Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Try them out at 8000'. 

Heavy bombers are a bit wasted at low level, half the bombload and all.  And they are plenty accurate at 8000' if the crews are halfway competent.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: EUBanana

Try them out at 8000'. 

Heavy bombers are a bit wasted at low level, half the bombload and all.  And they are plenty accurate at 8000' if the crews are halfway competent.

I thought half the bombload was only when low level against ships?

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ORIGINAL: 1EyedJacks

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ORIGINAL: bigred

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You are right, the lower the altitude at which your bombers make their runs, the greater the damage they will cause. However, the lower the altitude, the more bombers you will lose since more AA will be able to hit them. It's a trade-off that only you can determine if it is worthwhile. But to complain that your losses are too high when sending B17s in to "strafe" an airfield (that is how the game system treats a 100' air attack) does seem a little too much...

Well, maybe Mattep74 wanted to straf the air field w/ his .50 cal guns as well as drop bombs? Could be a good gun platform if they survive the flak, just like "c47 puff". If not any AA on hex then the b17 should be able to "straf". IIRC the .5 had a straight line bullet range of 1.5miles..side, bottom and top turrents could all "fix on" a target.

- I just about busted a gut at your reference to Puff! Of course Puff flies a tad bit above the 100ft level... <grin>

But I can just picture the light bulb going off in someone's head as they watched a B17 strafing an airfield... "You know - if we put a bunch of gattling guns in a C-47..." And thus the design concept for the Magic Dragon was born.

I guess the actual idea for the AC-47 came from Captain R. W. Terry watching DC-3s delivering mail. It's amazing where some people get their inspiration from.

"Puff the magic Dragon,
a bird of days long gone,
Came to fly the evening sky
In a land called Vietnam."

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Ttfn,

Mike

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ORIGINAL: traskott

IIRC, IRL, B-29s made night low level attacks at japanese industry on 1945..Is this a valid option in WitPAE?

PS: The best option to the B-17F is landing next to the target and strafe it...Well, I did that on the (very) old Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe...

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"Puff the magic Dragon,
a bird of days long gone,
Came to fly the evening sky
In a land called Vietnam."

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ORIGINAL: Erkki

By the way... I understand that by the time the Japanese get the Ki-67 it might not make it to production because fighters are much more important, and I know this could be tested quick using the editor.. But looking at the stats only, shouldnt the Ki-67 be almost as difficult to down as the B-24, or at least much, much more difficult than the G3M and G4M? I am yet to see the Netties get a kill despite the 20mm tail gun, but they might just not survive long enough. Does anyone have experience on how well or bad the Ki-67 survives against Allied fighters, especially those with only 4 HMGs such as FM-2 and P-51B?