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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Adonai on June 05, 2008, 12:04:22 PM
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I shot down a pair of Lancasters that was just dumping his ords out to clear a field so rooks could have a new baseball diamond, when I flew off to the left, when i noticed bombs were flying all over the place, and hit one of the bombs and exploded.
Thats last time I ever do high angle attack on a bomber and dive under it. Hit one of the bombs you go boom. On the funny note He did mark his own country mates tiger tank with the salvo he dropped. Any one else have this happen?
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I hit a b17 takeing off with a lucky bomb before...I killed 2 of his planes :rock
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I've seen a video of a Ju-88 taking out a formation of buffs like this before.... :rolleyes:
I'll try and find where I got it from and post the link here.
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Yossarian
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Ouch that had to hurt! LOL I have not had it happen to me yet, but I have flown through bombs falling. SCARY!!!
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Colliding with enemy bombs? Been there, done that.
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Colliding with enemy bombs? Been there, done that.
LOL I thought I had it made, guy was more interested in bombing and not interested in gunning being so low. I made 2 split-s attacks head on and on my 3rd attempt coming down from a high 6 noticing he wasn't firing i made a diving pass, and boooom got the 3rd buff but his bomb got me, even worse it gave him a kill for his bomb killing me LOL
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I was flying around and defending one of our bases when i looked above me
just as a bomb landed in my lap. Msg said 999000 shot u down.
Bad part is i spewed beer all over crt and keyboard and while still choking-
looked slowly at lap thinking be glad it's just a game ole buddy.
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Ok, here's the link:
http://www.aceshighmovies.com/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,62/Itemid,27/
Just scroll to the bottom of that page, and hit 'Download'.
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Yossarian
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Ouch, bad luck! lol
Someone in 17's bombed another friendly 17 midair in the last FSO too. :lol
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I've seen a video of a Ju-88 taking out a formation of buffs like this before.... :rolleyes:
Yossarian
I've done that...when I was a noobie actually...I thought it was just a big fighter, and I went and dropped my ord on the set of 24s and killed it.
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That Ju-88/lanc film was one of my first. Glad it's still remembered :aok
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I've seen pictures in the screen shot thread where someone killed two people with the bombs on the 234 in air. Not sure if they're still there.
The coolest thing, in my opinion, is that this was a tactic used in real life :aok
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I have hit bombs while flying above the bomber.
A formation of B-26s was attacking our CV. The bombers where level and I was approaching from the bombers front-right quarter. I fired a long burst into the lead bomber’s right engine hoping the bomber would swerve off its bomb run if the engine would die. My flight path was going to carry me over the lead bomber and over the fin of the number 2 bomber. Well I never made it to the second bomber. Just as I was passing over the lead bomber’s right engine, it released its bombs. The bombs where stacked up above the bomb bay with the last two bombs showing above the bomber’s fuselage. I hit the upper most bomb and was instantly back on the CV. I was there in plenty of time to witness the sinking.
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I was flying around and defending one of our bases when i looked above me
just as a bomb landed in my lap. Msg said 999000 shot u down.
Bad part is i spewed beer all over crt and keyboard and while still choking-
looked slowly at lap thinking be glad it's just a game ole buddy.
Jeeze, there's just no safe place to be around 999's bombers, is there?
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...I hit the upper most bomb and was instantly back on the CV. I was there in plenty of time to witness the sinking.
Well I guess that's one way to protect your CV...
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I've seen pictures in the screen shot thread where someone killed two people with the bombs on the 234 in air. Not sure if they're still there.
