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    I was looking in one of my books, and it shows a picture of a B-25H. And I was wondering what fire power it would have. It has eight 50cal machine guns, and one 75mm cannon.
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    Well... the P-47 is armed with 8 .50s, and is BBBB at short and BB at long range... so I'd probably go with that. The 75mm is a little trickier, though I wouldn't allow it to be used against aerial targets. Against ground-based targets? I might use a single D draw.

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    Definitely not an AtA weapon. Coming up with generic rules would be tricky, but a scenario specific would work.
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    Now, if only we could get everyone to organize their stuff, so people could find it...

    OldGuy59's WGS Equipment Cards Album - North American B-25H 75mm Cannon

    Not particularly "official". Yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OldGuy59 View Post
    Now, if only we could get everyone to organize their stuff, so people could find it...

    OldGuy59's WGS Equipment Cards Album - North American B-25H 75mm Cannon

    Not particularly "official". Yet.
    Nice! Not all that far from what I was thinking... though I considered that damage done was due to HE rather than RoF, which is why I figured a single "D" regardless of range.

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    Well Helmet does the model, if a bit pricey! Its all metal with decals though so I suppose that explains it.
    http://www.helmet-aircraft-200.co.uk...ectID=14187418

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rabbit 3 View Post
    Well Helmet does the model, if a bit pricey! Its all metal with decals though so I suppose that explains it.
    http://www.helmet-aircraft-200.co.uk...ectID=14187418
    [Update] Odd, when I went on to the webesite to create the link the price being quoted is Ł75.00. Yet when I went back on to the site connecting to the homepage and look it up the price is Ł18.00. Wonder if the Ł75.00 includes US postage or something?
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    I still get Ł75 and an extra Ł12 for postage to Australia. White metal planes are Ł19. I guess they are unpainted, although an extra Ł56 seems a lot for a paint job.

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    Thanks for the input!

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    i did a conversion to one of these. Click image for larger version. 

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ID:	259434 ive only ever flown it once. i gave it the bb/bbbb since the number of forward firing .50s equaled the p-47. for the 75mm i gave it dd/dddd just on the rough basis that its 75mm projectile was roughly analogous to the D gunned ki-61s 4 20mm cannons. not very scientific i know, but its something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milcoll73 View Post
    i did a conversion to one of these. Click image for larger version. 

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ID:	259434 ive only ever flown it once. i gave it the bb/bbbb since the number of forward firing .50s equaled the p-47. for the 75mm i gave it dd/dddd just on the rough basis that its 75mm projectile was roughly analogous to the D gunned ki-61s 4 20mm cannons. not very scientific i know, but its something.
    Great job on the plane! Where did you get the plane?
    I was thinking the same thing about the 75mm cannon.

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    its one of the green and brown ares b-25s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by milcoll73 View Post
    i did a conversion to one of these. Click image for larger version. 

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ID:	259434 ive only ever flown it once. i gave it the bb/bbbb since the number of forward firing .50s equaled the p-47. for the 75mm i gave it dd/dddd just on the rough basis that its 75mm projectile was roughly analogous to the D gunned ki-61s 4 20mm cannons. not very scientific i know, but its something.
    OldGuy59's WWII US Bombers - B25H Plane Card

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    OldGuy59's WGS Equipment Cards Album - B25H J2 Nose

    Note: Depending on the version, there were 4 cheek-mounted MGS, and the dorsal turret that could be fired in the forward arc. With the J2 Straffer Nose, this plane is a monster.
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    I think that you will find that the cheaper Helmut-200 models are unassembled white metal kits.

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    i based mine off an actual aircraft (just with a different colorscheme of eagle head [i wanted red,white,and blue]) thats had 4 .50s in the nose as was standard with the 75mm gun noses, with 2 duel .50 cheek packs for a total of 8 forward firing .50s like the j2 nose, just configured differently. now the j2s with 4 .50s in cheek packs are just scary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Naharaht View Post
    I think that you will find that the cheaper Helmut-200 models are unassembled white metal kits.
    Makes sense though the link dosn`t make it clear. Prices of the kit`s generally seem to be ok for what are intended to be display models rather than game pieces.

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    I'd allow the 75 against bombers, but not fighters. It's hand loaded, and you only got four shots per pass against slow-moving ship targets if you were LUCKY.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    I'd allow the 75 against bombers, but not fighters. It's hand loaded, and you only got four shots per pass against slow-moving ship targets if you were LUCKY.


    in the one scenario we had it firing at aircraft just for ****s & giggles but, yeah, its really only for surface targets. they did have an autoloading version, but it was still much to slow for air combat.



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