View Full Version : Which Allied Aircraft Do You Dread The Most ?
Otto Von Bismark
08-09-07, 05:56 PM
Just thought i post a poll to see which aircraft are the most pesky to us submariners!
If you can, please give a location as to where you got your air contact !. :up:
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
08-09-07, 06:17 PM
none of them :arrgh!:
they fear me
Puster Bill
08-09-07, 06:20 PM
Which Allied Aircraft Do You Dread The Most ?
The one that is diving on my boat. The other ones, not so much.
I dive before knowing who is after me. :rotfl: :rotfl: Curiosity killed the cat.
Kpt. Lehmann
08-09-07, 06:53 PM
BwaHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaaaaaa! :cool: :cool: :cool:
Foghladh_mhara
08-09-07, 07:04 PM
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
i fear the same one as Puster Bill
the one diving on my boat
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
try being attacked by 8 swordfish at the same time:damn: (i wouldn reccomend it though:rotfl: as its danger to your health)
see how easy it is then;)
Foghladh_mhara
08-09-07, 07:28 PM
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
try being attacked by 8 swordfish at the same time:damn: (i wouldn reccomend it though:rotfl: as its danger to your health)
see how easy it is then;)
Were you sitting in the harbour in Taranto or something? They only fly at 15 MPH. :D
madmike81
08-09-07, 07:29 PM
those flying boats and their endless supply of bombs to drop on me.
they travel in packs...
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
try being attacked by 8 swordfish at the same time:damn: (i wouldn reccomend it though:rotfl: as its danger to your health)
see how easy it is then;)
Were you sitting in the harbour in Taranto or something? They only fly at 15 MPH. :D
well reason they bombed the s*** outta me was because a merchant was fireing at me and a destroyer was headding directly for me
and i couldn dive.....
got the DD
and the merchant got a nice torp from tube 5
i then went up to 2048 tc so i wouldn be caught by aircrafts again:rotfl:
Mooncatt
08-09-07, 08:15 PM
ive only ever seen three, thats the wellington, swordfish and hurricane.
i had to vote for the hurricane........very fast and accurate.
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
Lagger123987
08-09-07, 08:31 PM
Those Mosqits is my worst enemy.
johnno74
08-09-07, 09:50 PM
I voted for the mossie...
... and I haven't even come across one with rockets yet :dead:
I've seen pics, and thats enough to scare the pants off me
The ones with wings scare me. Crash Dive!
bookworm_020
08-09-07, 11:44 PM
B-24's, In particular.:shifty:
In Stock they were the one aircraft that I feared above all other, they would let loose there bomb's outside flak range and then would do the same thing again.
Now that I play GWX, all of them are scary!:huh:
Haven't met the Beaufighter yet, they are (should) be particularly nasty.
I haven't seen a Sunderland in ages. Are they still about in GWX?
headcase
08-10-07, 01:09 AM
All of them. And the those I can't see most of all. ALLLLLAAAARRRMMM!!!!!
Those with machine guns - avoiding the depthcharge droppers is possible, but those damn guns :damn:
You are weak if you fear your enemy :stare:
Hakahura
08-10-07, 04:32 AM
I fear no aircraft.
Then again I do dive as soon as I get so much as a hint of one.
My favorite aircraft are the ones that slide off carrier decks after I sink them!
SmokinTep
08-10-07, 05:36 AM
None. I don't stay on the surface long enough to see what kind they are.
Biggles
08-10-07, 06:04 AM
I'm having alot of problem with the Ansons outside Scotland. Apart from that, it's mostly nothing to fear.
IrischKapitan
08-10-07, 06:20 AM
I hate the mossie, I got jumped by a whole squadron of them off corsica (damn watchcrew was asleep), killed two flack gunners and put plenty off 20mm sized holes in my sub, thats not even mentioning rockets of bombs or dc...... :nope:
Mosquitos are damn fast... but now I've turned off external camera (bye bye screenies) to not get tempted even just a bit and received a radar signal. Spotted a single plane so got my gunners to man the M42 Zwieling (Cobalt C41 boat) :arrgh!: First round produced lots of black holes in the sunny sky and the Anson went down in pieces, wow :arrgh!:
Petsman
08-10-07, 07:34 AM
Just dive in most cases. Hurricanes are tough. But in stock SH3 i can manage a fight with them!
