Author Topic: can we have.... (Read 882 times)

tikky · « **on:** February 22, 2005, 06:58:12 PM »

... da B-29?

Elfie · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2005, 08:12:18 PM »

Screw the B-29........ We have enough American planes already. We need more Axis planes before anymore allied planes imo.

6GunUSMC · « **Reply #2 on:** February 23, 2005, 02:48:41 AM »

The greatest bomber of the era should be in the game. Please no bonehead add-ons about a perked atom bomb... I think the B-29 has been overlooked too long. Thumbs up to Pacific Fighters for including it even though at the moment it is only AI.

Fruda · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2005, 02:58:20 AM »

We don't need more Axis planes than Allied planes. The Soviet planeset is full of holes. We need a lot more Soviet planes.

However, there's always the Italian planeset...

Shane · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2005, 04:18:49 AM »

sure, but only if it's availabe 40 sectors off map or requires 5 hrs to reach the nearest friendly area.

i mean wtf you want a b-29 for? it was a pure deep strategic bomber while AH is truly a tactical game.

gawd.

JB42 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2005, 04:20:03 AM »

I would hardly call the B-29 WWII "era". More like Post WWII era, even though it was used late in the war. That honor would probably go the B24.

Fongman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2005, 05:21:55 AM »

I need B25,I-16,P86,Ju52

DaYooper · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2005, 09:06:17 AM »

I'd pay perk points to take B-25's off of cv's.

How about you?

What do you think is a fair # to pay?

Rino · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2005, 09:23:27 AM »

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Originally posted by JB42
I would hardly call the B-29 WWII "era". More like Post WWII era, even though it was used late in the war. That honor would probably go the B24.

Then I guess all your Ta-152s and Dorkas are post war era
too? sheesh.

OIO · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2005, 09:23:35 AM »

Fiat CR42 please.

I want my biplane

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2005, 10:39:12 AM »

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Then I guess all your Ta-152s and Dorkas are post war era

Exactly

not to metion the low in numbers build osty (about 40 of them made)

A lot of people forget it won't perform so super when fully loaded.

6GunUSMC · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:03:45 PM »

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Originally posted by JB42
I would hardly call the B-29 WWII "era". More like Post WWII era, even though it was used late in the war. That honor would probably go the B24.

Hi 42!

Actually The B-29 first flew Sept. 21, 1942 and first flew in combat June 5, 1944, 15 months before the end of the war.

Data Direct from Boeings website:

First flight: Sept. 21, 1942
Model number: 345
Classification: Bomber
Span: 141 feet 3 inches
Length: 99 feet
Gross weight: 105,000 pounds (140,000 pounds postwar)
Top speed: 365 mph
Cruising speed: 220 mph
Range: 5,830 miles
Ceiling: 31,850 feet (4,000 ft lower than B-17!)
Power: Four 2,200-horsepower Wright Double Cyclone engines
Accommodation: 10 crew
Armament: 12 .50-caliber machine guns, 1 20 mm cannon, 20,000-pound bomb load

Nearly 3,900 were built and delivered during the war.

JB42 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:23:42 PM »

What i was trying to get at is a plane that served the last 15 months of a 72 month (and one day) war would hardly make it teh bomber of that time-span. If anything, I would argue that the B-29 started a new era on it's own.

The era of I'm to high for you to shoot me down

As for "my Ta-152s and Dorkas", i wouldn't consider them post-war, they weren't widely used like the B-29 after 1945 sheesh

In the end, the fact remains, most people want the B-29 so they can afk for an hour and bomb HQs with impunity. There are far more vital planes that still need to be added. Not that I care much, but hell, we don't even have a French plane. They were in that war weren't they?

how about:

PZL P-24
Fokker D.XXI
Arsenal VG-33
Dewoitine D.520
Gladiators and/or Swordfish
Bf410
Fiat G.55
Reggiane Re.2005
VL Myrsky
IAR 80
Lavochkin LaGG-3
Mig-3

Furball · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:28:01 PM »

don't make me get the pic out!

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2005, 01:13:58 PM »

The arado was more of the new era bomber as the B-29 was.

Its a wo2 bomber nothin else.

offcourse the ta 152 and dorkys wheren't widely used after the war

It was the equipment of the losers .