We need seaplanes!!!

[Denholm]

Now, that is just ignorant.

Skuzzy, lock this now.

Borrowed from Denholm: (Happy?)
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Well done, Sir JPEG.

Ruler2, if they're not nice countries, why is anyone getting out of those said countries? You need to wake up and smell the Earth's crust. There's more to life than your red, white, and blue underwear.

[Enker]

        lol,if I'm acting ignorant,would you mind telling me why they all want to come here to get away from their countries?
       

Are they? Are they?

[DaveJ]

biplanes are move very well so it easy to dodge incomign fighters. They are slow also so it means the enemy would only have a second to fire. I will write more on it later.

Looking forward to this.

[morfiend]

 



  and a  to how this evolved into this!

[Skuzzy]

Me thinks those who are not making a positive contribution to this thread need a timeout.

[daddog]

Sea planes would rock.

I would love to see the Pete, Kingfisher, PBY, or best yet the Kawanishi H8K, "Emily" just to name a few. The Emily had 5, 20mm guns!

[Eagleclaw]

PBY Catalina perhaps? Flyin' boat

[Denholm]

Right now there's no need for scouting. So there isn't much use for a PBY aside from its small payload of bombs.

[legoman]

If i recall from what i saw on dogfights the a6m had a version with floats. Maybe that could be usefull....

[AirFlyer]

The A6M2-N is what your talking about, as far as usefulness... just an over-weighted Zeke from what I've seen. Fly an A6M2 at 75% throttle for max and you'll get about the same effect I'd imagine.

[Rino]

The Swordfish was not a sea plane in that it had no float.

Some did....

[Shifty]

The A6M2-N is what your talking about, as far as usefulness... just an over-weighted Zeke from what I've seen. Fly an A6M2 at 75% throttle for max and you'll get about the same effect I'd imagine.

Actually the Rufe's peformance wasn't degraded that much from the Zeke. It would prove effective against it's 1941/42 counterparts.

[AirFlyer]

Actually the Rufe's peformance wasn't degraded that much from the Zeke. It would prove effective against it's 1941/42 counterparts.

That's actually rather surprising. I'm skeptical but I have nothing to back it up so I'll leave it at that.

[Stalwart]

I think seaplanes would be very usefull in the game.

+1

Seaplanes, flying boats, amphibious aircraft, what ever they are called...  
It would be nice to have representations of these types in Aces High.

I could imagine PBYs available only from ports and serving in roles similar to the C47.  Also, the Catalina did some anti-ship missions, so perhaps they could have a limited bombing role as well.

This is a bit of a stretch, but maybe you could pick up a downed pilot, to turn a captured into a rescued?

What else?

[Shifty]

That's actually rather surprising. I'm skeptical but I have nothing to back it up so I'll leave it at that.

You can find a few pages about the Rufe on the web. Of course it wasn't as nimble as the A6M2, but it was still effective until better Allied fighters became operational.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/japan/nakajima_a6m-n.php