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Offline Beefcake

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2010, 04:37:30 AM »
But lets be real honest. Are you going to fly a B25 or a Ju88 to torpedo a ship? (As if anyone actually torpedo's them anymore)
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2010, 05:03:30 AM »
But lets be real honest. Are you going to fly a B25 or a Ju88 to torpedo a ship? (As if anyone actually torpedo's them anymore)
At a CV? I'm not. Things are changing in AHII maybe something else worth launching a torpedo at in the future though.

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2010, 07:11:36 PM »
No need to add guns to the -C model. That just screws up balances for early war setups/scenarios.

I'd much rather just have the J model added on top of what we already have.

For one, I would love to have that extra pair of tail guns in MA flying, but the biggest thing I'd love would be a 12-gun nose! (yeah, yeah, no guarantee we'd get a strafer model, but either way I'd be happy with SOME sort of J-model)
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2010, 08:19:15 PM »
Well there's allot more then a torpedo there was kamikazes planes that the germans and Japanese made with the big rockets.
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2010, 08:25:10 PM »
Well there's allot more then a torpedo there was kamikazes planes that the germans and Japanese made with the big rockets.
:headscratch: How is that got any thing to do with the B25C?

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #20 on: March 22, 2010, 08:41:17 PM »
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2010, 12:40:10 PM »
But lets be real honest. Are you going to fly a B25 or a Ju88 to torpedo a ship? (As if anyone actually torpedo's them anymore)

I would.  I use the B-25H for anti-shipping duties, having torpedoes would just make it more effective in that role.  If we were also given the option of having 8 HVAR rockets and AP rounds for the 75mm cannon, it becomes even more effective.

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2010, 12:42:55 PM »
They did on the J.

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It was only done twice and both were operational combat field tests during the last few weeks of the war. 

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2010, 12:45:46 PM »
Doesn't the C have a tail gun?

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2010, 12:47:46 PM »
In-game, it only has a single 50cal fixed in the nose, a singl 50cal flex in the nose, and a rear-seated dorsal turret [EDIT: Not a rear gun, just means the dorsal turret is back on the tail, like a Boston or Lancaster] with 2x 50cals. The level depression on these rather sucks, though, so targets level on your 6 are hard to shoot at.

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2010, 06:20:30 PM »
The B25C's had tail guns and waist guns added to them in the field.
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2010, 06:50:36 PM »
Then again, so did IL2s. And they weren't added right away. By the time they were becoming common the next versions being produced from the factory already had them built in. For historical time-specific matchups I like how our B-25C is set up. I just want something a little more defensible for MA use!

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2010, 07:01:34 PM »
Then again, so did IL2s. And they weren't added right away. By the time they were becoming common the next versions being produced from the factory already had them built in. For historical time-specific matchups I like how our B-25C is set up. I just want something a little more defensible for MA use!
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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2010, 08:59:23 AM »
It was only done twice and both were operational combat field tests during the last few weeks of the war. 

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Re: B25 level bomber with atleast a tail gun.
« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2010, 10:30:10 AM »
I'd LOVE to have a J model. Both for the pure awesomeness of the 12x.50cal (I'd turn my tracers back ON when I used her just for the effect :D ) and for this skin:

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