Oleg Maddox's Room #2 QUESTIONS & REQUESTS TO OLEG ABOUT BOB SOW

[reggiane]

The ability to man a anti aircraft gun is i.m.o. also a part of the air war.
I always believed the AA-guns stoud little chance of actually downing any aircraft.
But when i see all those wartime pictures of german AA-guns with several kill mark rings it must have been different.
The ack ack was a deadly enemy to any aircraft flying over Britain or Germany.
So it must have a place in the new game/sim.
I do wonder how they intend to put this in the game, a 88 or even a harmless 20mm needed a big crew to operate.
I do hope it will not be a battlefield game kind of AA gun.

I have only a rough idea on how to operate such a gun.
first you need a spotter to pinpoint the location of the enemy plane, calculate its direction,altitude and speed.
then you need someone to set the timing of the shell... at what altitude the shell should explode.
then you need the loader(s).
and finally the gunner himself.
Not to mention the commander,radio operator and searchlight crew. (and the tea lady for the british).
no way this can be simulated in a SIM like this... but I hope they manage it.

[Skoshi Tiger]

1940 - British airbase - one man opperated MG - Hmmm! I guess the most likely choice would be a Lewis gun mounted on a post. The vickers would require another operator and the Brens would be in too high demand with the rearming the Army after Dunkirk!

Cheers!