The Death Star

[RealDeal]

AW had the death star. I kinda wonder why we don't have that here. Over the past couple of years I've noticed the diversity of game play shrink and I think this might add something back to it. The only exception would be for 999...He wouldn't be allowed to add more then one  player to his bomber as no one would survive.


Parker

[guncrasher]

AW had the death star. I kinda wonder why we don't have that here. Over the past couple of years I've noticed the diversity of game play shrink and I think this might add something back to it. The only exception would be for 999...He wouldn't be allowed to add more then one  player to his bomber as no one would survive.


Parker

actually 999 should be forced to fly with gunners every time.  it would make it even for the attacking force.

semp

[AWwrgwy]

Using SEARCH you could possibly discover that it is a lag issue as well as an Either/Or issue.

The choice was Either gun yourself and have formations available Or have only single bombers, no self gunning, and be at the mercy of trying to find one gunner, let alone enough to fill a bomber.

I too enjoyed getting a bomber full of gunners and turning with unsuspecting fighters but, realistically, how often did you have a gunner at all otherwise?



wrongway

[Ack-Ack]

The Deathstar was an iffy affair in which you would be very lucky to be able to have a full compliment join your crew and stay connected throughout the entire flight.  Usually, someone couldn't join due to connection issues, someone would get discoed mid-flight or it would end up a messy, laggy and warpy affair. 

ack-ack

[Molsman]

The Deathstars Were fun especially when you were able to find a full fort of gunners and the in house movies were the best and free beer. But then again 999 does not need the death star he is deadly in the 17 just by himself hehehehehe.

[whopper2]

I miss the Death Stars.

We'd get two bombers full of squad members and then fly low with a couple of squad escorts.

The banter among us gunners was gut busting.

[bj229r]

The Deathstar was an iffy affair in which you would be very lucky to be able to have a full compliment join your crew and stay connected throughout the entire flight.  Usually, someone couldn't join due to connection issues, someone would get discoed mid-flight or it would end up a messy, laggy and warpy affair. 

ack-ack

all true, but on the rare occasions when it went well, was a frikkin Blast! Few better ways to waste a Saturday night

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

We, the 327th Steel Talons, were fortunate enough to be able to pull off the "Deathstar" trick almost at will. At times we could put 2-3 of them in the air at once. Better still, we had guys like "Eagle", my good friend we lost a couple of years ago, who were excellent bomber pilots, and could hit targets with ease. With 2-3 well piloted "Deathstars", full of Sierra Hotel fighter pilots who were good at gunnery, we could fly with near impunity, and wreak havoc. At least until the entire squad was laughing too hard to hit the broad side of a barn with a sawed off shotgun, from the inside. There were times when I laughed so hard I could barely breathe, and go so light headed I thought I'd pass out. If a few of us were drinking, some had to turn off vox because they did not use headphones and had families.

The old days are gone forever, but live on in the minds of those fortunate enough to have been there. 

[Drano]

The old days are gone forever, but live on in the minds of those fortunate enough to have been there. 

 :cheers:Aye tis true, tis true. Good times

[SEseph]

I remember one mission where we had 3 deathstars (minus navigators... poor bastards would have bored to death. Screw the points, full speed ahead!) and a compliment of about 6 A-26's with their 2 gunners. It was almost a country wide mission and if memory serves, we had very few disco's. It was quite stable considering what we were trying to do.

My squad, -=ASB=- gathered up the people (we maybe had 15 members, couldn't do it alone) and we went from the Cz northern most base to the Bz southeastern most base. When we reached our target I think we had lost an A-26 or two but all went well in terms of bombing the target and keeping our gunners, though the egress was a bit different. Only one death star made it home and 3 A-26's. I don't remember the gunner situation with the 26's and I might be forgetting a few that dropped from our 17 but there were some people who disco'd. All in all, that mission was a blast and probably my favorite of all time. I doubt it would have been nearly as much fun has we not had the ability to load so many people into those bombers.

I'd like it if at all possible. Maybe remove a drone for every 3 gunners. So at 3 one drone would vanish, then at 6 the second drone vanishes.  

Now, if we could only remove lag...  

[Estes]

Aces high has the next best thing though. The typhoon, to quote a squaddie "Floats like a dump truck, stings like the death star."

[B-17]

whats a death star? 

[Big Rat]

Unfortunately never got to experience the Death Star, but I've heard many glorious tails of them .

 
BigRat

[Estes]

whats a death star? 

It's no moon.

[fbWldcat]

whats a death star? 

A now fully operational space station!