Lazs,
I'm really not interested in what is/was possible in any games/sims. My interest is what was possible in real WW2 aerial combat. From that it is possible to judge how accurately it is modelled in our game of choice. For example, I think you'd find the gunnery in IL2 a lot different from AH1 or WB, and rather more difficult.
as for the navy report... It is simply wrong. A .50 is extremely effective out to 2000 yards...
Lazs, I'm beginning to think you live in an orchard, for as often as you post apples and oranges to this board. 2bighorn has posted in the other thread that the bullet drop would be 15' at 900yds. At 2000yds it would be so much more that aiming would be impossible. Oh and let me remind you of what you said in that old thread - the one you'd rather forget!
I have allways gotten in close to kill and even ol' 350 kill Eric felt cannon only worked at point blank range and he had the film to prove it. Hopefully all guns in WB will be a guaranteed kill or cripple with a 2 sec burst on target when under 100 yards.
A 2 second burst on target when under 100yds, did you say? Oh yes you did - I still have that thread!
So you're saying that you know better than the USN when it comes to the capability of a .50cal round? I'd love to forward your comments to the USN to see what they had to say about it. Once again, you might be able to aim and fire a single shot with great accuracy at the gun range with the weapon of your choice, the barrel resting on sandbags. But there's a world of difference between that and firing MG from a moving target at
another moving target, with your wings flexing and the plane vibrating and being buffeted by air turbulence and the gun barrels getting hot etc.
You are pretty much saying that if a WWII soldier could not do it then no one could no matter how much practice they had or how much less strain or...
We're talking about WWII airmen, not WWII soldiers.
I haven't read the thread... no need to.
Of course - what you don't know isn't worth knowing, and you could create a new career for yourself as weapons advisor to the US Navy.
given that.. and the unlimited time and ammo to practice... it is not too much of a stretch to think that we might exceed the results of WWII pilots to some degree.... and... even tho not many fired at long range in WWII... many many here try it... soooo... probly in WWII it was pretty rare that they tried... those who did probly got one hit in 1,000 rounds... those who try it here.... probly get one ping in 500 rounds... seems about reasonable considering experiance and all the other factors I have named...
Based on what you've already said yourself, it would take more than one hit every 1000 rounds to cripple a plane, with the possible exceptions of oil system damage resulting shortly afterwards in a forced landing.
No night? how is flying day fighters at night realistic? Who did that except out of desperation?
Oh, are you saying that AH no longer has buffs? Were you successful in your quest to have them whined out of existence with threads like
this? As I recall from WW2 historical accounts, B17s were sent out to destroy targets in Germany. They used the cover of night, because unlike you and your ilk in AH2, the fighter defence of WW2 was indeed capable of getting organised and repelling a buff attack, were it to be mounted by day.
