HT shot my hopes down of getting a great aircraft........... :(

[Beefcake]

Well I remember a few weeks ago that HT said that there would be no B25 but into AH. When I asked him why, he said the reason it would not be put in was because he hated it. I don't like the fact that the game will be denied a great plane just because he dislikes it. I mean I hate the F4U-1C, and would really like the see it removed, but alas that will never happen. I'm sad that I'll never see my B25H with its 12 .50 cals mounted in the nose.  

The Beefster

[Tern]

 

Originally posted by Beefcake:
Well I remember a few weeks ago that HT said that there would be no B25 but into AH. When I asked him why.... but alas that will never happen. I'm sad that I'll never see my B25H with its 12 .50 cals mounted in the nose.  

The Beefster

Bummer.  Did he say what will be taking its place?



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[Bravo25]

 

Originally posted by Beefcake:
Well I remember a few weeks ago that HT said that there would be no B25 but into AH. When I asked him why, he said the reason it would not be put in was because he hated it. I don't like the fact that the game will be denied a great plane just because he dislikes it. I mean I hate the F4U-1C, and would really like the see it removed, but alas that will never happen. I'm sad that I'll never see my B25H with its 12 .50 cals mounted in the nose.  

The Beefster

Thats not what Pyro said.  I asked him 2 days ago about the B-25 and he said their will definatly be one but that its not the highest priority.
BTW the B-25 with the 8 .50s was the K model
The H had the 75mm canon

[funked]

I'm pretty sure HTC will get to the B-25 eventually.  It was used by several countries and took part in some of the most interesting missions of the war.

BTW Bravo25, H and J models could be equipped with 8 fixed forward-firing fifties.  This was standard on the H but required a modification on the J.  

The modification on the J consisted of a "strafer nose" kit that could be added at the factory or at a modification center.  Standard B-25J's had 4 fifties in blister packs plus one or two fixed guns in the lower right portion of the glass nose.  The strafer nose kit retained the blister packs but swapped the glass nose for a solid nose with 4 fifties.

[Westy]

 FYI, HiTech intensely dislikes being misquoted. Not sure he likes being quoted period.

Just saying..

-Westy

[Sundog]

I'm not quoting  , however, when I was in the game a few days ago Pyro 'mentioned' that the B-25 would be added eventually and said the Ju-88 would `probably' be the next twin engined bomber added to AH. But that's just what I heard. Don't quote me either!..hehe

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[Citabria]

I'd like to see an A-20 havoc before a b25

[Duckwing6]

NO 25 ARRRGGHHHHHHH She's too sweet an airplane and too important for the scnarios to be left out .. i hope the well "low" priority list isn't err .. "too long"  

[Vermillion]

Well.. I would be quite happy not getting a B-25, if we got the A-26 Invader instead  

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[Toad]

Just a note for you historians....purely anecdotal of course.  

The 345th Air Apaches flew B-25 C models with 8 forward firing fifties early in the war during the New Guinea campaign.

Four .50's were mounted in the nose and 4 more in two blisters on each side of the cockpit. These were "field mods", not factory, initially. American ingenuity at work; they needed to suppress the flak guns when bombing airfields.

The "strafer nose" with 8 .50's came along after that and some were modified "in the field" in New Guinea, some in Australia and in the US as well.

There were lots of other armament experiments as well. One thing they tried was mounting 8 more .30 cal MG in the bomb bay. They were racked 4 to a side and hung at a 45 degree angle. The bomb bay doors were opened and the guns were fired as the plane flew across an enemy airfield. So these "flak supressors" led the squadron and hit the field with 8 .50's and 8. 30's. This mod didn't catch on, however and was not pursued.

Just a little anecdotal info....from my father, a guy who "went there, did that"...and flew a C model with 8 forward firing .50's., 4 nose/4 blister.

[hitech]

  Wasn't miss quoted this time.

Sorry you didn't see my facetiousness. Of course we will be doing a b25 and I realy don't hate it at all. That night if I rember correctly people were asking if we would be doing this plane and that plane. It seem so obvious to me that we would be doing a b25 at some point that I couldn't resist giving you a hard time.

HiTech

[Beefcake]

*wipes tear* really HT? Awwww maybe I will get the see my B25 with 12 50s mounted in the nose.

A Happy Beefster

[B-Town]

You didn't really thing hitech would do a thing like that do you? LOL this is not IEN we are dealing with here remember ROTF  
While we are talking about aircraft. I want a B2 Stealth Bomber with a nice cruse missile that I can fire at rook land  
he he he he he he he he he he

[funked]

Cool Toad!  Can you ask him about wing bomb racks or the external torpedo rack?  These are in a lot of the manuals for the plane but not in that many photos.