danlisa
08-10-07, 07:41 AM
BwaHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaaaaaa! :cool: :cool: :cool:
Exactly, during the last spate of testing, I hate them all.:arrgh!:
FIREWALL
08-10-07, 08:30 AM
You are weak if you fear your enemy :stare:
You are dead if you don't respect your enemy :D
You are weak if you fear your enemy :stare:
You are dead if you don't respect your enemy :D
Tosh, blow them out of the sky.;) :D
mowgli99
08-10-07, 08:46 AM
Well the sunderlands always find me south west of ireland but catalinas.... those arent dangerous but just annoying. Everytime one comes all the RAF comes. I hate sunderlands the most though.
nikbear
08-10-07, 12:27 PM
Mozzies for me,although sunderlands are not far behind but lets face it,any flavour of flying devil can really upset your patrol if your not careful;)as a thought,the luftwaffe counted a mosquito kill as 2 not 1 plane due to its fast speed,agility and ferocious firepower,so much was they're respect for it:up:
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
08-10-07, 12:39 PM
i just remember i fear one kind of dive bomber.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/evangelionunit03/SH3Img18-7-2007_1123.55_62.jpg
(i do not fear the type, just when it do's things like this)
beaufighters are the worst!
.. oh my, if you think the planes are nasty now...... :oops: :oops:
KeptinCranky
08-10-07, 02:37 PM
BwaHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaaaaaa! :cool: :cool: :cool:
why don't we let the Good Kaptain wallow in his vindication for a bit :D
For me it's definitely the Sunderland
Biggles
08-10-07, 02:45 PM
The big planes are no problem at all, they're easy to hit.
And the Swordfish! I LOVE the Swordfish! Easy target practice!:yep:
Goose_green
08-10-07, 03:45 PM
i just remember i fear one kind of dive bomber.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/evangelionunit03/SH3Img18-7-2007_1123.55_62.jpg
(i do not fear the type, just when it do's things like this)
Especially when they seem hell bent on going on some suicide/kamakazi dive at you - and that includes those that show off at the same time!
bigboywooly
08-10-07, 04:00 PM
I vote OTHER
If there was a choice
:rotfl:
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
So I stick with those nasty Wildcats. There was a time when they ruled the oceans. That was also the time I played Air Warrior 3. Coincidence ? :cool:
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
:hmm: :hmm:
Kpt. Lehmann
08-10-07, 05:56 PM
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
:hmm: :hmm:
:nope: :stare: :p
Biggles
08-10-07, 06:34 PM
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
:hmm: :hmm:
:nope: :stare: :p
Do you lads know something that we don't? If you do, then everything is back to normal.:lol:
JackSparrow
08-11-07, 12:09 PM
So I stick with those nasty Wildcats. There was a time when they ruled the oceans. That was also the time I played Air Warrior 3. Coincidence ? :cool:
Haha :rotfl:
Jimbuna
08-11-07, 12:47 PM
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
:hmm: :hmm:
:nope: :stare: :p
Do you lads know something that we don't? If you do, then everything is back to normal.:lol:
:yep: ;)
Biggles
08-11-07, 03:07 PM
I would have liked to vote for the B-17 but it isn't there :cry:
:hmm: :hmm:
:nope: :stare: :p
Do you lads know something that we don't? If you do, then everything is back to normal.:lol:
:yep: ;)
ooooh, I like the look of this, but I'll keep my mouth shut......;)
Sailor Steve
08-11-07, 04:45 PM
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
Biggles
08-11-07, 06:34 PM
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
The reason that no Swordfish was shot down by Bismarck is that the crew of the ship overestimated the planes speed and manoeuvre ability, thus aiming their anti-air weapons too far ahead of the planes. And the planes didn't do any real harm anyway, except for one of course, flown by John Moffat, which torpedo (as we all know by now) struck the rudder and stayed there.
mowgli99
08-12-07, 01:29 AM
Well, does anyone else like to stay surfaced and fight these buggers. Personally i man the flak guns if i see the radar warning moving quickly towards me. I only dive in 3 situations. 1) i'm already damaged 2)out of ammo and 3) if i think an asw group is around (or any DD). They tend to sneak up on you after plane contact. Then relentless catalina patrols.
