Flakpanzer is far to overpowered

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Ghastly
Can you kill Flak's with 50 cals?

I've been avoiding shooting anything but M3's and M16's since I didn't think I could kill anything else?

In an La7 I have landed 13 "flak turret" kills.   Any plane will take em out.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Ghastly
Can you kill Flak's with 50 cals?

I've been avoiding shooting anything but M3's and M16's since I didn't think I could kill anything else?

Turret is open topped - sheer volum of fire & flat trajectory more important than individual bullet power

[Gixer]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
In an La7 I have landed 13 "flak turret" kills.   Any plane will take em out.

And I once saw an old farmer guy hit a duck flying through the air with a catapult.


...-Gixer

[AKDogg]

I take out flak guns out all the time with my f4u-1 which has only 50 cals.

[evenhaim]

any a/c can turret a flak with relative ease but that is not the main concept being discussed in this thread.

[skyctpn]

Technically if HTC unflucks their gv selection by bringing the whirlbilwind in and then in turn perking the rarely used (45 produced) ostiwind  we have a better balance here.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Gixer
And I once saw an old farmer guy hit a duck flying through the air with a catapult.


...-Gixer

Just because you cannot, does not mean others are in the same dinghy as you.

[LePaul]

Heh...Urchin complaining again?  Shocked, I am

Flakpanzers seem fine to me.  Deadly in the hands of an LTAR...always a preferred target for a Lancaster with 18 500-pounders and a vendetta  

[Flayed1]

I have to say even if Osty is hitting harder than it should it is not hard at all to take out... My most favorite memory of taking out 2 osy turrets was in my Hurri MK1 (osty drivers were prob pissed) LOL.

   Personally I don't see why more people don't drive LVT 4's to take out town.  If you place the HE rounds right they take out several buildings at one time.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Flayed1
  Personally I don't see why more people don't drive LVT 4's to take out town.  If you place the HE rounds right they take out several buildings at one time.

Ostwind is still more effective, can better defend himself. And with proper shot placement he can do that trick too.

[MORAY37]

Originally posted by evenhaim
agreed but the fact of the matter is 30 20mm or how ever many it takes to drop a building should do more damage then 2 or 3 37mms from an ostie.

It takes exactly  20 rounds from an osty to kill one building in town.  I know... I count every round leaving for each building in order to maximize my ammo load, when takin out a town.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Elfie
I don't believe I have ever turreted an Ostie. I have tried from every conceivable angle. Others have no problems turreting my Osties though.

Dive at it from directly above and you'll knock out the Ostie's gun every time.  Though, it's a lot tougher if the Ostie has another Ostie covering it.


ack-ack

[Elfie]

I was in the 2nd LW arena for a bit tonight.

I upped a spixteen for base defense and shot down this guys 109-G6. He comes back in a Tempest acting like he is on a vendetta vs every spixteen in the area. I avoided every pass he made on me and managed to land a few hits on him before I belly landed on the runway out of fuel.

I grabbed an Ostie and shot his port wing off. He logged after that.

[Rich46yo]

The Ostie is a great ackwagon but I prefer the M-16. I just know the 0.50 lead better from shooting out of bombers so much. But man there are some great Ostie gunners in this game and Ive been on the recieving end of more then a couple.

                    I wonder what the ammo load is going to be on the new 20mm flakwagon? That may be the new townbuster of choice.

[Urchin]

Originally posted by LePaul
Heh...Urchin complaining again?  Shocked, I am

Flakpanzers seem fine to me.  Deadly in the hands of an LTAR...always a preferred target for a Lancaster with 18 500-pounders and a vendetta  

Thanks for reiterating my point, Lepaul.