A-20 paradox

[Yeager]

Hell, the A-20 is harder to kill than an IL2 far as soaking up bullets goes......Must be all those tons of added armor that make it roll so much better 

[Karnak]

Only comment I can add is that the first squadron in Bomber Command to get Mosquito B.Mk IVs had been using Bostons and they were relieved and delighted to get the Mosquitoes.

[lyric1]

Hey, if I am the only guy who feels the A20 is porked so be it.  It was no dogfighter in operational capabilities (no one has contested this oberservation) but in the game AcesHigh, mid war at least, it is one of the more successful fighters.  Just throws a flag up fo me.  However, not an important issue. 

Treat it like the M4'S that shoot down planes with it's main gun never happened in real life but a common thing in AHII.

[CAP1]

"Rather good" pilots, but none of them on the same level as you yourself, I'd bet.

Maybe we should put Widewing in his A-20 against Widewing against his other fighter plane - let's say maybe the casual Spixteen.

Oh gee, same pilot.

Still think the A-20 will win?

that's a weird/hard question.

i think that in that situation, it would come to which widewing made the first mistake. both of them would fly their respective aircraft to their strengths, and do their best to exploit the others weaknesses. i think it could be a possibility.

[Anaxogoras]

Widewing in a XVI would kill Widewing in an A-20 quite easily.

[humble]

WW vs WW...

Ahah...being Sicilian you knew that I knew that you knew that....

[CAP1]

Widewing in a XVI would kill Widewing in an A-20 quite easily.

but here's the thing......widewing would know how to avoid a well flown spit, and would do things that widewing in a spit might not expect, thus making it possibly a victorious fight for widewing in the a20. 

[Yeager]

the fact that an a20 can even be considered fair game under such equal circumstances against such ubery as a Spit16 just furthers my base argument that the A20 flight model is porqued.

[moot]

A spit16 is not fair game for an A20.  It literally flies circles around the A20.

[CAP1]

the fact that an a20 can even be considered fair game under such equal circumstances against such ubery as a Spit16 just furthers my base argument that the A20 flight model is porqued.

well, me...i'm just having fun with this. we should only be worrying about how they fly here. how they flew in r/l is not our concern. that doesn't effect how we fly/fight them here.

[Hap]

When A20 nails a fighter, the fighter pilot did it wrong.

[CAP1]

When A20 nails a fighter, the fighter pilot did it wrong.

then cap does quite a bit wrong.

[Ack-Ack]

the fact that an a20 can even be considered fair game under such equal circumstances against such ubery as a Spit16 just furthers my base argument that the A20 flight model is porqued.

You still utterly failed in showing how the A-20G is over modeled. 

I'm starting to think that your insistance that the Havoc is over modeled is due to the fact that you get your arse handed back to you repeatedly by likes of cobia38 and snaphook in the MW arena. 


ack-ack

[CAP1]

You still utterly failed in showing how the A-20G is over modeled. 

I'm starting to think that your insistance that the Havoc is over modeled is due to the fact that you get your arse handed back to you repeatedly by likes of cobia38 and snaphook in the MW arena. 


ack-ack

those two always beat me in fights. snaphook has(after beating me in his sbd) told me exactly what i did wrong, how he did what he did in it. excellent pile-it, and friendly/informative too.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Yeager, like someone said above, no matter how a A/C was flown in real life, has no barring on how we fly them in aces high.


More room for thought, the A20G also had a .30 or .50 down in the gut, now if the A20G get remodeled i hope the weight was already present for all that equipment and another gun/ammo.

If the weight is already resent, and the A20G gets a update, it will most likely have that gun, thus making the A20G even more deadly, and twice as likely to be packing someone maning the turret. "having a lower gun solution will make it HEAPS more usefull for tag along gunners.


The reason the A20G has become "such" a problem is the BUG it has for a LONG TIME, that would cause the aircraft to BLOW UP the instant it took any body damage. you may not have flown or encountered the A20G back then, i sure did, i blew up ALOT.Now this bird soaks up damage like it would/should from the very start of it being added, imagine that.


I also know with a updated plane comes tweeked and reworked flight model, most planes included in the updates are almost night and day (almost) and each and every one had been tweeked here and there. I see no reason the A20G will not suffer from this. All in Due time i suppose.



The A-20G IS and WAS a great aircraft, and i hope it can become even greater in aces high's future.


Btw Ak-Ak, spot on.