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Offline mutha

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Ack-protected bases!
« on: March 05, 2017, 09:49:48 PM »
Has this not been discussed? Apparently the bases have auto-puffy ack to protect them, which seems to have pretty much killed off vulching.

Seems like a great feature!

That's what's happened, right? Or have manning 88's suddenly become the hot thing to do?

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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2017, 11:03:15 PM »
There is  a supersized Airfield that does have auto puffy, but there are more people in the 88's that can actually hit something.

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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2017, 05:55:57 AM »
You can't get killed in an 88 or manned gun so why would they risk upping a fighter? A lot of people on here have family and responsibilities, why risk it all on a whim  :rolleyes:

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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2017, 06:02:55 AM »
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2017, 06:33:15 AM »
88mm are ruining the game.
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2017, 07:02:40 AM »
My 2 cents:

Replace the base 88's with 17 pounder AP only guns. Move the 88's to strats.

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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2017, 07:33:47 AM »
I have read many times, that the area around Luftwaffe airfields were extremely dangerous. Heavy Flak concentrations, light and medium, exactly to prevent their planes from being attacked when they are most vulnerable. 88's everywhere, with elite Luftwaffe crews to protect these vital targets.

At least they aren't Heavy Flak guns! (Flakzwilling 40, power driven twin 128mm's with auto shell rammers)
That would be Kinda like the twin 5" on a CV.  :rofl

 

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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2017, 08:25:30 AM »
Wait - those 88s I'm seeing at bases are all manned??  I thought the game now has unmanned 88s at all bases! I haven't been to one base this past week that didn't have puffy ack above it.

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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2017, 08:57:35 AM »
whaaa whaaa whaaa boo hoo hoo lol-all you cry babies jeez.  WWII had field ack and the germans had 88's. do you think you should just be free to just vulch  a field at will with no consequences, come on, you say players are supposed to up to defend their base, well they are not when they get vulched over and over. sounds like you want easy kills without having to work for them. the field guns are easy enough to take out with cannons and rockets.you don't see the jokers whining about field ack. strats and and the new Flak fields have auto 88's--buzzsaw map have flak fields like F7 and F8 they have 97 guns 37mm and 88mm-88's have a mixture of manned and auto 88's they make a lot of noise but often don't hit anything. if anything all auto guns lethality should be upped. in AH2 if you went to a city strat 2 would start getting shot at by autos at 2 miles out and may not make it thru. now the strats are smaller and the autos less accurate. if you don't like fiels/base/town ack take rockets fire from 1k out. just quit whining.
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2017, 08:58:20 AM »
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2017, 09:16:12 AM »
Disable 88s until VH, FH or all auto ack is down....it's stupid that I can be getting ganged and have an 88 shooting at me....having 88s doesn't make vulching go down, it's a lack of whirbs and fighters upping to attempt to stop them so you can't use that as an argument.

Not a whine, it's unrealistic and crap game play.

EDIT: Or restrict their firing area so they can only target bombers or Jabbos coming in.
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2017, 09:34:12 AM »
You mean when I got vulched 38 times in a row trying to up to save f2 last night I just could have jumped in a 88?  :bhead .....
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2017, 09:39:07 AM »
You mean when I got vulched 38 times in a row trying to up to save f2 last night I just could have jumped in a 88?  :bhead .....
If you get vulched 2 times in a row that's your own fault...up from a further back field. Most cases of vulching is because a country did not up fighters or whirbs to protect their field in the first place.
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« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2017, 09:39:37 AM »
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Re: Ack-protected bases!
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2017, 09:46:06 AM »
Junky I think I'm rusty on sarcasm.. My philosophy is.. Planes are free.. I'm not afraid of dying..I wanna be where the action is.. And even if I fly from another base with alt I'm not good enough to stay alive in a dogfight long enough to make the longer flight worth while..I don't care if I get vulched. At least I'm keeping a few of the fighters busy and running them out of ammo let them get there kills on me faster so they leave to go land and put their name in lights it's all fun..I make every situation fun because after all I am paying money for it
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