Every heard of the "SunKist Special", a B-17 that was outfitted with the newly developed H2X radar system? It was a radar system developed from the British H2S system.
Prior to the use of the AN/APS-15, or H2X, if an American bomb landed with in 2 miles of intended target, it was considered a "Hit". After the installation on an aircraft, the "Sunkist Special", actual hits on target went from 7 to 10% on target to 65 to 75% hits on targets. Bad weather didn't affect the bomb aiming as the system used a triangulation method of finding the target, and the "path finder" dropping his bombs and all other aircraft in formation dropped at the same time.
On the B-29, we had a AN/APQ-13 ground mapping radar system, which by the way, was a fore runner of the early weather radar systems you used to see on TV. Now, Doppler is the method used for that service.
My squad and I have used this method during the game with some success, white flagging a town and deacking it all in one pass! So, bring on the weather, would be just one more element to make missions more interesting.
Not saying that I'm against weather, I am actually for it. However, I'm not sure it would (or should) be implemented.
The closest I've come to a real plane is a historical museum in Columbus Ohio, so I don't know all the 'risks' of weather against planes. But I am sure that there were some that will want it because 'it happened in real life so it HAS to be in the game or the game is flawed'. Like guns jamming, random problems etc. I would love to see fog and rain (even snow!), to see the rain drops/snow hit the canopy, to have MUD on the ground that tanks can get stuck in
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But, again, I don't know what toll this would have on the system (HTC and player(s)). But if it's possible, and they can do it, I'm all for it
For the topic of porkers, I normally get in the 88mm because most of the time they diiiiiiiiiiiive right in and.. die.
So I assist them and kill them before they can kill themselves, most of the time getting a hit
But if they would stick around and actually do something rather than auger in, then sure, I would take a plane and 'go dance' but many don't do that. IN the past 2 days in the MA (finally got my computer to work
), I've killed 4 sets of bombers that were trying to destroy the base. But I've killed over 20 fighters trying to pork something, mostly radar. Only 2 out of those 20 went for troops.
It's a valid tactic to use fighters to pork, but it's annoying when the porker wants a fight and doesn't get it because the norm of doing things is hit and run or hit and auger. So everyone responds the best way they know how (for me going into the 88), but the problem is. When that porker dies by the 88, it hardens their resolve that 'no one wants to fight' when that isn't the case. Or if that defender takes off to see their target running away, the same could be said. But for the latter example I don't really have an explanation except maybe running to their ack or outnumbered .
