I've only recently started playing WGS, but most of my collection dates from the Nexus era. I've been reviewing the dive bombing rules from the Fire In The Skies boxed set, and have a couple of questions:
1. Were the dive bombing rules ever updated and included in any Ares rule set? I've read the current WGS rules, and didn't see them. Is everyone still using the rules from FITS?
2. The Nexus FITS rules specify that only Ju 87 Stukas can dive bomb vertically. Nexus released two other dive bombers, the SBD Dauntless and the D3A Val, but the rules state that these planes can only do 'ordinary' dive bombing. Really? Does anyone know the basis for this? And do y'all agree? I recently enjoyed the movie Midway, and it looked like **** Best and his shipmates were diving very steeply on those Kido Butai carriers. It strikes me that 'ordinary' dive bombing corresponds to the 'glide bombing' that is shown in the movie being executed by green SBD pilots. I'm guessing that late-war fighter-bombers with no dive flaps would also make 'ordinary' dive bombing/glide bombing attacks. Opinions? Or facts, if you have any?
Oh for heaven's sake. There's a censor-bot on this website that doesn't want me to post the short form of *Richard* Best's first name, even if I capitalize it as a personal name. O, tempora! O, mores!
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