The Bomber Crew: Idiot's Guide 

Great video. Great advice. Here are few additional tips and tricks. Sorry if I "overlap" any of your advice. Here are my 2 cents of tips: 1) Equip your gunners with best anti-flak gear. Heavy guns for the tail gunner + ammo belt. 2) Make your radio operator and your engineer fast and light. They are your "runners". Your engineer should fix broken systems, while your radio man's/girl's unofficial jobs are: first aid and fire fighting (inside the bomber). Give your radio operator the "First Aid" extra skill asap. 3) Give your pilot and navigator some good gear. But to protect them best, put armored plating on the cockpit of the plane, Don't move the pilot or navigator except if you have to. If your pilot gets killed, the engineer should be able to fly the bruished bird back to base. My engineer once flew the plane from take off to landing - without any trouble. 4) Get as many slots for first aid packs /fire extinguishers / parachutes as you can. Make it a priority to get at least two first aid packs and one fire extinguisher after one or two missions. Then a third first aid, then another fire extinguisher. No need for parachutes until your pilot get the "bail out" skill.

The tail gunner had the shortest life expectancy of any crew member. Shut off in his turrret in the night, he often never even saw any of the other crew during a night mission and he was always cold. IRL the gunner worked moire like armed lookouts than gunners. When they spotted a German night fighter, they would fire a few burst at the fighter. While the hoped to hit the enemy, night visibility made it very hard to aim accurately. But as one former tail gunner put it: "We knew, that they [the German fighters] wanted a "sitting duck". By firing first, the German would usually withdraw into the night, hoping for a better, unalerted, target." In case of an emergency, if the intercom broke down, or if the tail gunner didn't respond, it was the radio operator's job to go back to the aft turret. Being alone in the tail turret was very dangerous as the gunner was a primary target for nightfighters. Take out the gunner, the strafe the bomber. If the tail gunner even saw another crew member, it would most likely be the radio operator (or wireless operator) coming to check on him. Sometimes to find the plug for the intercom has come unplugged, some times to find his comrade dead. Shot, frozen or even slowly choked to death if his air supply had been cut or stuck with frozen saliva. I read a book by a Danish man serving in the Canadian Airforce as a tail gunner on a Lancaster. He once passed out from lack of oxygen, and was saved in the nick of time. In 30 missions he shot down ONE German figher, a Me410. Otherwise he would scare of the fighter with fire, while instructing the pilot to "corkscrew left" or "right", to get out of the way of the fighter. His "duel" with the Me410 lasted a few seconds. The fighter came out of night at full speed, guns blazing. Such an attack was often a rookie mistake, and the first salvo overshot the Lancaster, giving the gunner times to fire straight into the enemy for 2 or 3 seconds. It was enough, and the Messerschmitt spiralled down in flames. His own plane, a Lancaster with the callsign "I for ITEM", was shot down with a new crew - just a few weeks after his and the rest of his crew had completed their 30th and last mission, andreturned to Canada.

Another tip, make sure all the crew is inside before doing emergency maneuvers. I learned that the hard way. R.I.P. Vega 2019 - 2019.

Nothing like getting the target bombed, heading back with the pilot saying 'the plane is barely holding together' and you have an Ace about to attack.

The really annoying thing in this game is when you complete a mission and then the only missions you can do are high risk missions and then you get shot down and have a new crew and bomber

Fun fact: the food drop at Gouda is the first time I decided to fly at high altitude I didn’t touch the game for two years after that

I like to have my engineer be a medic. If we're being shot at to the point where my crew is going down, I probably can't spare a gunner or something to revive another crew member.

Thanks for a great and informative video about a great game, "Bomber Crew". As everyone who has ever played the game KNOWS, is it get really hard sometimes and it seems borderline-impossible to save your precious crew and Lancaster! As you mention at the end, the game is based on luck. Which is fair, cause luck was a big factor in bomber crew survival IRL during WW2. Only about half of all British air crew completed a tour of duty, 30 missions. Anyway, thanks again for your advice. I'm sure it will be useful in a burning Lancaster bomber soon.

i gave my engineer the pilot role too for if the pilot gets knocked down, and boy was it worth it, entire crew down, all but my engineer, all had around 8 seconds left before they died and my engineer emergency landed in friendly territory like a CHAMP, also, when you lose the bomb bay doors and you dont have any more bombing targets, just drop it all, maybe you'll hit some flak

Hi there! I'm an idiot and here is my guide. I go as much and as in-depth as I can talking about every crew station and every tip that I know about them and the game to help you survive. This was requested by Barrakuda. I hope it's what you wanted and I thank you for your patience and apologies since I took me two weeks to get around to it.

