Bomber Crew

Bomber Crew

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15-20h

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One Engine

One Engine

Land at the airbase with only one working engine

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How to unlock the One Engine achievement in Bomber Crew - Definitive Guide

A working engine is an engine running at full speed. The following are not considered working engines:
• engines missing from your plane due to extensive damage
• engines requiring you to repair them, for example, after having burned out.

The achievement itself requires that you land with one working engine and survive the landing, that is, without your plane being destroyed. What makes this tricky is that, as your engines take damage, so does your landing gear (indicated by the two wheel icons below your wings). Without both wheels you will have a hard time not crashing and breaking stuff during the landing.

While you can do this any time during the campaign, I waited till the end. The following, in my opinion, is a must:
• High armour on your wings to protect your landing gear.
• High armour on the rest of your plane and high defence gear on your crew.
• Gunners with high levels and preferably a radio crew member with the Call Spitfires ability.
• On-board fire extinguishers and medkits.
• One high armour engine, whatever you can afford and three low armour engines. I would recommend placing the high armour engine on the inside.

What you want to do is go out on a mission where you know you will be facing quite the resistance. Flak is fine as well. Then, simply pursue the mission so you can return to base or abort it once you have taken enough damage. While doing so, don't engage the fighters. They will damage your plane and wither down your engine's health. When an engine, other than your high armour engine catches fire, let it burn. This will leave the engine stalled and in need of repair. That is fine.
Keep the enemy planes in check, that is, don't allow for planes that will position themselves right below you or behind you and only target your gunner. Also, some carry rockets and will damage your tail rather than your engines. Those can be taken out. I would recommend to have six planes engaging you at most.
If you run out of planes, because you have to take them out because they tend killing your crew, you can use flak to damage your plane further. Simply set custom waypoints and see your plane take damage.

The biggest drawback is that you might end up with a damaged landing gear. You can still attempt a landing but your plane will most likely take more damage and break up, as in be destroyed. If only one wing breaks off you might still be fine. As long as you have a landing gear remaining on the side with the working engine and a bit of luck on the landing, you should pull through.

There are a few more tips I want to give you:
• Don't wait with Calling Spitfires for too long as they take some time to arrive.
• When you feel you are being overwhelmed, use Auto Tag and cycle abilities on your gunners. Focus is great, Incendiary is better and H.E. Ammo does area damage.
• With one engine running, watch out for the last one to be destroyed or stalling. You might want to start fixing another engine and call your Engineer off at the last moment just to be sure you won't crash.
• When flying through flak, use Lean to throttle down and take more damage without having to constantly adjust your heading.
• Medics can heal crewmates slowly by standing next to them (click the green icon) or quickly by using a medkit (and the green icon).

Edit 10 November 2019: Added tip about aborting missions, thanks to the comments.
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19 Jul 2018 15:13

5 Comments
You don't have to complete the mission for this one. Simply set 3 engines to lightweight and fly back and forth not too far from home where there are fighters. Once you lose 3 engines, select abort with your pilot and land back at base.
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By macmanigan on 10 Nov 2019 13:32
Thanks, I added the abort bit to the solution.
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By Epsilon Theta on 10 Nov 2019 18:20
I echo the fact that this was ridiculous and does rely on good luck. Took me about 10 attempts to get it to a point where they shot up my engines, instead of my landing gear or my crew.

The guide is good and got the achievement thanks to following it and using macmanigans advice that you can abort as soon as the conditions were met and fingers crossed being able to make it back.
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By demon jonzey on 05 Apr 2024 23:12
This is extremely frustrating to get. I've twice landed with only one working engine the achievement hasn't popped. Every other time, the planes only shoot the crew killing just about everyone. Two hours now of flying around in the ocean just for them to only focus on shooting the crew, im not even shooting back this is horrible.

Got this on my 3rd try only difference was I completed the mission. I flew around attempting to get shot so much I ran out of fuel as I was landing.
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By My Ringtones on 02 Sep 2023 19:38
Great guide!

You can do this early on if you want. Although you can try in any mission, the simplest I found were the non-story related ones where you were pitted against an enemy Ace. This can be done at nearly any point in the career. I did it after completing only 1 story related mission and then leveling up my crew by playing only the green targets (non-critical missions) instead of the red targets (story advancement).

Those missions you tend to have a few enemy fighters as well as an Ace with more maneuverability and health. If you can find one where you have to take out a few ground targets and there is also optional recon, do the recon! Let that plane take damage. There are usually a few guns covering ground targets/intel spots so you can use the Custom Heading skill you learn on your Navigator to fly overhead taking damage or back into enemy infested areas if you find yourself needing more damage to the plane.

Use the pointers Epsilon mentioned to keep the plane in the air until you reach safety of your home base.
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By planting42 on 19 Jul 2018 17:17
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I got this by “accident” and only noticed that my plane had one engine left close to the runaway. This is most likely going to happen as you progress in the mission. Not having armored engines will help (or having at least one that won´t break down so easily).
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It is random. I specially installed one armored engine and three regular ones. So the armored engine was destroyed almost every time first. It returned with two engines and one landing gear; during landing, one engine exploded. Trophy dropped
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10 May 2019 10:47