Author Topic: A Little more Realism (88s and Storch)  (Read 1658 times)

Offline lyric1

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Re: A Little more Realism (88s and Storch)
« Reply #45 on: May 06, 2012, 06:14:45 PM »
I'm ok with both of these as long as the soft gunner takes a death as well.I am OK with that.
I get the same amount of perks regardless if a person is in a soft gun or not when it is destroyed.  It is much more dangerous to attack a gun with a real person in it than an auto gun any day.  I'm looking for simplicity, if it's controlled by a person, then a kill is awarded and a death applied.
I love the idea but don't think anyone will go for that :)
I thought you had mentioned the 110's ditching and running with the rear guns was a reference about the storch. No not me.  Do you agree or disagree with my comments on the storch? Granted gamey as hell with regards to the bailing pilots from a Storch. As HTC said hangar added now so kill the hangar. Now if I was to find a reference to actual Storch gunners shooting at ground troops as they flew over head?
Great article, I enjoyed the read; however, a quote from the article:  
  - “German 88 gunners never shot at individual fighter planes. When our fighters were attacking, the Germans would put down a layer of flak at 8,000 feet, 7,000 feet and 5,000 feet. We had to fly through it,” Grace recalled. Yes that is correct. If you read the 88mm test it explains the fire control systems for that type of shooting. The system would be far to complicated & not practical for AHII. Hence I believe the system we have from the staff of HTC is a decent attempt for a functional system.

It's annoying as hell to have Friendly 88's firing into a small furball 5-10K away from their field.  88s would not have done this because of the potential of hitting friendly aircraft.  If we're going to be ridiculous about the equipment, then even it out with a potential death and killshooter like all the other rides. Not quite. The reality would have been friendly fighters stayed out of their own flack fields of fire & intercepted prior to target arrival & attacked after enemy had cleared flack fields on return leg home. This would never happen though in AHII.

So I do see your point.


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Re: A Little more Realism (88s and Storch)
« Reply #46 on: May 06, 2012, 06:50:46 PM »
have not been killed once by 88's.

but then again I don't just fly in a straight line, running away from fights.

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Re: A Little more Realism (88s and Storch)
« Reply #47 on: May 07, 2012, 04:04:30 AM »
I have two suggestions:

1. Remove the pilot side arm, we do not really need it for anything (except for gaming the game).

2. Anybody who has problem with 88 efficiency should try it themselves and establish a healthy respect for the weapon and people who manage to actually hit anything with it (I recall that I have never been hit by 88 so far).

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