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Special Events Forums => Scenario General => Topic started by: thomace on February 17, 2011, 04:42:31 PM
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I can tell there's excitement over the b-29...myself being very excited...just curious as to how we're going to model "realistic" missions...18+ hours...much of it over water...probably not an issue since mechanical issues really aren't modeled...too bad as it seems the 29 had as many engine overheating issues as enemy contact issues...
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probably not an issue since mechanical issues really aren't modeled...too bad as it seems the 29 had as many engine overheating issues as enemy contact issues...
Sure they are, we just don't let disco's reup if we want to model a percentage of mechanical problems :D
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understood...I talking about stuff like..."temp on number 3 is out of whack...need to RTB"...then have to worry about it overheating for 1000 miles...I'd love it...but...I'm like that...
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understood...I talking about stuff like..."temp on number 3 is out of whack...need to RTB"...then have to worry about it overheating for 1000 miles...I'd love it...but...I'm like that...
HTC has never modeled mechanical errors with any other aircraft in the game, it won't be any different for the B-29.
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understood...
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Incendiary bombs??? Buildings in Japan were mostly made out of wood so the first thing LeMay did when he went to the Pacific was change the loadouts to 100lb incendiary's...not very nice that Curtis...but...war ain't nice...
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Again, though we have different sized bombs, we don't really have any specialty bombs. However, this isn't one I would say it out of the realm of possibility sometime in the future.
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War aint nice, but bombing civils with incendiary bombs, killing 100 000s of them in each pass...
Btw, what do you think how large map is needed to fly a 18 hours, or only a 5 hours mission? ;)
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War aint nice, but bombing civils with incendiary bombs, killing 100 000s of them in each pass...
Btw, what do you think how large map is needed to fly a 18 hours, or only a 5 hours mission? ;)
I doubt I've done a 5 hour one, but I betcha I've done around a 4 hour before. Getting Lancs up to ~32k before you even cross into enemy territory, fly to strat, drop and return. You can get a lot done while you're waiting for Lancs to get up to that altitude.
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I doubt I've done a 5 hour one, but I betcha I've done around a 4 hour before. Getting Lancs up to ~32k before you even cross into enemy territory, fly to strat, drop and return. You can get a lot done while you're waiting for Lancs to get up to that altitude.
i don't have the patience to do that in 17s
altimeter:
26,500......26,600......26,700.....
"meh, good enough"
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i don't have the patience to do that in 17s
altimeter:
26,520......26,540......26,560.....
"meh, good enough"
Fixed...
:D
Strip
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Fixed...
:D
Strip
:lol yeah, that's actually more like it
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War aint nice, but bombing civils with incendiary bombs, killing 100 000s of them in each pass...
Btw, what do you think how large map is needed to fly a 18 hours, or only a 5 hours mission? ;)
I get bent out of shape with thinking like this and arguments against the using of the two atom bombs. Do you realize that the Japanese are killing an estimated 250,000 people a month in china by 1944? I think the total loss of Japanese to the raids was under 300,000. Do you take into account the 500,000 casualties the Americans were estimating would be caused in the planned stages of the invasion of Japan? What about the 1 to 2 million estimated Japanese casualties taken in that same invasion? The Japanese fought to the death for outposts, how would they fight for the homeland? Curtis LeMay did the entire world a great service by launching those raids on his own initiative in order to bring this cataclysm to an end and he deserves to be remembered for it.
ok, I'm stepping off my soapbox now. :furious
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What a lot of folks don't know is that the US had decent models for what the casualty rates of a battle would be, based on plenty of examples of the island hopping on the way to Japan, including Okinawa. The Japanese fighters did not give up, even when faced with overwhelming odds. The Japanese knew that invasion of the home islands was coming, and they had 600,000 troops stationed in the area where the US invasion with 400,000 troops was to take place. The fight for Japan would have been a hugely scaled up Okinawa. The estimate for the entire fight for Japan was that there would be 1 million US casualties and 10 million Japanese casualties. The way it happened instead, there were not only a lot less US casualties than that, but a lot less Japanese casualties than that.
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:furious :furious :furious :furious :furious
lol ok
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all the 29 drivers have to take off on Thursday night ;)
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I get bent out of shape with thinking like this and arguments against the using of the two atom bombs. Do you realize that the Japanese are killing an estimated 250,000 people a month in china by 1944? I think the total loss of Japanese to the raids was under 300,000. Do you take into account the 500,000 casualties the Americans were estimating would be caused in the planned stages of the invasion of Japan? What about the 1 to 2 million estimated Japanese casualties taken in that same invasion? The Japanese fought to the death for outposts, how would they fight for the homeland? Curtis LeMay did the entire world a great service by launching those raids on his own initiative in order to bring this cataclysm to an end and he deserves to be remembered for it.
ok, I'm stepping off my soapbox now. :furious
That could be summed up much easier. Dont mess with the bull and you wont get the horn :aok
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I get bent out of shape with thinking like this and arguments against the using of the two atom bombs. Do you realize that the Japanese are killing an estimated 250,000 people a month in china by 1944? I think the total loss of Japanese to the raids was under 300,000. Do you take into account the 500,000 casualties the Americans were estimating would be caused in the planned stages of the invasion of Japan? What about the 1 to 2 million estimated Japanese casualties taken in that same invasion? The Japanese fought to the death for outposts, how would they fight for the homeland? Curtis LeMay did the entire world a great service by launching those raids on his own initiative in order to bring this cataclysm to an end and he deserves to be remembered for it.
ok, I'm stepping off my soapbox now. :furious
not only that but he knew the US didnt have the money to pay for an invastion of the japanese home islands. i mean hell the bond drive after the flag raising on iwo gave them just enough the invade okinawa. anothing this was alot of people in the government thought it would be over a million casualties just to take japan itself.
or he was in the know, about the US debt. will we ever know the truth as to why he ordered it probrably not. but hey. war isnt fair nor is it a nice thing to do.