Jimbuna
08-12-07, 07:54 AM
Never underestimate anything that can move and manouvre faster than you....not to mention the fact they carry livery that can destroy you :arrgh!:
bigboywooly
08-12-07, 09:11 AM
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
And the Italian fleet at Taranto
Damn straight, Swordfish were nasty little buggers and reletivly few of them were lost or shot down, they were very agile if not as fast as more modern designs. I guess Sh3 doesnt represent them very well - especially since they cant lob torpedos about.. :oops:
Just like Eclos, they are hindered due to some poor decision making by the dev team.
Sailor Steve
08-12-07, 05:20 PM
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
The reason that no Swordfish was shot down by Bismarck is that the crew of the ship overestimated the planes speed and manoeuvre ability, thus aiming their anti-air weapons too far ahead of the planes. And the planes didn't do any real harm anyway, except for one of course, flown by John Moffat, which torpedo (as we all know by now) struck the rudder and stayed there.
Yes, I've heard that; and also that the sighting systems for the 10.5cm heavy flak guns were unable to compensate for such a slow target; but they also had 16 3.7cm and 18 2cm guns, hand fired and similar to what you have on your u-boat. If they couldn't bring them down, why should you?
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
And the Italian fleet at Taranto
I disagree with everyone. How's that? :smug:
Jimbuna
08-13-07, 06:47 AM
I disagree with everyone. How's that? :smug:
Your entitled to your opinion just like everyone else :yep:
Biggles
08-13-07, 06:08 PM
swordfish is a bunch of crap, i shot 3 down in the space of 10 secs today.
I'm sure the crew of the Bismarck would disagree.
The reason that no Swordfish was shot down by Bismarck is that the crew of the ship overestimated the planes speed and manoeuvre ability, thus aiming their anti-air weapons too far ahead of the planes. And the planes didn't do any real harm anyway, except for one of course, flown by John Moffat, which torpedo (as we all know by now) struck the rudder and stayed there.
Yes, I've heard that; and also that the sighting systems for the 10.5cm heavy flak guns were unable to compensate for such a slow target; but they also had 16 3.7cm and 18 cm guns, hand fired and similar to what you have on your u-boat. If they couldn't bring them down, why should you?
In the end it comes down to two things:
1. Skill.
2. The fact that SHIII is a game, and why anyone would input enemies in a game that are near impossible to defeat goes beyond my intelligence.
HunterICX
08-14-07, 03:46 AM
Beaufighter,
;) I use it myself to sink Uboats and german shipping in IL2.
oops...Now in this section I,m a traitor :p
Jimbuna
08-14-07, 11:28 AM
Beaufighter,
;) I use it myself to sink Uboats and german shipping in IL2.
oops...Now in this section I,m a traitor :p
Not really....I've seen how lousy your aim is ;)
Sailor Steve
08-14-07, 03:52 PM
[In the end it comes down to two things:
1. Skill.
2. The fact that SHIII is a game, and why anyone would input enemies in a game that are near impossible to defeat goes beyond my intelligence.
And I don't understand why anyone would play a sim that lets them shoot down airplanes like they were swatting flies.
But then I always dive when I see one, so it doesn't affect me too much.
Biggles
08-14-07, 07:00 PM
[In the end it comes down to two things:
1. Skill.
2. The fact that SHIII is a game, and why anyone would input enemies in a game that are near impossible to defeat goes beyond my intelligence.
And I don't understand why anyone would play a sim that lets them shoot down airplanes like they were swatting flies.
But then I always dive when I see one, so it doesn't affect me too much.
