Another B-29 wish....

[Krusty]

the B-29 in AH, I'm not thinking that a vast majority of intercepting aircraft will be of Japanesse nationality but rather of all varieties, thus we can speculate in this situation had historical B-29 crews had to of faced tougher attacking aircraft and had the choice of removing or keeping the 20mm they would of likely opted to keep the 20mm

Neither were they flying at full-frakking-throttle (the term FFT as it applies to AH refers mostly to bombers), nor were they taking off for 1000-mi missions with 25% fuel in the tanks, nor were they climbing at 2000fpm because they took less fuel, nor did they have no fear about the engines melting shortly after takeoff.....

In the real world, this plane was far less powerful than it will be as-modeled in AH. This is not to say I KNOW how HTC has modeled it, but they will follow the pattern set forth by all other bombers currently in this game (B-17, B-24, Lanc, etc).

[Ack-Ack]

Well our in-game model has 4 guns on the upper nose so that means it ought not have the 20 in the tail, right?

What kind of numbers are we talking that actually had it and kept it?

It would have the 20mm cannon still because it was a Boeing B-29-50-BW and the 20mm cannon wasn't removed until the block 55's produced from the Boeing plant in Wichita.  The 4x. .50 calibers is also correct in that early combat experience showed the addition of 2 more .50 calibers greatly improved forward defensive firepower so Boeing added them starting with production block 40 (Wichita plant) Bell with production block 10 and the Martin built B-29s had them from the start of production.

ack-ack

[MarineUS]

You know what I find amusing? The fact that all these "buff killers" are whining about getting shot up by a 20mm.....if they really were the buff hunters that I've seen people (not on this particular thread) claim to be...they would know not to attack from a dead 6 which pretty much eliminates the tail gun anyway.

"But it's 30K up!"
Shut up I was at 30K in Ki 67's today.

"But I can't maneuver that high!"
Yes you can, you just don't want to have to wait around and get into position.

 

[lyric1]

A good picture of the 20mm.

http://www.footnote.com/image/#28826595

[guncrasher]

I am just being funny here, but the 20mm is not what really makes the things that go boom in the game.  it's the other zillion mgs aiming at you  .


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