I fly the Ju88 in the MA in preference over the B-26.
--Why do you prefer the Ju-88 over the B-26? How often do u get shot down in that 88 of your's?
I think that the Ju88 has more character than the B-26B. The main thing that I use medium bombers for is AA suppression. The B-26 can carry 20 100lb bombs. The Ju88 can carry 20 50kg bombs and 4 500kg bombs. That allows me to do the same suppression job as the B-26 and be able to smash a hanger as well.
I get shot down quite often, but in my experience no medium bomber survives an attack by a fighter in AH. The only difference is that the B-26 is more likely to take its attacker with it. Actually my record for air-to-air kills in one bomber mission was set in a Ju88. I shot down 2 N1K2-Js, 1 La-7 and 1 Fw190 of some sort. Unfortunately for me the last N1K2-J got me as well.
I thought the idea was to use the tools they had.
--One of those tools that the Germans had was called the He-177 "Greif".
Yes, the Germans had the He177, unfortunately for them. They would much rather have had the B-17 or Lancaster. The He177 suffered from massive mechanical problems that make the N1K1 look downright reliable. In AH mechanical defects are eliminated and we would get what the He177 looks like on paper, a great heavy bomber. The He177 was available in such limited numbers that the largest He177 operation consisted of a mere 35 of them.
Adding the He177 into the CT as a free aircraft would be completely distorting the significance of every German bomber.
Given that the MA is a fantasy arena I have no problem with the idea of the He177 being a freebie aircraft in the MA, in fact I think it would make a nice addition.
If the He177 gets added to the CT as a free plane, you'll never see Ju88s anymore.
--Not if an He-177 can only carry 15 50 kg's or 2 fritz's...then many people will still take out an 88 to egg acks @ fields.
That would be an example of selectively modeling its loadouts to tailor it to the CT for gameplay reasons. Don't you think that it would be better for it to have all of its loadouts and to pay a small perk price for using it in the CT?
Who, historicly, operated the better heavy bombers and operated in force? Germany, America or Britain?
--A good reason why a RPS should be implemented w/ a limit on the % of planes being of a certain type.
I don't think that you'd see a good reaction from people logging on only to find that they can't fly their P-51D, or whatever their plane of choice is.
I'm all for an RPS, but I think the best way to limit certain aircraft is with the perk system working within the RPS.
In reality, the Americans and British, if the He177 is put in the CT as a freebie then it'll be the Germans.
--Not if the German bird can carry a limited # of eggs for ack busting. But still useful in the fact that it's got more defensive armament than the other german egger.
Once again you are limiting it for gameplay reasons when it would be much simpler to charge a small perk price to fly it, but with access to its full loadout. In addition giving it a limited loadout list like that just to make it unattractive in the CT would cripple it in the MA where there is no need to put limits on it.
