Originally posted by LLv34_Snefens
Hazed, that's not a satisfactory solution.
The barbettes could cover 70 degree's up/down (so 35 degree's down i guess) and 40 degrees to each side. If you can only aim at what you can see from the rear seat, fighters can just come up on low six where you should be able to see them, but can't.
Brady's suggestion with two gun positions is a more workable solution to me. Maybe a compromise. Position 2 would put you in rear cockpit, with an "ad-hoc" sight like you suggest. If the enemy planes fly to where you can't see him from there, you can jump to pos 3 or 4 that i located directly at the barbette. If you want you can do all the gunning from here of course, and when you point to a direction that both guns can fire, backwards, they should.
It's a little cumbersome, but anything to get the Me410 in AH 
I see . You mean the periscope had a way of seeing from the gun barrel almost?
So in other words whereever the gun could point you could see?
I wasnt aware of this. Where exactly did the lens of the periscope stick out of the aircraft? I always assumed it was aimed by the rear gunner and he was only able to see from inside the cockpit and all around.
From what you say it seems the periscope meant that the usual lower 6 oc blind spot was covered by the periscope right?
If this is the case how about you have normal control like i described before for any aircraft outside the blind spot but for when you want to fire at an aircraft in your lower 6oc position you press a button (say much like the zoom button) which gives you a view similar to the bomb sight with the ability to be moved around and aimed. (this would be similar to the calibration part of the bombing set up except you can fire guns with it)
wouldnt this work? It could possibly be used for the entire firing arc of the barbettes. This would be much like the main gun of a panzer only faster moving.
At worst with the method i mentioned before you would lose the lower rear 6oc shooting from the barbettes but with a bomb site type of gun sight (viewed from the exact position the real periscope lens was mounted) you would have a pretty close aproximation of what these gunners could see right?
basically you would be almost in the same position as the b17 ball gunner but the bullets would appear from above and either side of your view. To then see above the tail you would hit the zoom key or similar to see the veiw from the rear cockpit seat and have the gunning method i described before.
