Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: titanic3 on April 02, 2007, 07:48:11 PM
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would be nice to see the LAnc carrying the 22,000lb grand slam bomb. cost you about 100 perks. it can probably kill anything withing a 400m radius, damage anything withing 600m, and slighty damage anything withing 700m. if not grand slam i go for the Tallboy
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still won't kill a Tiger in this game with a direct hit.
ack-ack
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:rofl :rofl
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That would probably flatten tank town. Oh crap now even dumb noobs can kill GVs with bombers!:noid
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give it a high minimum drop alt
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:rofl :lol GENIOUS! THE NOOBS STILL THINK THEY'RE KILLING EM BUT THEY'RE NOT! LOVE IT! :lol :rofl
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no, make it so that it has not minimal drop alt:noid
love to watch a new u try to fly 2 feet over a tank and blow himself up as well:D
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:lol :lol
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HiTech has stated that nothing over 4,000 lbs will be modeled in order to maintain hardness balances.
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ummm mini-nuke =
i dont have a joke about this
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I actually think that the 12k high capacity bomb would be a better choice for AH. (basically 4 x 4k bomb segments bolted together). That was used to destroy targets over a wide area. Whereas the Grand Slam was used for specific targets (destroying aqueducts by mini earthquake, reinforced concrete penetration etc.)
Unmodified Lancasters could carry the 12k bomb too.
That is not to say that a Tallboy or Grand Slam wouldn't be good... :t
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Blockbuster was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term Blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy a city block.
The bombs then called blockbusters were the RAF's 4,000 lb - also known as a cookie, 8,000 and 12,000 lb (1,800, 3,600 and 5,400 kg) HC (High Capacity) bombs. These bombs had especially thin casings that allowed them to contain approximately three-quarters of their weight in explosive, the 4,000 pounder containing over 3,000 lb (1,360 kg) of explosive filling. Most 'normal' bombs (termed Medium Capacity - MC - by the RAF) at that time contained only 50% explosive by weight, the rest being made up of the bomb casing.
The High Capacity design was little more than a cylinder full of explosive - it was unaerodynamic and didn't even have fins. Accuracy was not important - these bombs were designed for blowing the tiles off the roofs of buildings so that the smaller 4 lb (1.8 kg) incendiary bombs could reach the building interiors. These 'High Capacity' bombs were only used by the RAF, being too big to fit in the bomb-bays of other country's aircraft.
The first type of aircraft to carry cookies operationally was the Wellington but they later became part of the standard bombload of the RAF's heavy night bombers, as well as that of the Mosquitoes of the Light Night Striking Force, whose aircraft would sometimes visit Berlin twice in one night carrying cookies, flown by two different crews. Blockbusters got larger as the war progressed from 4,000 to 12,000 lb (1,800 to 5,400 kg). These were essentially constructed by bolting two or three 4,000 lb bombs together. The 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) bomb, because of its large size, could only be carried by the Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster and the 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) variant only by the Lancaster.
The 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) cookie was regarded as a particularly dangerous load to carry. Due to the airflow over the detonating pistols fitted in the nose, it would often explode even if dropped in a supposedly 'safe' unarmed state.
A blockbuster may also refer to a bomb designed to destroy a blockhouse. Bombs which can penetrate reinforced concrete of a blockhouse are also referred to as bunker busters. The two World War II bombs which best fit the description of bunker busters are the Tallboy bomb 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) MC and the Grand Slam bomb 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) MC both designed by Barnes Wallis for the RAF. The Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs had a thick skin to withstand the initial impact of hitting hardened targets and were therefore classified as Medium Capacity (MC) bombs.
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It's not a problem of "whether it could" but a problem of "whether it should".
We already got a three-buff formation, and a boatload of blindly patriotic geeks in each country, who will stop at nothing to keep bringing in the 'charge of the heavy brigade', until the target is finally annihilated.
Boy that'd be fun - a single passing lanc formation which obliterates everything in the town at a single pass.. and the M3 merrily walks in for capture. Just thinking about all the wonderful milk-runs and NOE runs with that crap makes my skin crawl.
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
still won't kill a Tiger in this game with a direct hit.
ack-ack
Tiger: enemy lanc!! everybody run!!!
2nd Tiger: beware of my 7.92mm machine gun Lanc!!!
lanc pilot: who's that crazy idiot? oh wells...bomb away:lol
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That's when tigers ask for faster turning turrets that can shoot vertical.
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That's when tigers ask for faster turning turrets that can shoot vertical.
We call it 'flak'.
Just give us a damned 88mm flak battery, and we'll give those low scurrying buffs a real lovely day.
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Amen!
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:lol :aok Theres a thought
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I dont think we need to worry about that drop altitude thing, PLANES have FALLEN OUT OF THE SKY because of the shockwave. In fact, and American Army Air Force band leader, who was quite famous (Though his name escapes me) was killed when he was making a hop to allied france, and a Lancaster released its bombs after passing the target and RTBing. The shockwave caused his plane to fall from the sky and he died.
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That would be Glenn Miller & the Grand slam & other huge devices are not needed. It would be different if we had sprawling cities, ultra tough sub pens, gigantic dams etc. modeled in this game but we don't.