WO McGoo and my airplane problem

foster · 03-14-12, 12:40 AM

So I'm steaming at about 21 in Jan '42 and I get the aircraft spotted notice right as a solitary spitfire patrol of two planes are pulling out of an attack run in which they missed badly. Usually I would dive but there are only two of them and I have an appointment to make with a radio contact.

I man my two flak guns and Sr. Lt McGoo is the WO, he is a specialist in watch, flak gun and medic. We give the spitfires hell on the next pass and one is smoking like Cheech. The damaged spitfire circles out of range and proceeds to slowly do a sputtering fly over down the length of my boat dragging a huge smoke trail, yet my WO cannot see it.

I reorder my WO to fire at will, I toggle between flack guns to wake them up, I even point my binoculars at the plane and hit the spacebar but my crew simple cannot see it even though it is close enough I could probably throw my binoculars and hit it at this point. This has happened to me several times.

My question is has anyone else experienced this problem and is there a solution to it other than taking manual control of a flak gun? Also, once the green efficiency bar of a station is completely full is there any benefit to adding more medals or qualified crew to that station?

Thanks and good hunting,
Red Casey

03-14-12, 12:40 AM	#1
foster Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, Tx Posts: 8 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	WO McGoo and my airplane problem So I'm steaming at about 21 in Jan '42 and I get the aircraft spotted notice right as a solitary spitfire patrol of two planes are pulling out of an attack run in which they missed badly. Usually I would dive but there are only two of them and I have an appointment to make with a radio contact. I man my two flak guns and Sr. Lt McGoo is the WO, he is a specialist in watch, flak gun and medic. We give the spitfires hell on the next pass and one is smoking like Cheech. The damaged spitfire circles out of range and proceeds to slowly do a sputtering fly over down the length of my boat dragging a huge smoke trail, yet my WO cannot see it. I reorder my WO to fire at will, I toggle between flack guns to wake them up, I even point my binoculars at the plane and hit the spacebar but my crew simple cannot see it even though it is close enough I could probably throw my binoculars and hit it at this point. This has happened to me several times. My question is has anyone else experienced this problem and is there a solution to it other than taking manual control of a flak gun? Also, once the green efficiency bar of a station is completely full is there any benefit to adding more medals or qualified crew to that station? Thanks and good hunting, Red Casey