Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Axis vs Allies => Topic started by: brady on August 10, 2002, 07:10:46 AM
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It is(god I wish we had more planes:) ) 1942 and we have some great match up's going with the Zero, and The P40 and some wildcat thrown in for collor:)
Come on In we have a very nice new map(for the CT).
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was whining about ships in bob setup then realized it ain't bob no more :)
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Very Nice Set Up !!
I foresee some Raging Battles occuring during the next week.
CT CM's :cool: :)
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WTG Brady!
I know the 1942 planeset is weak, maybe in a few weeks you can run the same map with a 1943 PTO set up That'll give you a little more to work with plane wise. P-40Es, F4U1s, A6m5s, Ki-61's, and CV based F6's.
That would make a great progressive set up with this map.
For now and what we have in the way of 1942 aircraft this should be great!
Thank you again.. WELL DONE!
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brady,
If we can pry you away from the MA long enough, there is a bug in the CT.
Arena was just reset, and IJN has access to P38, all the F series USN birds, Me109F4, etc.........
Ya might wanna look at it?
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HEY EDDIEK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... ...........:D
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Hehehe, Lowe,
It evened out, the USN had N1K2J's and B-26's, so it wasn't a one sided bug.
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It is all ok now, I do appoligise, this CT set up bug is a real bummer:(
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Nice Set-up Brady and all CM's! !
Now we need some KATE's, BETTY's, RUFE's, B-25's & EMILY's around here and we could have a real party!
Jester
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Great setup, zero is a tough foe, but US dive bombers carry 1000lbs. Love the map. Is there a chance we will ever see a map with fleets only and no land airfields? Something like a coral sea battle,just a thought.
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CM Terrain Team is putting finishing touches on a Midway Map, which will be pretty close to your all-cv terrain.
Sabre
CT Staff
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BTW folks this set up was sabre's Idea, so he should be thanked for it I am just babby sitting it this week:)
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Midway... did I read that right? A Midway setup? With mainly cv fights? AWESOME!!! Can't wait! :) Oh, and this setup is nice too, I'm just not so good at killing bulletproof F4F's, lol :p
Edit: Was the wildcat really so much tougher than the hellcat? Sheesh, in the game that thing is tougher than a jug!
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Blue.
The Wildcat was tough, but what I think you are being frustrated by is the A6m2s fire power.
The 20mm cannons seem to have a very slow muzzle velocity, a very short ammo clip, and the MG's are rifle caliber, so almost worthless against aircraft. The frustration for the 303's the Allied pilots have in the BOB is what your going through this week. Only we don't have 8 Popguns we 2.
I have found the P-40 is just as hard to shoot down as the F4F, remember, this is really the first early war Japanese gun models we've seen. Your used to the A6m5, and KI-61 Cannons and MG's which were improved over the A6m2. Plus add to the fact the F4F is sporting 50 cals, and just a couple of those rounds will turn your Zeke into a roman candle, makes this a very interesting matchup. Both sides have to use their aircrafts strentgh's to take advantage of the other planes weak points.
Basically it's a mirror image of last week. Only now the Allies planes are best used to B&Z, and the Axis pilots are wanting to slow the fight down to a turn contest which favors their planes.
Plus add to that the bombers are still out running the fighters, it is just like BOB.:D
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The zero is the best plane in there.The only chance I have in the f4f is to get the first shot in, but if they duck under me and I miss I'm usually toast.Try to avoid the h2h, and try not to make your move too early. And why in god's name am I giving info to the enemy.....doh!!
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I just wanted to pop in here and give my thanks to all the CM people the map author that made this setup possible and all the fun I've had flying in the CT last few days.
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very fun indeed :D
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Well, I took all the advice, and yeah... I've been studying ballistics for a little over 18 years now so I do realize it's the weak guns that are giving me fits. I have no problem getting on the F4f's 6, it's just that staying there long enough to accomplish anything with those guns takes too long. By the time I get in close enough and lined up, someone (or 3) is on MY 6 and I either get the shot and die for it, or never get a shot at all. This was a great setup, and would have been very enjoyable for me if I had found some one-on-one fights, but that just wasn't in the cards I guess. Oh well, maybe I'll do better in the next one :).
all, you allies had me feeling like the guy on the ladder in this pic...
Yeah, fake pic, but the comparison is valid :D
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I love the Zero, what I do is get real close like 200, and use just the cannons, that way you tell whear their going, it only takes a few hits to kill them, one nice thing is that at that range you can "place" your shots, Cockpit, tail good places to hit.
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200?
Brady, I found that 200 was even to far for me. 150 or 100 was hitable but any thing over that was "ping them silly with mg range." Deflection shots are all but impossible.
I'm also shocked by the low hitting power of the Type 99-1, more than once I would see 3 or 4 hit sprites and the F4F would seemingly shrug it off. Questions for the weapons experts out there: Was the 20mm Type 1 HEI round really that impodent or is AH damage model simply failing for low velocity rounds?