Has there been any more news regarding the C-47?

[kitsunelegend]

Its honestly my most anticipated and favorite aircraft in all of aviation history, especially in regards to WWII, and so far, this is the only game that is recreating it in a true combat/military sense, so you can imagine why I'm itching for more news on it! xD

 

So yeah, anyone heard anything about this beauty?

[Raptorattacker]

10 hours ago, kitsunelegend said:

So yeah, anyone heard anything about this beauty?

Whatever there is to hear'll be in any devblogs so, erm..... nope.

[ShamrockOneFive]

Not since the start of the year and the roadmap post that suggested a Q2 2022 release. We don't know if its delayed or on track but there's still plenty of time in Q2 (April to end of June).

[[CPT]Crunch]

Hope there's eventually a revamp for missions and scoring for it and the Ju-52, a way to impact the conquer and advance, make for some great game play.

[357th_KW]

There’s a lot you could do in the mission editor for cargo and recon goals that impact the mission in a variety of ways, but unfortunately no way to reward the player on the in game scoreboard.  Hopefully recon scoring will come with the addition of recon elements in FC - maybe something similar could be done for cargo/paratrooper delivery when the C-47 arrives.

[56RAF_Roblex]

1 hour ago, VBF-12_KW said:

Hopefully recon scoring will come with the addition of recon elements in FC - maybe something similar could be done for cargo/paratrooper delivery when the C-47 arrives.

 

I can't help thinking it odd that 1C released an Allied slow aircraft suitable for training and light bombing and an Axis aircraft suitable for cargo and paratroopers.  It might have made more sense to have released the Ju52 with the C-47 and maybe made a Fiesler Storch to be released alongside the Po-2. It is unfortunate that the two latter aircraft had no closer matches on the opposite side ie the Storch was rarely used for bombing and the Po-2 was rarely used for spotting.

[BornToBattle]

Nada. You’re antsy for the C-47 like I’m antsy for the flyable B-25!

[Avimimus]

On 2/28/2022 at 5:46 PM, 56RAF_Roblex said:

 

I can't help thinking it odd that 1C released an Allied slow aircraft suitable for training and light bombing and an Axis aircraft suitable for cargo and paratroopers.  It might have made more sense to have released the Ju52 with the C-47 and maybe made a Fiesler Storch to be released alongside the Po-2. It is unfortunate that the two latter aircraft had no closer matches on the opposite side ie the Storch was rarely used for bombing and the Po-2 was rarely used for spotting.

 

Yes, the Fi-156 was tested with SC50 and with bomblet racks. One variant apparently had guns in the side windows for use in a gunship role (but I've only seen the post-war French derivative with such a gun layout). One would have to be content with aiming an entire artillery battery.

 

If one wanted artillery spotting and light bombing - then one would have to go with the Fw-189. That could do both roles but is a much larger plane. It is an iconic plane of the war in Eastern Europe though - and it'd have a great view for touring (plus up to two MG81Z in the defensive turrets - which is actually quite a sting).

[56RAF_Roblex]

Yes the FW189 would be nice but the Allies did not really have an equivalent on the Russian front and the Storch is not really as useful as the Po-2 so it is always going to be unbalanced ?  (unless we let the Storch drop small bombs and give it the rear gun)   The JU52 and C-47 are fairly closely matched though so I wish they had done the C-47 first instead of the Po-2 but I suppose it is hard to ignore the importance of the Po-2 in history.   You could not even match the Po-2 with the Jungmeister as that was a lot more agile and not used in combat.   I suspect the only reason the Po-2 ever got used in combat was so Stalin could pay lip service to his promise that women would be allowed to fly in combat without him risking any 'real' military aircraft.  

[Avimimus]

I just remembered that I did this (mainly for fun):

 

I'd forgotten! Some nice data and pictures there.

 

I agree that there are no perfect analogues. I'd love to see a Fw-189 (at least AI) and an Fi-156 (although that would work best if there was extensive artillery spotting gameplay - e.g. communicating with multiple types of artillery and selecting 'fire missions', as well as providing corrections to the fall of shot). The fact is that the Fi-156 had a terrible field of view for the rear gunner and the bomb equipped variants were very rare.

[[CPT]Crunch]

5 hours ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

Yes the FW189 would be nice but the Allies did not really have an equivalent on the Russian front and the Storch is not really as useful as the Po-2 so it is always going to be unbalanced ?  (unless we let the Storch drop small bombs and give it the rear gun)   The JU52 and C-47 are fairly closely matched though so I wish they had done the C-47 first instead of the Po-2 but I suppose it is hard to ignore the importance of the Po-2 in history.   You could not even match the Po-2 with the Jungmeister as that was a lot more agile and not used in combat.   I suspect the only reason the Po-2 ever got used in combat was so Stalin could pay lip service to his promise that women would be allowed to fly in combat without him risking any 'real' military aircraft.  

I'd suspect they flew the Po-2 into combat was more likely because they couldn't get the kitchen sinks airborne.?  Anything and everything.

[Feathered_IV]

The Po-2 was ideally suited to the task it was doing.  

[Avimimus]

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

The Po-2 was ideally suited to the task it was doing.  

 

Yes. I wonder if the R-5 was more effective though? Similar bi-plane night flying capabilities with a larger bomb-load. I think the low cost and mass production of the U-2VS is part of the 'ideally suited to the task'.