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I notice when I try commanding, I always try to resist bombers if possible (which has been pretty much every game)

but i think there are some situations when you should/ i have been very tempted to buy bombers

any vet commander want to enlighten a newcomer to the game when its good, when its not good to buy bombers?

1) When you are TF, you WILL partial bombers regardless of whatever.
2) When opening ops build in the same sector
3) When the enemy goes tac - bombers ASAP.

I'm sure others will add more.

QUOTE 1) When you are TF, you WILL partial bombers regardless of whatever.[/quote] And BIOS; and belts most of the time.
QUOTE 2) When opening ops build in the same sector[/quote]
Only if you really want that sector. I've seen plenty of comms go "meh".

wtf is a bbr?

It seems like any pickup game where you want to win.

hmm this game 2day, where i was IC sup, enemy was nix exp. I see their expcon enter into a sector i had a tele in. Its about a 5k distance between tele and Urock. Bombers were not brought, i had 8.7k in the bank. Small game, so not enough ppl could react fast enough to kill the expcon. I reasoned that we probably could have bombed it, but it was risky depending on team, so i decided against.

ended up winning eventually, galvs and tp2, but i just wonder if it coulda been ended a lot earlier. yea it seems pickup teams are much better nanning/bombing that defending against them

Take into account that nix has 3min research times, personally I would have started bombers as soon as you saw the exp conn. By the time it build you would almost have bombers, hopefully with ac2. If need be, interupt your miners and bring them in to get the cash(very rare is an interupted econ good, but this is a case). Easily you could have bombed their exp before they got ints up, with ac2 bombers.

From an objective standpoint that's my oppinion.

PsycHosis wrote:QUOTE (PsycHosis @ Oct 30 2007, 08:28 PM) wtf is a bbr?

Funny how no one mentioned 'bbr' up until this point...so by saying "wtf is a bbr?" in a thread about bombers, you pretty much gave your satirical self away by answering your own question... /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Bombers are great in pickup games, but when you enter the realm of squad games where the maps are usually smaller, the probing is better, and the defense is more coordinated, they dont work as well.

If you are going to go tac, and thinking SBs end game, it makes sense to get bombers early, since you'll need them later anyway. Might as well get on the offensive early.