Though requested, badly needed

[nirvana]

We have formations of the A-20, it's called the Boston III and carries 2,000lbs less ord then an A-20.

[LePaul]

Originally posted by MOIL
These are all good ideas and thoughts. Obviously there is still a good chunk of people who feel the same way about this topic.

What I don't understand is why would HT take the time to model all these planes to as close to RL standards as possible, yet there very seldom used in that fashion.

It seems kinda funny to hear all these guys complain or whine about "this plane does this" OR "this plane can't do that"  in RL the Spit out-turned such & such.

Then if your going to model how the plane really was and how it was used, then do so, if not why would someone care if a Yak out-turned a A6M or a SBD outran a Tiffy.

My 2 cents

Ha, kinda reminds me of what a coworker said when i got him into Aces High.  If the La7 were as uber the plane it is in this game, the History Channel would be raving about it all the time.  Up til playing Aces, neither he or I had heard a thing about it.

[Sakai]

Originally posted by nirvana
We have formations of the A-20, it's called the Boston III and carries 2,000lbs less ord then an A-20.

Really?  

So that's why it's called the Boston and not the A-20?  It isn't the accent after all?  

Do they have different machineguns and markings too?  Almost as if they were built for another country, like France (designated DB-7 I think first), initially (like as I recall the Baltimore/Maryland series) but then shipped to England instead?

Balitmore/Maryland was designed to compete with the A-20 for the same contract, when the A-20 won Martin started shopping the plane to other nations.  

Interesting story told by Canadians about Bostons, said they loaded a butt load of Ord on those babies, a la the Yanks, said they'd carry beaucoup crap on short hauls.  But, being used as "intruder" or maritime patrols, they most typically carried only 1k ord for less fuel consumption.  I think only teh Boston III series and out had enough range for real use by England in intruder/maritime roles.  

Sakai