Love Those New Proximity Fuses

[fluffy]

Discovered them last night..wondered why the inbound TBM I was firing the 5 inch gun at was drawing flak bursts at 0 feet. When he went down I was awarded a kill, and then it dawned on me: HT has modeled proximity fuses!

I went offline to check it out, and its true.

Now I know why that fleet flak is so deadly -
someone picked me off in my high flying spit the other day and I wondered how.....time to start weaving on those torpedo runs, boys.
 

[Westy]

Weave, or better yet have other friendlies draw  the gunners attention to a different direction and a higher alt than you intend to come at the ships from.

 The 5" guns traverses just fine. Weaving will help, not much. However the 5" guns are slow as all hell to elevate. Friend y fighters should feign an attack from 5k and the opposite direction of your attack while you just keep the TBM under dar coverage and come in stealthy like. By the time the 5" gunners know you're 2 to 3K out and ready to launch the torp they can not lower the guns fast enough to get you.

 -Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 01-05-2001).]