Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY - For 4.11

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Originally Posted by SPITACE

hi can we see more british bombers in the sim for some night" rear gunner "missions we have got the me 110 allready in the sim to do it.

More flyable British bombers would be welcome. There's a mod effort afoot to get the Lancaster into the game, but I don't know its current status.

As for night gunner missions, the grim reality is that most British bomber crewmen never saw the nightfighter than killed them. The top scoring German nightfighter ace scored 121 victories; the top British tailgunner ace had 8. And, there were a lot more Luftwaffe nightfighter aces than there were RAF gunner aces.

Realistically, an RAF tailgunner mission would consist of 8-12 hours of constant vigilance, where your main tactic would be to scream at the pilot to "corkscrew" (i.e., go into a deep curving dive) to avoid being shot down. If you failed to see your enemy against the virtually black ground of blacked-out occupied Europe, suddenly, without warning, you'd find your plane engulfed in flames before you can fire a shot.