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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #180 on: March 21, 2012, 07:50:27 AM »
In the harbor or on the move?  Repulse and Prince of Wales come to mind, but then there were all those 17s that dropped on ships at Midway etc and didn't hit a thing.   How many tries by the RAF before they finally got the non-moving Tirpitz?

Gonna have to check and see if any carriers ever went down to level bombers. 

CV's to level bombers?  My bet is none....not one.
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #181 on: March 21, 2012, 07:51:40 AM »
Gonna have to check and see if any carriers ever went down to level bombers. 

"If you want to put holes in ships, use dive bombers. If you want to sink ships, use torpedo bombers"

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #182 on: March 21, 2012, 08:00:07 AM »
Repulse and Prince of Wales come to mind,

Torpedos.  I think from Nells, of all things.

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #183 on: March 21, 2012, 08:01:04 AM »
Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk by G3M's and G4M's carrying torpedoes.
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #184 on: March 21, 2012, 08:06:15 AM »
puffy ack is realistic, i like puffy ack. been killed many times by it. thats half the fun. ive also sunk carriers with ju88's while diving through it. the trick is to go fast! its not like there were a bunch of guys laying around on a ship saying, "hey, that puffy ack is too harsh on the enemy, lets not shoot at them!". its a condition of the game! like a stray bullet, worry not of the one that has your name on it, worry about the one that is addressed "to whom it may concern!".

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #185 on: March 21, 2012, 09:27:39 AM »
the trick is to fly slowly, in a straight line, in a formation of level bombers!

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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #186 on: March 22, 2012, 09:21:12 AM »
Gonna have to check and see if any carriers ever went down to level bombers. 

None. Nada. Zero. Not a single CV was ever sunk in all of WW2 by level medium or heavy
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Re: Puffy ack needs to go after 10 years of BS
« Reply #187 on: March 23, 2012, 01:27:38 PM »
None. Nada. Zero. Not a single CV was ever sunk in all of WW2 by level medium or heavy
bombers.
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