot further down or something, or to have a better angle
08:28when shooting down, but I can't see any difference, but as you can see I'm going for the bases,
08:34I'm sort of deciding which one to go for at this point, changing direction, because there's
08:39lots of other bombs behind me, I don't know if you saw, but I've managed to get in line
08:44with the base, now I don't use the bomb sight, you can use it but trying to make course corrections
08:50can be rather dodgy, I've just dropped all my bombs, now you can also use the flaps to
08:57and your throttle to try and keep you stable when trying to drop your bombs, because obviously
09:04if you're moving about it can affect the accuracy somewhat, but here I've managed to drop all
09:10my bombs, I was just following it down, started going for the second base, I can't remember
09:17how the match ended, oh no we destroyed all their bases, a lot of our bases were destroyed
09:22before I even got to drop my bombs, but yeah I don't think I really got any bombs off on
09:28the bases, although I'll quickly skip ahead to show you what happened when I did go a
09:32little further down to attack up a target, as you can see here I'm trying to bomb another
09:39target that I kept missing, this is sort of a what not to do when bombing this little
09:45section, because I'm trying to hit the target and you can see I've just overshot it, so
09:50I tried to dive down, but because of the speed and not using my flaps I can't get it
09:54down enough, it's keeping about the same place as it was when I originally reloaded my bombs,
10:02so I try diving to pick up some speed so then I can turn around, but then I turn around
10:07I still can't hit the target, this goes on for a little while, some of you may notice
10:14on the radar, it may not have appeared yet, but a fighter has spotted me, now one of
10:22the problems with fighters not taking out bombers is they generally don't go high enough
10:28to take out the bombers, and I can't blame them, I've tried it myself, but it takes forever,
10:34you may not even get to them before the end of the game, and if you do you may be destroyed,
10:38I managed to get some of my bombs off, and yep there they are, they're starting to shoot
10:43me, they may not go high enough to try and get you, but when you come down to them they
10:48will swarm you, I tried taking control of the guns myself, now so far you can see the
10:54bow fighter and I think it was a Spitfire, I'm using movie maker so I can't really zoom
10:59the camera out too much, or the picture too much, but you'll see in a minute on the radar
11:08as I, and when I look behind, there is a lot of fighters chasing me, now bear in mind this
11:15is just one B-17 and there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 aircraft already on me, a few more aircraft
11:21heading towards me, so 5, possibly 6, so yeah this is a little what not to do, don't ever
11:30go that down low, especially in a slow easy to hit target like a B-17.
11:39Now I'm also going to quickly demonstrate attacking tanks, this kind of comes under
11:46the attackers role as well, but it can do it with bombers, and like I said I don't want
11:53to make this too much of a guide about attackers, because otherwise it will become a really
11:57long video and convolted and it will get a bit confusing, but like I said a lot of the
12:05stuff that I'm doing in this guide can be applicable for attackers as well. So quickly
12:12getting into the game, as you can see we're going to be attacking Malta to take out the
12:18enemy tanks, now we have to follow the squadron leader so I'm just going to pause the video
12:22while we do all that because it will take a long time, and I'll see you in a second.
12:27So we've made it to the target, we were attacked by a lot of bombers, bombers, fighters, there
12:33were a lot of bombers, I think we've lost quite a few of them, but quickly to show how
12:40to bomb tanks, it's generally best done at low altitude, I mean this is why you have
12:48to really use the fast manoeuvrable aircraft, you don't have to be too low, but you know
12:55low enough that you can hit the targets, because a few patches ago I think they introduced
13:00a thing where vehicles generally now try and manoeuvre out the way of bombs if you start
13:07attacking near them. So I'm coming in quite low, managed to drop a couple of bombs, really
13:13I would recommend only dropping one, just try and hit one bomb on one tank. 50kg bombs
13:22may not work, anything above that will definitely work, but it has to be quite direct hits.
13:28It actually used to be you could hit near the enemy, but I might show my realistic battles
13:35scoreboard leaderboard thing later, but it used to be you only had to hit near them,
13:45so it used to be everyone would load up 50kg bombs, just bomb near the convoy and you would
13:50get like 12 kills or so, but that's been changed, mainly because of ground forces I'm guessing,
13:56so it's really best to use 250kg bombs now. You could possibly use 50kg bombs on medium
14:05tanks or light tanks, but definitely not heavy tanks. I'd really only stick to light tanks
14:11with the 50kg bombs, anything above that should be good for medium and heavy tanks, but stay
14:18away from 50kg bombs unless you're against very very low tier vehicles like tanks.
14:26So that's the end of that mission, quickly get back out of this quickly.
14:56Thanks for watching.
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