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Offline stodd

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #75 on: July 20, 2008, 07:13:01 AM »
Both of you guys have been playing for ummmmm...... a month.  Noobs!
And then this guy.... 70k   What game is that?
The "real" service ceiling for the Avro Lancaster was about 23k.  You must have been playing one of those fake games.  But not here.


Ummm Ive known caldera for several months...hes no noob.
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #76 on: July 20, 2008, 10:51:56 AM »
Ummm Ive known caldera for several months...hes no noob.

but will you back up his 70K claim??
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #77 on: July 20, 2008, 08:00:05 PM »
but will you back up his 70K claim??

Caldera didn't make a 70k claim, superbkiller is the one that said it

i got space bombing, i bombed from 70K once. I was in a lancaster and dumped all my bombs accept the 4000K. i didn't hit anything though lol.
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #78 on: July 20, 2008, 11:00:31 PM »
Caldera didn't make a 70k claim, superbkiller is the one that said it


ya rgr, i was confused of the person being talked about
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #79 on: July 21, 2008, 10:59:15 PM »
Keeping it going....Superfortress should be here in about 12 days.!! Can't wait :rock

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #80 on: July 22, 2008, 12:41:20 AM »
Keeping it going....Superfortress should be here in about 12 days.!! Can't wait :rock

what makes you so sure?

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #81 on: July 22, 2008, 03:27:48 AM »
The vast majority of WWII aircraft had mechanically controlled flight surfaces, not electric/hydraulic ones. Even in Korea I think the MiG15 had mechanically controlled flight surfaces (wires & cables). Not sure about the B24, though.

I believe the b24 did. I just watch an episode of dogfights, desperate German pilots would use their prop to chop the top of the aircraft just behind the cockpit because that's were the wires and rods mostly were. You lose those, you lose control.

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #82 on: July 22, 2008, 04:00:05 AM »
Keeping it going....Superfortress should be here in about 12 days.!! Can't wait :rock

Says Who??
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #83 on: July 22, 2008, 06:24:24 AM »
besides most noobs can't aim.
are ytou talkting in fighters? if so, i know we all know people who attack bombers, and they arnt noobs
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #84 on: July 22, 2008, 07:45:54 PM »
<--still doesnt know why the thread is up

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #85 on: July 23, 2008, 08:40:53 AM »
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #86 on: July 23, 2008, 11:13:54 AM »
In honesty, I don't understand why a heavily perked (500 range even), non-nuclear/napalm, B-29 would be so darned unbalancing.

1.  Are there really no fighters that can catch it at MA altitudes?

2.  Are there really no fighters that can reach its ceiling?

(These are honest questions - I don't know the answers.  Enlighten me :) )

If question 2 is correct...  Then why not just put in a little cross wind way up in the air where none of the fighters can reach?  Not enough to make flying a B-29 up there impossible, but enough to make bombing from that alt a serious challenge.

If question 1 is correct...  First of all there's the 262 and 163, and second of all, people will just have to make their passes count.

I'm seriously doubting there are THAT many people that have enough BOMBER perks to be able to shrug off 500 point perk deductions enough to make this a horrible addition to the plane set.

45 mins for a town to rebuild.  HQ much less with folks resupping it .  B29 would be too cool for school.  Unperk it.  No nuke.  Give it a payload that makes sense in Aces High.  Would be fun for all.

Sorry V, didn't answer your questions.  I think the B29 would be a hoot as I gather you do too. 

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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #87 on: July 23, 2008, 10:17:30 PM »
45 mins for a town to rebuild.  HQ much less with folks resupping it .  B29 would be too cool for school.  Unperk it.  No nuke.  Give it a payload that makes sense in Aces High.  Would be fun for all.

Sorry V, didn't answer your questions.  I think the B29 would be a hoot as I gather you do too. 


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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #88 on: July 24, 2008, 03:58:17 PM »
From what I recall, the armour was as bad on it as the B-24.

If a B-24's #3 engine catchs fire or goes out, your gonna go down because you lost hydraulic pressure (and electricity I think)

something wierd happened to me before in the game, i was bomging a HQ in a B-24, and on my way back tol the base ,a ME-163 came in on, i was at about 17,000 feet up, anyways, i shoot him down, but before he go down he shoots 2 engines on fire, so i thinking maybe if i climb they will go out, i climb to 19-20 k and the fire go out, i dont know what happen, if it was a glich or something that HTC has set, but whatever it was it saved me
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Re: The Super Fortress
« Reply #89 on: July 25, 2008, 11:28:58 PM »
So who is going to start working on skins for our new b-29 :rock

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