Salute,
The B-17s which will be used in the mission are there to act as gunships for the mission. They may carry bombs, they may not. I would like them to be in the Lancaster RAF looking skin so that it may be harder to tell Lanc from Fortress. I know this sounds dumb considering the red icon and all, but it has seemed to be a somewhat effective approach in the past.
As far as accurate weights for guns and armor in a YB-40 are concerned, I'm not concerned at all. I'm about as concerned with that as I am that the Bish & Knits will launch only German aircraft against us. As realistic as possibly means just that. There are only a few things that players can control in the MA and making sure everyone is being realistic, not shading, and not greifing are not some of them!
I can ONLY ask that if you wish to participate you bring what the mission calls for, or if you wish to intercept that you do it in such a way as to bring an appropriate aircraft and give us a chance to get to 10K. Everyone reading this knows that there is at least one troll salamander who will intentionally do the opposite of what is asked; so there ya go.
The B-17s are there to act as gunship protection for the under gunned Lancs. They may also drop some bombs. "Why would they drop bombs and act like a B-17?" you ask, same reason they are not armored and heavily gunned, because they are not YB-40s. Because they may need to drop some ords. Because I cannot guarantee that they will be intercepted by three times the actual war production outputs of the Me-262 & Me-163.
I hope this will squash the YB-40 questions in this thread. If you would like the mission to be more realistic, please join me in lobbying HTC to add the YB-40 to the game.
JOIN the mission if you can,
49MERLIN
49thFG/CO