S3 Series

The S3 fighter aircraft will now have real world range at cruise power settings (55 -75% power)'

So our loiter time will be much greater but the Allies won't be nearly as fuel critical. The Allies will be able to push the power up more to keep up with the bombers flying at maximum speeds better.

Also, the damage maps we were SUPPOSED to have are now in. I edited the maps to make the hit boxes the same for all humans on the heavy bombers. Most are smaller. This means it will be more difficult to kill gunners and pilots on the bombers (not a lot harder except for the Lancaster which was really screwed up).

The B17 benefited from removal of some hitboxes on the VSTAB. B17 and B24 got gear added, larger fuel tanks, smaller engine kill zones and larger engine damage zones.

All of this means it will be overall harder to achieve killing blows but easier to inflict damage to engines and fuel tanks.

This was what we were supposed to start the series with but the update wasn't pushed out.

Hopefully Jabo takes this into consideration and doesn't crank the bomber hardness multiplier up (much).

So next time someone wants to slag me for hating bombers remember it was my dumb ass that corrected hit maps for the Lancasters, B-17's and B-24's and managed to have them introduced in concert with a raised BUffTuff when I am Axis in an S3.

Sorry guys.

Sounds great, will be very interesting to see the results of our HO attacks now. Also a huge bonus for the allies fuel status. I think that might make for a more exciting frame overall. Just how much different will the fuel burn rates be though? Do we still need to take drops?

I think Axis fighters have about 3 hours fuel at CRUISE power WITH drops. It has been two months since I did those so its fuzzy.

That is with unmodified arena fuel burn (set to 1)

No idea what Jabo will set.

The fuel multiplier is .75 for all aircraft. That turns 180 minutes into 135 minutes (2 hours and 15 minutes)