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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: StokesAk on August 09, 2011, 01:46:17 PM
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"The skin and sound folder names for the P-40B has been changed to p40c in advance of some upcoming changes to the P-40 lineup."
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maybe we will get the N...that would make me happy :rock
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I almost threw up in my mouth after Nathan's post.
Then I actually did at DMGOD's post....
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I almost threw up in my mouth after Nathan's post.
Then I actually did at DMGOD's post....
All the stuff I've posted and said and THAT makes you sick?!
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That plane looks like a Me-410 and a P-40 had a baby while the mother was on heroin. :bolt:
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that thing is Beautiful prettiest areoplane EVER
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Comment from an older thread -
I agree that it needs a rework of the flight model but I don't see that being done until the shape is updated. Maybe we could add an F or a K at that time but I'm not sure that will really get us much.
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I don't think you could see anything out of that, except maybe forward.
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BigRat
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In Battleground Europe the export P-40 versions were very effective aircraft. Course they ended up destroying the air componant in that game anyways.
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More planes is always better. :aok
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In Battleground Europe the export P-40 versions were very effective aircraft. Course they ended up destroying the air componant in that game anyways.
Care to elaborate? Doesn't seem right.
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All HTC said was that there were going to be "changes to the P-40 lineup."
They might be replacing the P-40B with the C model.
Just my 0.02$
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We should have the N model too.
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No Devil, they said don't skin anything other than the P-40D/E on our E-model in consideration of new variants possibly in the works.
They have heavily hinted there is another coming (at least). The move from B to C might be to clear way for a true B, or might simply be to cut back on the distinct performance differences and the criticism it has brought upon their choice of flight model.
The introduction of a true B is 50/50 IMO (either they will or won't) but it looks like they're going to add a post-E model. Perhaps an F? Perhaps an N? Unknown at this point.
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I once saw a P-40F. It was the Merlin engined variant, but because the Merlin was needed in the P-51, the F was pushed aside. Also the K model would be nice. There were enough of these planes produced and used to warrant inclusion in AH.
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I once saw a P-40F. It was the Merlin engined variant, but because the Merlin was needed in the P-51, the F was pushed aside. Also the K model would be nice. There were enough of these planes produced and used to warrant inclusion in AH.
This would be wrong actually. The Merlin in the P40F and L was a single stage Merlin. The Merlin for the Mustang was a two stage.
As some of us have mentioned more then once, a Merlin version and a P40N would be the best additions as they were the most used. All the USAAF MTO 40 units were Merlin versions. The N saw service until the end of the war in the PTO and MTO and was the best of the fighter bomber versions.
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Care to elaborate? Doesn't seem right.
On what ? The P-40 ? Or the way they ruined their air game ?
I'll guess you meant the 2nd. First off there are very few airplanes in the game to begin with. Then they are further limited by cycles or tiers. The game starts in '39 & '40 and goes for a few weeks with only a few fighters to fly. Next cycle comes up, '40 to '41, and another fighter is introduced. And on and on until the last tier which is '44 to '45. Even then there isnt much in the hangars, and its further limited by production qoutas and individual player rank. You start off at a low rank and it will be months until you could fly a decent airplane. Then you often have very long flight times from the fields to the action. Most bombers, not that they have more then two, often bail after dropping cause they dont want to fly all the way back to their base and land.
Lastly, in a burst of brilliance, they introduced "dynamic weather". Whose only dynamic is to put the entire map under the same 200' cloud cover for hours and hours at a time which always seems to have coincided with America weekend prime game times. With all the altitude on the map often there is very little space between cloud and ground, and of course nobody much flys over the clouds so its like trying to dogfight in between the bread slices of a salami sandwich.
And never do they introduce a new plane. They have no modelers hired. All they do is make little meaningless adjustments to the ground game. I just did a 2 week free there and their numbers are way down. Most of all in the air. I played it for two years hard and the clouds and lack of new stuff just drove me away. Now they are bringing in M1 garands and bazookas but that will not save their air game. I'd be surprised if that game lasts after B-3 comes out anyways.
But the P-40 versions were a joy to fly. And quite competative.
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