Hi death-dealer, i've had the same problem with stratofortress. The B1-B can carpet bomb but the B-52 seems to only want to drop one bomb per target. Anyone know why that is? I think I remember someone saying they carpet bombed with the B-52?
Same problem here ... seems kind of silly to have that beast fly over a column or tanks or a runway only to spew one bomb out. Strange and a waste to say the least.
Yes it's annoying. Not only with the B-52 - even a Su-24 or Tornado should rather drop all its bombs at once, than repeating attack runs until they finally get shot down. Best way would be to bind it to weapons type, and have dumb bombs all dropped at the same time.
The funny thing is the respective AI behaviour is in the game already - the B-52 performs perfect carpet attacks on runways, and the B-1, Tu-160 and Tu-95 manage to get off their bombload at once under all circumstances.
I hope this, along with some other strange AI aspects, is high up on the list of potential fixes for now or at least the future - it makes designing and playing missions somewhat frustrating.
I tied Bombing with just the internal bays loaded (no bombs on wing pilons) and the B52 did carpet bomb the set target. but you can only load MK82 bombs or MK20 cluster bombs so I loaded up a B1 with MK84 bombs in only one interal bay and had it attack a crowded enemy air field. boy did it destory the place (bonus was it looked great as it did it to)
Only assign internal payload. Also set the target point as co-ordinates not as a building or group. In the ME were you designate targeting, press the button marked co-ordinates before selecting an area on the map.
That's true, isn't it funny how it worked out that way.. Interesting observation that, in reference to the Vitnam War, the B-52 was designed for strategic missions and the F-4 was designed for close tactical-support missions, the way it worked out was that the B-52 was best used for tactical strikes and the F-4 for strategic runs (bombing of NVN, Hanoi, etc.).
