In Current State: PA Should be Called "Build Hornets or Lose"

The bombs are slower, and if the commander is moving it'll miss most of the time. I played a game recently and bombers are still potent against unit balls and line bombing due to the sheer density which is good.

I think that the T1 bombers are very weak atm. I can't seem to find a use for them.

Just because they are much weaker at sniping commanders, it doesn't make them bad. An advanced bomber can easily kill 1 leveler, it can then go on to kill lots more. If you trade an advanced bomber for a leveler you win on the efficiency side.

Your problem is that you're pointing out all the things they can't do since the change. You haven't bothered to evaluate them with a clean slate. In my opinion they could do with a little more nerfing.

Hmm... I may have had a glitch where bombs would not drop unless the target was stationery, because my bombers just circled the enemy and didn't do anything at all.

I agree.

Hornets aren't meant for Commander snipes like they were in Alpha.

Due to their large AOE, they're meant to take out units.

Also, we have the bug where bombs being dropped hit buildings in the way rather than the intended target. Uber is working on proper bomb dropping mechanics, which should fix that.

You are right. Bumblebees are way under powered.

A slight damage increase would probably balance them out, at least temporarily.

Maybe they should just do double damage vs structures and Naval?

Please, no, not special damage modifiers.

Hornets have been done already you probably need to concentrate your autodefense

This might be a bit antagnostic. Check rule 2.

Well... the reason for my comment is because it seems like the only way to "balance" bombers with gunships, and particularly make bumblebees useful again.

The way they track moving targets is how you balance that.