Great video, what I like to do is make the navigators second ability Engineer. When the engines catch on fire, he/she is a short walk over to extinguish them. That keeps the Engineer at his gun position. I make the Radio Operator a backup navigator so he/she can go back and forth between the navigators station and radio room. With the B-17 I make the Radio Operator a backup gunner and the Ball turret gunner a backup Radio Operator. When the RO gets serious wounds and is in sick bay the Ball Turret gunner jumps up into the Radio Room to keep an eye on the radar, he can even hit the auto tag when the German fighters pop up and climb back into the Ball Turret. I give the navigator back up first aid, that way he/she is close to the pilot and can heal him/her between fighter waves.

13:23 is my life everyday. Lolol, GREAT VID really helped!!

Really good guide - i recently started playing the game again and I found this helpful.

most important tip: NEVER FORGET TO PULL OUT YOUR LANDING GEAR WHEN RETURNING TO BASE...this is how i lost my first plane

my Radio op. and nav. are a medic and engineer respectively, cause if hydraulics are down I don't want my engineer hopping out of the ventral turret and crawling over to the hydraulics in his heavy flak vest while flak guns blow the plane in half

Hey sly! I have an idea, don’t know if one is in progress, but I think it’s time to make a USAAF idiot’s guide. (If you have the dlc, that is, no offense though.)

you can use emergency dive to open the bomb bay door if you forgot them or take a photo closer

simple tip to becoming an undefeatable god get a 20mm, at least 1 rocket, armor plating and the max level engines and maxing out systems

i noticed a few things while playing campaign over and over....some tend to stay back and grind the earlier levels to make themselves stronger ( i did this) and it made progression very hard with enemies being hard as hell.....when my plane was destroyed going back to those harder missions was much easier without a decked out plane....

cool thing: playing around december will unlock christmas jumpers, which help with heat and are very cheap! edit: it's not alot of heat, I think about 3?

This guide is getting me through the game, having lots of fun!

Here are some hounrable mention guides that I think will help you: Every trait in game - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1187103106 Planning, Attention, Reaction - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1176532234 What to do with your bomber - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1177108609

When u did the showing if the engeneer falls off but u did the nav and not the engeneer and also never do corkscrew over land and at low alt I learned that the hard way p.s when I did that I flew into houses

I just get everybody enough heat to survive high alts. then protection

From my experience, you only need to get the thermals to 40 to keep them warm at high altitudes.

Lol on the D-Day mission even with boost I got by with 1 second to spare

Thanks for your tips your gonna make me wanna play it now I’m only at 4th star where I have to use the bouncy bomb to blow up the dam

Was awesome, even about the bomber doors

This is excellent. Thank you.

THANK YOU

its really a shame you dont have as many subscribers as you deserve

Why does this guy's voice sound like from the titanic film?

Thanks m8. These tips are very useful

Due the for the tips good luck with channel

Easy way to destroy jager, wait for him to go under you and drop bombs on him, literally that simple

How to drop bombs from high altitude, I always miss

I understand it's 3 years on but I only just came across this game last week and Everytime I try high altitude bombing there's nothing but clouds meaning I can't bomb Jack

hey, I am losing my plane and crew when I come for landing missing a one landing gear and explode on touchdown, how can I avoid that ?

How to kill ace pilots? Becuase everytime I go against one they kill the entire rear of my crew, so I have no genes and when I send someone to go heal them, they either die, or there already dead when I was trying to heal them during combat

I completed the entire game spending the only time I had to at high altitude and I lost 3 craft and 5 crew

I use missiles on enamy aces and i don't think they are that bad because my crew and aircraft are not the best. I do have ammo feeds on mk 2 regular guns I can't call spitfires but I can auto tag gunners can do most things and I can use lean+. My crew levels are 6-7 and I follow what you said. I want the same bomber as you :(

Do the engineer hit the prop?!

cool video, smart

Aye aye leftennant

whats his intro called

11:33 cant you just drop the bombs when that happens if there is no bombing objective left

What turrets did you use?

What ia this song name?

What plane is that?

**drunk german syndrome**

So can we change course of the bomber manually? Or only with star nav skill?

I just sub

ok so i do not mean to brag like at all but all 24 missions i've flown i was always on low altitude and had never aborted and always had my crew survive,yes i to find it weird

I knew most of tgat but thanks anyway

how do you fucking make the hydraulics work

I never abort because i dont have to even when my wing fell off i didnt abort

Descending increases fuel because you're in idle.... Not because of the lower altitude. You're also going down instead of across the ground. Bad tip

hey, I am losing my plane and crew when I come for landing missing a one landing gear and explode on touchdown, how can I avoid that ?