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MarcusAurelius
05-03-2007, 07:03 AM
What's your favorite land-based aircraft in War at Sea? You can give your reason below, whatever that might be — playability, historical performance, or just a cool-looking mini.
MidnMike
05-03-2007, 07:46 AM
Kondor's a better buy I think, but I still voted for the Stuka because they're just plain cool
XAos
05-03-2007, 07:48 AM
The SA-Loiter puts the Catalina way ahead of the pack.
And Shadowing is good too.
MidnMike
05-03-2007, 07:51 AM
yeah Catalina's by far the best support aircraft, but I've yet to see or even hear of it killing anything... alternate payload on it almost makes me giggle
mikoyan
05-03-2007, 08:03 AM
I faced a mostly submarine force last night. After getting my clock cleaned the first game (although the Bismarck one shotted both of my Washingtons but I got one of his Bismarcks with a one shot). I took out my destroyers and replaced with Cats, so I had 4 Catalinas. They were a menace to the U-boats. The 3 ASW dice is almost good enough especially if you swarm. I never used the bombs though (try to get a catalina close to anything...Ha!).
TheFoeHammer
05-03-2007, 09:22 AM
Kondor, 5 of them.
MarcusAurelius
05-03-2007, 09:56 AM
yeah Catalina's by far the best support aircraft, but I've yet to see or even hear of it killing anything... alternate payload on it almost makes me giggle

I don't have a card handy — how many dice does the PBY get for its alternate payload attack?
MidnMike
05-03-2007, 09:58 AM
6

and this sentence is to allow me to post
Joisey
05-03-2007, 10:27 AM
I vote Kondor. It's the most useful, albeit most expensive, land based plane.
Legbiter
05-03-2007, 12:09 PM
Catalina, for all possible reasons +1: the Catalina is a seaplane.

Ok, I know it was an amphibian really. Still makes me laugh.
pudson
05-03-2007, 12:20 PM
Catalina without a doubt. Loiter, awesome. Shadowing, awesome.

Plus Catalina is my wife's name.
MidnMike
05-03-2007, 01:02 PM
Does she look like Catalina from My Name is Earl? If so you are truly a blessed man
Brass
05-04-2007, 03:15 PM
If I played Germans and based my fleet on U-boat wolfpacks I would go for the Kondor. As things stand, I think the Catalina is the most generally all-round useful land-based plane although, as the 1940s song stated,

"You can't get to heaven in a PBY
'cause a PBY don't fly that high."

LT