Someone is off their meds again.
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
You're wrong, just like you were wrong about the community wanting the A-26 or the reasons why the community wants the B-25. You lost your vote for the A-26, get over it.
Never said anything about the 'Vader or any other plane I'd like to see added to the game (hence the sig line). I was replying to the original question.
The B-25H won't be a hanger queen, you'll see that it will find a use as a devastating town killer and field porker. Look at the A-20, early war attack plane that sees wide use in the MA.
"Devastating town killer?" 21 HE rounds, that's 10 buildings..... or 8 x .50's x 400-500rpg in strafer for cleanup. 3,000 pound ord, that's 4 x 500's or 8 x 250's. That's a good load out, but not "devastating". Heavy bombers carpet bomb better than that.
And it's offset by the large, easy-to-hit size of the B-25 and it's relatively slower speeds to other attack planes. It will be an easy target to hit to auto-ack, manned guns, and enemy fighters defending a field.
It will probably be used en mass like the 110's are now to bum-rush a town, but each individual B-25 will be easier to kill than those 110's.
The 75mm armed one will also be used against GV's, where I believe it will have even less success with 75mm HE rounds, especially if reload times are near historical numbers. Shermans will be taking out Mitchells with their main guns.
Getting 3 versions will probably save the B-25 from being a hangar queen.... a little something for everyone. It will see a lot of use in the first 3 months as a new plane. After that, unless it has proven to be capable in some way or another in the game, it will get parked by most.
A-20? I haven't run the spreadsheet with new numbers for a two months, but last time I did (using the numbers combined from 4 tours), the A-20 was being used just 0.72% of the time out of the whole plane-set (using proportional kill + death numbers across the board). Among just the bombers it was ranking 5.05% of use and in 6th place behind the B-24 (20.27%), Lanc (19.27%), IL-2 (13.02%), B-17 (11.74%), B-26 (9.67%), and JU-88 (8.39%).
I haven't seen anything to indicate that has changed much.
