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Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Mars on July 23, 2003, 07:28:25 PM: Saw this Monday night...AR234 with apparently forward firing guns...Am I missin something?

http://screaminmeanies.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=107
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Chairboy on July 23, 2003, 07:44:22 PM: Can you summarize it or something, it seems to require membership to view that link.
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Mars on July 23, 2003, 08:17:58 PM: Sorry, i'll try to find a spot to repost it. It's a film of an AR234 with forward firing cannons I got Monday night. Thought they only fired rearward.
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Batz on July 23, 2003, 09:23:39 PM: send it to ht let them handle it.
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Mars on July 24, 2003, 12:07:20 AM: I sent HTC an email but no response, they probably busy and it'll be a moot point anyway when AH2 rolls out.

Right click and "save target as" seems to work

Try the film here:

http://www.freehomepages.com/marstsm/AR234Film.zip

Screenshot:

http://www.freehomepages.com/marstsm/ahss1.jpg
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Rutilant on July 24, 2003, 12:43:40 AM: I have that happen to me, it's a bug. Arados guns fire back on the pilot's FE but forward on the nme FE, if you got behind him, you'de get hit. Been called cheater because of it. ;)
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: qts on July 24, 2003, 12:47:33 AM: Actually, there were Arado 234s with forward-firing guns. The Arado 234 could take a ventral cannon. It was most used in the nightfighter version. I don't have the book to hand but I think it was the C4 version with 4 jet engines.
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: hazed- on July 24, 2003, 06:00:51 AM: I think the arado with forward cannon would be better than the me262 :)

its a great aircraft for flying crazy! :) i use it like a fighter now, if i had guns that fired forward I think id use it as a fighter all the time!
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Replicant on July 24, 2003, 10:55:37 AM: (http://www.btinternet.com/~nexx/ar234.jpg)
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Zanth on July 24, 2003, 11:20:57 AM: This is a little known varient of which there are no flying versions left today.

(http://perfecthost.org/zanth/ar234.jpg)
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Midnight on July 24, 2003, 12:34:26 PM: It's a graphics bug in AH. The guns actually are firing backwards, only the tracers appear to be going forward. It would be nice if HTC fixed it though.
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Rutilant on July 24, 2003, 12:57:39 PM: The amazing Luftwaffe secret project,

The Red X-Wing!
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Innominate on July 25, 2003, 04:04:58 AM: Fun challenge:
Shoot down a 262 using an a234. (it's easier than it sounds)
Title: AR234 Fighters?
Post by: Blue Mako on July 28, 2003, 01:28:19 AM: Shot down 3 Me163s yesterday for the loss of one of my drone Ar234s in a single sortie. Those rear firing cannons are nasty. :)