The pheonix theory is a theory made by yours truly,as a theory of war in DF.

The bomb the base or carrier missions can be hard,especially if you have an inferior plane. My theory is that you should have at least 2 escort fighters,and those escort fighters should escort the bomb carrying fighters,and should remain in the center of the field causing havoc to enemy carrying fighters,so that they might waste their bombs. Sneaker missions should be a staple of any bombing mission and should only be done in small numbers,only once or twice because the enemy might catch on.
If shot down over the enemy base,use your rifle to kill every plane taking off,or cause them to panic and drop their bombs.

Tanks are a fundamental part of bomb missions,and can mean the difference between a win or a loss. To take out a tank,the safest way is to bomb it,but that is very hard. To take out a tank with a bomb trick it into stopping,by flying at it,if he is a good tanker he will try to line up a shot,and stop,then pull up and bomb before he gets up to speed. If you must,strafe the target with your guns.If you are shot down and land in front of a tank,hit the walk button,then ignore your tank,start running around him,shooting him with your rifle,it is hard for a tank to turn his turret towards you if you run around him,and randomly change direction.

this is it for part 1

This is part 2 of the pheonix theory

In tank vs tank warfare you will need to move,downhill will let you move faster,try to line up a shot without going to the turret view,as the turret view makes you stop. When using the tank to bomb start lining up your shots from a distance,and if airplanes pursue,move,if you can get behind the runway and shoot the hangars it is way better.

In dogfight you can jump out of a plane once shot down,and you can carry a rifle. To use this to its fullest you should buy some ammo for you pilot(very cheap) and once shot down you jump out and shoot all of the planes around you that are enemy planes. This can be very useful in the zeppelin mission,once you jump out you can shoot the zep without worrying about crashing. Never forget a downed pilot,when they jump take them out,as they will cause havoc,and in a bomb the base mission they can cause you to lose.

this was the pheonix theory of war,feel free to post ideas and arguments below. I may add some things later

As idealistic of an idea as the first part is, it will hold no kind of water against an experienced pilot. People like Davy and Hulk would COMPLETELY blow that out of the water, especially with the two droppers trolling around in the middle. That does nothing to let their blue bombers all the way through, and merely prolongs the stale mate many prefer to avoid.

Also, bombless escorts do very little, in my personal experience. Perhaps I just get the bad ones. But the ideal setup is for four blue pilots, all carrying bombs in order to maintain a relatively uniform speed, to be staggered distances and ranged across the middle of the map. Once they get close, they pull up and start looping in, with the people behind still firing straight ahead. This strategy averages a 50% success rate, in my experience. That is, two of the pilots punch through.

But the idea of two droppers just looping around the middle? If people have a problem with droppers, that's usually why. They just disrupy the mission and play for kills.

Part two of the theory, however, is COMPLETELY accurate. I can't count the number of times I've shot a pilot down, flown past, and locked on to my next opponent, only to be sniped from behind. It's infuriating.

Well written and decently thought out, if slightly innefective. Thank you for your thoughts.

Edit: it's also hilarious to kill a tank while walking. Just run rings around them as they desperately try to take you out. I've gotten some funny reactions on that one

Thank you for the feedback,but in my experience,the escorts make alot of difference,and if you can cause all the reds to drop,they can't bomb your hangars