WinSPPWW2 Large caliber Anti Aircarft

[chuckfourth]

Hi Starmyth
This has been fixed recently the AA range used to be uneffected by the range setting I believe it now is. So setting range to say 1 hex will give you AA that will ignore aircraft but be ready to engage ground targets (under you control not the AIs). The AA range can be reset at any time if you wish for the AA to engage planes. If 88s were given AA ability this sort of range stting would protect them to some extent. But then people would probably want the UK 3.7 and US 90mm in game in the AA role also. You then have the problem that they would used for direct fire which they wernt (Im sure there is one exception somewhere). The allies had plenty of much cheaper low profile AT and tank destroyers available. 3.7 and 90 could be included in the game in the AA role if they -wernt- given direct fire ability. Everyone (The big players anyway) would then be have some weapons that could take on level bombers. The maps are getting quite big after all. If the change suggested in my thread "Artillery Plotting" were put in place then it would also take much longer to silence rear area (not in view) AA such as the 88 with artillery. encourageing there deployment as such.
Best Regards Chuck.

[montieth]

[quote=chuckfourth;571175]Hi Starmyth
This has been fixed recently the AA range used to be uneffected by the range setting I believe it now is. So setting range to say 1 hex will give you AA that will ignore aircraft but be ready to engage ground targets (under you control not the AIs). The AA range can be reset at any time if you wish for the AA to engage planes. If 88s were given AA ability this sort of range stting would protect them to some extent. But then people would probably want the UK 3.7 and US 90mm in game in the AA role also. You then have the problem that they would used for direct fire which they wernt (Im sure there is one exception somewhere).[quote]

See above, they were capable, but as a corps asset, it didnt' happen very often. There were more than a few batteies in Egypt over towards Cairo, had the germans gotten that far, they'd have met them. One example a freind researched saw the Canadians doing their HAA drills, on ice, in northen Canada on their training ranges, some of their shoots were direct fire. There's a spectacular night shot of a 3.7 firing at a very low depression with the gun illuminated by the muzzel flash and you can just see the stakes used to anchor the gun on the ice/snow.

As a corps level asset (or higer), they should be expensive and unexpected to see on the actual battle map. Just like putting 5.5 inch and 4.5 inch BL guns, 155mm gun, 7.2 inch howitzer, 8 inch gun and the 240mm gun.