#B17 bomber crew free#

Avro Lancaster Blog During World War II the Lancaster was the most successful bomber used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force.Dambusters Raid The Dambusters Raid 16/17 May, 1943.Bomber Command – blog The bomber offensive mounted by the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the air forces of other Commonwealth countries during the Second World War has been described as the most continuous and grueling operation of war ever carried out.British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).You'll keep all the things you bought before the mission started. IF you end up losing a wheel then try and belly flop it and if you lose your bomber and crew, just quit and restart the mission. As for the black fighters, I don't think I've seen them yet, as I've only done 2 critical missions as I've been grinding to get quad. I've also found healing your crew past half HP will stop them from dying (unless you're unlucky) when landing with one gear. Yeah I put a waist gunner on the top turret as well as it REALLY helps to have that turret constantly manned. Make sure you're flying in line with them and don't drop unless you feel like a hit is certain. You need to be careful lining up shots on moving boats, as your bombs will do about no splash damage whatsoever if they miss. It helps give a smidge more XP if you snap a photo in slow time, you can drop a bomb too. As the gunners get better at shooting down planes and you wrap the paper mache parts of your B-17 with tinfoil ('armor'), I keep him on the top turret more and leave the gunners where they are.Ī lot of the easier missions consist of reconning little boats.

#B17 bomber crew free#

Originally posted by Snuggley:The way I did it was to put a waist gunner on the top turret, so the flight engineer was free to fix when the hyraulics and electrics inevitably break. You often get swarmed during your bombing runs, so I try to call in mustangs about 30 seconds before you start your attack run, save auto tag for when you're bombing or escaping.Ī lot of the easier missions consist of reconning little boats. When your crew's gunnery stops being attrocious, most of the smaller planes stop being a threat when there's less than five of them.

Your protection is offered by gun coverage. Even with armored engines and wings, it will still happen. This is the most frustrating thing in the game and I hate it. They will destroy your landing leg in a single pass, and even if you succeed in the mission you're almost guarenteed to lose your plane and usually a pilot with it. If you see the black twin engine fighters coming at you, evade and load the armor piercing. They will get shot off far, far more often in the B-17. The Lancaster's landing legs have only been shot off twice in my Europe campaign. For reasons I don't understand, I would say the B-17 is only half as durable as the main game's Lancaster if not worse. The most important thing to remember is just how fragile your B-17 is. You need a way to heal at least two people at a time. Your crew will take a lot of hits, and there's less time between fighter waves than in Europe. Have one waist gunner pick up engineer as a secondary trait so you don't need to wait on your engineer, have the other pick up medic to give the other gun positions healing backrubs. The B-17 was far too fragile for me to want my crew unprotected flak everything.

I also generally keep people as heavily armored as I can. As the gunners get better at shooting down planes and you wrap the paper mache parts of your B-17 with tinfoil ('armor'), I keep him on the top turret more and leave the gunners where they are. The way I did it was to put a waist gunner on the top turret, so the flight engineer was free to fix when the hyraulics and electrics inevitably break.