50 cal damage upped

[Jed]

5o calibers tickle. While anything with cannons rips sections of planes apart.  There seems To be a slight despairity between the two.  I would wish that the 5o caliber damage gets a small boost.       I will await the usual bashers of every post.  But they do seem to lack the punch historically written about

[Lusche]

But they do seem to lack the punch historically written about

Dunno, mine shred any enemy planes. Else I wouldn't use the P-51B (4x 0,50) as one of my standard buff hunters 

[artik]

Actually IMHO the .50 effectiveness in AH is overrated...

Since when 8x.50cal can rip off a bomber wing easily? .50 cal was maybe fine against fighters (especially Japanese) it was by no means as good as it is in AH against Buffs.

If you take some other WW2 games like IL2 you'll discover that .50 cal is quite a pea shooter (but that is different story)

It isn't by a chance that US fighters only carriers .50 cal through the WW2, while British, German, Japanese and Russian fighters carried canons.
It isn't by a chance that in Korea it was discovered that .50 cal has an absolutely inadequate firepower.

[Tinkles]

5o calibers tickle. While anything with cannons rips sections of planes apart.  There seems To be a slight despairity between the two.  I would wish that the 5o caliber damage gets a small boost.       I will await the usual bashers of every post.  But they do seem to lack the punch historically written about

I have absolutely no issues with the 50 cal. It all depends on where you aim.   

I recall there was a post that had a link to a video of a 20mm and a 30mm doing damage to a barrel or a 'parked' spitfire. Does anyone have that link here? It was some serious damage compared to the 50cal.

[Chalenge]

Actually IMHO the .50 effectiveness in AH is overrated...

Since when 8x.50cal can rip off a bomber wing easily?

It cannot even now. The problem is with your use of the word 'easily.' It takes considerable weight of fire to knock any bomber wing off. You cannot call that 'easy.'

[Reaper90]

See rule #4

[Karnak]

Per the United States Navy in the 1940s, not a particularly biased organization, a single Hispano 20mm installation was provided the same destructiveness as a triple Browning .50 installation, in other words ten rounds per second of Hispano 20mm was as good as thirty-six rounds per minute of .50 cal.

Aces High is pretty close to that, so no, the .50 damage does not need to be increased.

[Slade]

5o calibers tickle. While anything with cannons rips sections of planes apart.

Put your convergence at and shoot at 300 until every plane melts in front of you.

Might take some control and patience to only shoot from 300 or less.  Once you get that wired then experiment with setting them back out.

[cobia38]

 .50s are fine, i have no problem sawing off wings at 800 out with .50s

[Tinkles]

5o calibers tickle. While anything with cannons rips sections of planes apart.  There seems To be a slight despairity between the two.  I would wish that the 5o caliber damage gets a small boost.       I will await the usual bashers of every post.  But they do seem to lack the punch historically written about

Go offline and shoot down the drones from varying distances until you get the hang of the trajectory.  Then turn tracers off and try it again, if you miss often then turn them back on until you get good with them on.

If you fly different planes that use the 50 cal (f4f, f6f, f4u, p51, p47 etc), then make sure you are using the same gunsight, so you learn where on the gunsight the target as to be at different angles/distances.

At first I thought the same, then I did the above, and I kill stuff with little issue anymore


Now if I could only get back online     



 

[katanaso]

The .50's work fine for me too.  I set all guns to the same convergence.

The only gripe I kind of have is the accuracy and damage of a 30mm shot to the rear half of a 38.  It's the only round that seems to consistently destroy the entire rear set regardless of where it hits behind the cockpit.  30mm to the left rudder?  Both booms are removed. 30mm to the left boom?  Both booms are removed. 

[Latrobe]

Put your convergence at and shoot at 300 until every plane melts in front of you.

Might take some control and patience to only shoot from 300 or less.  Once you get that wired then experiment with setting them back out.

^^^
That!

I used to have my convergences at 400 in my planes, but I was pulling the trigger at 200-300. My shots were not grouped together so it took quite a bit to kill a plane. Then I change my convergence to 300 and I took shots at 300. Now I can down a plane with just a short burst even from a P-51B.

[TwinBoom]

convergence is your friend

[FLOOB]

In real life the biggest killer of aeroplanes was fire, in AH the biggest killer is dismemberment. I think that's reason for the leathality gap between machineguns and cannon in AH.

Fly something that has weaker guns than .50 browning for a week or two, after that 50 cals will seem like magic.

[Lucifer]

No way, several times my D9 got ripped appart at 1000m(!) : already damn powerfull !

5o calibers tickle. While anything with cannons rips sections of planes apart.  There seems To be a slight despairity between the two.  I would wish that the 5o caliber damage gets a small boost.       I will await the usual bashers of every post.  But they do seem to lack the punch historically written about