Originally posted by VansCrew1
are you giving us more then one B-25?
i seen that their were 98 rounds for the UBER canon,who many do we get before you shot any?
You'll probably get 21 rounds with probable a ROF (rate of Fire) of around 12 to 15 rounds per minute in the online arenas, which is close to historic.
Offline, you can get whatever you want by changing the PlaneGunAmmoMult and PlaneAutoAmmoMult in the Arena Settings.
I'm betting on just the B-25G being added for now, with the outside possibility of the B-25C/D, since the only changes were the nose (1 X .50 fixed, 1 X .50 swivel, and Norden site as compared to 75mm and 2 X .50 fixed and extra armor for loader and HE rounds) whereas most of the plane (early model G's) were the same as the C/D's... thus very similar FM.
That would allow a single B-25G w spud gun for strafing be taken for a sortie, or B-25C/D's with drones for level bomb runs.
As to when all the other models of the B-25 might get added, I refer you to the older players who can tell you how long it took to get the P38L or P47N added to the plane sets from the initial addition of the those particular plane models.
NOTE: I screwed up math a little above.
2800 rds in counter split between 2 forward firing .50's comes down to 1400 rpg, which comes down to 200 rpg (if multiplier is 7) when it should historically be 400rpg, IIRC.
If it is 400 rpg, that would be a PlaneGunAmmoMult of 3.5 and would bring the HE to 73 rounds..... that does not work....
if both forward firing .50's were already added to the model.
If multiplier is 6 in stead of 7, it would be 433 rpg on .50's and 126 rds of HE... that's an odd count. If the multiplier is 5, it only works out to 280 rpg for .50's, which is too light.
And no combination of 2800 x .50 and 98 x He works out for 8 forward firing .50's for any ammo count multiplier, so I still believe it is safe that this is a G model being added.
Now, if only 1 forward firing .50 is modeled to far, then the 2800 rounds with a PlaneGunAmmoMult of 7 works out fine, and again opens the door for an H model..... except for the copilot seat as mentioned by Widewing, as he is right about no co-pilot position:
The five-man crew consisted of the pilot, navigator-cannoneer-radioman, flight engineer-top turret gunner, waist gunner-camera operator and tail gunner. Three of five crew members had multiple jobs; there was no co-pilot or bombardier and only one waist gunner.Of course, since the C/D only had 1 fixed forward firing .50, the ammo counter could allude to Waffle developing both a C/D and a G together, as the FM as so similar, and final adds to differentiate each model come after this film.
