Catalina's over rated

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

If you were playing the other side, you'd be whining about how "over rated" the Emily was...[8|]

They are. [:'(]

[khyberbill]

Has anyone ever seen a strike of PBYs not score a hit? I cant say that I have.





Ever.






And I have played AE for 3 or 4 years now.

I realize I am jumping in a little late to this thread but I heard how good they were so I tried to use them once as strike aircraft and they were decimated and I havent tried since. YMMV

[Cerion]

ORIGINAL: findmeifyoucan
I still think they are overated with the average Catalina pilot in the first week of the war having just 20% experience and having such deadly accuracy verses any other naval torpedo bomber on either side. After all they are supposed to be search planes not naval torpedo bombers. lol

+1. Yes, argggh [:@]. I'm very disappointed with this feature.

[Commander Stormwolf]

Catalina probably would have made a better torpedo plane than the devastator..

it's better to launch two stones than one stone

... and they are both equally slow, but Catalina has lots of range

[Terminus]

It's called "luck". One battle does not an overrated PBY make.

[Skyros]

ORIGINAL: CV2

Has anyone ever seen a strike of PBYs not score a hit? I cant say that I have.





Ever.






And I have played AE for 3 or 4 years now.

YES

[Commander Stormwolf]

funny thing is... if the pacwar had taken place around 1938 or so,

the PBY would have been a pretty excellent torpedo plane (against a CAP of those biplane carrier fighters [:D])

.. and before the mighty 25mm AA was in widespread use [:D]