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Salvadoreno
08-22-05, 05:34 AM
DO Planes ever Strafe the Uboat with GUNFIRE?! Just today on my first patrol out i was shadowing a c2 for like 3 hours real time trying to get into a decent firing position and doing the calculations myself for the first time. Well while i finally figured her speed and course, and adjusted my boat to it, i didnt realize i was pretty close, and being surfaced the boat spotted me and must have called coastal command. Out of nowhere while getting ready to get into firing position i heard its engines and panicked trying to look where it was coming from! It missed waaaaay aft of my boat and just flew off. It was a spitfire!! So i know it had guns!! Why didnt it strafe my uboat! It could have totally shot up my panicked crew?! Anyway this angers me so much! How can they not add machine gun fire to planes? Only depth charges and bombs? Sooo lame.. This is probably my biggest dissapointment. Anyway sorry for the long story, but do planes ever strafe you or what!
TDK1044
08-22-05, 05:56 AM
Planes do strafe the U boat sometimes. I've had damage from gunfire while diving.
SmokinTep
08-22-05, 06:05 AM
I have lost gun crews to gun fire before.
U-104
08-22-05, 08:21 AM
Yes they do :)
cunnutazzo
08-22-05, 08:26 AM
Spitfires? I have seen no strafing Hurricanes only in the game.
But the Sunderlands and the B24 bomb and strafe!
Detritus
08-22-05, 10:10 AM
There are NO Spitfires in the game, only Hurricanes and they're quite different things. I've had Hurris strafing me, especially near Gibraltar. Sunderlands and Liberators do it on regular basis, PBY's also I think. Don't know about others.
U-104
08-22-05, 01:45 PM
There are NO Spitfires in the game, only Hurricanes and they're quite different things. I've had Hurris strafing me, especially near Gibraltar. Sunderlands and Liberators do it on regular basis, PBY's also I think. Don't know about others. What year?
Ula Jolly
08-22-05, 01:54 PM
Hurricanes pack a tad heavier punch than Spitfires, IIRC. :dead:
TheSwampFox
08-22-05, 01:59 PM
I had a Hurricane pilot that must've been a conscientious objector or something a few days ago. He bounced me and before I could maneuver he flew RIGHT over my boot, aft to fore at low altitude. He was in perfect strafing position and never pulled the trigger. I decided to fight it out with him since it had been a while since I saw action. He made multiple perfect passes over my boat but never strafed me or dropped ordinance. He might've been on CAP and was out of ammo, vectoring in buddies, but another Hurri showed up and played wingman...I have no idea why they didn't drop me.
Detritus
08-23-05, 05:15 AM
There are NO Spitfires in the game, only Hurricanes and they're quite different things. I've had Hurris strafing me, especially near Gibraltar. Sunderlands and Liberators do it on regular basis, PBY's also I think. Don't know about others. What year?

What year what :) If you ask Hurris, the last time I was bounced by them was back in spring ยด42. Was charging batteries and the first recon plane didn't fire but the consecutive groups waves all did. Not much of a damage, flak gun damaged a couple of times but mainly I was worried about the crew. Can't remember if they strafe you around Loch Ewe and surroundings, since it's been so long I've been there. The bigger planes all seem to fire at you, all the time.
silent_otto
08-23-05, 09:23 AM
Swampfox, I'd guess that Hurricane had a wasserbomben (depthcharges) load, and as it seems, planes with that weapon dont attack unless you are submerged or submerging. You can read that info around on other threads, many times it's safer to withstand their first run on the surface and submerge when they are preparing next run.

But beware of Boeings, they seem to always attack and carry an amazing load...
U-104
08-23-05, 11:54 AM
boeings?
silent_otto
08-23-05, 01:29 PM
B-17s they carry quite a load and seem to always drop... maybe they always load bombs... :doh:
U-104
08-23-05, 01:36 PM
I didn't know the game had b-17 in it :oops:
Damo1977
08-23-05, 05:35 PM
But beware of Boeings, they seem to always attack and carry an amazing load...

That put a picture in my head of a 747 attacking a u-boat....:oops:..... well I have an excuse I live right next to the airport. Anyhows I didn't now that B-17's were in the game either........well I have learnt something today :up:
U-104
08-23-05, 05:43 PM
But beware of Boeings, they seem to always attack and carry an amazing load...

That put a picture in my head of a 747 attacking a u-boat....:oops:.....LOL me too
Catfish
08-23-05, 05:45 PM
Hello,
really don't know whether all those details are realized in the game, but if a british plane would find a U-boat, it would probably NOT immediately drop the bombs until the U-boat was in a dive, because the vulnerable open vents of the flooding tanks would almost surely be destroyed by a bomb, sinking the boat. This does not explain the "passive" behaviour of not strafing the boat i know.
Greetings,
Catfish
Beery
08-23-05, 07:28 PM
I didn't know the game had b-17 in it :oops:

Maybe he means the Consolidated (I don't think it was Boeing) B-24s. There is no B-17 in the game.
HundertzehnGustav
08-24-05, 10:45 AM
Hurricane MK IIB
P38 Lightning
Catalina / Nomad
Liberator
Sunderland
Wellington
Walrus
Swordfish

Me 109
Ju 88
FW 200
Arado

Thats it IIRC :yep:

but where is the
Avro Anson,
Saro London
Navy liberator
Navy Mitchells

why dont he Wimpys never bomb me and why dont my men die from 20 mm shells that the Hurricanes sposed to use?

Questions.... :(
U-104
08-24-05, 01:22 PM
I didn't know the game had b-17 in it :oops:

Maybe he means the Consolidated (I don't think it was Boeing) B-24s. There is no B-17 in the game. ok.