Bomber Crew achievement guide, roadmap and tracker

A good fun FTL-like with a cartoony WWII bomber. Pretty easy on the achievements; most you'll get naturally through your playthrough, and most of the rest are easy to deliberately get. The only two to watch out for - aside from keeping your whole crew alive for

Seven Survive Seven and

Tour Of Duty - are

Ace of Aces and

Qualified; concentrate on levelling up your crew and make sure to find and kill Aces whenever you see a mission with one available. Bear in mind you can grind out each campaign segment by repeating all the non-critical missions as much as you like, they randomly regenerate after each attempt (technically, each time you enter the hanger to select one, whether you fly or not...)

Ace Encounter

Common31.2%

StoryOptional

Encounter an Enemy Ace

Aces will be randomly present in the missions in each campaign segment. Besides choosing a mission with an ace in it and flying you don't need to do anything to 'encounter' them... ...they will find you!

Ace in the Hole

Uncommon15.7%

StorySoft-missable

Defeat an Enemy Ace

Note that missions are randomly re-generated even if you just save & return to main menu and come back in. you can use this to good effect to help get aces to appear... ..and to get them to appear in an easier type of mission!

Ace of Aces

Legendary2.9%

GrindMissable

Defeat all Enemy Aces (in one campaign)

There is one ace per campaign segment, so 8 in all. Ish. Make sure you get one in each segment - but if lucky you may get 2 in a segment (I got 2 in the 5th segment). They will be randomly present on the randomly generated missions in each segment. Keep grinding the missions until you get the ace. They will often take two attempts/missions to kill as they will usually escape the first time (assuming you're not hanging about in the mission!). Ofc aces are tough; upgrade stuff before attempting and don't be afraid to run away and try again later if you're getting battered.

Bail Out!

Legendary1.4%

ObjectiveOptional

Bail out your entire crew

you need parachutes for everyone for this - which means you will need around $10k to buy the equipment stations. Use the command on the Pilot to get the rest of the crew to bail, then take the pilot manually to a remaining parachute and then to one of the parachute icons to get him to bail too - the achievement will then pop pretty much immediately.

Bomber Crew

Common71.6%

StoryUnmissable

Complete the first mission

Double Qualified

Legendary4.1%

GrindOptional

Fully level up a crew member in two skills

Once at level 5, in the Training screen you can select a secondary skill for each crew member. XP per mission gets split between the primary and secondary skill.

Experienced

Rare10.1%

GrindOptional

Fly 25 missions

Fifty Fighters

Uncommon24.0%

GrindOptional

Destroy 50 enemy fighters

Fifty Fighters Five Times

Rare8.2%

GrindOptional

Destroy 250 enemy fighters

Focused Four

Legendary4.1%

ObjectiveOptional

Use 'focus' on all 4 gunner stations at once (Main Campaign)

You'll need to have selected gunnery as a secondary skill for two people (bomber and mechanic maybe) - and level this up to 5 to get access to the Focus ability.

Four of a kind

Rare6.0%

GrindMissable

Defeat 4 Enemy Aces (in one campaign)

See Ace of Aces.

Grand Slam

Legendary3.4%

ObjectiveMissable

Destroy a target using the Grand Slam bomb

Available from the 6th campaign segment. Must be launched from High altitude - so get the thermals on your crew! NB can be done from Medium altitude just after selecting to go to High - but in this case aim a chunk *after* the target in the bombsight crosshair; maybe the diameter of a large base.

Mission Success

Common41.8%

StoryUnmissable

Return to the airbase having successfully completed a mission

One Engine

Rare6.6%

ObjectiveOptional

Land at the airbase with only one working engine

Photographer

Common56.5%

ObjectiveOptional

Take a photo of an intel site

Most missions will have an optional objective for this. Use someone in the bomber position to do this, the bomb bay doors do not need to be open.

Qualified

Legendary4.2%

ObjectiveMissable

Fully level up a crew member

Remember they level up more slowly if a secondary skill is selected. Keep one member with no secondary so they level the primary more quickly (the XP is split between primary and secondary). Level 12 is maxxed. Level 4 for the secondary for Medic.

Rookie

Uncommon21.8%

GrindUnmissable

Fly 10 missions

Running On Fumes

Legendary2.7%

ObjectiveOptional

Complete a mission and land at the airbase with less than 5% fuel remaining

Its easy to do this at the end of the mission by instructing the pilot to land but leaving the gear up; he will circle round and round making landing attempts. When the fuel gauge nears the bottom of the red part lower the gear and you'll land pretty quick. Use the Boost option to consume fuel more quickly while circling. Also time acceleration.

Seven Survive Seven

Rare14.3%

ObjectiveSoft-missable

Complete 7 missions with the same full crew surviving

Seven Survive Success

Common40.6%

ObjectiveOptional

Complete a successful mission with the full crew surviving

Sinking Feeling

Uncommon24.0%

GrindUnmissable

Sink 5 Submarines

It will be mostly impossible to miss this as you go through the story.

Skeleton Crew

Legendary0.9%

ObjectiveOptional

Complete a mission and land at the airbase with 2 or fewer crew members surviving

Puit your crew naked (or clothing with minimal armour), and make your plane as tough as possible. Except the pilot and one other (navigator!). Or, put 5 people out on the wing with no parachute and do an emergency dive... Good luck... NB to avoid messing up your campaign progress, do this at the beginning of the campaign (first mission), or back up your saves first (C:\Users\%Username\AppData\LocalLow\Runner Duck\Bomber Crew)

Target Destroyed

Common58.0%

StoryUnmissable

Destroy an enemy target

The Bunker

Legendary2.1%

StoryUnmissable

Complete the campaign

Tour Of Duty

Rare5.4%

ObjectiveSoft-missable

Have one of your crew survive 30 missions

Twenty Targets

Uncommon19.3%

GrindOptional

Destroy 20 enemy targets

Two hundred Targets

Legendary0.4%

GrindOptional

Destroy 200 enemy targets

This will take a lot of grinding - even if you're repeatedly grinding the missions in each campaign segment to earn the cash for plane upgrades. Note that you can bomb any random enemy buildings to count against this - even the optional photo op recon objectives (if you're nimble you can get a photo and bomb it in one pass over!). If you bomb on a first pass and photo the wreckage on the 2nd pass you *will* still get the recon photo credit. Do this on every mission to help get there more quickly...

V1 Destroyer

Rare7.5%

ObjectiveOptional

Shoot down a V1 Rocket

You'll see these in the 2nd portion of the game, they can be tagged like enemy fighters and should be easy to shoot down. you should get this easily.

Veteran

Rare5.6%

GrindOptional

Fly 40 missions

Winging it

Common33.6%

ObjectiveOptional

Repair an engine mid-flight

you can send a dude (preferably the engineer) to repair the engine if damaged; he will climb out along the wing to do it. This should be easy to get; engine damage will be inevitable as you go through the missions. NB don't emergency dive while he is out there... ...he will fall off and die!

Bomber Crew

Ace Encounter

Ace in the Hole

Ace of Aces

Bail Out!

Bomber Crew

Double Qualified

Experienced

Fifty Fighters

Fifty Fighters Five Times

Focused Four

Four of a kind

Grand Slam

Mission Success

One Engine

Photographer

Qualified

Rookie

Running On Fumes

Seven Survive Seven

Seven Survive Success

Sinking Feeling

Skeleton Crew

Target Destroyed

The Bunker

Tour Of Duty

Twenty Targets

Two hundred Targets

V1 Destroyer

Veteran

Winging it

Breakdown

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