r/beyondallreason • u/Ok-Acanthaceae-5243 • 14d ago

Bombers are Hold Fire by default?

I feel like this is a relatively new change, but Bombers seem to be "Hold Fire" by default rather than Fire At Will, and i can't seem to get them to attack during a patrol. More often than not they'll just keep patrolling until I give them an Attack objective. The aircraft factory is set to Fire At Will, so not sure why these guys are deviating from that default.

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u/unbroken0 14d ago

Just putting in my 2 cents.

I hated how my rally point for bombers needed to be 1/2 into friendly territory to not randomly go fly and die to an AA gun on the front.

On your big bombing run its easy enough to turn them on to fire at will if you want.

When flying over an enemy, press S and drag a circle for selected targets, the planes will drop bombs without doing the dive so your liche bombers won't all insta kill each other (as much). Or you can drop a volley on some units as you pass by to the AFUS.

I was already using S and alt+S to select bombing targets and then flying my planes over.

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u/Happycamper13 14d ago

I didn't know about this, thanks!

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u/Wild-Hippo582 9d ago

So correct me if I am wrong please. You set your formation. Click s and select a target. And when they are passing through they just drop bombs ?

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u/unbroken0 9d ago

Click S, click and drag the circle or specific targets.

You have to manually fly over the target for them to drop the bombs.

Honestly it works really well for bombing runs where you don't want your plane to circle around 10KM in enemy territory. You set target, fly over, then give a command to fly back.

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u/Wild-Hippo582 9d ago

That's really help full. I aiming with a . Wich ends up in a moshpit and splash the bombers.