Whats AAA stand for?

[Ack-Ack]

Another vote for change here.

...but getting nailed when the TG is a sector away xux.  I had it happen twice yesterday.  The AOA of ack-huggers just got bigger

Needs toned down a bit.

Oh please, stop with the high school girl melodrama and exaggerations.  I seriously doubt you were killed by CV AAA a sector away, especially since CV acks don't have that range. 


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[Bronk]

there is no way when attacking 3 bombers all the guns on the planes would be able to hit you, i think they should disable this feature.but i feel lots would cry about them being turned off, like they cryed in a past snapshot when the CM turned off external view for the bombers in a snapshot.

Erm not all guns, only the guns that can "see" you. I know small distinction but still a distinction.

[Ack-Ack]

there is no way when attacking 3 bombers all the guns on the planes would be able to hit you, i think they should disable this feature.but i feel lots would cry about them being turned off, like they cryed in a past snapshot when the CM turned off external view for the bombers in a snapshot.

If you don't want to get shot down by bombers then I highly recommend you use some tactics when engaging said bombers.  If you get hit, it's your own fault for coming in stupid.  Don't blame the "lasers" on the bombers for your own short comings.

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[Sweet2th]

Erm not all guns, only the guns that can "see" you. I know small distinction but still a distinction.

using a B-17 as example in the classic attack formation.
3 top turrents, 3 rear guns and sometimes the waist guns. and all of them are trained in the same spot, yea thats really realistic.

[Sweet2th]

If you don't want to get shot down by bombers then I highly recommend you use some tactics when engaging said bombers.  If you get hit, it's your own fault for coming in stupid.  Don't blame the "lasers" on the bombers for your own short comings.

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your postive remarks should be sticky'd so that the whole community can learn from you by example.keep up the hard work!

[crockett]

I love being capped at my field by box ack from a cv someone drove right onto the beach... 

Yep it's ridiculous, CV furballs suck now because of it. Today I was climbing out away from a A base with a CV right on top of it and I'm getting hit with puffy the entire time. Puffy shouldn't even fire at you unless you are over 8 to 10k in alt.


Gotta love how the puffy ack will zero in on a little fighter doing 300+ but can never manage to hit big level bombers doing the same.

[Roundeye]

Oh please, stop with the high school girl melodrama and exaggerations.  I seriously doubt you were killed by CV AAA a sector away, especially since CV acks don't have that range. 


ack-ack

Oh please, stop with the no school exaggerations.  I said nailed, not killed.  NME TG was in next sector.   Read the post, not INTO it.

I was at 16,000 feet and got hit by flak twice by a TG that could not be seen in any direction.  (max graphics, 22" screen).  

On the upside, it does give away the presence of a TG sooner, but that's a double-edged sword.

[Motherland]

So, sweet.... you think there would be one person shooting at the enemy plane, and all the rest would be sitting there twiddling there thumbs?

[helbent]

If ack stays the way it is now, I will have to cancel my account.  This is purely disgusting.  Defence? HA Just forget it and jump in a flak.

Sad thing is I dont GV

I like you too Del and alot of other players, but this is just sick, I will have take my business elsewheres if this aint fixed

[Puck]

Oh please, stop with the high school girl melodrama and exaggerations.  I seriously doubt you were killed by CV AAA a sector away, especially since CV acks don't have that range. 


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DUDE!  Like, no way dude, cuz I was, like, five sectors aways and like, there I was attacking this like, you know, lazer bomber and like this, you know, puffy ack just like came outta like nowhere and like blew me to bits!  It was, you know, like, crazy how far away I was!

[Puck]

If ack stays the way it is now, I will have to cancel my account.  This is purely disgusting.  Defence? HA Just forget it and jump in a flak.

Sad thing is I dont GV

I like you too Del and alot of other players, but this is just sick, I will have take my business elsewheres if this aint fixed

SAPPs standards for recruitment appear to have suffered over the years.

[FT_Animal]

I was toolin along at 11k this morning (3am) and suddenly received damage marks on my windshield. I first though I got jumped with my pants down by DrDea again <GGGGG>

Never heard nor saw the burst or it's report or any AC like ANYWHERE. SO I'm like "a bug?",..it didn't anger me or anything. But I was lookin around and around and could find nothing at all. Then about 3 min later while viewing my 6 I saw way back and high like almost out of sight 4-5 burst, prolly 15k high or so.

I just figured I caught the guns on the parameter of it's range and just took one hit. But then I thought,... why are those guns now firing 3 min after leaving their range? They didn't seem to be firing AT anything, I was done gone.

Someone told me the range was 20k. Which would explain why I got hit with nothing in sight, sorta. I don't know how long the AAA will fire after nothing is in range, but it did *seem* to have a delayed firing reaction, I was just getting out of range when it started. SEEMINGLY. <shrug> just found it odd.

[Ack-Ack]

Puffy shouldn't even fire at you unless you are over 8 to 10k in alt.

Why?  It wasn't like that in real life.  Look in the photo of the attack on the Yorktown and notice the cotton ball puffs from flak on the deck.




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[Puck]

In fact a DD getting a little bit too energetic lobbed a 5" proximity fused round over the Enterprise's deck and blew up a parked aircraft.  The resulting fire put the ship out of action for quite a while[1].  Puffy ack went wherever there were aircraft (IFF being by Mk1 Mod 0 Eyeball). The only modeling "problem" I can see is the relative immunity friendly aircraft enjoy.

[1] "The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise", by Edward P Stafford

[Sweet2th]

So, sweet.... you think there would be one person shooting at the enemy plane, and all the rest would be sitting there twiddling there thumbs?

no i am not saying that at all, i am typing that not all of them would be that accurate.