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Offline Nash

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AH most potent bomber killer?
« Reply #30 on: September 26, 2001, 09:23:00 AM »
Ask again after 1.08 comes out. No... it won't be the 262. (I doubt people are gonna risk the perks on buff attacks). The Mossies will eat them alive.  :D

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« Reply #31 on: September 26, 2001, 10:10:00 AM »
Fantastic response. Thanks folks!!!   All pro's and con's noted  :)

  Westy

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« Reply #32 on: September 26, 2001, 11:02:00 AM »
The B17 is actually a great buff killer.  I've nailed several B26's and Lancs in it (although since the Lanc is faster you generally have to take fire from the tail gun while you are hosing it, I've been shot up really bad that way before).  You can even kill other B17s in it pretty easily, you just have to manuever into a position where you can bring more guns to bear than they can.  I prefer diving below and to one side, you only have to be within 1.5k or so to bring them down.

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« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2001, 11:31:00 AM »
kiled a Arado in B17 , the dumb think fly  above my at 2 k higher, but icons showed 900 or something, so  sprayed him litle with top turet   :D

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« Reply #34 on: September 26, 2001, 12:10:00 PM »
3 planes consistently chew my Lancasters down the most....

1.  P47
2.  F4-C
3.  La7

P-47:  Just do amazing damage with those 8 50 cals.  Every sortie I flew the other night, a P-47 made a boom and zoom and nailed my entire underbelly with 50 cals.  Had to belly land on all 3 sorties since the gear was shot up, leaking fuel, etc etc.  Jugs take an amazing amount of hits and keep coming back.

F-4C:  Its those 20mm Hispanos.  Nuff said

La7s:  Nose mounted cannons, very nimble and a relatively small airplane from head-on view to lock the guns on to.  In most cases, by time you have the bead on the La7 and start shooting, he's already dealt you his cannons.  Hit the silk!

G10s, Ta-152 and others all depend on their approaches.  I tend to down most anything that comes at co-alt.  Those that strike from above, or do sweeping hits do the most damage.  P-51s work well, and even co-alt B17s can hammer you real good, since they are firing thru their own structures to lock every gun on you!  

My 2 cents

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« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2001, 12:35:00 PM »
Ta152 for bombers above 28K

P38L for bombers below 28K

La5FN for bombers below 20K

Fw190A5+Fw190A8 for bombers below 18K

P51B for bombers below 25K

P47D-25 for vulching bombers on the runway.
-SW

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« Reply #36 on: September 26, 2001, 01:24:00 PM »
Come to think of it,
My best buff killing sortie was in a Panzer parked at the end of an enemy runway.
28 kills, of which about 1/2 were B-26s.
I highly recomend the HE rounds.  AP rounds tend to chop off tails and wings which lets them skid to a halt and .ef .

 :)
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