give this man his plane in AH

[MachFly]

lol awesome... doesn't he just looks here forgotten after playing such a large part of the air, sea, and recon role. with 2 US torps it could sink a cv by its self. much needed plane; no other bomber/attack plane could sink a CV with Torps alone.

Do you really see it being able to get thought the ack to drop those torpedoes? It's a large plane that is not very fast, it will be an east target.

people that want to "fly" it; they dont care about landing on water.....

Sure we can just make it a land only plane, but you realize after the plane is added we'll get a million complains that it does not land on water. And this will become the first un-realistic plane in AH.


PBY is a good plane and I want it, but it has no place in Aces High right now. It's primary role is scouting for enemy targets, we don't need that right now. Maybe later when the game play completely changes PBY will be a good idea.

[bangsbox]

Do you really see it being able to get thought the ack to drop those torpedoes? It's a large plane that is not very fast, it will be an east target.

Sure we can just make it a land only plane, but you realize after the plane is added we'll get a million complains that it does not land on water. And this will become the first un-realistic plane in AH.


PBY is a good plane and I want it, but it has no place in Aces High right now. It's primary role is scouting for enemy targets, we don't need that right now. Maybe later when the game play completely changes PBY will be a good idea.

the same way any plane in the game torps ships (sneaky, Sneaky). i torp all the time; ive hit maybe 50x in 400 flights and have only live to see the boom 4x on top of only landing the torpedo bomber 2X EVER. its not about survival with TORP sorties; it's about trying to survive in a sweet plane with deadly fish-bombs against all odds.

and the million complaints will be people that would only fly it for the first release day anyway...

[adolla]

I have herd that the PBY did not have any flaps, and it took a long time to get them airborne.Does any one have any info on this.

[MachFly]

the same way any plane in the game torps ships (sneaky, Sneaky). i torp all the time; ive hit maybe 50x in 400 flights and have only live to see the boom 4x on top of only landing the torpedo bomber 2X EVER. its not about survival with TORP sorties; it's about trying to survive in a sweet plane with deadly fish-bombs against all odds.

and the million complaints will be people that would only fly it for the first release day anyway...

I'm sure our arguing will not change whether we get it or not. I'll leave it for HTC to decide (like they end up doing for every other plane).

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[MachFly]

I have herd that the PBY did not have any flaps, and it took a long time to get them airborne.Does any one have any info on this.

I'm sure taking off paved runways will not be a problem, given that they are long enough for a B-29 to take off. Water take offs are topically a lot longer (I think 3 times as long) because of all the drag from water, but that's not a problem either because water is typically "long".

Looking at this picture it looks like it does not have flaps.

[stabbyy]

torping a cv currently is practicly impossible(to the unknowing/untrained torper) as it stands do to the "fake" guns however i still do it and i have shown at least 5 ppl how to torp a cv and they have succeeded becuase its not in the plane its in the pilot...ive seen ppl fly a b5n2(argubly the most flammable plane) torp a cruiser and fly away....the plane is just that a plane... the pilot makes the calls IE you dont torp the cv from the rear...or fly directly over a destroyer at 40 ft also as for the  "low speed" currently for anything but US torps you have to drop below 200mph to get them to enter the water which is a pain at times espcially when your doing 250-300 US torps are 250mph... you would be able to actaully "dive" on the cv with this plane given the fact it does 180mph you can actaully accelerate on approach making it better then what we currently have

as for the water thing they would have to model the whole ocean to have depth sortve an upside down sky to add subs... which would create a lot of lag and many ppl probably would have troubles...but eitherway a shallow layer being added would reduce the work needed for subs becuase the surface of the water would already be done...is my point and you know what else when/if they release subs you know what everyones goign to be screaming? WE NEED PBYS!!! WE NEED DEPTH CHARGES!! WE NEED ASW!!! just like when king tiger got added everyone wanted a tank destroyer to wipe it out....

and as for landing on the water it would still be modeld on the plane not the water..... becuase when you crash or screw a landing up its generaly under the structure failure area...meaning u set it down to hard.... so it would be just like any other plane but overwater

it has a role in AH just becuase you wont fly it or use it dosent mean others wont

and yeah with 2 US torps it would be awesome as all we have is the tbm(for us torps)