Author Topic: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?  (Read 1076 times)

Offline Tank-Ace

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Re: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?
« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2011, 01:22:33 PM »
A-20 and Boston actually both had ventral turrets, which will most likely be fixed when they are updated. That would give them a reason for F3 since the Ju-88 basically has the same positions. The Mossie 16 doesn't even have guns, so at least give it something. For the Ju-87, SBD and D3A this does seem as a valid argument for removing F3 since it has the same arrangement as the Il-2. However, the B5N had a 3 person crew, so F3 should stay enabled on it, since it had 3 pairs of eyes looking out for trouble.

I was unware of the ventral guns, A20 and Boston should have F3 mode.

B5N only had little windows for looking out the side for the bombadier. Unless he wanted to look for enemy fighters with the bombsight (we can do that here in Aces High), he could do even less than the tail gunner could. Mossie 16 has decent views to the rear. It has the speed to out run almost any pursuer or at least keep the chase going untill he reaches friendly ack.
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?
« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2011, 02:28:44 PM »
"Now if there was a very large train system, not just limited to strat resupply, we'd have something to distract us"

nah. Trains and strat don't whine so where's the fun there?

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Re: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2011, 03:36:32 PM »
Yes they do, they have whistles!  :D

One of my favorite things to do before the strat change was to find a train track and follow it until I found something to make go boom.

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Re: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?
« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2011, 04:17:26 PM »
GV's are here to give aircraft something to bomb. Bring ords and bomb them all.

My only exception would be using level bombers to lancstuka a position. I don't condone that practice at all.

Other than....bombs away!

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Re: Is it supporting your ground forces or busting up a tank fight?
« Reply #34 on: July 25, 2011, 04:54:15 PM »
If your GV is headed to my field or my town, I have no compunction of bombing you until you make that cute little "boom" sound.   :)

Don't BS that if there is no opposition, you aren't going to roll right in and break stuff.  You sure as hell are.  That's what this game is about - fighting and breaking stuff. 



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