used in numbers it represents a difficult if not impossible force to stop
thats my point kieren, that the ONLY way they are much of a threat, and at 70 points a pop there are not going to be many times that a large number of people will be able, this perk plain rally that we have now will dry up soon when people use up their stashes of points, after that there wont be many people slaving away for the 70 points needed to buy the arado, so raids of more than 3 (at most) of them will be rare to non-existant.
Did you try dropping the nose to gain a little speed when attacked? I haven't, but I would be curious to see who has and what the result was. I suspect it wouldn't take long for the 234 to get enough separation to escape.
yep it picks up lots of speed, but if any fighter is above you or co-alt all he has to do is follow ya down and he will either stay even with you till you level out and then kill you, or accelerate faster in the dive than you and kill you..either way, yer dead.
i outran a dora at 10k..i had to push it to the ground to keep the 2.0k distance and the only thing that saved me was that he just lost interest. anything like a L-7,p-51D, P-51B, yakU, YakT, will catch it if they have over 3k at advantage and are reasonably close, and those are not even perk planes. The tempest and the 152 will smear it like nothing.
The tempest is amazing, it has many things that make it really good and dangerous, SPEED, Good guns, good climb rate, fairly agile, dives great, goes verticle great, a will rounded lethal plane. so it is the most expensive fighter in the game.
THe 234 is fast....thats it..it DOESENT climb that great, it has NO guns, it has a pathetic bomb load, it has HORRIBLE fuel consumption..aside from the speed everything about the Arado is JUNK...yet it cost as much as the Tempest...
I dont want to compare a fighter to a bomber cause thats Apples and Oranges, BUT like I said
The arado is NOT to the bombers what the Tempest is to the fighters.
I'm in total agreement with Cobra, I too flew it and also chased it (with a TA152 at 30k advantage, 234 was at 20k, didn't catch it!)...it needs to remain perked
Noone is saying it shoudent, the discussion is about the price, is it worth 70+ GOOD sorties just to buy 1?
For the record ive flown over 25 sorties with the Arado so far, have been killed twice and have earned exactly 18 perk points. On almost every single mission I hit my targets, so based on those numbers at the rate im going for getting points ( and with 3 bombs ya cant get much more) i will have to fly over 100 successful arado missions without being shot down 1 time just be able to keep flying it.
100 missions in a row without ever being shot down, in a plane that climbs slow and has NO guns, and has disgusting gas milage, that is the minimum to keep flying it.
[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 03-09-2001).]
