Stupid ack tricks

[Widewing]

Yesterday, I found myself in the tower of a field being vulched. So, I figured I'd grab an ack and have at 'em. However, my first two choices were destroyed. The last gun seemed ok, so I clicked on "H". Lo and behold, this gun is laying on the ground in pieces.
The barrel over here, the gunsight over there. What the hell, I hit the trigger anyway. Damned if the barrel-less, sight-less ack doesn't actually fire!. However, there's no reference to use as a sight. This makes it darn hard to track and hit a con. Then it dawned on me. Use the Cursor! I fire the gun and align the cursor with the tracer. Yes, this will work, I think! Five minutes later, two Spitfires are dead, and one B-26 badly mauled. All by a gun that, from the air, appeared to be destroyed, lacking a barrel or gunsight. I doubt that even Ripley would believe it, but it's true.

Interesting bug.....

My regards,

Widewing

[Furious]

way to exploit those bugs.  

[Sandman]

One man's bug is another man's feature.

[Widewing]

Originally posted by Furious
way to exploit those bugs.  

Not a bug, but fun anyway:

Manning an ack on a destroyer, slugging it out with an enemy Task Force, our fleets become intermingled. My Tin Can ends up alongside the enemy CV, too close to the carrier for the CV's guns to depress enough to hit it. So, I sit there and kill everything that takes off, 6 or 7 in total, including HiTech himself.

Finally, the Can got hit and sank, but it was fun while it lasted.

Task Force Commanders: Pay attention. Use the destroyers to get in close and let the acks beat up the enemy (they're largely useless once the CV and Cruiser are sunk anyway).

My regards,

Widewing

[majic]

You can use the cursor trick for the forward machine gun of the Panzer too....