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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: T4Tommy on October 10, 2001, 06:43:00 AM

Title: AA Guns
Post by: T4Tommy on October 10, 2001, 06:43:00 AM

Why can field gunners not see aa shells explode . It would be cool to fill the sky with black clouds of death.   :D

Title: AA Guns
Post by: skernsk on October 10, 2001, 08:06:00 AM

Manable acks are 20 or 37mm I believe.  They are not explosive shells like the 88's.

Title: AA Guns
Post by: Maverick on October 10, 2001, 01:26:00 PM

Field 88's need to be player option. It's silly to have the best AA gun not available for high alt attack defense. The 37's are a joke when field is attacked by buff over 5k alt.

The AI on the 88's on the fields is not effective at all. Rubber 88s.

Mav

Title: AA Guns
Post by: T4Tommy on October 11, 2001, 07:07:00 AM

I agree so can it be done?

It would make bombing raids more interesting as well. Not that they aren't already!

Title: AA Guns
Post by: hazed- on October 11, 2001, 08:35:00 AM

manable 88s would be fantastic but i think they should be a tricky thing to master in AH.
maybe you have to set fuses like they did in real life, anything to make it slightly harder to be a good flak gunner.
cv gunning is far too easy as AA but quite hard (for me at least) as a ground target destroyer.
if we as AA gunners could only put up a box of flak/shell bursts at a certain height it would encourage gunners to try to fire his 'box' into the aircrafts bombing path rather than firing madly waiting for the auto bursts to hit nearest plane.

what do you think?

Title: AA Guns
Post by: SKurj on October 11, 2001, 09:20:00 AM

Have an actual account of less than 16 88 rounds dropping 4 allied aircraft, including fighters.


SKurj