Lancaster perk option

[mussie]

Originally posted by Stoney74
Ponies rarely, if ever, carried 2X1000lbs. in combat even thought they could.  A 6,000lb bomb load was the norm for the B-17 going deep into Germany.  If they were only going to France from England, they could have carried more...

Yeah I realise that Pony's and P47's ect did not lauch fully loaded all the time, I would assume that they would need a full load of fule to reach worth while target  anyway, which again I assume would reduce the amount of ord they could carry.... (not totally sure about that)

But In AH its is very very common to see these loads on P47 and Ponies ect..

Perhaps fighters should have to use perks to carry ord... Again just a thought....

[Krusty]

Originally posted by skycaptn
WOW!

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(SNORT!)
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WTF war did you study boy?

Re-read the loadouts for the buffs we have in this game.. you will find that most of them carry between 1 to 5k more then they did consistently in reality.

CATCH UP KRUSTY YOUR GETTING SLOPPY!

skyrock, go away. B17s could carry upwards of 17,000lbs or ord. That was their maximum limit. Their common maximum wartime loadout was 6,000 (actually I think it was 5,000 but I like the even number AH has). Lancasters had a huge mix of various types of bombs, but only so many shackles and in only so many different configuration.

B24s, with a more powerful set of engines than the B17, could probably carry 20,000lbs or ord, if you just weighed it down with ballast. Did they? No. HTC has said they give weapons loadouts based on common wartime loads, NOT rare, or experimental, or 1-off loadouts.

Do your own homework, you trolling BBS clone.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Tilt
Yes Krusty it was a fairly regular load out.

Note the 2 x 4000lb cookies were infact bolted together to form an 8000lb cookie.

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/Lanc-bombs-Loads.htm

Well maybe that's why we won't get it. If they were 2 separate ones, mabye, but HTC has said they don't want to model anything larger than the 4k cookie.

Did they use 2 separate 4k eggs much? Any chance we might see that in-game?

Originally posted by mussie
Yeah I realise that Pony's and P47's ect did not lauch fully loaded all the time, I would assume that they would need a full load of fule to reach worth while target  anyway, which again I assume would reduce the amount of ord they could carry.... (not totally sure about that)

But In AH its is very very common to see these loads on P47 and Ponies ect..

Perhaps fighters should have to use perks to carry ord... Again just a thought....

Well they're working on a perked ord system! Perk the Chog's 20mms, so maybe perk the US fighters' 1k bombs? That might be interesting to see