Editorial... (or not)

[4deck]

I figured out what the B25 will be good at.

ENY problem solver, when ENY is at 29 and I cant up anything, Im gonna go bomb you ina  25.

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by Ball
Does it have magical hover flaps like the other American aircraft?

Only the exported P400 we sent to the British will have the hover flaps

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Soulyss


Hope that clears it up a bit.

yup thx  that was exactly what I was looking for.

[Hornet33]

I love how these guys are complaining about the majority of players being clueless and stuff about the planes being voted on.

Maybe the majority of the players are wanting a ride that is a challenge to fly and fight with instead of anouther uber LW ride that the minority are complaining about not being voted on.

Maybe the majority of the players that participate in all the scenerios and FSO's and stuff want a plane that will better round out the plane set and can be used in a large percentage of scenerios and stuff.

Maybe the majority of the players that are voting on the P-39 and the B-25 have a better understanding of the historical importance these planes will bring to the game.

Maybe a majority of the players might want to fly in the EW and MW arenas if the plane set was filled out more and that is affecting their vote.

At least 90% of the plane set is geared towards the mid and late war aspect of the game. For those that can only handle the uber LW rides, you have enough to keep yourselves happy.

In the last 2 years that I've been playing the only planes that have been added to the game have been the following.

109K4
109G14
Spit VIII
Spit XVI
P-47N
F4U-1A
Jeep

Now how many of those are LW rides? Everyone but the F4U-1A and that plane is still very competative in the LW arenas, so you "we need a LW uber ride" noobs need to stop complaining.

[Carwash]

Yea, looks like we're getting the 39.  I voted for it, after the G55 was gone.  But if the B25 wins, I'm not gonna cry about it.  I don't expect this will be the last new plane we will get in AW.  Try to keep that in mind.  

HTC has done a good thing.  They let their customers choose what new product they wanted.  I appreciate it.  I was glad to participate.  

Lastly, if this is the biggest complaint you have, count yourself fortunate.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Kurt
When you fools get your P39 (assuming you do).

A month from now when you are back in your favored fighters... And your obsolete P39 is a hanger queen...  Flown only in FSO and other such staged events...

I'll ask you..

Why did you steal our chance to add a good M.A. plane to the game?

And you'll say "I fly Early"

Right, between early war and mid war thats what ... 75 pilots?  I already understand you 75...  But 500 or so are in the Late war M.A.  What about the rest of you?


Oh, You took it because its mid engine, and has a big gun..

Ugh.  Mark my words. HANGER QUEEN

Just because you need a late war plane to survive in the LWA, doesn't mean everyone needs to fly a late war bird to survive in the LWA.


ack-ack

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by tedrbr


You all is going to end up with the B-25 Mitchell being the winner, cause the voters saw a movie once.  Enjoy.

Again with the assumptions on what people know, or at least what you think they know.  As Shifty pointed out, it's silly to make an assumption on what you assume to be true.

I don't know how long you've been playing AH but ever since I started (tour 6), the B-25 has been on many player's wishlist to be added, along with the P-39.  

ack-ack

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Ball
Does it have magical hover flaps like the other American aircraft?

Which American planes?


ack-ack

[Joachim]

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by shamroc

I figure the P-39 will win now... Unfortunately, those of you who haven't flown one (old Warbirds had one for years - when HiTech was running it) will soon realize what a lead-sled it really was.  Think Yak9T (big gun) with less performance all around and nasty stall characteristics.   They gave 'em away or relagated them for training for a reason...

We'll end up with a brand new hangar queen either way....

 

I enjoyed flying the P-39 in WB, almost as much as I did the P-38F/J/L during my time there.  I wasn't the only one as I always saw a lot of P-39s flying around on the deck.

In real life, the P-39 performed well enough to do the job in the PTO and the MTO enough to keep flying until the end of the war.  And as you've read from other posts, it performed great in the Eastern Front serving with the Soviet air units.

ack-ack

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Kurt
When you fools get your P39 (assuming you do).

A month from now when you are back in your favored fighters... And your obsolete P39 is a hanger queen...  Flown only in FSO and other such staged events...

I'll ask you..

Why did you steal our chance to add a good M.A. plane to the game?

And you'll say "I fly Early"

Right, between early war and mid war thats what ... 75 pilots?  I already understand you 75...  But 500 or so are in the Late war M.A.  What about the rest of you?


Oh, You took it because its mid engine, and has a big gun..

Ugh.  Mark my words. HANGER QUEEN

.....careful Kurt, a birdie might land on that lip you got pokin out and doodie on it

Tumor

[rodak]

Originally posted by Bucky73
Translation=My plane got knocked out so I'm gonna whine about those that didn't vote my way.

lol... amen to that one Buck!   I'm voting P-39....

[shamroc]

The Ar234 is only a hangar queen because the bombsite is broken.

[tedrbr]

Originally posted by shamroc
The Ar234 is only a hangar queen because the bombsite is broken.

Switch from RATOS to Bombs (with Backspace) before calibration, works just fine.

[tedrbr]

Originally posted by 715
I was doing planes only.

Okay, back to Spreadsheets then, using only plane data.

Using the Killed and Death numbers combined from last month to gage relative use, and excluding anything that is not a plane from the totals, {ie Plane model (Kills + deaths) / total planes (kills + deaths) },  the numbers would seem to indicate, that by use:,

26.87%    of the planes used come from 5 planes: Nik2 (6.4%), P-51D(6.01%), Spit-16 (5.68%), La-7 (5.39%), and Seafire (3.37%), in that order.

52.18%   of the planes used come from only 14 planes, of the 74 in-game.
In addition to the 5 above and in order:  B-24J, Typhoon IB, F6F-5, P-38L, Bf 110G-2, Hurricane Mk IIC, Spitfire Mk VIII, Lancaster III, F4U-1D.

The lower 37 planes out of 74 total account for just 13.6% of total use.
From least used toward more use:
Ar 234, B5N2, Bf 109E-4, D3A1, C.202, Boston III, SBD-5, Bf 110C-4b, Ju 87D-3, P-40B, Spitfire Mk XIV, Me 163B, Spitfire Mk I, Hurricane Mk I, Ki-67, F4F-4, Bf 109G-2, Hurricane Mk IID, Fw 190F-8, Yak-9T, Bf 109G-6, F4U-4, P-47D-11, P-47-D25, Ta 152H, Bf 109F-4, P-38G, Me 262,, A-20G, P-40E, TBM-3, Ki-61, A6M2, FM2, F4U-1, Tempest.  With 23 more planes ahead of them, not counting the top 14 used.

These numbers would be further skewed by separating EW, MW, and LW arenas, since many of the planes used in the higher percentiles, are not even present in the EW and MW..... but not too badly, since there are very few pilots ever in EW or MW.