nightfighter package for JU88

[STEELE]

I would love to see a hardnose/cannons option for the Ju88, like the B25C has the strafer package. How 'bout U?

[mbailey]

Sure    +1

Would give the night fliers in the AVA a new toy

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Mbailey

[Noir]

I'd love the jabo version with the front 20mm's

[DEECONX]

Sounds ok to me. +1

[Pigslilspaz]

Wasn't it a completely different varient?

[Wildcat1]

Wasn't it a completely different varient?

you mean to say we should have an 88 with cannons, better engines, and possibly more durable?

thats impossible.....

[Nemisis]

Night fighter variant was the G model IIRC. Would also like to see the P models. Had 4 37mm cannons, a 50mm cannon, or a 75mm cannon. I THINK they used both AP and HE rounds, but I'm not sure.

[STEELE]

Not quite sure about the differences, although the airframe is pretty identical, don't know about the horsepower, it could be increased maybe

[Krusty]

First solid nose was the C-6, and I believe it had 3x 7mm and 3x MGFF 20mm. Some were used as night fighters, but some were tasked with ground attack (anti shipping, if I recall?) and flew in daytime with glass painted over the nose to disguise them.

The Gs were purpose built MUCH more powerful night fighters. They had multiple 20mm MG121/50s, gunpods, VERY powerful engines and a much much higher top speed. These planes didn't even look like their daylight predecessors anymore.

I would like to see a C-6 maybe, but as giant a behemoth as it was it was no fighter plane. It was also about 50mph slower than a Bf110C-4 which had about the same weaponry and way better chances of survival.

[Plazus]

Whenever HTC updates the Ju88s, I would very much like to see some variants of them- including the G-series nightfighter. Would be a fun matchup between a Ju88 and a Mosquito Mk6. I am all for adding more twin engine planes!

[Krusty]

I'm not for anything night-fighting....

It's an entirely different game dynamic best left up to sophisticated offline campaign-based gameplay style.

It's no good for MMO gameplay. Especially considering flying at night is kinda stupid in AH.

[Nemisis]

or we could just get night fighters without the night. We have LVT's available at bases hundreds of miles from any water, but you don't complain about that.

[Plazus]

-She sure looks smurfy, but I bet she's a fun ride.

[Ruah]

the 88G series was arguable the most frightening thing for british bombers. . . its was not smurfy, it was a sleek, twin engined, glass roofed, sensor studded, hypre-specilized killing machine - and I would have to change my sig and go totally luft to fly them all the time. . . as a kid, it was the 88G that first got me really interested in WWII planes.

i remember when I first loaded AH2, i went to the 88 first, and I was quite dissapointed to say the least.  Even if we don't have night fighting, I think it would still make a great bomber killer.

[AWwrgwy]

Some interesting info at:

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/aircraft/types/junkers-ju-88-fighter-variants.htm


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