How Do You Triple Bomb?

[X-Peri-MENTAL]

Whilst there is a loop-hole with the bomber which is being exploited as double and triple bombing and there are players out there that are willing to share their knowledge to raise other players skill levels, please could someone let we know how to effectively triple bomb (for those that have not seen it, it is the ability to micro a bomber so that it releases three drops on a target on one pass by slowing the bomber down, I have seen how effective this can be early on when a bomber first strike destroyed my pattern’s three PGens in one pass)?

I have tried hitting the ‘S’ key (stop order) after my Scorcher did its first drop and then assigned the target again which didn’t work, I have a feeling it is something to do with issuing a move order but I don’t know where to click the order to get the bomber to effectively stop. Any advice

[uberge3k]

As soon as the first bomb drops, you need to issue a move order right in front of your bomber, wait a moment, then issue an attack order. Watch replays of people who micro bombers and hold shift to see how they control it.

This is very difficult to pull off, however, and requires your full, undivided attention to micro it. And even I can't reliably triple bomb.

[Alcide]

I have witnessed only a seraphim bomber doing it.not sure about the others factions.

[Raging_Squirrel]

triple bomb? never heard and never seen.

but I managed to double bomb with starts (which is practically impossible in a real game tho)

[Lu_Xun_17]

Yes i also managed with the T3 bombers, but always failed with the Awashaa

[X-Peri-MENTAL]

Best example of triple bombing I have seen is Curry_Smuggler’s control of the Seraphim Sinnve, it is a bit unbelievable considering the unit database says the reload time is two seconds, I will have to find the replay to see if it was four whole seconds between the bomber’s first and last release, I thought it was less in the game.

[TA4Life]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwhNXp8t25o
minute 16 Lu_Xun makes the bomber shit bombs like crazy.

[-_V_-]

Hum are we endorsing/spreading words now on how to cheat/bug abuse (take a pick, just a patter of semantics) in fa ?

[Karottenrambo]

V you got this totally wrong, Double/Triple-Bomb is a valueable micro aspect of fa! Imagine how boring fa would be without it!

By the way, zep was so kind to list some more cool micro tricks in this thread, it would be nice if somebody would write How-Tos to them too.

[SpinDrah]

V you got this totally wrong, Double/Triple-Bomb is a valueable micro aspect of fa! Imagine how boring fa would be without it!

By the way, zep was so kind to list some more cool micro tricks in this thread, it would be nice if somebody would write How-Tos to them too.

I keep wondering why someone that seems to hate FAF at this point feels the need to spend so much time and sarcasm on it?