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Offline wulfie14

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« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2002, 01:47:43 PM »
Sounds very cool. Someone mentioned that level bomber types are going to have to learn their trade.

Skilled escort pilots are going to be in demand a great deal more as well I think. And with the 'reverse on a dime and line up the targets from 25,000' in 30 seconds' maneuver no longer being an option, bombers are going to have to spend alot more time up there at 25,000'...so endurance of interceptors and escorts is going to matter more...and tactical bombers are going to see more action...and it all sounds like some very cool changes.

Tactical bombers at present are very effective as 'suicide' bombers, mainly because the exact position of every defending AA weapon is known in advance and the AA weapons are easily spotted.

Maybe in the future, with even more progress in the terrain detail by HTC, we'll see AA weapons that are only easily spottable when firing (by following the tracer path back to the firing weapon), AA weapons that change position after an attack (12 'possible' AA positions in a 200x200 meter area, only one of them containing an all but invisible unless it is firing AA weapon), and other such things.

So of 4 attacking tactical bombers, 2 will hold on station to look for and suppress newly firing and thus spottable AA weapons - which was a standard real life tactic in WW2.

So the AA weapon crews will 'act sneaky' by changing their gun position once an attack is over but it is known that more enemy attack aircraft are on the way - which was tactical doctrine for most AA weapon crews in WW2.

Etc., etc., etc.

Just some ideas. Great news about the more advanced level bombing 'world'.

Mike/wulfie

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« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2002, 03:22:36 PM »
"...That invisible silver cord is rather short, probably 1000 yards or less, so you don’t want to be doing wild maneuvers and you’ll have to decide whether you want to try and stay with your stragglers or leave them in the dust and write them off...".

This point is key.  Hard to set up proper attacks when a bomber is turning all over the place.  If things become more realistic, fighter guys will welcome the opportunity to engage bombers.

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Offline K West

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« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2002, 09:23:12 AM »
What wulfie said!  (And Kieran also in a couple of other topics)

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« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2002, 10:49:37 AM »
If the change means fluffs have less effect on the airfields then it is a good change.  If the change means they have more effect on the airfeilds then it is a bad change.   Basically, if fluffs are easier to ignore then it will be a good change.
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« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2002, 11:23:27 AM »
Hehe kweassa, you know what I think when I see that pic of yours?

"If I can get my fighter inside their box, they wont be able to shoot me!" :D

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« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2002, 12:07:26 PM »
is there going to be an upper limit for the number of 4 plane boxes? so if a mission has 40 planes plus fighters and enemy planes how much would frame rate suffer?  


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