Convair B-36B Peacemaker

[Diamondback]

Couple more fire-arc illustrations from The Manual...



Also, for Arctic markings the hi-viz stuff should be Insignia Red not International Orange.

[OldGuy59]

Most of the gun arcs in Wings of War/Glory are restricted for game mechanics reasons, and not completely accurate. Waist and rear-firing guns could fire below the level of the plane, but the game started without altitude, so it wasn't an issue.

I go by this image, the first I ran into (IIRC) as I started working on cards:


The diagram above of the Ju-87 shows the optimum firing arc, and pretty much disposes of the tail blind spot, and allows shooting at targets below and behind the plane. Not something allowed in the game, presently.

So, most turrets (not all) in Real Life usually had some negative elevation, and should allow shooting at targets below/above level. It may not happen, if we stick to current game mechanics.

[Jager]

Most of the gun arcs in Wings of War/Glory are restricted for game mechanics reasons, and not completely accurate. Waist and rear-firing guns could fire below the level of the plane, but the game started without altitude, so it wasn't an issue.

Making the firing arcs more restrictive is also a game balancing mechanic. With no modifiers for deflection or taking account of turret turn rates, multi-gunned aircraft can be very unhistorically lethal to an attacking aircraft.
Just try and approach a box of B-17s without getting shredded.
Karl

[Diamondback]

Another note, the magnesium construction made these aircraft so vulnerable to fire that the Fire Checklist basically went straight to "hit the silk" because they went up like the Hindenburg.

Proposed rule for this:
Flammable Materials - This aircraft takes Fire special damage at twice normal rate.
Would also be applicable to Northrop P-79 Bantam too.

[Jager]

Another note, the magnesium construction made these aircraft so vulnerable to fire that the Fire Checklist basically went straight to "hit the silk" because they went up like the Hindenburg.

Proposed rule for this:
Flammable Materials - This aircraft takes Fire special damage at twice normal rate.
Would also be applicable to Northrop P-79 Bantam too.

Interesting. Good to know.
Much like the 70s and 80s model BMPs

Karl

[Diamondback]

Interesting. Good to know.
Much like the 70s and 80s model BMPs

Karl

Yeah, going up like a Zippo with two 15MT Runts in the bays... well, I'll bet even if anyone survived their undies WOULDN'T, and it'd probably be raining brown on the folks below for a bit. (Remember, ONE of these things damaged the test-drop plane beyond return-to-service and it needed a YEAR for the radiation to subside before they could scrap it...)