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Ground attack - Is it not just a matter of flying to the target, there to dive in and lob whatever extra weight you are lugging? Sure – on the face of it, it is not particularly more challenging than that. On the other hand, moving mud is a dark art that few have mastered to perfection. You may be a hot-shot fighter pilot in the massively multiplayer air combat simulation, downing EA by the bushel. However, while you lark around up above, the PBI down below are stuck between a rock and a hard place with no one to help them forward. Someone will have to load up bombs and move some mud – problem is, the bomb-carriers habitually go it alone against fierce AA below and roving fighters overhead, with dismally predictable results. How do you execute a CAS mission with positive results and get to use your take-off gear a second time in the same sortie? How do you prosecute a successful attack and get the bejesus out of Dodge? How do you project force as a team and force your will unto the enemy? How do you even find the enemy, and how do you coordinate your efforts in time and space with the ground troops? ”The Fighter-Bomber Bible” tells the story of online air combat leadership: how to create a progressively bigger team and how to coax it into applying its aggregate force in studiously precise packets of aerial violence. "The Fighter-Bomber Bible” provides graphic snapshots of recurring online combat situations with hands-on advice on how to manage them – all in the framework of how to maximise the elusive ”enjoyment” factor.