Fuel burn rate is porked so you have to carry more fuel then needed. The ju88 has a decent climb rate if you carry historical loads.
Ju88s rarely flew with max bombload and typically took 2 x 250 and 2 x500. However, taking 75 or 100 gas instead of 25 impacts climb especially above 10k. The ju88 fuel burn issue is that fuel burns at twice the rate it should (like the old mossie bug)
The 50 cals on the f4f can out range the 7.6 of the ju88. The ju88 has blinds spots (even dead 6) where an enemy plane can sit and peck away. If a ju88 kills you you might as well quit 'cause you suck. Any attack from 3 or 9 is deadly to a ju88.
By "disruptive" I mean climbing to 7k heading the nearest enemy af diving to 3 k salving 1 or 2 bombs at a time on hangers, then extending away and then strafing the runway.
The guns of the b26 out range the guns on the a6m2 and as long as the b26 stays fast enough he can easily kill any fighter attacking. Then you have the issue with a6m2s guns and the toughness of the b26. Have you ever tried to kill a b26 in an a6m2?
Doing that above my highest kills in a b26 (with drones) was 17 before I rtb'd. Not in the ct though.
That is "disruptive" because the ct isnt the only game in town. Why would some stay in an arena to get vulched when he can easily go to the main. Things like this drive people away from the ct, not bring more folks in.
Just like taking a plane with a 70 mph speed advantage 3 sectors to club baby seals. Folks log off. The "Combat" theater is not an arena like the main. The whole idea is "combat" between similiar planesets. When the ct first came to AH there was no base capture, no need to vulch, base rape or park cvs. It was about a2a fun. I was always vocal about fleet camping. In my set ups if there was a fleet I would give the fleet Co 5 min to move it away from an enemy field or I would manually move it or sink it.
Parking the CV is a community issue, no one claims to like it but who ever the admiral is he always seems to sail right at an enemy field and park it. On all sides. This in turn usually spawns the suicide cv guys. Except in a set up like this where the fleets are large and the attack planes limited.
A while back the cms took a poll and asked folks what they wanted in the ct. They wanted base capture and all these other things. Since then the CT hasnt grown any. It still pulls about 10% of the main. Some say that going more like the main will bring more folks in. Well that hasnt worked yet.
The CMs can lock out control of the fleets to prevent this but then you would whine about that. Other then thats its an issue with the map maker.
Test the a6m2 vrs the b26 if you doudt the results. You see its not like folks make reasons up not to do stuff. Believe or not the b26 was in a few of these set ups and guess what? It was flown as I described above. Its "disruptive" when it drives folks out of the arena.
No one can catch the boston either but the boston isnt well suited for the attack/vulch roll. You are a n00b to the ct and you seem to think you "know it all" but some us have flown here since the very 1st hour.
The only thing a b26 has over the boston is its vulch capability. The boston simply needs to begin a shallow dive at the site of an a6m2 (high or lo). Then use the rudder from the gun position to fend off the zeke if hes able to close.
I dont know what guns you think the a6m2 has but it has type 99 mkI (basically mgff) it has 60 rnds per (60 round drums). They fire about the same time so you get basically 60 triggger pulls to down a plane. Guess how many sec of continous fire? You just make statement and have no idea really about what goes on.
But like the b26 go test the a6m2 vrs the boston for yourself. The a6m2 aint gonna get you any snapshot kills or "up the belly stabs". Give it a try.
Both the boston and the Ki67 are lo impact planes in the ct. They are there for folks who wanna fly a bomber sortie or 2. Thats all.
You are just trying to find another reason to whine about "how unfair the mean Axis CMs are". I know when I was a ct cm if any plane I added or setting I placed caused folks to log off I changed it in a sec.
I did an "8th airforce" set up using the Big Week map and not a day went by that I didnt change or tweak something to get the desired gameplay.
Some folks whined but over all I got mostly positive feed back.
You seem to think that if you have an issue with something then it ought to get addressed. Well to bad. The ki67 hasnt had any greater impact on the ct then any other plane and the allies are no better or worse for having the boston.
You do know that the sbd5 and tbm3 shouldnt be there either right? The are both later models that carry more ord and have better guns then what should be there. You also know that both the Val and the Kate are '37 models that were obsolete during this same time period, right?
Both sides are missing AC (a6m3 for the axis and the p39/p400 for the allies). Both sides are missing land based bombers (Betty and the B25). Both sides have subs to fill gaps in the gameplay.
The a6m2 F4F match up is a fine one. Thats the focus of this set up.
I dont get what your whining about. Do you even fly bombers?
If it were up to me I would have no multi eng bombers in the set up. But some folks like to fly umm.
I guess you can keep whining but it didnt get you your beloved F4U-1 vrs the a6m2 match up and it wont get you a b26 either.
Al;l that time you wasted whing to Brady could have been spent trying to get Sabre to throw you a bone, now you get another late war Ostfront set up.......I didnt see any F4U on his plane list.
