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Unreal_One posted:Mods? Meh, that thing is lame looking. It's just a less sleek looking Ki-61 Tony. I love me the tri-engines though. And the big bomber/gun platform is so wonky looking. Their planes look like they saw modern planes and tried to apply interwar designs to them.
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Sard posted:Here's a more detailed look at what was buffed about AP shells last week. I can't tell if that's a nerf or a buff. On one hand shrapnel spread seems to become more focused. On the other, maybe this is just focused enough that it increases damage per component hit without making it so tight that your gun is a railgun? I have trouble parsing that.
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YF-23 posted:I can't tell if that's a nerf or a buff. On one hand shrapnel spread seems to become more focused. On the other, maybe this is just focused enough that it increases damage per component hit without making it so tight that your gun is a railgun? I have trouble parsing that. One thing I did notice was that the thickness of the armor now very much does determine how much spalling you get. Thin armor means it will punch right through and you get 1 big, heavy slug and a tiny bit of shrapnel shooting through. Thick armor means you have an ungodly mess of spall shrapnel and slug fragments making a shotgun of doom.
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Most of those nerfs seem to be aimed at the shell spalling, but the armor spalling probably makes up for it.
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Yeah it's probably a nerf against lightly armored stuff. I already bring 5 HE rounds whenever I take Brit Tonks out just because removing trucks can be annoying with slugs and MGs. There's gonna be a bit of a weird spot though of lightly armored stuff that has just enough armor to defend against normal HE that AP slugs will just shoot right through and do gently caress-all unless they hit a gun-breach or set the engine on fire.
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17-pounders can reliably hull break light vehicles even with AP, last I checked. I was able to do it to an 88 truck at least.
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Bloody Pom posted:17-pounders can reliably hull break light vehicles even with AP, last I checked. I was able to do it to an 88 truck at least. Wait, I thought Hull Break only worked with HE?
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btw, if any Plane or Tank spergs like to post about ammo types and explosive fillers and makes and models and fragmentation and the like, and you haven't been following this goon-written blog of just shitloads of WW2 bomb/shell/projectile data, shame on you: http://ww2data.blogspot.com/
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Alkydere posted:Wait, I thought Hull Break only worked with HE? I think any round over 75mm can also cause it. AP (and variants) does it less reliably than APHE but it's there. I know I've hull-broken an 88 truck with the APC round on the Avenger.
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mlmp08 posted:btw, if any Plane or Tank spergs like to post about ammo types and explosive fillers and makes and models and fragmentation and the like, and you haven't been following this goon-written blog of just shitloads of WW2 bomb/shell/projectile data, shame on you: http://ww2data.blogspot.com/ Someone needs to get Ensign Expendable to come play the better game instead of WoT. I tried once but he was confused by the lack of HP bars  Relevant because his blog is amazing, particularly the directly translated Russian documents on projects. http://tankarchives.blogspot.com
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The FV 4005
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armee de l'air would be a cool addition, they had some very promising aircraft in small numbers, esp. in the ground attack/ fast medium bomber roles. and of course the early jet age would give you cool poo poo like the ouragan, magister, vautour, etc. French plane porn incoming  Bloch mb.175  Breguet 693  Potez 63.11  LeO 451  Amiot 354 They also operated what is probably my favorite American plane that never saw American use, the Martin Maryland  so sexy. did i mention wing mounted mgs I usually think of farmans as fugly angular things, but the Nc. 2234 was imo one of the nicer looking heavy bombers of the war(despite/ due to it being designed for other duties)...also the first iirc to successfully bomb Berlin (Jules Verne depicted here doing just that)   side view an article about the escapades of Jules Verne: http://talesanecdotesandtrivia.blogspot.com/2015/05/jules-verne-bombed-berlin.html tl;dr french planes r kool free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 24, 2017 |
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That Potez looks like what would happen if an Il-2 hosed a He-111.