The coolest thing, in my opinion, is that this was a tactic used in real life :aok
Think that was B@tfink
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Yeah it was a tactic, 109s and 190s had time delay fused bombs, fighters would dive 500 feet above bombers and drop them into a formation, breaking them apart. It really didn't work out as planned, many were intercepted before the attack began since they were "heavy"
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Yeah it was a tactic, 109s and 190s had time delay fused bombs, fighters would dive 500 feet above bombers and drop them into a formation, breaking them apart. It really didn't work out as planned, many were intercepted before the attack began since they were "heavy"
That's not how Knoke (the co-inventor of the method) described it, from what he wrote it seemed more like his staffel dropped the bomb into the tight formation and hoped they hit one. They actually used it to a fair amount of success (this was in the first half of '43 however, before allied escorts showed up in large numbers over France/Holland/Germany).However, the RLM caught wind of the method and had JG27 (I think) try it, and the method the RLM engineered may be what your describing. They were far less successful.
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At one point the F4U was being designed to do just that.
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I've wondered alot about getting blown up like that Adonai, but so far It's never happened to me. There's been several times I thought I should've been hit but wasn't.
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I was at 6k flying over a base under attack by a CV and got hit by the 8''ers I was on the way to land too with 4 kills.... :lol
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Im curious, i made this as a joke tonight bout getting killed by a drop tank, is it possible?
Here's scenario - I caught a Jug-d11 model auto climb, rolled behind him, good burst into his wing - he for some odd reason drops his tank, which i flew under him and tried to avoid the tank.
Im curious can it happen? i.e lose a wing or tail to a DT?
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No.. You can teabag semi-vulches with DTs to mark your territory, though.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl :lol :lol
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oh jeez i've been m00t'd, well in my defense at least i didn't ask when the B-29 is coming out.
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F4U was originally designed to carry tiny bombs inside each of its wings to drop on enemy bombers. It was designed to carry either 30 tiny bombs, or maybe they were 30lb bombs. I forget which. This was back in the 1930s.
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* Gustav gunboats were one of the mainstays of the Luftwaffe's defense of the Reich against Allied bombers, and many techniques were used to knock down the attackers. Gustavs were even used to drop fragmentation bombs with time-delay fuze's to break up the formations, but this approach was not very successful.
An article about the me109g6 carrying time-delay fuze bombs, was asking krusty1 about this earlier and wasn't able to dig up any research on this, I know it worked, apparently 109s would drop these bombs 500 feet above a buff formation and it will explode, destroying 1-2 buffs in formation. I'm guessing approach was not successful based on fact the 109s were sitting ducks for escorts, but what about where buffs didn't have escorts? I think a 250kg bomb with time fuze delay would cause serious havoc on bombers in Aces High.
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I dropped a stick of 100 lb bombs from a TBM while flying over a La and blew him up. I just wish I had been recording.
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back in H2H times me and some buddies were in 17s bombing an airfield and one of them dumb idiots drop his load on 2 of my bombers. :mad:
but yes it is possible.
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I used to have a video of a spit attacking a lanc from below and the lanc pilot was so scared he dropped his 4000 lb bomb and blew the spit to pieces. the funniest part though was that the bombs explosion killed the lanc too.
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I was watching Thndregg go after a 109 with his Yak when the 109 pulled up and dumped his ord. The bomb fell right on top of Thndr. We sat there for a minuit just trying to figure out what happened then started laughing when we realised what ihit him. :lol
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one night right after I started playing AH1, I spent a couple hours trying to take out the tower with drop tanks.
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haha,i see my newly devised after affect bombs have sold on ebay :aok
i have many films of me and zipcode salvoing 1 on a air field and hitting uppers as there wheels pull in....
i have never as of yet been able to hit someone underneath us in mid air though mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
thanks for the idea ADONAI <<<S>>>
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I shot down a pair of Lancasters that was just dumping his ords out to clear a field so rooks could have a new baseball diamond, when I flew off to the left, when i noticed bombs were flying all over the place, and hit one of the bombs and exploded.
Thats last time I ever do high angle attack on a bomber and dive under it. Hit one of the bombs you go boom. On the funny note He did mark his own country mates tiger tank with the salvo he dropped. Any one else have this happen?
Cmon Adonai, you've been around way too long not to know this already. :huh
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ive been on the recieving end of this 10+ times
i just quit keeping track lol