Looking at the history, it turns out that while the Bf110 had 180 rounds of ammo, these were actually 3 60 round drums. When a drum ran out the rear gunner had to change it.

Anyone any idea how long this took, and whether the pilot had to fly in a certain was - eg straight and level maybe - to let this be done?

Spanish Civil War using BKCIV & Libertad.

Encirclement scenario resulting in another minor victory for the Republicans and more importantly the end of our 1936 Campaign

2 games of The Men Who Would Be Kings. Both games over in less than 30 minutes, due to excellent shooting and rubbish rallying rolls!

"Spring chicken to s***ehawk in one easy lesson" 

Purhaps this website will be of interest to you LH: https://flying-guns.com/flying-guns-wwii-fighters/

It lists various fighters and considers their armament, including how long they can fire their various weapons for.

Quote from: kustenjaeger on 12 January 2025, 02:29:16 PMI suspect this is an original Pendraken T-34/76 - I have quite a few of these in my Soviet forces.  Basically this would be an M1941 or similar. Obviously the newer ones are nicer.

Edward

Thanks for the ID! I managed to order a proper T-34/85 to rectify the problem!

Napoleonics: Albuera (1811). Playtest of scenario for BBB Peninsular War book. A sanguinary draw.

Somebody is going to tell me this has already been answered but here we go.
Regarding assets, I understand from other Q&A's the "Munitions: HE, SMOKE" etc and the costs in the Assets table but where I'm a little confused is where an artillery unit (in this case the SP-Rocket Launcher M270 from the Bundeswehr list) has ICM and PGM listed but the table has a - against those which I take to mean it's not available?
Thanks in advance. 

Here is a problem for an idle moment...

As you may have seen I'm tweaking my Battle of Britain rules. I use the Spitfire as the basis for stats. I wrote it as the 'way the system works', and then extrapolated the other aircraft from that.
For instance there are three phases in a bound, so the Spitfire has a max speed of 9 - 3 moves in each phase. This gives me a Bf109 of Max 10, Hurricane of 8.

Each phase is 3 seconds.

Firing is as follows.

Start with -Range mod +/- Aspect mod + Guns +d6

A Spitfire carried 14 seconds of ammo, which was fired in 3 second bursts* (hence phase length), so that is 5 shots, 4 at +3, and the last at +2.

For the 109 I have 9 seconds (3 phases) of Cannon and Mg fire, then another 9 seconds of Mg fire after the cannon was empty.

There were just 2 MGs firing on interrupter through the prop.

The firing profile of the 109 is
+5 / +5 / +5 / -2 / -2 / -2

SO, given the MG pair is -2, what is the Cannon with no MG? (and no, it isn't +7!, the MGs aren't actually reducing their effectiveness.)

To be clear, I am not looking for any suggested amendments, the game works well as it is. This is just idle curiosity.


*RAF pilots would have the tracer every 3 seconds to help them count usage. The last 2 seconds often had a lot of tracer to say "You're out!"

Any ideas about reloading the cannons in a Bf110 - how long? Did the 110 have be flown level? etc

Thanks

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