The lancaster needs a patch

[Grayarea]

Hey, you guys seem to be missing the most serious bug of the all in the lancaster model!

The fuel gauge goes the WRONG way.

This is totaly unacceptable and I will not be flying AH again until it is rectified.

OK, so I may fly a bit but not that dodgy lancaster.

OK, I do like bombers, I may fly the lancaster, but I refuse to look at the fuel gauge.

After all running out of fuel is a small price to pay for ignoring this terrible bug in the flight model  

Grayarea

[qrki]

Hmm, and then there is that skull and crossbones below the tail turret. Is this historical? Curious minds want to know.  

-Qrki

[Sorrow[S=A]]

Snafu- your not understanding what I mean. Do the test- take the top turret hit F3 and look at what angles the front and rear turrets will fire at when you fire the top turret.

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The guns will fire OVER the wing. To do this snafu the gunner would have to remove his weapon, kick a hole in the side of the plane and point it well past 90 degrees from the centerline. If your referring to the up down axis- in the lanc it's pretty much correct- the pilot had a full 180 degrees up and down- or close enough. In the B-17..  he did NOT. The guns on the B-17 could not raise over a 60-70 degree angle in the turret. Look at pics of the tail turrets to see what I mean. The B-17 could not fire it's tail gun almost straight up.

[juzz]

The mid-upper on the real Lancaster could traverse down to about -15º at the sides, something which it can't do in AH.  

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by juzz:
The mid-upper on the real Lancaster could traverse down to about -15º at the sides, something which it can't do in AH.  

same with the B-26's turrent

-Jig

[aircat]

 speaking of blast.... lets say you hit a VH now... with 4k of explosive not only should it drop but anything in near viscinity. but its blast radius is actualy small... and the depth of crater aint there either.hell if I dropped 4k lbs of cow chips it would have larger blast radius then we have now!

 am I a demolitions expert? no... but I have a DAMN good idea of explosive powers... give why.... someof you in the US might have heard of an explosion a few years back in Scottsbluff Ne. well I was a few blocks from the Suger factory that exploded. the central blast was calulated at around 500 lbs it broke and ignighted the surounding silos each with simular blasting for a total of about 2k... I was 2 blocks from it in my brothers house and the cuncusion of it alone shook his place enough 2 of us stand lost footing... not to mention bricks being found 2 miles from point zero. it took out several cars in the visitors parking area (about 300 to 500 feet from the silos. people heard the blast from approx 5 miles away.

granted a dropped bomb has its primary blast in a downward momentum. I would like to see deeper craters and larger blast radius... but then 2 lancasters would be able to lvl a base just with carpet bombing if it was realistic proportions. I think laser bombs are better then the alternitave. but I do aggree the buffs need a lower cieling

[funked]

Well I dropped a cookie on a bomber hangar, and I got a kill of a guy taxiing as well as a gun emplacement destroyed.  I had a guy drop one on my Ostwind and my bellybutton is still sore.

[Major Tom]

The defensive armament on the lancaster is a joke.  I took down two of those nancy brit lancs with the B-26 on one run.  If the situation presents its self I'm sure I could nail at least 4 with the ammo the B-26 holds.

These days I just take my B-26 out hunting for low flying lancs, C-47's and Ju88's.  The other night I was flying head on against a Ju88, he bailed out before we got within 5k.

Anyone who destroys a C Hog with a Ju88 and lives to tell the tale deserves a medal.

[Fury]

heheeheh.

Do you take any bomb loadout when you go buff hunting with a buff?  You know, those pesky bombs just slow you down.

Fury

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by Major Tom:
The defensive armament on the lancaster is a joke.  I took down two of those nancy brit lancs with the B-26 on one run.  If the situation presents its self I'm sure I could nail at least 4 with the ammo the B-26 holds.

These days I just take my B-26 out hunting for low flying lancs, C-47's and Ju88's.  The other night I was flying head on against a Ju88, he bailed out before we got within 5k.

Anyone who destroys a C Hog with a Ju88 and lives to tell the tale deserves a medal.

I got three in one sortie. And 4 ostwinds with the 500 keggers.

- Jig

[Karnak]

Lancaster has got a patch.  

Major Tom, are all Brit planes "nancy" in your opinion?  If so, go read some history books.

Sisu
-Karnak

[Major Tom]

The only nancy brit plane I'd ever consider taking up would be the Spit XIV, and I'd still take a P-51D over it against Luftwaffe fanatics.  But I'd rather have a B-25H-5 over both aircraft.  I'm a damn bomber pilot, those fighters are all the same thing when I'm giving them the whole 9 yards.  ...potential lawn darts.

Those damn C-Hogs still scare me no matter what kind of plane I'm in.

I've never uttered the phrase "oh crap, not a spitfire!"