Bloodpigs and Deathstars...

[Grits]

Anybody in AH know what those are? Anybody tried it?

Buff gunners seem to be pretty lethal so it ought to work fairly well. A20 and B26 should be pretty good Bloodpigs and the B17 is the obvious choice for the Deathstar. All of the Buffs in AH can easily be looped, even the Lanc and B17, with an empty bomb load, just dont accidently hit the "level autopilot" in a 300 knot dive, you tend to turn into a giant ICBM.

Formations would also be nice for some force multiplication but that wont work because the Ottopilot planes wont follow you through a loop. Wanna know how I know?  

As an aside, anybody know why we dont have a "Load nothing" option on the Buffs? I cant imagine why HT would assume we always want bombs in a B17.

[gofaster]

B-17 in AW was better at being a bloodpig.  The Mitchell was a pretty good Deathstar.

[SOB]

LOL, I think this thread is going to go downhill fast.    BTW...what's a bloodpig?

[Horn]

IIRC, back in GEnie times, one could kill the ack and park an a26 at the end of the nme's runway, killing all that upped--the bloodpig--sort of the AW version of spawn camping.

I definitely miss the ability to have more than one gunner in a buff, complete w/ intercom.

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[SOB]

Oh man, that's beautiful...I miss the days when buff guns worked with your wheels on the ground and bombs would instantly arm and detonate.  Dweeby as hell, but still good clean american fun!

[gofaster]

I once joked that a squad vs squad battle should involve B-17s at 20k alt.  Much pirate humor followed.  The next week, there was an arena set up specifically for that purpose.

[Grits]

Originally posted by Horn
IIRC, back in GEnie times, one could kill the ack and park an a26 at the end of the nme's runway, killing all that upped--the bloodpig--sort of the AW version of spawn camping.

Yup, thats it exactly. The difference between that and spawncamping as done in AH is that in AW nobody did it to improve K/D or score in any way, it was strictly for personal entertainment/pi$$ing off the enema which is always fun.

Any buff gunners that see me up and want to try it, give me a holla.

[Shane]

notam:   buff guns in AH do not work on the ground, so it's not gonna be easy.

[Horn]

Originally posted by Grits
The difference between that and spawncamping as done in AH is that in AW nobody did it to improve K/D or score in any way, it was strictly for personal entertainment/pi$$ing off the enema which is always fun.

Actually I spawn camp in AH solely for personal entertainment and griping the nme. Getting Rod367 torqued enough at you to game the game and come and try to kill ya by divebombing low Lancs is priceless...

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[eskimo2]

Originally posted by SOB
Oh man, that's beautiful...I miss the days when buff guns worked with your wheels on the ground and bombs would instantly arm and detonate.  Dweeby as hell, but still good clean american fun!

I programed my joystick to:
open bomb bay doors
switch to 4K bomb (in Lanc)
drop bomb
exit/end flight before bomb hit the runway.

I spent a few hours working out the timing on the joystick command.  When I went online I could spawn and press one key.  The whole "sortie" would take about 1 second and I could usually frag a vulcher without taking damage myself.  The very next day a new release came out and wouldn't you know it, bombs had to travel 500' before arming!

eskimo

[Soulyss]

But it seems to me that anything with tricycle landing gear would do the trick, since I believe the A20 can still fire it's forward armament on the ground?  but a P38 would certainly work.

[Grits]

I'm only talking about flying around stallfighting an A20/B17 with a gunner, not spawncamping although you can kill stuff while you are on the ground with the A20 forward guns. I got a kill on a Mossie parked on a field anticipating a capture and killed half the troops dropped on a field last night in the CT just from driving around on the ground in an A20. The 47 pilot came up 30 seconds after I kilt his troops and asked "Why didnt we get that field???" I was ROFL. Tricicle gear is great.

[Octavius]

ROFL eskimo!  Thats beautiful.  Carbombing was hi-larious.  HT should bring it back

Grits, I have a sudden urge to dogfight with a B17.  If anyone sees me online and wants to gun, lets go pwn some unsuspecting fools from the chin turret

[SOB]

LOL Eskimo, that's inspired genius!

[Montezuma]

Originally posted by Grits
Anybody in AH know what those are? Anybody tried it?
 

'Blood Pig' was spawn camping with an attack plane (A-26) and would be hard to do in AH with multiple spawn points.  Every spawn camper in every game since AW has a little 'Blood Pig' in him though.

'Death Star' was a B-17 with a full load of 6(?) gunners in AW.  I think 1 good gunner in AH with all the guns slaved to him is more deadly but not as fun as a group of gunners on 1 plane.

'Blood Dragon' was orbiting a field at low alt with a 'Death Star' and vulching with gunners.    I don't think I have seen this in AH but it should be possible after VH and ack are down.