multiple gunners in bombers

[Shamrock]

its too hard to hard to only have two people shooting, for intsance in a B17 if the pilot is able to gun...and then someone joins you then you have two people shooting, but that means you can only watch 2 sides of your bomber, so if there is a nose turet, a top turret,a tail gun,2 waist gunners, and a ball turet, you should have 1 person manning each gun.in all arenas.

[AWwrgwy]

its too hard to hard to only have two people shooting, for intsance in a B17 if the pilot is able to gun...and then someone joins you then you have two people shooting, but that means you can only watch 2 sides of your bomber, so if there is a nose turet, a top turret,a tail gun,2 waist gunners, and a ball turet, you should have 1 person manning each gun.in all arenas.

The man himself has given this a "no".

I'll search from home and post links later if you'd like.


wrongway

[Strip]

The few times I have asked for gunners I ended up regretting letting one in.

I cant imagine policing five noobs with itchy trigger fingers wasting ammo....

[stroker71]

All guns fire that can hit the target your aiming at anyway.  So why would more gunners matter?

DuHasst

[AWwrgwy]

The few times I have asked for gunners I ended up regretting letting one in.

I cant imagine policing five noobs with itchy trigger fingers wasting ammo....

Actually, back in the AW days, with "DeathStars", it was lots of fun to fly a full plane.

Still, no.


wrongway

[Rino]

All guns fire that can hit the target your aiming at anyway.  So why would more gunners matter?

DuHasst

He obviously needs a gunner that can actually HIT the target 

[Spikes]

NO!!

[Nemisis]

All guns fire that can hit the target your aiming at anyway.  So why would more gunners matter?

DuHasst

Well thats on quite true. they aim at a certian range and if the plane killing you happens to be in that zone of convergance then yes.

But the problem is, not all will be good gunners. Most will be poor ones in my expirence. So your left side is good, as is your nose and belly, but everyone else can't aim worth toejam.

[guncrasher]

great idea, give me 5 gunners. get rid of the eggs and drones I'll bet I can outturn, outgunn any body here    .  man it was great dogfiting in b17's in AW.

semp

[Rino]

     AW buffs didn't have formations.

[waystin2]

Nope.

[MORAY37]

All guns fire that can hit the target your aiming at anyway.  So why would more gunners matter?

DuHasst

I believe I can answer this by simply saying.....

Multiple bandits.

All guns aiming one way... at one fighter.  There's two fighters....

One gets a free shot.

[Nemisis]

It doesn't matter if your gunners can't AIM. The odds are you will die becacuse some of your gunners can't aim.

[FYB]

Lets remember this:

The drones fire inconsistent to the main gunner (YOU or your BUDDY). The good thing is, if you can't aim well but enough to get around it, you're bound to hit it.

[Stogie]

"Deathstars" were lots of fun in AW.  You could get 7 people (8 if you had a fly along) into 1 B-17 no formations back then.  Roll through a horde and shoot everything.  Some would just roll one out on the Runway and blast vulchers.. you could shoot while on the ground.  Problem was like anything else they were abused.  Not sure why they are not like that here.. but glad they are not.