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[dennislp3]

Also using real money to balance gameplay as a barrier is just garbage marketing...but I am sure they are making tons of money on it...

[Erkki]

You can. The cockpit has a fully simulated artificial horizon, it's just kind of hard to read.

Usually however those have no dial/scale whatsoever. Usually the angle is kinda worthless and for optimizing climb speed a pilot wants to use indicated airspeed instead. Theres no other way than memorizing the optimal speed for best rate of climb for each plane and knowing the altitude for best level top speed(roughly above which the speed for best roc starts to become lower).

And of course flying a plane that has the variometer that doesnt go off the scale when climbing normally. Fw 190 is one of them...

[Aseaheru]

Honestly, I dont think the Calliope should be event only. I do think it should be limited to events untill every nation has a comparible vehicle. For instance, the russians had atleast two similar vehicles, one mounted on KVs and another mounted on the T-70. The T-70 one only had four rockets though, so... Also, they apparently mounted some on the T-40. The germans mounted some rockets on various trailers and halftracks, the english mounted two rockets on some shermans...

[Donuts]

I'd love to see an event where everybody got a Calliope.

[Aseaheru]

With or without aircraft?

[Donuts]

With or without aircraft?

Aircraft-mounted Calliopes, of course.

[darkrider2]

Dont use any "angle" for best rate of climb, but indicated airspeed. AFAIK you cant view the angle in simulation mode, too...

I recently unlocked engine injection on my Spitfire LF. Mk IX, so that's why they call it the "spacefire" ... I can (in arcade mode) climb at 20 degrees and GAIN speed while doing it...

[Erkki]

Dont use any "angle" for best rate of climb, but indicated airspeed. AFAIK you cant view the angle in simulation mode, too...

I recently unlocked engine injection on my Spitfire LF. Mk IX, so that's why they call it the "spacefire" ... I can (in arcade mode) climb at 20 degrees and GAIN speed while doing it...

Oh you should see that in WW2OL/Battleground Europe - it can keep 6+ G turn (enough for complete black out), keep it indefinitely AND gain altitude simultaneously.

I like the cut-wing Spitfires myself, finding the rate of roll for the others too lacking. Flew the LF Mk. XII CW a week or two back, managed to bag a 109 and hit a 190 somewhere off the coast near Calais and bug out - the rest of them couldnt catch me in any reasonable time and gave up when I reached Dover. Fortunately for the Luftwaffe, the XII is only fast at low altitudes...

[darkrider2]

Dont use any "angle" for best rate of climb, but indicated airspeed. AFAIK you cant view the angle in simulation mode, too...

I recently unlocked engine injection on my Spitfire LF. Mk IX, so that's why they call it the "spacefire" ... I can (in arcade mode) climb at 20 degrees and GAIN speed while doing it...

Oh you should see that in WW2OL/Battleground Europe - it can keep 6+ G turn (enough for complete black out), keep it indefinitely AND gain altitude simultaneously.

I like the cut-wing Spitfires myself, finding the rate of roll for the others too lacking. Flew the LF Mk. XII CW a week or two back, managed to bag a 109 and hit a 190 somewhere off the coast near Calais and bug out - the rest of them couldnt catch me in any reasonable time and gave up when I reached Dover. Fortunately for the Luftwaffe, the XII is only fast at...

The cut-wing spitfire is a lot of fun, it just feels really good to fly, I intend to keep it for quite some time (busy unlocking the last two griffon spits and tempests and that entire new juicy line of fighters that were just released).

[Zrk2]

I recently unlocked engine injection on my Spitfire LF. Mk IX, so that's why they call it the "spacefire" ... I can (in arcade mode) climb at 20 degrees and GAIN speed while doing it...

It is a fun plane. Still haven't spaded it as I'm working on the Griffons and the FAA now.

The cut-wing spitfire is a lot of fun, it just feels really good to fly, I intend to keep it for quite some time (busy unlocking the last two griffon spits and tempests and that entire new juicy line of fighters that were just released).

The Mk XVI is one of my favourite planes.

[Sonlirain]

With or without aircraft?

Aircraft-mounted Calliopes, of course.

I think those are called IL2 but are Soviet only.

[MrRoboto75]

Why couldn't they make one of these?

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[Aseaheru]

They made the American version of that. Although, I really, really want the t-70 variant of that.

Also, I was talking about just normal cantaloupes (Thats what Im calling them now. As in the fruit.) against aircraft. Because they have no AA weaponry besides those rockets or hitting it with its gun.

[TheBronzePickle]

The Germans really didn't have a good equivalent to the Katyusha. Personally, I'd love to see the lineage of weapons like the StuH that's in the game now, maybe up to the Sturmtiger. The Germans mounted some really insane guns on those things.

[Sonlirain]

So in one of my games (i recently got the panther. So happy!) a bomber flew by and droped a thing.
The thing promptly went boom and somehow didn't kill me.

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Pitty WT does not count those giant craters as real objects. WOuld be fun if large explosives could deform the terrain like that.