Bombers

I have been using bombers effectively for a long time and often asked why? Below is why i like them, how i use them.

What can bombers do well, so why bombers?

1.   They give you control in the game, so you can participate more. Most of your troops attack without any action where bombers can be directed to where you want them.

2. Fighters travel all over the place and go over air defenses and towers where i find bombers follow a straight line so you can avoid danger more easily. although bombers do not always come from the point you expect them to. I have not found a way to make sure they come from the right direction yet, so sometimes they kill themselves. Just be careful of your target, the more you attack in the middle the less predictive their path is.

3. Fighters can attack troops, but bombers take out the bases that make the troops so i have found killing the bases is better than killing the units. I use machine guns and bazookas a bit more to fight troops.

4. Using the museum wisely and putting all your boosts into bomber defense and hitpoints, defensive tower hit-point reduction and attack reduction and air tower reduction you can massively boost the strength of your bombers. Generally i can attack most air defensive with bombers except for ages higher than me.My war museum boost is enemy defensive tower damage -32%; bomber damaged +33%; enemy air defense damage -12%; enemy defensive tower hitpoints -9%; bomber hitpoints +27%; enemy tower hitpoints -10%; I have 5 slots open on almost all museum cards.

5. I find the biggest problem when attacking is missile silos and they are usually put in the middle surrounded by air defense and SAM"s. Personally i use explosives to take our the air defenses close to the missile silos, so i have a clear shot at them with bombers. If i am not sure which direction my bombers will come from. i send a fighter in first so i can see the direction they will come from, then explode the air defenses from that direction. i virtually always send in a fighter first anyway as it takes out any SAM's that are there so my bombers get through unscathed.

6. if you send in bombers first in the area you are attacking it takes out the major defensive units in your way, but also it takes out the walls which slow you down, so it gives you a clear path to where you want to go. speeding up your attack and reducing your troop damage.

7. Bombers can attack troops. They are not as effective as fighters in doing it, but you can aim a bomber at a group of troops and it takes them out and any nearby buildings or walls it will follow the troops as they move. I looked at the fighter strategy posted, and i do the same thing with bombers. send in commandos and use bombers to take out troops that attack them.

8. Using bombers in the commando strategy lets you use the bombers to defend the commandos, but you can also use them to attack other defensive buildings on their own.

9. When attacking i always go for redoubts and towers first with the bombers. Which you might think is strange. however redoubts shoot sideways so if you attack a redoubt with a bomber you take very little damage to the bomber and can kill it easily, but if you attack a building next to it, you take lots of damage, so kill redoubts first. Towers i attack after redoubts. With strong bombers they can be killed relatively easily, just watch your bomber health and stop using it to attack towers when their health drops too low. for the air defense units i use explosives or commandos. If i really have to attack them, i attack them with 3 bombers at once and that kills all but the very high age air defense units.

10. Most of all i simply have more fun in the game with bombers than any other unit, and that is what it is really all about.

11. Dont forget your university upgrades for bombers or fighters in amelia earhart if you are following a bomber strategy

Choosing bomber or fighter strategy

A Personally i think you need to make this choice very early in the game. To upgrade bombers fully takes a massive amount of oil, as there are usually several upgrades in each age. To upgrade both bombers and fighters is almost impossible due to the resource cost, unless you stay down an age for a long time. My fighters are very weak as i just don't have the resources to be able to update them as well as bombers.

B Part of my bomber strength is all the upgrades in the museum are all bomber focused. I have been selecting museum cards and upgrading them for bombers since i started using bombers. To repeat that at a late age level would be very hard if you have followed a different direction to that point.