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free hubcaps posted:an article about the escapades of Jules Verne: http://talesanecdotesandtrivia.blogspot.com/2015/05/jules-verne-bombed-berlin.html quote:Eventually eight 75 kg bombs were dropped in two runs over what he assumed was a factory complex in the northern parts of the city as Flak started firing and search lights were turned on. A further 80 incendiaries were dropped by hand by Deschamps and Corneillet and two or three clips of machine gun ammunition were spent in an attempt to hit the search lights. Flight engineer Corneillet finished the raid by throwing out his shoes at the capitol of the Third Reich.
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Mr Chips posted:From that article's summary of the first raid on Berlin: quote:As the crew sat down for a well-deserved meal, the pilot, Yonnet, noticed Corneillet's bare feet. The flight engineer simply commented: "You know, they did not win anything. These shoes were almost worn out". the phoney war almost sounds like it was fun (until it wasn't) also I haven't read it yet but Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Flight to Arras is supposed to be a really excellent memoir about wartime flying in general and the overwhelming situation French pilots found themselves in during the German invasion in particular. e:ever so slightly more on topic the french liked to put fixed chase guns on some of their planes which I think could lead to some awesomeness/hilarity in game free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 14:49 on May 24, 2017 |
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May 24, 2017 14:31
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did they make planes great again?
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So did every French plane have 2 props or are those just the highlights and their regular fighters were poo poo?
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They had one really good single engine but it was being produced too late.
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I just really like twin engine planes  Also as previous poster said most of the fighters they had in service couldn't compete with the 109 at all but there were a few types in the flying prototype/early production series state that were pretty good aircraft. The Germans were impressed enough with Bloch's mb.157 prototype (a super refined/advanced version of the mediocre Mb.152) that they took it back to Germany with them for testing after the armistice.
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free hubcaps posted:I just really like twin engine planes they are very good in sim modes  fwiw  fighters are surprisingly capable in RoF but that's wwi...
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Welp, the G.55S BR was lowered from 5.0 to 4.7 in AB and 4.3 in RB/SB. Holy poo poo it's going to beat people senseless down there. https://gdoc.pub/doc/13KkNXpsBOD1fKQnQBmxmD5xQmW_qmHt_Hpp051aaVaQ
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Okay, we definitely need those ugly rear end French Planes in game. That drop engine bomber in particular is perfect. (It's got 4 props)
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jadebullet posted:Okay, we definitely need those ugly rear end French Planes in game. That drop engine bomber in particular is perfect. (It's got 4 props) I completely missed that, that's hilarious. The LeO is a real nice looking plane though
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Maintenance at 8 GMT. I gotta stay up and record videos from demos.
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i am prepared.
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I have dabbed my Dionysian body with various choice Italian scented oils, a crown of oak leaves rests upon my balding pate. Cry havoc and let slip the spaghetti planes
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That Breguet is adorable. Also Italian planes in 21 hours, nice.
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Is aerofascismo happening?
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I mean if there's one thing you can say about Mussolini it's that he made the planes release on time
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BBJoey posted:i am prepared. Us true believers have always been prepared. It is time
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let's go back through the archives and see what the doubting Thomases had to saymlmp08 posted:The Italian tree is going to be an olive tree or stone pine tank decoration and you know it. El Perkele posted:Hope is a mistake. Sard posted:oh yeah according to a popular WT dataminer, a French aircraft tree is currently being implemented with five planes added so far, so that sure sucks for Italy. BadOptics posted:Italian planes are never coming out. Bloody Pom posted:If his obsession with Italian planes is any indication, he's a strong supporter of lost causes I never lost faith I never lost hope I have been rewarded
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F5 F5 F5 F5
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Wait poo poo this was faster than expected.
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patch is 4.6gb of pure spag boll.
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For some reason it was 3.1gb here?
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It depends on how much your preload already did before you looked at it.
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You're missing the best bit: We now have smoke shells on tanks. Smoke owns.
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spectralent posted:You're missing the best bit: We now have smoke shells on tanks. Tanks are poo poo, hth
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I managed to farm like 3-4 T4 planes in an hour or so, meanwhile I'm like 1/3 of the way to a T4 tank while using the exact same methods. The grind is definitely worse.
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