110 Sinks Cruiser

[Acidrain]

yeah well IRL lancasters wouldnt come in on the wave tops and toss 14 bombs at a CV and kill it EVER , but it happens all day in game.

[DaveBB]

I don't have the book with me right now, but a B29 destroyed a Japanese warship (destroyer size) by strafing the deck of the ship.  The gunners ignited some sort of ammunition storage.

[EskimoJoe]

Well I can't argue with the facts, 2k will take it down. However you have to admit, in real life there is no way that would happen. I guess it's time for the "wish list".

I have hit the cruisers with the B25H cannon 4 & 5 times without sinking it.

Thanks for the feedback all.

According to the Trainer's website, a 75mm HE shell is approximately the equivalent of 156.2 pounds of damage.

[bagrat]

maybe I've just been gettin lucky, I been sinkin destroyers with the sbd ordnance load. It's worth like 25 perks! Pretty sure an sbd carries less than a 110.

[Eric19]

maybe I've just been gettin lucky, I been sinkin destroyers with the sbd ordnance load. It's worth like 25 perks! Pretty sure an sbd carries less than a 110.

well with the 1600lb AP bomb it carries more than the 110 as far as pay load goes I killed a cruiser with a 1600lb AP bomb but I didn't even come close to hitting it, it still makes me wonder to this day

[Lusche]

well with the 1600lb AP bomb it carries more than the 110 as far as pay load goes I killed a cruiser with a 1600lb AP bomb

the 1600lb AP bomb of the SBD produces 1,968 lbs of damage. The 500kg bombs of the 110 are doing 2x1,100=2,200 lbs of damage.

It takes 1,563 lbs of damage to sink a DD or CA.

[BaldEagl]

I organized a Spit IX mission once.  We ended up taking off with around 30 Spit IX's.  Needless to say we cleared the enemy fighter attack we were sweeping pretty quickly so everyone went and straffed and sank a nearby CV with nothing but .303's and Hispanos.

[BigR]

Our squad straffed down a CV with P40s during an FSO a few years ago. Caused a lot of grief on the message boards the next day. The butthurt was very satisfying to witness.

[shotgunneeley]

I've seen a single p-38 (not sure of the model) sink a 100% healthy cruiser AND cv with one pass each. Couldn't get good film because at the time gunship footage was buggy.

[Butcher]

Once deacked a CV on a map, I forget what one but it had all the little islands, anyhow I flew B-17s around the CV shooting up planes trying to take off, quite humerous until we sank the boat (and I got shot down by PT boats before I could land my 7 or so kills?).

[Meatwad]

If nobody is manning the 5" or is a lousy shot, strafing down a cruiser isnt hard to do in a 110

[Ack-Ack]

I've seen a single p-38 (not sure of the model) sink a 100% healthy cruiser AND cv with one pass each. Couldn't get good film because at the time gunship footage was buggy.

The CV probably wasn't "100% healthy" if it was sunk by a P-38 in one pass.  A P-38 has the ordnance to be able to sink a cruiser in one pass but not a CV and especially not both on the same pass.

ack-ack

[earl1937]

Well I can't argue with the facts, 2k will take it down. However you have to admit, in real life there is no way that would happen. I guess it's time for the "wish list".

I have hit the cruisers with the B25H cannon 4 & 5 times without sinking it.

Thanks for the feedback all.

Jimmy, check your wish list post!

[Black Jack]

I'm the one who sunk that cruiser. Do it all the time. Specially when guys are staying in the 5" and trying to shoot us when we dogfight    I never try to drop bombs, I would have to be above 100ft and 5 inchers would spot me. A few feet off the water, icon is hard to see and even harder from the cruiser. I take the big gun package and start shooting at 800yds out. Keep my finger on the trigger until it goes down. 


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