Puffy Ack Whine Thread - WARNING: pictures

[Masherbrum]

Yes Bruv your whines have now officially lamified AH. Fighters no longer have anything to fear from attacking bombers in puffy ack while the pilot is busy and head down. So, the next whine will be:

"Fighters that shoot bombers down get too many points for no threat of danger." When that changes the lamification will continue until only girl scouts and den mothers like this game.

Actually, your mere presence "lamifies AH".  At least Bruv will fight.

[Ack-Ack]

Actually, your mere presence "lamifies AH".  At least Bruv will fight.

Hey, without Chalenge we wouldn't know the proper way to conserve fuel at 30,000ft.

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[leitwolf]

The whines have paid off.

Bless the COADers!
Thank you!

[HawkerMKII]

For the thousands of puffy ack that have gone "puf" around me, I can say that it is inevitable that I am sometimes going to be hit.  If this was an every mission/every flight sort of thing, I'd wonder.  but as it is it is real simple: the longer you are in puffy ack the more likely you are to get hit.  Also, HTC is on record saying that puffy ack is in a box around a plane.  When you are in range of a CV you will in range of the puffy and when in range of the puffy you get the imaginary box around your plane.  The best way to avoid puffy damage is to get out of the range of the CV.  Roll the dice and take what you get.

I personally dont have an issue with take some damage from puffy ack, friend or foe, it is a "simulation" risk and either way I dont lose any sleep over it one way or another.

I'll vote for HTC to keep it as it is.

to late and it seems that all ack has been nerfed

[Pand]

Nope. 

Read any tactical account of CV battles in the PTO (i.e. "Clash of the Carriers" by Tillman & Coonts) and you'll find at least one description of USN interceptors flying into friendly fire to chase IJN attackers.

I do remember reading about B-17s, B-24s, and Lancasters with IJN markings attacking US carriers utilizing straight and level bombing from altitudes between 7000 and 14000 ft.

[Ack-Ack]

I do remember reading about B-17s, B-24s, and Lancasters with IJN markings attacking US carriers utilizing straight and level bombing from altitudes between 7000 and 14000 ft.

Japanese regularly used level bombers to attack Allied ships. 

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[SkyRock]

Japanese regularly used level bombers to attack Allied ships. 

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This is true, I've seen video of high japanese bombers bombing ships.... I think it was in the south pacific, early in the war...

[Pand]

Japanese regularly used level bombers to attack Allied ships. 

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CV groups? Did they get torn apart?

[Krusty]

If I recall they were wholly ineffective. This is why the same Japanese planes often carried torpedoes, and would come in low to use them against ships.

[Ack-Ack]

CV groups? Did they get torn apart?

Against any shipping they encountered and yes, for the most part they were chewed up. 

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[LCADolby]

G4M Betty's sank Prince of Wales and the Repulse... And those Betty's set on fire if you look at them funny.

[Babalonian]

The whines have paid off.

Bless the COADers!
Thank you!

Indeed, bombers are more confident and much more reckless.  I ran out of BK5 ammo dinking around without tracers last night, and the poor B24 pilot didn't realise he was being distracted and herded twords our 163 base until he was over halfway into the fields radar and the first 163s launched were co alt. 

[caldera]

Flak will stop firing at at enemy planes that have a friendly plane within 1000 yards of it.  It will either switch to a different target or stop firing if no other targets are available.

Thank you HTC, for addressing the issue. 

[SkyRock]

Against any shipping they encountered and yes, for the most part they were chewed up.  

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The film I saw the planes were real high, and missed badly... none were shot down by the AAA.... IIRC they were in the same formation as AH three plane wedge!

[Triton28]

G4M Betty's sank Prince of Wales and the Repulse... And those Betty's set on fire if you look at them funny.

I doubt either of those two ships had the kind of AA firepower modeled in our CV groups.  IIRC, that was also one of the first (or at least the first major wartime example) of air power flexing muscle against Sea targets.