ORIGINAL: Luckschaden
ORIGINAL: Gunner98
they take off one by one and fly practically alone in a straight line a few nms apart from eachother
As they would - its hard to fit more than one B-29 on a runway at a time. You need to muster them into formations as needed to be done in 44/45. I think BTW the average raid on Japan was about 500 bombers and these would need hours of mustering and assembling in the air. If you want to re-create these raids then you need to do the planning and orchestrating that represents what actually happened - not a push button war.
Maybe I am not hardcore wargamer-y enough, but I do not get your point at all.
"If you want to re-create these raids then you need to do the planning and orchestrating that represents what actually happened - not a push button war."
What's the benefit of that? I am sure a WWII commander did not radio each plane individually with specific waypoints for hours on end - which would be the equivalent of doing something like that unautomated. I mean sure, if some players find that fun, that's fine.
But the idea that someone SHOULD do it like that seems ludicrous to me. (Unless you are joking.)
Well considering that in Europe anyway these raids were done on radio silence, that's not how it was done, nor am I suggesting it should be done that way in the game.
Do what they did back then, and things work.
Set up a marshaling mission, assign your AC to it. Maybe two or three if its a really big raid.
Once your planes are gathered, transfer them to the bombing mission.
Simple, easy and reflects reality
No joke