Muzzy's Preliminary B29 Review

[Muzzy]

Initial impression: Well, I can see where George Lucas got the idea for the Millenium Falcon's cockpit now.

Firepower: Godlike.  The amount of rounds you throw out from any gun position is devastating.  Plus, you can carry enough ordinance to take a small or medium airfield down almost by yourself.

Climb rate: Glacial.  It takes forever to gain altitude, so expect long trips.

Fuel: 300+ minutes at full, which you should never need. Half or less should be enough to get you anywhere.

Further updates to follow.

[Lusche]

Fuel: 300+ minutes at full, which you should never need. Half or less should be enough to get you anywhere.

You had tested it at fuel burn rate 1.0

[Muzzy]

True.  To revise:

Climb rate is actually pretty good at half fuel and a reasonable bomb load.

Speed is good for a bomber once you get altitude.

Durability: not as great as I'd hoped.  It doesn't take much to rip off a wing.

[Lusche]

Speed is good for a bomber once you get altitude.

hehe.. almost an understatement.

Speed @ full military power, 50% fuel, 12.000lbs, large gun package

20K: 337mph
25K: 351mph
30K: 361mph
35K: 357mph

 

[WWhiskey]

1/4 bag she climbs better than the lanc with 20 500lbs, on @ 1150 Appr. 40 minutes of fuel  will get to 30000 no problem
Will try 1/2 bag with 40 500lbs next.
roll rate is slightly faster than the sun crosses the sky
 I used all of the runway and 2 notches flaps, make sure you have nothing in front of you at take off ,
 gear up and slight back pressure till 150mph then 1 notch flaps, 165 no flaps, 180 start climbing

[Muzzy]

Overall performance is good, but the fragility is an issue.

[fullmetalbullet]

Overall performance is good, but the fragility is an issue.

thats why you take it to 35-40k alt. at the alts not many would be very good. and you would mostly see a 262 or a 163(if you run strats raids) FW190s too and TA152s.

[Lusche]

thats why you take it to 35-40k alt. at the alts not many would be very good. and you would mostly see a 262 or a 163(if you run strats raids) FW190s too and TA152s.

at 35-40k, you wont see a 262, and hardly a 190D (sorry, A8 is completely out there too).

[fullmetalbullet]

at 35-40k, you wont see a 262, and hardly a 190D (sorry, A8 is completely out there too).

ok so what planes would be most likely to deal with the B-29 at 35-40k?

[Motherland]

ok so what planes would be most likely to deal with the B-29 at 35-40k?

I think the Ta 152, late model P47's and the Me 163 are the only planes we have capable of reaching that height.

[Lusche]

ok so what planes would be most likely to deal with the B-29 at 35-40k?

There are not many that have the necessary excess power / performance at 30K and above: F4U-4, Spit XiV, P-47M&N, Ta 152, 109K4 (to a lesser extend maybe Spit 9, 38L/M and P51D). At 35K+ things get really very difficult for all of those too (109K drops out first), at that altitudes it's mostly reduced to Ta152 and 47M/N and maybe still the Spit XIV. But with the technicalities of ultra-high combat flying, the 29 holds almost all the cards up there.


You need climbrate to get up there in the first place. You need speed to catch up with a 360mph plane without running out of fuel), and then you still need a lot of power/climbrate to get into favorable attack positions (crawling up low six vs 20mm rear gun no good idea). You need good maneuverability at ultra high altitude (that's just relatively spoken - players that usually just furball down low will find themselves alternating between stall and compression) and you need firepower to bring it down.

[fullmetalbullet]

There are not many that have the necessary excess power / performance at 30K and above: F4U-4, Spit XiV, P-47M&N, Ta 152, 109K4 (to a lesser extend maybe Spit 9, 38L/M and P51D). At 35K+ things get really very difficult for all of those too (109K drops out first), at that altitudes it's mostly reduced to Ta152 and 47M/N and maybe still the Spit XIV. But with the technicalities of ultra-high combat flying, the 29 holds almost all the cards up there.

thats why its perfect for defence. if your worried about losing it. take it to 40k

[Chalenge]

If you get it to 40k (not very likely) post a short video showing your altimeter. 

[fullmetalbullet]

If you get it to 40k (not very likely) post a short video showing your altimeter. 

ok but first i need to get the perks. i wanna show it in combat. maybe againts a TA152.

[Oldman731]

There are not many that have the necessary excess power / performance at 30K and above: F4U-4, Spit XiV, P-47M&N, Ta 152, 109K4 (to a lesser extend maybe Spit 9, 38L/M and P51D). At 35K+ things get really very difficult for all of those too (109K drops out first), at that altitudes it's mostly reduced to Ta152 and 47M/N and maybe still the Spit XIV. But with the technicalities of ultra-high combat flying, the 29 holds almost all the cards up there.


You need climbrate to get up there in the first place. You need speed to catch up with a 360mph plane without running out of fuel), and then you still need a lot of power/climbrate to get into favorable attack positions (crawling up low six vs 20mm rear gun no good idea). You need good maneuverability at ultra high altitude (that's just relatively spoken - players that usually just furball down low will find themselves alternating between stall and compression) and you need firepower to bring it down.

So.  Basically the Japanese were fooling themselves when they thought they shot down high-flying B29s.  Got it.

- oldman