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Offline pembquist

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Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« on: April 05, 2019, 04:13:02 PM »
Maybe lower cost for no formations? Anyway it would be nice to see it used more. I tried it out twice today once at 45 and once at I thought 45 but was 96 after I was shot down. Its a nice plane I am little confused by the guns but as a singleton it isn't really that much more powerful than a free formation of Lancs which can WF in one pass. It is a Strat bomber and that takes a time commitment, (or fridge snacking AFK commitment,) especially if you plan on being back. I think 100 perks is way too much in that it really discourages use and that is a shame after all the work that went into it.
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2019, 04:47:52 PM »
Yes.  Wiley needs his 4 in a sortie achievement. ;)

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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2019, 04:59:43 PM »
Yes.  Wiley needs his 4 in a sortie achievement. ;)

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Was already difficult enough to get that achievement back in the day when there were actually B-29 missions around.  :old:
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2019, 05:01:23 PM »
Was already difficult enough to get that achievement back in the day when there were actually B-29 missions around.  :old:

 :D  I fluked out and got 3 once in a 109k, still had 53 rounds left in the tater chucker.  I was very sad there were no other ones around.

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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2019, 05:31:06 PM »
:D  I fluked out and got 3 once in a 109k, still had 53 rounds left in the tater chucker.  I was very sad there were no other ones around.

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Three in a sortie I got a lot, but four only those two times and never managed to kill five - I always ran out of ammo, fuel or wings first  :uhoh
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2019, 05:59:06 PM »
On the bright side ..... bomber perks rack up fast.

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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2019, 06:45:31 PM »
On the bright side ..... bomber perks rack up fast.

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20 perks per hour is easily sustainable even without concentrating on perk farming alone.
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2019, 12:29:54 PM »
You guys remember the GHI missions. 20-30 110s barreling across the ocean NOE to slam and take a base I can still hear is, I think Russian, accent :rofl
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2019, 02:28:04 PM »
We would up a mission of bombers loaded and travel NOE. Half way to the target base someone would finally realize we loaded torpedoes.  :rofl :rofl

We would just act like we do that all the time and start assigning targets. Sink the town first.
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2019, 07:24:31 PM »
We would up a mission of bombers loaded and travel NOE. Half way to the target base someone would finally realize we loaded torpedoes.  :rofl :rofl

We would just act like we do that all the time and start assigning targets. Sink the town first.

I think I’ve been apart of one of those lol
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2019, 07:43:04 PM »
Maybe lower cost for no formations? Anyway it would be nice to see it used more. I tried it out twice today once at 45 and once at I thought 45 but was 96 after I was shot down. Its a nice plane I am little confused by the guns but as a singleton it isn't really that much more powerful than a free formation of Lancs which can WF in one pass. It is a Strat bomber and that takes a time commitment, (or fridge snacking AFK commitment,) especially if you plan on being back. I think 100 perks is way too much in that it really discourages use and that is a shame after all the work that went into it.
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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2019, 09:48:15 PM »
I would be cool with the high perks if we had runways with no clutter/trees at the end of the long runways.


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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2019, 08:01:18 AM »
I think I’ve been apart of one of those lol

My fav's with ET37. Never happens now.

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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2019, 09:45:54 AM »
ET made the game for me; loads of fun.

Now I can't even get close to any kind of organization. I'll fly a few low-win situations because of low numbers, but that usually ends when attackers can't be bothered to fight. They'd rather rocket vultch, or best-to-date_ GV vultch whilst not actually capturing the base.

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Re: Lower the Perk cost for the B29
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2019, 02:05:25 PM »
Last night the AK's put up a 12 bomber box mission of B17. Pigs caught them at 16k in 262 and P47M. They were wingman locked in close formation so we had a 4 sector running fight to the target and back out. The Dickweeds do the same on Tuesday nights 9pm ET and we meet them. So far POTW has the edge on interception but the Dickweeds change up their strategy from time to time and it gets dicey even for multiple 262. I'm amazed since it's known POTW will hunt them on Tuesday since it's squad night, they cannot recruit more escorts. One night they had 262 escorts and we ended up in 163 over the target after we harassed them inbound with 262.

AK's, Dickweeds and POTW are still doing large group activities. Now, lowering the cost for B29 would probably have them used by those two bomber mission squads. That would make for some interesting action since those things are armed to the teeth for things like 262.
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