B-29 Super Fortress

[oakranger]

You mean bombs and other ord isnt turned off in the DA? 

Nope, but surely AH to do something about that.

[AKP]

Really?  5 pages so far on yet another B-29 wish post?  

I'm to the point I really dont care if we get it or not... ( <---- flys in mid war anyway).  I  just want the freekin B-29 wishes to stop.  I "think" HTC knows some of you want it.

[Jayhawk]

Really?  5 pages so far on yet another B-29 wish post? 

I'm to the point I really dont care if we get it or not... ( <---- flys in mid war anyway).  I  just want the freekin B-29 wishes to stop.  I "think" HTC knows some of you want it.

I am probably not the first to request this airframe but I hope I will be the last. 

Well if this is the last B-29 post we have to make it last!! 

[trigger2]

I seriously doubt that. If anything it will take over as the NOE king for base takes. Very few people have the time to climb it up to 25K, only a few dedicated people will do that.

...You're nuts...

Personally, if I just wasted, oh, say 200 perks, I'd be making sure my crate got back home. I'd be up at 33k going 357mph (true stats) with my 20mm tail gun doing the talking to the poor fighter that tried to keep up with me... As I've said SO many times, the b-29 would throw the AH world off its mantle... well, it would unbalance the game drastically, a single b-29 could completely cripple MULTIPLE airbases (all hangers, and probably the town as well).

[Chalenge]

No a single B-29 could close a field and a formation could close three fields. But you are looking at it wrong because climbing to 30k the B-29 would only have 10000lbs in bombs. No one is going to use a B-29 to bomb hangars because its like a deer volunteering to stand out in a corn field lit by stadium lights (i.e. your going to get killed). However... it would allow for a single formation to destroy HQ at the risk of being killed even without the nuke and after that it would be free to climb all it wanted.

[Saxman]

However... it would allow for a single formation to destroy HQ at the risk of being killed even without the nuke and after that it would be free to climb all it wanted.

I think this is really where the B-29 would see most use in the arenas, as a strat buster. ESPECIALLY if HTC is really revising the strat targets to look like those massive city pics that float around here occasionally.

[morfiend]

...You're nuts...

Personally, if I just wasted, oh, say 200 perks, I'd be making sure my crate got back home. I'd be up at 33k going 357mph (true stats) with my 20mm tail gun doing the talking to the poor fighter that tried to keep up with me...




 If the B29 faced it real opponents and not the whole planeset I might agree,however that isnt the case in AH so there would be several planes that would easily overtake the 29 at that alt.Also Challenge is correct,a well placed shot to the cockpit and PooF there goes your B29 and all the perks it cost!

 

[boomerlu]

Morf... are you thinkin what I'm thinkin?

Ta152 vs B29

[Nemisis]

No a single B-29 could close a field and a formation could close three fields. But you are looking at it wrong because climbing to 30k the B-29 would only have 10000lbs in bombs. No one is going to use a B-29 to bomb hangars because its like a deer volunteering to stand out in a corn field lit by stadium lights (i.e. your going to get killed). However... it would allow for a single formation to destroy HQ at the risk of being killed even without the nuke and after that it would be free to climb all it wanted.

Why can climb to 30k with only 10k of bombs? And if its like a deer standing in a corn field then the Gov't and media are covering up for a lot of killed hunters. Yeah bases will probably be patroled by Bf110G2's, Fw190A8's, and anything that can catch a bomber and carries at least 4 MG's, but when ever my squadies and I pull a raid, we fly in a tight formation of at least 3 bombers and when we fly with the whole squad, we fly in a group of 9 bombers in formation. I doubt the patrolling that will inevitably occur will stop the bombers.

[Motherland]

A Bf 110G nor an Fw 190A-8 would stand a chance of intercepting a B 29 at 30k. They can barely maintain level flight at that altitude.

[Nemisis]

fly above that, stay there till fules almost out, fly down and land. Thats usually how you patroll.....

[Motherland]

fly above that, stay there till fules almost out, fly down and land. Thats usually how you patroll.....

Perhaps you don't understand what I'm saying. It's literally difficult to maintain altitude at that altitude with the planes you mentioned, let alone fight anything. I don't think the 110 is even capable of reaching 30k.

[stodd]

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[boomerlu]

Yeah bases will probably be patroled by Bf110G2's, Fw190A8's, and anything that can catch a bomber and carries at least 4 MG's, but when ever my squadies and I pull a raid, we fly in a tight formation of at least 3 bombers and when we fly with the whole squad, we fly in a group of 9 bombers in formation

I find it funny you ignored the one fighter purpose built for high-altitude bomber killing which I happened to mention just before your post.

[Chalenge]

Nemisis the B-29 would burn all its fuel before reaching 30k if it has a full bomb load (20k). With a 10k load it can reach 30k and it can even go a little higher but it will not do it quickly. There are plenty of fighters in this game that can go higher than a B-29 can go and bombers too. I fly that high in both roles (fighter and bomber) and I think I understand just how to take out formations.