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Offline Max

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B-17 Deathstars
« on: January 23, 2017, 06:58:05 PM »
Can't be that hard...can it?

Offline DubiousKB

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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2017, 09:05:37 AM »
Having 24x.50's plus another 12x.50's converging at 600 isn't enough? 

You're talking every gun position can be filled by a human gunner? You don't think 999000 is lethal enough?  :uhoh
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2017, 09:16:24 AM »
I would like to have a mode where you can fire all guns on a single plane, most of the time the drones are just wasting ammo.
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2017, 09:33:26 AM »
I would like to have a mode where you can fire all guns on a single plane, most of the time the drones are just wasting ammo.

999 has all the guns hitting you


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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2017, 09:39:42 AM »
+1

If I get as many kills as there are human gunners plus the pilot.
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2017, 10:12:17 AM »
Can't be that hard...can it?
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are you advocating for? Also, what does "999000", referenced by DubiousKB, refer to? Thanks.
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2017, 11:05:14 AM »
999000 is kind of a legend when it comes to buffs and anyone foolish enough to approach his bombers will be punnished by death. Havermyr is the other, stay away from his ki-67:s...
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2017, 11:32:58 AM »
I thought 999000 was a program.

Offline DubiousKB

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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2017, 12:10:12 PM »
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are you advocating for? Also, what does "999000", referenced by DubiousKB, refer to? Thanks.

999000 is a B17 pilot/gunner you do NOT want to find... More often than not, he HIMSELF makes the formation "Death Stars" and will shoot you down in a hurry.
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2017, 12:30:03 PM »
a simple ammo conservation trick i've learned is to use the waist gunners on each outside drone to "range" or test fire shots on targets you think you might be able to "touch"... that way you're only using waist gunner ammo to "test the waters"....  Get a few pings, fire a short burst of all guns....

I don't think one should be able to only fire drone 1 all guns, or lead aircraft all guns only...

Basically, they are powerful enough in my opinion...
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2017, 02:26:18 PM »
Soooo... why could AW do it?
Granted AW was less graphic intensive but...
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2017, 02:29:40 PM »
Soooo... why could AW do it?
Granted AW was less graphic intensive but...
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They did not have the ability to fire all guns from 1 position.

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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2017, 02:55:23 PM »
999000 is the guy who flies b17s INTO a furball. De acks and drops town from 1000 feet. It's not a flight of 17s it's a space station. If you think large base ack is bad fly up 999s six, he will reeducate you


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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2017, 03:26:02 PM »
In AW my squad and some vets I knew would fill a B17 when we got bored. Then we would sneak over to an enemy field and roar down the runway at say 100ft or however low our pilot felt that night. We would kill everyone sitting on the ground, climb up and orbit the field waiting to orbit vulch everyone climbing up to get us. We only made it home once but, it cost them dearly each time. And one time we ran into an enemy B17 heading to our field to do the same thing. So we dueled B17's with full manned gun positions, it was a slow death by 1000 cuts between two spastic whales.:O

Hitech could always impose one pilot one gunner for formations allowing a full roster for a single bomber. Man you could depopulate a whole country for a 49er's bomber mission just to have all the gunner positions filled.

Dude, there are no planes in the rook country and a full roster, and no ENY. Don't worry about it, means we can capture rook bases all night. The 49er's convinced those fools to be gunners again... :rofl
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Re: B-17 Deathstars
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2017, 04:47:31 PM »
Soooo... why could AW do it?
Granted AW was less graphic intensive but...
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In AW you needed to have all the gun positions manned for a Death Star and you were really lucky if you or someone else didn't get discoed as a result of crewing a Death Star.
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