ok some one needs to clear these guides up..
first things first
1/ your bombers do not need to be anywhere near the target when you issue your dive order!! you can do it from anywhere, but it makes mroe sence to issue the dive close to the target to avoid the target moving out of the way as your dive order is on a posistion on the map and not on the target.. then press ( . ) at the peak of the dive! do not wait for planes to dive they tend to get shot up.. follow the next steps to make sure your planes all stay grouped and drop bombs all at the same time.
in some cases your planes are spread out after launch, to get your planes to group ordering the dive from afar also brings your planes into tight formation ;) then just click them around the map as normal until you find your target of choice. (this only works on dive bombers)
2/ torp bombers at low level are not very clever for manuel tb runs, reason is they dont last long against aaw, and you have to fire torps off from a long way off giving the target time to manouvre around them..
high level torp bombers can skim the water and be more or less immune to all enemy aaw fire. this allows you to drop your torps manually at very very close ranges which always lands home. ideally uoi want to be fireing off torps a good 1.5 to 2.0 inches from your target.. keep close keep it lethal.
their are two ways to launch torp bombers,
1 to sea level.. always launch planes useing the fervest to the right pilot and then cycle back along the pilots... what this does is launch all the lead planes of each sqaud, this now means you can drag a selection box around the lead planes and select all planes in the group by simple selecting the 2 lead planes.. while planes are launching just hold this key ( , ) to make them hug the waves and full stop ( . ) is to launch torps..
2 standard launch just let them spill out into the air then drag abox round them simple.
how to group tb's if they are spread out.. - select all planes by dragging a selction box around them at peak altitude,, then hold down your lower altitude button while spam clicking directions around the map, your planes will lower and for each click they tighten up. if you do this enough two things will happen!
1. your planes will form into a delta formation's 2. they will just huddle together really tight
you have no control over this, i prefer the delta as it gives a nice tight but a good spread of torps into the side of targets.. rather than a concentrated huddle of torps into the middle, torps that have a slight spread have more chance of hitting home than the direct huddle ones which can be completely avoided.
tactics for db's
when manuel bombing try to make your planes dive over the central axis of the ship, its pivot point for when it turns, reason is hitting here cannot be dodged and every hit lands. so judge it well and take into account that your target is moving.
tactics for manuel tb-
if you can always manuel tb. and always take your planes behind enemy lines, this draws enemy AA FIRE away from other planes such as bb scouts and fighter waves.. secondly try to attack targets from the side only, hitting targets in the front or aft only yields 50% damage,, where as in the side warrants 100% damage. also the side is a bigger target so more torps are likely to land. if your manuel torping then the enemy has no idea which target you have chosen so its last minute evasive actions for them as apposed to seeing the little red crosshair as you rplanes drwa in for the kill from an auto attack.. (master manuel tb). its easy to avoid tb's when you know its you they are after.
when tb's and db's are under fire from eney aircraft, you prolonge the life span buy fake diving and doing fake torp runs, these can only be done from max altitude..
for db's just pretend your doing a manuel bomb but without pressing the drop bombs button and your planes will rapidly dive down and then back up gaining you some prescious time to get closer to the target..
for tb's just click a target for an auto run and your tb's will fly down to sea level, once down click again on a random map location to send planes back to altitude.. tb's are nto as fast as db's but it still helps and is a good way for avoiding AA fire too. and remember tb's will auto fire the torps if you dont cancel the action so just be aware of it. auto fire torps always fail. too close no dmg!!
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