Update F4U-1A Ords Please

[TwinBoom]

[BnZs]

Bah. If they want to hangar-bang, let them takes the "scrubs" from the Corsair set.

[crazyivan]

2x 1000lbs. bombs hmm.  my vote is yes.

[Spikes]

1 torp?

[Strip]

Torpedo would change the game dynamics, for the better imho.

[Saxman]

I think the wing pylons were a very late field mod made on the 1A after the 1D came along. I'd say leave the 1A ordinance as it is, but give the 1D its center 2000lber to go along with the wing bombs and rockets (imagine trying to get THAT off a CV!)

[AWwrgwy]

Just because it could be carried doesn't mean it ever was.

Seen the P-38 pics with a torp?  Or the Fw190?

B-26 carried torps externally, once.

Anything else?

wrongway

[Ack-Ack]

Just because it could be carried doesn't mean it ever was.

Seen the P-38 pics with a torp? 

wrongway

Actually, yes I have.  Used to have a picture of a P-38 that was used to test the feasibility of carrying torpedoes but it was only a test and never went beyond that one test.


ack-ack

[Masherbrum]

Just because it could be carried doesn't mean it ever was.

Seen the P-38 pics with a torp?  Or the Fw190?

B-26 carried torps externally, once.

Anything else?

wrongway

Cannot locate the picture I have of the FW-190 F-8/U2 with the Torpedo.   

As for the B-26, you are wrong.

[batch]

As for the B-26, you are wrong.

I dont know of any other known records........ but there were 4 B26s carrying torps that were used in the Battle of Midway......... and at least one account suggests 2 torps hit their target

[Ack-Ack]

(Image removed from quote.)

Cannot locate the picture I have of the FW-190 F-8/U2 with the Torpedo.   

As for the B-26, you are wrong.

Yep, those were the pictures I had.  Also had another picture of a P-38 with transport pods slung under each wing that could carry one person.  A pilot that was transported in one afterwards wished that the person that designed them was forced to ride in one so they would know what it was like being in Hell.


ack-ack

[Masherbrum]

I dont know of any other known records........ but there were 4 B26s carrying torps that were used in the Battle of Midway......... and at least one account suggests 2 torps hit their target

There were two Squadrons of them in the Aleutians Campaign, as well as a couple of detachments from the 38th in Australia.   But this is going off of memory from books I've read a while ago and in my basement.

[Gabriel]

If they don't give F4U a torpedo it is probably because how much more irrelevant it would make the TBM. Not that this is a particularly good argument mind you,,,when people are smashing CVs with Lancasters with impossible  precision accuracy .

[vonKrimm]

Just because it could be carried doesn't mean it ever was.

Seen the P-38 pics with a torp?  Or the Fw190?

B-26 carried torps externally, once.

Anything else?

wrongway

well since you asked....Yes.  Can eliminate the situation were planes that never fought alongside each other removed from the game?  I mean we could have Japanese planes for the Bish, German/IT for the Nits, US/UK planes for the Rooks, I guess USSR planes for a new side (the Queens?).  I only suggest this since you are bangin on about what could have been done in WWII vs. what actually did occur.

So I say "yes" for the expanded ords. on the 1a

[Krupinski]

Just because it could be carried doesn't mean it ever was.

Seen the P-38 pics with a torp?  Or the Fw190?

B-26 carried torps externally, once.

Anything else?

wrongway