B-25H

[hornet79]

I'm trying to get a handle on flying the 25H. What applications do you like for them. I can handle the strafing, but haven't figured out how to bomb. It's not like level and you certainly cant dive bomb with them. Looking for pointers.

Thanks!!

[Saxman]

I use her as both a heavy-strafer, tank-buster and glide-bomber.

When bombing I open the doors and enter a shallow dive with throttle pulled back from about 5000AGL. As soon as the target passes out of view under the nose I release my eggs.

It's really a lot like low-level bombing with any other jabo, it just takes practice to find the release point.

I just wish HTC would give us the 5 AP rounds the historical aircraft received in the field. 

[Lusche]

For a short time B-25 was the premier tank hunter until the Wirbel  and the updated Il-2 appeared.
It's 75mm is still able to give a one-hit-death to every tank on AH2, even without AP.
Another, quite dweeby thing, the 25H is good at: Killing strat targets. 3K of bombs and lotta gun ammo.

[Anaxogoras]

When bombing I open the doors and enter a shallow dive with throttle pulled back from about 5000AGL.

This is very important advice.  In my ignorance I recently ripped the wings off a B-25H without even blacking out.  At high speed you have very little control authority.  As you decelerate, the control authority returns quickly, so that if you've been giving lots of elevator input without effect, it will suddenly have great effect and the wings will snap.

[Saxman]

For a short time B-25 was the premier tank hunter until the Wirbel  and the updated Il-2 appeared.
It's 75mm is still able to give a one-hit-death to every tank on AH2, even without AP.
Another, quite dweeby thing, the 25H is good at: Killing strat targets. 3K of bombs and lotta gun ammo.

Very true. However it'd be nice to have the AP to deal with those pesky Wirbles from outside their effective range and save the HE for the tanks.

[Yossarian]

This is very important advice.  In my ignorance I recently ripped the wings off a B-25H without even blacking out.  At high speed you have very little control authority.  As you decelerate, the control authority returns quickly, so that if you've been giving lots of elevator input without effect, it will suddenly have great effect and the wings will snap.

If you find yourself in a 'high speed' (well by B-25 standards anyway) dive, roll a bit to one side, and use full rudder to raise your nose up without stressing your wings as much.

[USCH]

Another, quite dweeby thing, the 25H is good at: Killing strat targets. 3K of bombs and lotta gun ammo.
[/quote] ya cuz a B-25 never made low level attacks in the PTO on strats targets 

[lyric1]

Another, quite dweeby thing, the 25H is good at: Killing strat targets. 3K of bombs and lotta gun ammo.

I don't see how it would be dweeby for a plane to do what it was designed to do.

[Lusche]

I don't see how it would be dweeby for a plane to do what it was designed to do.

There are planes (buffs) that are even better at leveling strats... but the B-25 has the best combination of weapons for boosting your attack rank

[Saxman]

There are planes (buffs) that are even better at leveling strats... but the B-25 has the best combination of weapons for boosting your attack rank

There's not many planes in the game that can knock down a hangar on guns alone. Even FEWER that can gun down MULTIPLE hangars.

[comet61]

I have used the B25H many times in Lanc killing. That 75mm can come in handy and all those 50's will square them away.

[Krusty]

It's no good for bomber killing unless you get a 1 in a Trillion chance and just happen to appear behind them. It's actually slower than the major heavy bombers at alt, and it can't dive very well because even the slightest input rips both wings off at the fuselage.

So unless you "just" happen to wind up behind a set of enemy bombers inside firing range, you're better off in any other fighter in the game (including the Hurr1)

P.S. The one time I *did* get inside kill range of a set of lancs I landed a 75mm hit with a spectacular fireball on the wing just inside the outer right engine, and nothing happened. I didn't even knock the flap off or make the oil leak.

[moot]

Krusty, it's not that hard. Just get some alt on them, and vector correctly. I can't find it, but I made a chart of all bombers' level speeds overlaid, and the 25H has one alt where it's in the mix.
I've gotten a kill with every single 75mm hit I landed. A couple of times it took out one bomber and either set another on fire or tweaked it bad enough for the guy to bail out of #2, or just killed it.  Hitting a formation flying off in auto-level from 1.5K is not hard with a bit of practice. 2K is probably doable reliably with enough practice.

[Krusty]

Anything above 15k has walked away from me even when I'm using WEP. I've tried a number of times hehehe

Chased a set of B17s or B24s (can't recall which) for 3 sectors once and never even got close. Gave up and landed.

[moot]

It's doable.. the window's small but it's not worth just giving up.