You can always tweak reality abit. There isn't just one or the other; it's not like you either can shoot down the enemy or you can not do it, I only mean that by making it a tad easier to shoot down airplanes in SHIII, it'll get more interesting and fun. Let's face it: In real world, the planes were a nightmare for these skippers (just as they may be for us), but they had more to lose and to stay and fight was a very unnecessary risk in most cases. If we get blown up by a plane in SHIII, what do we lose? A good career? If they got blown up by a plane, they lost their lives. Obviously they mostly dived during contact, since it was very dangerous and very hard to defeat a flying enemy like that. But the basis for any game in the world is that it gotta be enjoyable, and making airplanes in SHIII nothing more than annoying and dangerous enemies that you can't defeat would've gotten against that principle, so by tweaking the realism a bit, and making those pesky Hurricanes a little less manuverable (yes they ARE fast and small, but the real deal was much faster and didn't fly in a straight line all the time) opens up the game a little, giving it a new area of strategy: Shall I stay and fight or go under, instead of just go under.
Wow, this became a long reply, and I'm sure someone will dug up something against me in this text that doesn't make sense, but it's late so....;)
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
I read recently that during the attack on the Bismarck they didn't hit the swordfish as they didn't believe anything could fly that slowly!
Sailor Steve
08-16-07, 11:15 AM
The Swordfish is in the poll????? I could shoot down the whole Fleet Air Arm! Them feckin' Mosquitos should be banned from the game though. Thats just not fair :nope:
I read recently that during the attack on the Bismarck they didn't hit the swordfish as they didn't believe anything could fly that slowly!
See above posts #45, 46 and 51.
Anything that carries rockets ;)
Mosquito's are the most annoying...
Name says it..
Dive - raise - dive - raise
To fast and small to kill them as they deserve it... :arrgh!:
Penelope_Grey
09-30-07, 10:43 AM
WHY!? Are you resurecting these ancient threads?!
panzer 49th
09-30-07, 10:48 AM
You are weak if you fear your enemy :stare:
You are weak if your sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
Jimbuna
09-30-07, 11:48 AM
WHY!? Are you resurecting these ancient threads?!
Looks like it's the necro season :lol:
WHY!? Are you resurecting these ancient threads?!
Looks like it's the necro season :lol:
Resurected nasty wings :|\\
Spruence M
10-01-07, 01:11 PM
I dread them all....:dead:
Blacklight
10-01-07, 01:30 PM
There's no option for "All of the above" !!!!
baggygreen
10-17-07, 12:10 AM
I've only seen 2 hurricanes since I came back from my little stint with FSX.
In 2 patrols over '39/early '40 i've seen 2 planes, including a trip through the channel, I was stafed once but never suffered any damage, his accuracy was well off.
I love the aircraft atm!:yep::lol::D
none of them :arrgh!:
they fear me
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Wait a minute your not joking :o good grief :eek: your telling me you fight back :huh: wow :ping: kick ass :up: kill them all :rock: and when you run out of AA ammo throw your AA guns at them. :D
none of them
they fear me
Wait a minute your not joking :o good grief :eek: your telling me you fight back :huh: wow :ping: kick ass :up: kill them all :rock: and when you run out of AA ammo throw your AA guns at them. :D
or
how about you just dive when your out of AA ammo
or out of crew willing to man the AA:rotfl: :rotfl:
none of them
they fear me
Wait a minute your not joking :o good grief :eek: your telling me you fight back :huh: wow :ping: kick ass :up: kill them all :rock: and when you run out of AA ammo throw your AA guns at them. :D
or
how about you just dive when your out of AA ammo
or out of crew willing to man the AA:rotfl: :rotfl:
You can always flash your bum to them. :D
Jimbuna
10-17-07, 03:09 PM
Try throwing the crew at them :lol:
NiclDoe
10-17-07, 07:51 PM
Try throwing the crew at them :lol:
You mean that I should Throw Bernard at the aircraft from now on? :doh: I already use him for spare torps.
baggygreen
10-17-07, 08:14 PM
Dont worry nicldoe,
bernard will Manage to keep coming on back! he's good like that.... just like a recurring nightmare:D:yep:
Jimbuna
10-18-07, 09:37 AM
Tir a bit of elastic around his neck :lol:
seafarer
10-18-07, 11:45 AM
I hate those Short Sunderlands, seen here attacking a poor little ViiC
http://www.airwaveyachts.com.au/Aircraft/Photos/Bombs.JPG
(or, Fun with RC toys (http://www.airwaveyachts.com.au/Aircraft/Photos.html)) :up:
Von Manteuffel
10-19-07, 06:46 AM
The one we've just spotted.
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