Airplanes or zeppelins?

[nicoo]

Hello, i noticed alot of high level players using airplanes and not zeppelins? I dont have them unlocked yet but i would like to know the reason?

 

[yemen]

All the bombers are low enough in HP that they have trouble surviving. So they are limited use to destroy a few buildings, unless the opponents air cover is weak or they are used in a very limited way near the edge. Fighters, especially upgraded fighters in groups of two or more, have a much higher survival rate, and do good damage to tanks (primary defensive units at high levels). So they are preferred.

 

[Kaiser Shag]

I use always 4 fighters, you can destroy much more buildings because they have more health. You send 2 fighters on 1 buildings and most of the time it is destroyed. And at the same time you can destroy enemy tanks in 1 strike.
For example I use 5 HT mk5 in my army, the most dangerous defense buildings for me are the anti tank guns, so I use the fighters to destroy them, once it is done I use them to kill enemy tanks while my one tanks are cleaning the map.

 

[melheor]

With that said, Zeppelins/Bombers have got a pretty good HP boost in a balancing update a couple months ago. But with 6 levels per age required to max a plane, a lot of high level players are already invested in fighters. And as others have pointed out, fighter's primarily purpose is to disable/destroy defensive buildings like towers, whereas bombers are for doing massive damage to 1 or 2 strategic buildings. This makes fighters more versatile in a typical battle but bombers can be useful in wars to take down a missile silo or town center.

 

[yemen]

Bombers are nearly worthless on town centers, as they do 85% less damage to the TC and FC. It is actually more effective to take out a FC with 4 fighters than 2 bombers.

They would be good for the missile silo, but even with the HP boost a single upgraded SAM plus a few anti air guns will take one out. So if you know what direction they will come in from (attacking silo) they are easy enough to kill.

 

[Manifesto]

Now my planes are fully upgraded I use four of them, but when my planes were itty bitty little fighters I used 2 with a bomber. I would deploy the bomber first and then a second or two later send in my planes to suppress towers/sams.
The planes were faster so even deploying them later would suppress the defenses, while the bomber destroyed it's intended target. So at the beginning I suggest this combination.
Of course, timing is critical.

 

[JMoney]

Bombers actually have some merit now since most bases with a silo opt to place their SAMs in very obvious paths (around the silo, so it doesn't get killed by planes). So if you use a bomber well enough you can actually snipe out quite a few buildings if a base has a bad design (towers/AA not defending the anti-tank towers means the base gets overwhelmed by high hp ball of tanks/gens). Atleast that's what I would think, because I have literally never upgraded my bomber yet, so I have no actual proof to that word.

 

[Tankmage1]

Industrial Age : 1 bomber + 1 plane.
GA and AA: 1 or 2 plane/s + 1 transport.

Back in the days. where there is no buff on bomber hp. I found 1 bomber + 1 plane is most effective against IA since there is no SAM and tower can easily be sniped using bomber + plane combo. and FC can be sniped too. there is no 85% reduction for FC. bomber just have dmg reduction on Anti Air and TC only.

 

[yemen]

This used to be the case, but it has changed. Demolition also does reduced damage to the FC now, where it used to do full.

We faced a much more powerful team than us recently, and did a number of tests to see the easiest way to snipe a star or two for AXP. Demo doesn't work at all - bomber took more than one run.

 

[ReekyBullet]

Can anyone answer why my maxed global bomber can't destroy a global Castle when the bombers damage is higher than the buildings HP?

 

[Kaiser Shag]

Maybe because the damage is split over an area and not centered on the castle ? you may have noticed that during a bombing surrounded buildings also get damaged.

 

[Gangstaville]

Personally, I love using 1 plane and 1 transport. Since I am a idiot, I can tell you how many times the transport has got me out of some sticky situations.

 

[ReekyBullet]

Yeah probably the case. It's very misleading if that is why