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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

I love the paint schemes on the pre-war jobs. The neutrality patrol star. The yellow wings and all that bare metal. Fate smiled on people who make plastic models when testors invented buffable metallic lacquer.

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

ORIGINAL: m10bob


Some of the Catalina flying boats had wheels, earlier ones did not..Has the game been able to make a differentiation now?(In vanilla you could not base any of them in an interior strip.)

Happily, yes.

Thank you, Cathartes!..This is all great and welcome news.

ORIGINAL: mdiehl

Yeah, the PBY5As were amhibious. The PBY5s were, errrm, don't know the right word, "aquatic" or something. No *retractable* wheels. However, IIRC, Consolidated (or a subcontractor) made a detachable frame with wheels, sort of like a boat trailer, that the PBY could run onto in shallow water, and then be towed from the water.

ORIGINAL: jcjordan

Not sure if this has been asked or not but in reading the manual excerpts Erik put up, on air units that withdraw, if you chose to have that setting, on the pilots do they disappear from the game as well or do they go into the pilot pool & do the aces if any disappear from the top pilots list as well due to the unit withdrawing?

ORIGINAL: tigercub

Does shooting down a plane give the pilot a increase in Experience? how does it work? in short?

ORIGINAL: hbrsvl

Hi-Hope I'm in the right pew for my question.

AE goes to 40 mile hexes instead of 60 for WITP. Are aircraft ranges adjusted to the new scale?

Example: In WITP a C-47 has a max transfer range of 24 hexes. 60x24=1440 miles. So, 1440/40=36 hexes. Is this the way AE is going to work?

Thanks, Hugh Browne

ORIGINAL: Dili

Are 3 and 6 engine planes defined in AE or it is only 1,2,4 engines?

Thanks for the reply Elf. I just finished Fire in the Sky, based on all of your recommendations, and it was a great read! Of the many things that I heard about for the first time was the almost universal lack of proper maintenance, spare parts, skiller laborer's, ect. for the Japanease in the South Pacific. The author did not have nice things to say about the Japanease soldiers back at the airfields, among many other inadequacies. What I found especially interesting was how many planes were lost flying from Japan to the front lines.

Questions:

1. Was his assesment of the inability to properly service Japanease aircraft accurate?
2. If so, will AE represent this in some way? Is this represented by the service rating?
3. Does the airbase experience affect this in any way?

Obviously this can be modded (I assume), but I am curious how the stock AE campaign will handle it; if at all.

Thanks in advance!

Chad

ORIGINAL: timtom

ORIGINAL: jcjordan

Not sure if this has been asked or not but in reading the manual excerpts Erik put up, on air units that withdraw, if you chose to have that setting, on the pilots do they disappear from the game as well or do they go into the pilot pool & do the aces if any disappear from the top pilots list as well due to the unit withdrawing?

Depends. Units which transfer out-of-theatre or similar take their a/c and pilots with them. Otherwise unit assets are returned to pool with a slight delay.

ORIGINAL: tigercub

Does shooting down a plane give the pilot a increase in Experience? how does it work? in short?

'Course. Same as in WitP.

ORIGINAL: hbrsvl

Hi-Hope I'm in the right pew for my question.

AE goes to 40 mile hexes instead of 60 for WITP. Are aircraft ranges adjusted to the new scale?

Example: In WITP a C-47 has a max transfer range of 24 hexes. 60x24=1440 miles. So, 1440/40=36 hexes. Is this the way AE is going to work?

Thanks, Hugh Browne

Aircraft range data have been rebuild from the ground up, then comprehensively revieved. Twice. On top of normal tester imput. We didn't fail to notice the change in map scale during this process. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Dili

Are 3 and 6 engine planes defined in AE or it is only 1,2,4 engines?

Engines are defined like any other device, so you can stick 0-255 engines on an a/c.

Engines are defined like any other device, so you can stick 0-255 engines on an a/c.

ORIGINAL: Dili

Engines are defined like any other device, so you can stick 0-255 engines on an a/c.

Thank, my question was more related to under the hood rules they can get: does a 3 engine or 6 engine plane gets a penalty in maneuverality? too big benefit in resistence to damage? things like that.