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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« on: May 23, 2007, 02:56:57 PM »
New to the AH world, but enjoying it very much..... Something is missing.... Parachute bombs!!!!! 50lb frags, 250lb, GPs and 500lb GPs, with parachutes attached... Used very effectively during the war..... I love the low level attacks using the Boston/A20, and soon the B25.... But the experience isn't right without the parachute bombs...... Yes, plow the road with your guns, and lay a string of parafrags on the Flak crews.... Then the second wave comes in with 500 pounders.... That would be AWESOME!!!

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Offline tedrbr

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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2007, 03:06:25 PM »
Post number one.

I see a trend.
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Offline VooWho

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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2007, 03:15:40 PM »
I've posted about parafrags and some like it, and others just hijack my post. :mad:

I am 100% with parafrags. Just think guys of the low bomber missions with B-25s, A20s, and Bostons with parafrags and bombing below radar, tree top flying, screaming across the cities, and then to your target, blowing it up while flying 100ft off the ground, and someone on the other team saying "What a bunch of dumb noobs.....OH CRAP PARAFRAGS...KA-BOOM!

Just think of all the fun we could have. OOOOOO, and if your flying low and you get a spit or la7 on your six and he is low and closing in, drop a parafrag and watch it blow right below him. "HAHAHAHA! I got this low flying A20! BOOOM! "What was tha.....NOOOOOOO!!!!
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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2007, 04:18:30 PM »
Sorry I don't want to hijack anyones post.... But we could use some napalm in the game too.... That would be an good (and realistic) way to kill those microscopic tanks hiding in the woods..... And skip bombing naval ships would be cool as hell too....
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2007, 04:21:10 PM »
100% agreement on all these ideas:aok
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2007, 05:31:54 PM »
HTC has alreadu clarified that no (special) or enourmous bombs will be implemented ever.

so no you cant have a n00k either
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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2007, 05:48:29 PM »
I didn't ask for a nuke, just weapons and technique's that were available, (and used extensively)  during the war.....

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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2007, 06:00:28 PM »
The correct term is: High-Drag
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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2007, 06:47:24 PM »
OK, high drag if you like... But those poor grungy odinance guys on the fields around Port Moresby, (who first started using them) called em parafrags. They were an improv field modification, just like the "gun noses" on the light and medium bombers... They were so effective at destroying Japanese airfields around Buna, Wewak, New Britain, etc, that the factories started building them at home...
Those were the early desperate days of the war.... Our guys in the SoPac were on a shoestring, and had to make do with what they had....
They came up with the most devastating form of attack yet invented....
But High drag works too...

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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2007, 07:36:39 PM »
high-drags bombs would kill the fun seeing noobs drop normal bombs at low lvl and kil them self. i like watching that:p .
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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2007, 09:21:31 PM »
Had the B25 with parafrags in WB and I can assure you they were absolutely bloody useless.

However in AH what a fantastic way to confuse airfield and CV AI ack.:rolleyes:

Nintendo kids will drop parafrags 10 + K above and watch the firework display...... AH folk are a gamey bunch of you know whats.
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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2007, 09:55:58 PM »
Well that would be a shame if the damage level wasn't modeled correctly... Because that tactic was devastating to aircraft, facilities, and especially flak crews in their sandbagged emplacments.....
That comes from accounts of japanese war vets... They dreaded the frag clusters..... Little hamburger makers!!!!

Of course, nothing is as fearsome as napalm.....

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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2007, 10:07:53 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2007, 03:11:04 AM »
Only if we get manned 88mm flaks first. Then you're all welcome to try that low-level frag bombing to your heart's content. We'll be waiting down here with our 88mm flak guns ready.

 
 Otherwise, them puny field ack or 50cal M-16, 37mm Ostard flak, just doesn't cut enough firepower to stop a 3-man buff formation that just ignore ack fire and spray the airfield with bombs before getting shot down by fighters.

 So, first give us the 88s. Then you're welcome to have whatever bombs you please, perhaps with the exception of the n00kies.
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Offline OdinGrunherze

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« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2007, 10:33:07 AM »
Hey man, I agree with ya.... Heavy Flak would be a great addition to the game.... If the guns were modeled correctly you would have a hard time tracking low Alt fast movers with an 88 or a 128... And more than that your gun crews wouldn't be able to fuse the shells quickly enough to be effective. Thats why airfields were surrounded with light and medium flak mounts, firing contact fused shells... While the heavy guns were used around fixed installations, factories, cities, etc...
But they would be great for level bombers that are now flying too high for the light and medium guns....

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