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[sigourneyanderson]

Hello,

 i would like to know if its possible to play as a bomber in a night bombing raid and have AI nightfighter and if so how? What object should i use or are there any mission that i can use as a model

Thanks for your help

[Trav]

Guys with experience can chime in but 4.10 DBW with some extra mods is probably your best bet for consistent nightfighting.
BAT is great, too, but not so much from a bombers perspective as I don't know if anyone will find and attack you.
AI in 4.10 doesn't have the realistic visibility restrictions  so can see you regardless of darkness, clouds, etc.

This sounds bad, but in anything 4.12 or up (try a qmb for 1 am) the AI can't find or attack bombers*

*but In BAT 4.2.1, poltava's battle over Berlin JU88 campaign, I did see a AI 110G-4 anf a 190A-8 attack bombers. Don't know of that was a one-in a million thing, something with that plane, mission conditions, or a c&c object. Looking through the C&c manual I didn't see anything like that.

One thing that is a bit of an immersion breaker is anything with Schrage musik fires both upward and forward guns at the same time, sending tracer nowhere and giving them away. From what I read, an older version of the SAS engine mod had it working correctly. There is provision for the ai to carry out such attacks, maybe one of our code experts can chime in, or someone has that working version in their archive somewhere.
Was a minute since I dug into this but I can scrounge up some links if you are interested.

[Trav]

Poltava has a series of excellent nightfighter campaigns you could edit the player aircraft and maybe some timing on.
Hamm66 has a Lancaster Campaign called Tour of Duty IIRC
Fishyyy has download links to a few nightfighting missions in the descriptions of his youtube videos...great inspiration too.