Dive bombing CVs

[Wegaman]

HEY GUYS. I got a great idea. Let's stop Lancasters from destroying CV's by just going in low and dropping bobms.


    many a time, i have seen a b26 b17 or lancaster go in low and just blow the CV to hell. Tell me how many times that happened in WW2. I am tired of people abusing things that arent possible like that.  Hopefully in 1.06 Lancasters won't be able to do this BS.

[CavemanJ]

 

Originally posted by Yeager:

Using torpedos in a TBM or JU88 is almost worthless as getting close enough to drop accurately just doesnt happen much due to fighter cover and the lethal ack when within 2k of target.

Yeager

Find the tread on the general boards "Can you swim".  Ju88 torp runs, cruiser and carrier sunk, AND lived to get outside the flak envelope (though damaged).

It IS possible, just takes the right combination of craziness, craftiness, and testicular fortitude.

 

[-duma-]

Torp runs - just go for a HO attack 90% of the time and no bugger will bother turning the CV.

[Wegaman]

Yes CV needs auto turning..... cause it's a pain to turn it, especially when some D!ck is controlling the CV.


   Ya just take a Lancaster, go in low, pull up over the cv and let err rip, CV sunk!  How historical is that....dweebs.

[Sandman_SBM]

 

Originally posted by Wegaman:
HEY GUYS. I got a great idea. Let's stop Lancasters from destroying CV's by just going in low and dropping bobms.


    many a time, i have seen a b26 b17 or lancaster go in low and just blow the CV to hell. Tell me how many times that happened in WW2. I am tired of people abusing things that arent possible like that.  Hopefully in 1.06 Lancasters won't be able to do this BS.

It's amazing what you can achieve when your own arse isn't being shot at. Taking a bomber against a CV is comparatively a low risk versus big reward. So what if you get shot? Grab another buff and try again. Not the case in real life... what were there? 10 warm bodies on each B17? Taking it into flak was a bad bet.

Hell... you want realism? We have pilots in here with better kill/sortie records than Hans Joachim-Marseille.

[RangerBob]

The above post shows why the scoring system needs to only register kills and points if you can land them. If you can't get home alive, you shouldn't get any scoring benefit.

Sure we will still have suicide pilots, but at least we will do away with the score keeper types that have found a way to rack up points via some quirk of the system.

Ranger Bob



[This message has been edited by RangerBob (edited 02-20-2001).]

[Sandman_SBM]

I like that! No points if you die... that will change EVERYTHING.