There is virtually no way you can kill or fall back a ju88 before the bombs get dropped. I have tried layered AA defenses with bofors and HT AA with 3AD and still nothing. Hell i was already losing a battle, so i started spamming HT AA just to see how much the plane could take. Needless to say, with 7, 2 star HT AA shooting at it, the plane was still able to drop its bombs, but finally......was shot down while trying to evac. Something needs to be fixed about this.
Why is JU88 so hard to kill?
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that thing is slow. Have a fighter flying cap and combined with some AA you'll almost certainly get a kill.
Dropping bombs on some inf might be a bad deal for a 240 pt bomber then.
Dropping bombs on some inf might be a bad deal for a 240 pt bomber then.
Not hard for bomber to get through when Fighter planes evac much quicker due to supression. The only way you are going to shoot it down, is to catch it over enemy territory. Easier said than done. And like you have stated, its a slow moving plane, which should make it VERY easy to kill with 3+ AA platforms shooting at it.
Your AA is not meant to kill planes (although they do sometimes).
Fighters are, even if the get spooked more easily.
EDITH: in fact the Ju 88 isn't even slow in game. Must have been my expectation that bombers should fly slower than fighters, oh well...
speed: 600
resilience: very good.
Nonetheless I lost some of them because I sent them on Kamikaze missions without fighter cover and shot down many that dared to fly into an AA screen unprotected.
Fighters are, even if the get spooked more easily.
EDITH: in fact the Ju 88 isn't even slow in game. Must have been my expectation that bombers should fly slower than fighters, oh well...
speed: 600
resilience: very good.
Nonetheless I lost some of them because I sent them on Kamikaze missions without fighter cover and shot down many that dared to fly into an AA screen unprotected.
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Ju-88S is a high speed bomber specially designed to escape fighters :
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_ju88S.html
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_ju88S.html
The dive bomber is bad. The anti tank version is extremely good for Reasons though.
I bitched about it.................then Freedom Planes got the appropriate speed buff. Not so much an issue now....
Though it is a tough cookie to bring down.
Try to kill it with Spitfires? GG, get faster planes.