Grand Slam

[Furball]

Originally posted by Kev367th
Karnak - Tks. You know that Navy claims they sunk her because after the 617 raid the Tirpitz decks were still above water. It wasn't until the midget sub attack she 'sunk'.
And we think AH politics are bad,

the tallboy capsized her? and after the war the ship was salvaged for scrap?

the mini sub attack happened before 617 raid i think, damaged the tirpitz and put it out of action for about 6 months iirc

[Kev367th]

Furball - I think it's the other way round. The Navy always claimed the RAF didn't sink her because her decks were still above water.

[Pooface]

my granddad was a commodore in the navy. said he was real pissed of with the raf at the tirpitz sinking, because apparently his ship got some good hits on it, but the raf claimed his victory

anyway yes, the grandslam wouldnt take out a town, it was a bunker buster, for heavily armoured targets. i reckon if u dropped it on a town, it would have same affect as a 2000lb. i was proposing it as a small feature for attackin hq's and other heavy targets. of course, most of you are right, it would need to have a small perk price on it, maybe 10 bomber perks, or less, coz as someone rightly said, the 163 will make mince meat out of a plane weighing in at more than 75000lbs , and itl be cool to have something else to spend those useless bomber perks on!

and yes furball, it is pretty cool being next to raf hendon. i go there a lot

[Furball]

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/tirpitz/gallery/galltiropercatechism.html

looks pretty f*d up to me!

[Pooface]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Could be useful.

 But I'd hate to see it exploited, like the buff formations do. Imagine this scenario; you are fighting a hard-pressed defense. 2~3 enemy deck buff formations slip in. The suicidal tards they are, they spray the entire field with 6~9 x Grandslams.. blow everything up including themselves, in the process.

 ..

 Yuck.

this is exactly what i mean kweassa. i say there should be a small code written in, that stops u from flying a formation when carrying a grand slam. a small perk price would stop the hordes of lancs with grandslams

[BenDover]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Could be useful.

 But I'd hate to see it exploited, like the buff formations do. Imagine this scenario; you are fighting a hard-pressed defense. 2~3 enemy deck buff formations slip in. The suicidal tards they are, they spray the entire field with 6~9 x Grandslams.. blow everything up including themselves, in the process.

 ..

 Yuck.

Deck buff formations wouldn't be an issue with the grandslam, didn't it need to be dropped from ~15,000ft* in order to be effective?


*Can't remember off the top of my head what the actual minimum drop altitude was, but it was rather high.

New feature - Only planeset with a perked loadout. As in a standard plane with diff armament. (Just to exclude the obvious F4UC arguments).

The grandslam was dropped by specially moddifed Lancaster Mk 1s

[Tilt]

Grand slam used a very specially modified lanc and with its bomb doors removed. The grand slam was carried external to the fuselage. ( I am not sure but gun turrets may also have been removed.

The talboy simply needed bulged bomb bay doors on a std mkIII.

I think the tall boy could add to the game and as stated make the lanc a bit more special.

The critical factor with both earth quake bombs was the drop altitude above target. It was required to be 18,000 ft for full penetration. Other wise you were just dropping a lot of HE in a big heavy case.

Re the bismark there is till a standing argument as to which of the two RAF Tallboy squadrons actually sunk ( or toppled her).