1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

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1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby welder » 10 May 2012, 07:19

I'm sorry. Call me a noob if you want, but I think it is BS that 1 bomber can take our four engineers in one pass. I also had a flak and a mobile AA too when this happened, both firing fruitlessly at the bomber while it just knocked out my engineers.

This bomber first thing is really out of control
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby noobymcnoobcake » 10 May 2012, 08:34

well spread your engineers out early game. Also get interceptors of your own. First bomber is a bit OP but anything else is not.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby Ze_PilOt » 10 May 2012, 09:17

You can post a replay.

4 engies in one pass or one bomb ?
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby ToejamS » 10 May 2012, 11:54

Its not hard to take out 4 engies in one pass. There are ways of limiting the damage from a bomber rush and you MUST do that. Scout first ( it sucks but thats the way it is for the moment ) and hope the bomber doesnt fly around it. Its worth while to go either second or 3rd air, if you dont you are asking for trouble. But, yes, please post a replay to see if there was a better counter to your bomber situation.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby Ze_PilOt » 10 May 2012, 11:58

Scouting first was how it should be done, even before the bomber first. You avoid tons of problems like that.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby Iszh » 11 May 2012, 07:08

better way is in ranked games simply watch the points while building the first factory. when the points change with every tick after the third tick from odd to even number and back then he s getting land. if the number stays odd or even then he is geetin air factory.
this happens because an air factory brings only 32 points per tick and land factory brings 33 per tick.
when you know if he is getting air or land you can prepare yourself.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby welder » 12 May 2012, 04:21

On this particular map there is no way to scout first unless you also happen to go air first.

The reasons my engs were close together is because I saw the bomber coming and used all of them to throw up an AA turret. Yeah I am new to FAF (coming from GPGNet) and I'm still trying to adjust to everything. But I just had no idea that it would be in any way even possible for a bomber to take out 4 engs regardless of how close together they are.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby Lu_Xun_17 » 12 May 2012, 10:05

I bet you also can kill 100 MonkeyLords with only 1 nuke if they are well packed :mrgreen:
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby Ze_PilOt » 12 May 2012, 11:21

welder wrote:On this particular map there is no way to scout first unless you also happen to go air first.

The reasons my engs were close together is because I saw the bomber coming and used all of them to throw up an AA turret. Yeah I am new to FAF (coming from GPGNet) and I'm still trying to adjust to everything. But I just had no idea that it would be in any way even possible for a bomber to take out 4 engs regardless of how close together they are.



Sorry but I don't see any problem here.

Even you don't scout it, you see it coming 3 TIMES over your base before it fire anything.

It's important to build AA, but the second thing to do is to spread out your engys and be ready to repair some damaged pgens.

Once that done, you have the upper hand, no problems.
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Re: 1 bomber takes out 4 eng in one pass

Postby uberge3k » 12 May 2012, 13:58

That actually shows how terribly ineffective bomber first is...
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