Pick Your Own Air Force

• Mar 17, 2005

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the lancaster kicks ass

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fact of the metter is though that the ones used were not reliable........

 

• Mar 17, 2005

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I never said they were...

 

• Mar 17, 2005

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Exactly, if you said coupled engines were good you'd have to say that the Manchester was good!

 

• Mar 17, 2005

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TAF - Tony's Airforce

1.Trainer = Harvard - Good allrounder at a reasonable speeds
2. Transport = Avro York - High wing makes for better capacity!
3. Ground attack = Tempest - One hell of a mean machine!
4. Bomber = Lancaster - best in europe for capacity of bombs range.
5. Fighter = Spitfire XIV - Excellent all round performance
6. Nightfighter = Mosquito NF variant - good for intruder raids too!
7. Fighter = FW 190D-9 - interim stop gap variant, but damn fine.
8. Bomber = B29 Capacity range in the later years of the war
9. Maritime = B24 Liberator - Range more bomb capacity than a sunderland.

 

• Mar 17, 2005

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mosquitoman said:

Exactly, if you said coupled engines were good you'd have to say that the Manchester was good!

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The Manchester was the seed from which the Lancaster Grew!!

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Yep, they needed the Manchester to remove most of the problems to make way for the Lanc. Nice list BTW

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Edit to my list:

Fighter - Fw-190A-8
Fighter - Fw-190D-9
Fighter - P-38L
Fighter - P-47D
Fighter - F4U-4
Bomber - B-29
Attack - Me-410
Transport - SM.81
Trainer - Harvard


Notice a theme?

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Yes the B-29 could not be compared to a Lanc, that I agree. But again there were no bombers that had the durability of the B-17. She could take a beating and still fly home. That is the main reason that the B-17 is my fav.

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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yes CC, it's very anti-british............

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Did you expect him not to be?

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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well he's not giving the british enough cradit that's for sure............

mind you in saying that most if not all of my list will be british...........

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Okay, here is the MAF (Maestro's Air Force) list :

1 - Trainer : Harvard
2 - Transport : C-47
3 - Fighter : Spitfire Mk. IX
4 - Fighter : P-51D Mustang
5 - Fighter-bomber : Tempest Mk. V
6 - Bomber : B-25 Mitchell
7 - Bomber : Lancaster
8 - Bomber : B-17 Flying Fortress
9 - Fighter : Hurricane Mk. IIC

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Nice list!

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Maestro, does that mean your airfield would be called the "Maestro Air Force International Aerodrome"? Or "MAFIA" for short?

So what if my list is anti British, I dont need British planes to win me an air war 8)

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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the lancaster kicks ass said:

yes CC, it's very anti-british............

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Well I am not anti British or anything but if were going to do this whole anti whatever country and all, I am going to change my list to and get rid of the 2 British planes I had on my list.

Adlers new list:

1. T-6 Texan (trainer)
2. DC-3 (transport)
3. Fw-190D-9 (Day fighter)
4. Me-109G-6 (day fighter)
5. B-29 (bomber)
6. He-219 (night fighter)
7. P-38 Lightning (day fighter)
8. B-17G (bomber)
9. P-47D (ground attack/fighter)

 

• Mar 18, 2005

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Hey, I'm not anti any country. I just prefer british planes. BTW 4 of my planes aren't British (Harvard, Me262, Mustang and Liberator)

 

• Mar 19, 2005

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Im not against any country either. I just dont really like British planes that much

 

• Mar 19, 2005

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cheddar cheese said:

Maestro, does that mean your airfield would be called the "Maestro Air Force International Aerodrome"? Or "MAFIA" for short?

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Hey, that's not a bad idea...

With a name like that (and the planes I listed) no one will dare to attack me.

 

• Mar 19, 2005

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I don't know, maybe I could set the Kray brothers on you

 

• Mar 19, 2005

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My airforce would annilhate your airforce... 8)