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Title: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Slade on February 23, 2015, 09:33:06 AM
Other than the P-47s and FW-190f, what other fighter planes would you say are the most survivable against field ACK?

Thanks,

Slade  :salute
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Randy1 on February 23, 2015, 09:39:56 AM
Ki84 toughest plane in the game. 
Adding after the P-47.  The P-38 fits in here as well but the loss of one engine on a second pass is likely and having two engines is what helps it fit here.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: darkzking on February 23, 2015, 10:02:21 AM
I16 since ack rounds are bigger then the plane :noid
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: glzsqd on February 23, 2015, 10:28:32 AM
I16 since ack rounds are bigger then the plane :noid


"They're so small that they're avoid our Wirbolazers!"
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: caldera on February 23, 2015, 10:42:54 AM
Don't forget the Yaks, with their Impervium armor plating.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Karnak on February 23, 2015, 12:01:01 PM
I always found the Mossie to be pretty resistant to AI ack.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: hgtonyvi on February 23, 2015, 03:30:21 PM
WHat KI84? are u retarded? KI84 looses parts within 1 ping. Somehow LA7 has a way with the ack also.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Ack-Ack on February 23, 2015, 06:45:49 PM
Other than the P-47s and FW-190f, what other fighter planes would you say are the most survivable against field ACK?

Thanks,

Slade  :salute

IL2 since it's basically a flying tank.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: icepac on February 23, 2015, 07:23:34 PM
I landed six 30mms on the nose of a ki84 HO and it flew away.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Zimme83 on February 23, 2015, 07:58:08 PM
IL2 since it's basically a flying tank.
But also a lot slower and will take a lot more hits.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Saxman on February 23, 2015, 08:10:42 PM
I landed six 30mms on the nose of a ki84 HO and it flew away.

Mandatory Comment: Got film?
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: icepac on February 24, 2015, 12:17:54 AM
Yes I do have film.

Check my post and film.......it's the 4th one down.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,359250.0.html
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Latrobe on February 24, 2015, 09:55:39 AM
Any plane. Ack is super easy to avoid.

Easiest to survive being hit? The Mossi is surprisingly tough for being made of wood.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: save on February 24, 2015, 11:02:31 AM
190a8 is close to the 190f8 in number of hits to die.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Volron on February 24, 2015, 02:06:08 PM
190a8 is close to the 190f8 in number of hits to die.

I don't think so.  At least I can generally get somewhere in the A8.  The last time I took an F8 up (it was against a strat), something waved in my vague direction, and I had an oil leak and lost an horizontal stabilizer.  Yeah.  I was surprised too! :eek:  I didn't have a pilot wound!!! :banana:
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: save on February 24, 2015, 06:58:28 PM
From field Ack I expect to take 6-8 hit in the F8,until I get half-winged, and smoking engine, in the A8 its more like 5 or 6 at 350mph in- and outbound. most impressive are the 500mph hits you get regardless what you do.

Sometimes i fly back with both mg gone and and one outer cannon shot out, engine smoking. remember the only thing that differ F8 and A8 is the armour front underneath.

this tour I've been main gunned by m4 twice, i just wait to get rocketed by a Sdkfz251 next... one-man tank command give you advantage you did not have IRL. gunners only saw some degree's.

Manned ack are like "ka-boom" for most fighters, inflicting much damage.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: bozon on February 24, 2015, 11:46:44 PM
Any plane. Ack is super easy to avoid.

Easiest to survive being hit? The Mossi is surprisingly tough for being made of wood.
Indeed back is easy to avoid. I keep 7k AGL and it won't reach me...

While the mossie can take a few hits before going down, being big and having two engines and two radiators mean that you are very likely to get crippled by the auto acks. Also the mossie is very susceptible to pilot wounds. I try very hard to keep out of the acks unless I am about to RTB anyway. I even developed the ability to hit with bombs from ~8k, pull out of the dive at 6k and zoom back up to safe 7k AGL.

P.S.
The nice thing about a wooden plane is that if you lose pieces, you just put it in water and they grow back.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Slade on February 25, 2015, 05:46:55 AM
Thanks for all the posts.

What does AGL mean?
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: bozon on February 25, 2015, 06:38:59 AM
Thanks for all the posts.

What does AGL mean?
Above Ground Level.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Blooz on February 25, 2015, 03:51:17 PM
F6F is the toughest fighter I've seen so far shrug off AA fire.

Many times I've hit them with 37mm AA and they just keep on flying.

B25's are the toughest attack plane. They can absorb multiple 37mm hits and keep going.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: glzsqd on February 25, 2015, 05:09:27 PM
F6F is the toughest fighter I've seen so far shrug off AA fire.

Many times I've hit them with 37mm AA and they just keep on flying.

B25's are the toughest attack plane. They can absorb multiple 37mm hits and keep going.
B25 takes AAA really well, but I swear to go they light on fire almost instantly when being attack by fighters, and its damn elevator is always falling off. Sometimes I feel like I'm flying a A25M
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Rich46yo on February 26, 2015, 02:28:33 PM
Yaks dont do well with any kind of hits to the canopy. Anyone have historical fact to back this up? Did the Yaks have armored canopies?

"Of course I could search and find out but thats so much more boring then using the knowledge of the group".
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Ack-Ack on February 26, 2015, 03:45:41 PM
Yaks dont do well with any kind of hits to the canopy. Anyone have historical fact to back this up? Did the Yaks have armored canopies?

"Of course I could search and find out but thats so much more boring then using the knowledge of the group".

Not sure about the other Yak versions but I'm pretty sure, at least in the Yak-3's case, that it had very little, if any armor in order to achieve a lighter airframe.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Krupinski on February 26, 2015, 04:50:39 PM
You're all wrong. I remember de-acking 5 vehicle bases without losing a single part in the Me410.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: JOACH1M on March 01, 2015, 02:45:49 AM
f6f
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Kazan_HB on March 01, 2015, 09:12:04 AM
All planes with hispano 20mm  :old:
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Auger on March 04, 2015, 11:11:26 AM
All planes with hispano 20mm  :old:
You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Phoenix3107 on March 04, 2015, 02:12:57 PM
You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.

Same thing w/the Tempest, which brings up a questiion in my head: Why did the british designers thought it was a good idea to place the radiator and air intake just BELOW the propeller, let alone make it a big blob for ack to just easily kill off?
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: Volron on March 04, 2015, 02:27:19 PM
You must have never taken a Typhoon near base ack.  Guaranteed radiator hit within two passes.  3 minutes later your engine dies.

Wow you are lucky.  Anytime I go near base ack, my oil gets hit and/or engine get's shot out.  It's rare for me to get a radiator hit in the Typhoon.
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: save on March 04, 2015, 02:36:35 PM
its mandatory in the D9 to get a radiator hit .
Title: Re: Planes vs. ACK
Post by: lyric1 on March 04, 2015, 03:03:48 PM
I16 since ack rounds are bigger then the plane :noid

Actually the best deacking aircraft in game so long as no Wirbels are about. You can take out all the auto acks at a V/base in one pass & not get hit once if you set up right.