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Offline ZZee

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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2009, 05:31:47 PM »
never mind........answered my own question. my button for that was remapped/mapped over.


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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2009, 05:46:10 PM »
Did you all know the American Elco PT boats were based on a British Powerboat Company design?

Now a over gunned PT boat would be the Fairmile 'D' with 2 6pdr, a twin 20mm, 2 twin .50", 2 twin .303", 4 18" torpedo tubes, 2 depth charges. Some even had one of the 6pdrs replaced by a 4.5" gun.

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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2009, 07:31:51 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on October 02, 2009, 04:23:39 PM
And you don't even need a direct hit to take a PT out with the 75 mm.  Got 3 PT boats with one shot last night, round landed right in the middle of them after they spawned and watched them all blow up.  Poor guys never had a chance to fire back or even see what shot at them from d3.0 away


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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2009, 10:42:04 PM »
Hey can anyone here recomend a good plane to bust PT's?
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2009, 12:44:00 AM »
Quote from: Nemisis on October 07, 2009, 10:42:04 PM
Hey can anyone here recomend a good plane to bust PT's?

something that carries rockets & is small....like an I-16 or FM2.

& just for the record: No, the PT boat does NOT have too much firepower.  Like anything can have "too much" firepower in AH!  :devil
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2009, 12:02:10 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on October 07, 2009, 10:42:04 PM
Hey can anyone here recomend a good plane to bust PT's?

IL2 naturally. Just come down vertical on it.

Mostly they are problems when a few PTs are together and firing like a big death star.

My other bet would be a big C-Hog, or a typhie if you are near land. Not only do they carry rockets but they have a lot of cannon. And 20mm cannon just chews them up. This has been my observations from sitting in PTs. I still dont know how to land them after getting kills. Ive spawned them on the other side of the map, with no enemy around for 30 sectors, stopped them, and still get the "you ditched" message. :huh

I dont really care cause I dont care about score. But I'd like to know.
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #36 on: October 08, 2009, 02:32:53 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on October 07, 2009, 10:42:04 PM
Hey can anyone here recomend a good plane to bust PT's?

B-25H is the best one.  You can fire at the PT boats way outside of their effective gun range and you don't need to score a direct hit, just get close enough that the splash damage from the 75 mm round will take it out.  The 75 mm cannon the B-25H is a one hit, one kill weapon against PT boats, none will survive a hit or a near hit by the cannon.


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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2009, 03:23:25 PM »
Hopefully Ack-Ack is lying, because bullets and bombs aren't supposed to splash their damage when they hit the water...a bug, perhaps.
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #38 on: October 08, 2009, 03:35:23 PM »
Quote from: OOZ662 on October 08, 2009, 03:23:25 PM
Hopefully Ack-Ack is lying, because bullets and bombs aren't supposed to splash their damage when they hit the water...a bug, perhaps.

He's not lying.  It's not the water spalsh that is doig the damage, it's the explosive splash.


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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2009, 03:38:27 PM »
"Aren't supposed to splash their damage," as in a anything other than a direct hit shouldn't deal damage to anything around it if it hits the water. That's the way it was supposed to be before AFAIK, at least.
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2009, 03:44:11 PM »
Quote from: OOZ662 on October 08, 2009, 03:38:27 PM
"Aren't supposed to splash their damage," as in a anything other than a direct hit shouldn't deal damage to anything around it if it hits the water. That's the way it was supposed to be before AFAIK, at least.

Think of it like a bomb or rocket near miss.  It's still HE blowing up next to you.  It happens on land too.


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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #41 on: October 08, 2009, 03:45:05 PM »
Yes, I know. But it isn't supposed to happen. Or so was the answer in 2003 and I haven't seen a change in that thought mentioned yet.
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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2009, 04:29:09 PM »
Quote from: OOZ662 on October 08, 2009, 03:23:25 PM
Hopefully Ack-Ack is lying, because bullets and bombs aren't supposed to splash their damage when they hit the water...a bug, perhaps.

Hit near a LVT or PT boat, even a ship in the fleet (talking about a near hit, right next to the target) and it will receive damage just like a near hit does against ground vehicles.  Maybe it is a bug, who knows but you can score a kill with a near hit.

I've seen the same with near hits from bombs, SB guns, and rockets.


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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #43 on: October 08, 2009, 06:00:23 PM »
I must attest that the PT is more lethal only because every gun on the boat is slaved together. Just got in a PT-vs-PT/CV/Air fight and was smoking planes left and right.
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Offline Noah17

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Re: New PT Boat Model Too much Firepower?
« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2009, 09:02:02 PM »
That's exactly what I'm saying....... Not many PT's qualified as ace's in WWII I'm sure.......
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