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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #30 on: September 09, 2012, 03:10:07 PM »
It isn't a Storch.  Using it to land in a rough field as a method of delivering troops, well, lets just say that gameplay ought not be built around such things.

I know many C-47 drivers do it in game already, but it isn't intended.  With the PBY-5 it would need to be intended, so no.  It would also remove the usefulness of the LVT.


There is another issue that people don't seem to realize, the PBY-5 had no landing gear and it wasn't an amphibian.

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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #31 on: September 09, 2012, 03:14:33 PM »

There is another issue that people don't seem to realize, the PBY-5 had no landing gear and it wasn't an amphibian.

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later versions had landing gear or were field mods........
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #32 on: September 09, 2012, 04:00:27 PM »
I am thinking that they only are water bourne.  They can launch from PT boat spawns only (port, PT spawns from bases or a fleet).  Makes its use somewhat limited, however, if in the right conditions, could resupply a CV.  Landing within the fleet and resupplying would constitute a resupply and landing.  Tower after the fleet has passed you, then, just like the PT boat, you get a ditch.  My support is based on sea only.  No landing options on concrete...
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #33 on: September 09, 2012, 04:27:32 PM »
So, it is not amphibious.  Well, that was its one advantage over the Sunderland and Emily.  With that change the Emily is just hands down better for the game.  It has the advantage in every way.
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #34 on: September 09, 2012, 06:41:31 PM »
later versions had landing gear or were field mods........

No, none of the PBY-5s were field modded into PBY-5As.

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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #35 on: September 09, 2012, 06:42:46 PM »
So, it is not amphibious.  Well, that was its one advantage over the Sunderland and Emily.  With that change the Emily is just hands down better for the game.  It has the advantage in every way.

Only the PBY-5A was amphibious.

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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #36 on: September 09, 2012, 06:46:45 PM »
Only the PBY-5A was amphibious.

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okay............so why can't we have the PBY-5A again???????????
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #37 on: September 09, 2012, 08:05:50 PM »
okay............so why can't we have the PBY-5A again???????????

It would be a hanger queen.

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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #38 on: September 09, 2012, 08:09:54 PM »
The PBY up to the -6 model were all used in ww2, but the -5a was the most produced of the aircraft. And why not allow it to land on concrete? Add it as a bomber, allow it to carry cargo, along with the ability to carry an ordinance payload, and let it take off from airfields, as well as ports (like the storch) and from the CV/crusier. Oh its too under armed to be added? It would be flying target practice? so is the storch, ju87, ju88, both japanese heavy bombers, and c47. I see all of them being used, and I have had several kills gunning in their turrets (where applicable). If you don't like it, don't fly it, leave that to someone else, but make the CV resupp-able. And heck! why not add floatplane fighters to take off from the CV and Ports? It would add another dimension to the game and make the ports less vulnerable, could even escort the PBY's, like we do now with any bomber formation or c47 drop.

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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #39 on: September 09, 2012, 08:37:56 PM »
It would be a hanger queen.

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ummm akak maybe to you it would be a hangar queen but not to me it wouldn't I would use it atleast once a day if not more and being a hangar queen does not say it can't be added into the game............
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #40 on: September 09, 2012, 09:14:15 PM »
ummm akak maybe to you it would be a hangar queen but not to me it wouldn't I would use it atleast once a day if not more and being a hangar queen does not say it can't be added into the game............
Ditto  :cheers: Yall should also check out my post on wishlist about the landing ship tank. I think that'd be better than the pby, but what the heck, why not both?! Step our naval game up hitech!  :D
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #41 on: September 09, 2012, 09:56:04 PM »
ummm akak maybe to you it would be a hangar queen but not to me it wouldn't I would use it atleast once a day if not more and being a hangar queen does not say it can't be added into the game............
No, it doesn't, but there should be a reason for it to be added.  Scenarios or something.  And if its use isn't specific to it, then one has to ask what is the best use of developer resources?  Wouldn't it be better to have a flying boat that isn't a hangar queen?
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #42 on: December 17, 2012, 11:14:37 AM »
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #43 on: December 17, 2012, 12:26:33 PM »
I'd be happy and amused to see the PBY-5A and H8K2 'Emily' added in the same patch like the SBD-5 and D3A1 were, only this time the Japanese would be getting the better plane.

I wonder how many of the guys giving a "+" or otherwise advocating for the PBY-5A would actually end up spending a lot more time in the H8K2 'Emily'?
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Re: Resupp CV's with PBY Catalina
« Reply #44 on: December 17, 2012, 12:43:09 PM »
As popular as the PBNJ is with the community.  Reason seems to demand that it be added somehow in the not too distant future.  Along with some other changes so it will have something to do aside from catch bullets once airborne.
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