What the hell is going on? I'm sick of spiralling in backward with the words "Rear fuselarge missing" Metal skined aircraft did not have a huge problem with there arse ends falling off..... If this game is to be belived alied planes would have been dropping out of the sky all the time . And no they did not fall out of the sky... Only a very small % would have gone down with the words "Rear fuselarge missing" ringing in there ears.
Well?. I am not too impressed by it. With a muzzle velocity of about 8.75m/s = 29ft/s I can easily fly away from it. So unless the mne is ?very- close, why bother.
30mm it's nothing, who know me know my feeling with 40mm ack, every field attacks the damn ack gunner aim on me Got already hit by 40mm at 1.7km fling in Dora, but the most beautiful hit was a direct Pk in He177 (poor pilot, not much left) at 4.8km from a 80mm. I think it was Rgreat who sayd : "it's impossible get hit from a 80mm"
Damage from an 80mm ack was not by direct hit, rather it was by the shrapnel that scattered when the HE shell exploded at the required altitude. Very few of these shells ever hit the target directly. As it tends to be in WB from my experience. I often get pinged by 80mm, but I can not ever recall being hit by an 80mm. Others may have experienced differently. Regards, Oz
I got wacked by an 80mm once... One min i was flying along minding my own... The next i was back in the tower... just like that.... but it only happend once so far...
You should see the 88mm at wb.eu It blows you away easily at 7km ... Its suicide to fly over a main field under 2k!!! I like the ack here! Feels realistic!
I got hit already from 80mm shells too, lost already a wing on JU88 due to one shell who hit my Rfuel tank, but thzis time i got kicked to the tower with report sayng PK and hits status sayd i got hit by a 30-37mm or something like this
usually 12mm get killed before to hit my plane, what i can't understand is how 40mm can hit my plane 2km over a field fling one of the faster planes, fling NOT on level and NOT following the runway, this gunman deserve a medal I think ack should be more and more strong, just saw again the battle of Midway moovie and saw how 1 CV with 2 DD was able to destroy 12 TBF without get one single bomb. 80mm ack should be increased over cityes and doks, same for large fields, the only way to approach a large field should be on bomber at 7 or more km, if not, pilots should have to fly between a huge fog of flaks.
The one thing I've noticed about EuroWB is the acks fire out to a huge distance. For example you need at least 6K (metres) above a large field to not have acks firing at you and the CV starts shooting at your plane before you can even see it visually. Saying that the AA fire in EuroWB isn't nearly as accurate as it is in FH just annoying and I'm not sure I'd want AA's in FH to be as good. Malino
Big caliber of flack wasn't accurate, a 88mm shell was able to eject till 150 shrapnel from 4 to 9 grams each one at one speed of 1200m/s, this genre of shrapnel is able to hit with serius damages till 200 meters, ack haven't to be more accurate (gunners are already snipers, i know the feeling of 40mm ), but for the 88mm have a highter fire ratio, a big field should have at least 10 x 88mm with a fire ratio of 1 shell every second. Fields as CV should have better defences, 1st: coops would be needed for attack them and not some lonely hvy fighters. 2nd: bombers deployement could be increased 3th: myb ppl would stop vulch landing planes due to the highter danger to get hit from a direct hit or from shrapnel. Or maybe add the Switzerland anti aircrafts cannons 145mm, 43kg with 5000 shrapnel ejected at 1400m/s, few of them are able to cut a tree at 300 meters of distance from the explosion.
