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[gmkump]

I'm flying a Sopwith Schneider in Marty's #3 mission of Gallipoli and you have to bomb a moving train in bad weather.  I don't get close.  My biggest problem is I drop the bombs below the correct altitude, which I think is 500 meters, and they fail to explode.  If I bomb higher, they explode, but it is way too high for accuracy on a moving train.  My main problem is cockpit on all the time and I can't see anything unless in a dive, and that gets me in trouble on the height wise issue and bomb fails to explode.

It starts to get frustrating after the 10th attempt, where 8 attempts were bombs not exploding.  So I could really use some advice on how to toss these WWI iron bombs at a moving target, keeping it in sight for some accuracy without flying below the margin where the bomb fails to explode.  I feel if I don't improve, they are going to ground me.

PS:  Flew this mission again and hit the train with the bombs, took out entire train, engine and 8 cars, got 9 ground target credits.  However, explosion took out my engine as well and I landed behind enemy lines with engine on fire.  Wounded, but alive.  Guess there is a reason for that bombing height.

[SAS~Monty27]

It does get frustrating after 10 attempts, but as Edison would have said, "that's 10 more ways not to do it!".  Dive and loft bombing is a cinch when you have CCIP, like in the F16 and F4, but the WWI stuff, most of the WWII dive bombers and even the A-4 are still basic lobbers.  It IS possible.  The parameters to note are:  enough altitude, a 60' dive angle and release on the pull up.  It might take a hundred pracitice goes but given enough time you can lob 'em down their throats anytime without blowing your own arse off!

[gmkump]

Thanks Monty.  Lately I've been doing just that and it has extended my existence immensely.  Difficult, but doable.  The learning continues as patience, practice, and taking good advice will continuously develop my lackluster skills.

[jpten]

Actual WW1 pilots would try to line up with the tracks and try to drop a bomb on them ahead of the train and hope it ran off a damaged rail.  If the train stopped before the damage then you had a stationary target.   The game is more limited in this aspect.  I suppose you could see if the train is heading towards a bridge and bomb that.