The real life B17 Flying Fortress had a crew compliment of 10, but has only 9 crewmen in this game, notably missing the co-pilot and his station.This apparently doesn't apply in the game's world see Made of Explodium below. Lancasters did operate solo on sub patrol and air-sea rescue missions, but a strategic bombing mission requires at least 4-8 Bombers flying in formation to be able to effectively support each other and deliver enough bombs on target to actually have a noticeable effect. Sending out a lone Lancaster on a mission is something the Royal Air Force rarely did in real-life, and likewise, the USAAF rarely sent out lone B-17s.Every so often gunners will aim or blast away at a target they can't hit while ignoring a target they can, such as the top turret attempting to aim at a target beneath the bomber while ignoring a target coming in from above.This was corrected in the sequel, Space Crew, which has a "fight fires" button that will automatically send any crewman with an extinguisher to fight the closest fire. You also need to click on a precise spot on the fire to get a crewmen with an extinguisher to fight the fire, or else they'll just stand in the fire and do nothing. In when a fire breaks out, crewmen will just stand in fire and burn to death till you tell them to move.If you don't order them to reload, they'll just sit in their empty turrets and do nothing. You also have to tell your turret gunners to get more ammo when their machine guns run dry.It's not uncommon for them to blast wildly at a maneuvering enemy plane in the distance, while a whole flight coming straight at you from a different direction blast holes through your plane. Even after tagging enemy planes, there's no way to tell your crew to prioritize and the decision of who to shoot at is entirely on them.You have to tag attacking aircraft for your gunners to begin firing on them, even if the fighters have already wounded your crew or aircraft.Anyone Can Die: Your bomber crews are vulnerable and will die if they got shot too many times or the plane explodes.It'll even tag the stealth Ho 229 for you. Your radio operator can learn the Auto Tag skill, which tags all the enemy fighters in the area for a short time, helping you tag large numbers of fighters and pesky-close up aircraft that you're having a hard time keeping in the reticle, or possibly even finding.
In a second layer of anti-frustration features, this capability was eventually patched in as an available option for all turrets, and is standard on all guns mounted on the B-17. The ammo-feed mechanism allows guns in the tail turret to reload indefinitely without having to run to the ammo dump, eliminating very long and very regular ammo runs.
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