Why doesn't Britain get incendiaries?

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That was not my point.

Do some research about British incendiaries used in WW 2. We talk about masses of very small bombs. You see the dispersion of those bomb clusters after the drop, the higher you fly and the lower the weight, the more your bombs will have a chance to miss a rather small target. That’s why you can’t achieve any accuracy from higher alt for purposes like base bombing.

That’s why these very small bombs might be useful for WW 2 BRs if gaijin would implement area targets, and that’s why i wrote this:

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it be fun tho

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Are bases not large enough for these kinds of munitions? They’re also buffed against bases right? They would be pretty effective although that’s if you reach the base before your flying trash can is blown out of the sky…

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  • I tested some days ago the effectiveness of the German C 250 incendiary bomb. You can kill with a very small payload (8 x C 250) of a BR 4.3 Do 217 up to 4 bases, as even in a 5.0 match just 2 x C 250s kills a base.

  • The challenge with an incendiary bomb is that you have to hit the base almost perfect in the center, as soon as you miss the center the radius of the flames might be outside the base and the base won’t burn down.

  • Gaijin has implemented artificial spread / dispersion to bomb drops (you see this in crew skills) which increases the higher you fly. So in order to hit the center you have to slow down (to extend the time frame to drop) and you have to consider the delay between pressing the button and the actual release which varies.

  • So in order to hit perfectly with hundreds of very small British WW 2 incendiary bombs (~ 10 - 15 kg each) from 5-6 km alt you need to fly very slow and you need luck - and that would require even more luck as especially British bombers are as seen as snack for enemy interceptors.

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I guess the only short term answer is to make the airfield a bomb able target in RB like it is in SB. Probably about large enough for Lancaster firestorm

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We do have larger calibre incendiary bombs. Up to 500lbs last I checked. Would be nice to have.

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Yeah, that would work fine

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I’ll need to browse my sources. I’ll get back to this in an hour or so.

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Your homework is a bug report for Lancaster with 500lb Incidinary bombs :P

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You beat me to it : ) Maybe we need a game where the aim is to eliminate as many civilians as possible.

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War crime simulator 2007.

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I shouldn’t laugh : )

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Dresden 1945 moment.

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It’s all a bit of a sore point. I’m surprised Gaijin did the napalm.
What next? An Auschwitz map?

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What nonsense. Maybe we should give up the stoves, because you keep bringing up your sore point? What does napalm have to do with Auschwitz?

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Which is what exactly?

Er…tastelessness. There…I made the link for you. Your welcome.

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Gas or Electric?

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Napalm isn’t the same as WW2-era Incendiaries. Slightly different. One is more of a jelly gas substance and the other is more like a tank of fuel with a fuse.

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Napalm is a battle field weapon where as the type of incendiary used by the Brits and US for area bombing is were not. Perhaps the most diplomatic way of putting it.

Heavy bombers did bomb areas where enemy tank units were thought to hiding but obviously not with little milk bottle sized incendiaries designed to set fire to wood and paper buildings and civilian roof spaces.

In short there is no target for for UK incendiaries in the game.

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