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ORIGINAL: Hipper

Mike

The spitfires you are seeing are the ones that were sent to Australia in the second half of 1942 to defend Darwin...
Re Hurricanes   the Mk 1s Mk II a's & Bs'   and indeed C's were all fighters   however from the Mk II b on the hurricane could take 2 bombs under the wings   & were used as fighter bombers in late 43 & 44    ( mostly mk iv's by then I think)

I bow to your superior knowledge Hipper. I should have realised that Churchill would funnel the best equipment to Oz leaving the poor Brits and Indians in SE Asia with, shall we say, less effective equipment.

Mike

ORIGINAL: Mike Dixon

ORIGINAL: Hipper

Mike

The spitfires you are seeing are the ones that were sent to Australia in the second half of 1942 to defend Darwin...
Re Hurricanes the Mk 1s Mk II a's & Bs' and indeed C's were all fighters however from the Mk II b on the hurricane could take 2 bombs under the wings & were used as fighter bombers in late 43 & 44 ( mostly mk iv's by then I think)

I bow to your superior knowledge Hipper. I should have realised that Churchill would funnel the best equipment to Oz leaving the poor Brits and Indians in SE Asia with, shall we say, less effective equipment.

Mike

He had to do something to keep those Australian divisions in the Eighth Army.

Hipper: Somewhere in the dim past on one of these forums the comment was made about the Hurri also being plumbed for a drop tank, which supposedly gave them a big increase in range. Do you have any data supporting that?

please see other thread regarding P-51B - it seems that no figher unit upgrades to P51B and it seems to be impossible to select P 51B as an upgrade option for a unit

ORIGINAL: Oliver Heindorf

please see other thread regarding P-51B - it seems that no figher unit upgrades to P51B and it seems to be impossible to select P 51B as an upgrade option for a unit

Fix this for the poor sods still playing stock games.[;)]

seems to me that a lot of P-51s wound up flying in China, which formerly had a lot of P-40s. Anyone who flew Warhawks against the Japanese should be able to upgrade to a Mustang when it becomes available. 'Twould be a simple fix.

ORIGINAL: RevRick

seems to me that a lot of P-51s wound up flying in China, which formerly had a lot of P-40s. Anyone who flew Warhawks against the Japanese should be able to upgrade to a Mustang when it becomes available. 'Twould be a simple fix.

I met one of those guys a couple of months ago. He told me a week after transitioning into P-51's he was shot down and spent 9 months as a POW.

Yup as mentioned i've discovered in stock no units can upgrade to P51B's. P51S's are FINE but not P51B's.
 
Main reason being of course is that no reinforcements appear with P51B's.
 
Also the Mossie B XXVI has a replacement rate of 0. Surely this can't be right?

What scenario are you looking at? In stock 15, I'm seeing a build rate of 50...

Strange. I'll check my next turn from Faber. It's the 42A Campaign

And in that particular scenario, it is indeed build rate 0.

One for Pry then..............
 
Steven

Rev Rick

Hipper: Somewhere in the dim past on one of these forums the comment was made about the Hurri also being plumbed for a drop tank, which supposedly gave them a big increase in range. Do you have any data supporting that?

sorry for missing your comment

See the RHS thread for some deatails however All Huricane II's had wings plumbed for external tanks However in South east asia drop tanks (45 gallon) made an appearance in January 1943 and were used to escort a raid from Imphal to Mandallay ( 4 hexes on the standard map) ... source The forgtten air force Hendry Probert For hurricanes in general Frances maison The hawker hurricane is superb.
IRL its a bit more complex than as Fixed ferry tanks were in use in 1941 ... however they were vere very untactical and not to be used in combat (BS vol 1)

cheers Hipper

I just dowloaded v 1.8.04 patch and wondered if the stock database and artwork were included in the official patch or if I need to download these separately?

After reading some of the posts, I'm a little confused on what was exactly included in the official patch versus outside mods.

I'd love the new artwork that I'm seeing at some of these sites. But I don't know if these have already been included.


Thanks [:)]

The official downloads only deal with the stock art. You need to downloads seperately[;)]

BtW I highly recommend Andrew's map. It's way above the stock map[;)]

great thanks.

So there is no conflict then between Andrew's latest map and scenarios with the latest official patch 1.8.0.4?

http://www.bur.st/~akbrown/witp.html



Go to the above for all the information

collected. 12/17

Nevermind.

I've said this time and time again, but the PBY Catalina range is too short.  The maximum range, for this 'generic' Catalina which represents a mix of PBY-5/5A/6As should be 2500 miles.  PBYs regularly flew from the West Coast to Pearl Harbor, which is not possible with the current data settings.

The CHS variant should have corrected this too...

Reference: http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/hist-ac/pby-6a.pdf