How about the A26?

[Karnak]

6 confirmed air to air with one probable during its WW2 service in the ETO.


ack-ack

This is what most bothers me about the constant A-26 requests.  Most people want to use it as a heavy fighter and ask for it on that expectation.

[cobia38]

This is what most bothers me about the constant A-26 requests.  Most people want to use it as a heavy fighter and ask for it on that expectation.

   why would that bother you ? after all,every fighter in the game should be able to own it   
 
   

[RTHolmes]

just like the A20 right?

[Ack-Ack]

just like the A20 right?

What fighter is out classed by the A-20?  Equal pilots, the A-20 will lose every time to the one in the fighter.

ack-ack

[RTHolmes]

err ... the reply was to cobia (who flys the A20 once in a while I understand and does ok in it*), the implies that the preceeding text was ironic/knowing.


keep up



* thats understatement for comic effect btw.

[cobia38]

What fighter is out classed by the A-20?  Equal pilots, the A-20 will lose every time to the one in the fighter.

ack-ack

  not true, it out classes some fighters in speed,others in a turn and some in a zoom climb
    it jut depends on if you can sucker them to fight in their "weak area"

   

[ozrocker]

Heya Ack Ack,

Yesterday on the military channel they were showing the A-26 on "Greatest Planes" show

the Narrator and I guess an A-26 pilot back in Korea/Vietnam era both said on the show that the A-26 after she had dropped her load, could turn inside/turn with... the 109E4, 109F4 and 109G2  

no footage was shown, no comparisons of the A-26 verses the 109's were shown... it was just all word of mouth stuff.....

for what it's worth.....  

I figured that is what sparked this thread , since the A-26 episode "aired" yesterday .......

Purely a coincidence. Notice time of post. Just an awesome attack plane that I think would be an asset to the game.  Low-level bombing, this thing was a terror.
<S> Oz

[Rino]

      Not sure what difference the role a plane is flown makes in AH.  Folks are going to do what they want to.
I can readily believe that Douglas did not design or envision the A-20 doing what Cobia does with it in here,
so what...he makes it work for him, all that counts.

      Of course it's American, so heaven forbid we don't get a kneejerk reaction from the Luftweenie Uber Alles
crowd 

[Karnak]

      Not sure what difference the role a plane is flown makes in AH.  Folks are going to do what they want to.
I can readily believe that Douglas did not design or envision the A-20 doing what Cobia does with it in here,
so what...he makes it work for him, all that counts.

Much of how it is flown here was expressly forbidden due to supposed structural limitations.

Of course it's American, so heaven forbid we don't get a kneejerk reaction from the Luftweenie Uber Alles
crowd 

A greater diversity make the game more interesting.  Having almost everything that one nation fielded while only a small fraction of another nation just doesn't feel right.  Sadly, it is hard for HTC to get data for Russian and Japanese aircraft.

Japan, in particular, fielded almost as wide a variety of aircraft as the United States did, yet the respective plane lists are very different in size.

[waystin2]

+1 to the Vader

Luke....

[321BAR]

  not true, it out classes some fighters in speed,others in a turn and some in a zoom climb
    it jut depends on if you can sucker them to fight in their "weak area"

   

which is very easy to do to many pilots in the game.

[BnZs]

Unlike the accurately modeled 110 in ah which was not allowed to go to England towards the end of the war due to the easiness at which the spitfires and hurricanes would bring it down.


semp

Spitfires and Hurricanes still bring it down easily.

[Big Rat]

I'd love to have the A26 available.  Not as a heavy fighter so much, but as a a late war attack plane.  Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind dogfighting with an A20, and for those that know how to fight with it, it does well.  But I don't go out with it like Cobia just to fight with it, not that I have a problem with that either.  Just not my thing, albeit I can hold my own in it quite well as I'm sure Cobia or Snaphook can attest.  What I do find lacking is the A20's speed in the late arenas, this is where I think the A26 would be great.  I tend to go in low, pop up over target kill what I'm looking for (or at least try), and when ordnance is expending run low for home.  So the A26's extra speed would be beneficial.  The A20 is just a bit too easy to run down in late war.  I don't think the A26 in late war would be much different then the A20's impact on midwar.  Do I think there are other planes needed before this, of course.  Would it be a great plane for me personally, yes.  So I give it a +1, but after some others.

 
BigRat   

[mariah11]

me and my squadies did an a20g raid last night to bust up the knits fh hangars we where heavy on ord so very slow and easy to kill I like the a20s but I think the a26 would be a good addition as for us on that run..........well lets just say it wasn't the best choice  <S> Doc72 and WMlute for killin me

[bustr]

In AW the Vader flew like a poni with a second engine on 25% fuel with more guns blazing than Dodge City on a Saturday night. Oh, yeah, add bombs and it was it's own airforce.

The P38 was a Tie fighter and outclassed everything. Then the Me110 was introduced and for awhile outlooped and out turned the spit9. The Vader just about did as long as I remembered. The Dora was introduced and flew faster than everything but the 262 for awhile and looped and turned WITH the spit9 and outclimbed it on wep. Then Leviathins favorite, Oh, back then, he was a punk college kid named "deadf", the La5. It was faster than the spit9, out climbed it and turned with it. The N1K2 was added and it out turned the spit9, out climbed everything but the P38 on wep, and had four cannons to spray with. 999000 still killed them all with his B17......

So which A26 Invader are these SIM fans begging for ACK-ACK?