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  • There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 14:31

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Rick5000
Well, heres my suggestion.


In world war II they had TB, DB, FP, and recon planes.
There was more than that.
Like carpet bombers, and planes with more torpedos.

Like the B17 Flying fortress. Carpet bomber.
My suggestion is that you can load these, which requires like 500 space per plane. and you can only launch one per squad.
Then have guns in front and rear to defend themself, but they cant take that much. So you could escort them by selecting your squad and right click on the bomber to 
How to control:


Just fly your Carpet bomber and press . to drop the bombs, which are like 10. They arent that powerfull like 1 db.
Like normal HE damage is 2000 for one bomb, its 1000 or 500 for 1 bomb. You can load your carpet bombers with bombs but they are less powerfull
So when you fly your bomber at max. height and you press the divebomb button you should release the bombs.
They are slow, but can take way more AA shells than regular planes. The altidude is just like DB's.

Torpedo bombers how to controll:

Just the same, they carry 2 or 4 torpedo's and they are bigger than the other tb's just like a recon plane , like the catalina.
You drop the torpedo just as you drop it regulary. The torpedo's are a little weaker. and you can only launch 3 per squad with a maximum of 9 in the air.


This was my idea, it took me a few minutes to work it out, hope you guys like it.

Help is welcome i could make more of this if people like it i can make screens with my own planes to show what I mean. 

 

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 17:46


DEATHRAY8
wait
"Then have guns in front and rear to defend themself, but they cant take that much."

"They are slow, but can take way more AA shells than regular planes."

so are they supposed to have good or bad armor?

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 18:04


zstsz
do you really think a b17 fortress count fit on a CV?

It would fit on the deck, but its too large to takeoff at the short runway.

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 18:05


zstsz
it can't even fit on the CV's plane elevators.

so you could put it in the hangar, but you can't bring it up on the deck.

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 21:07


Baker654
Heavy Carpet Bombers such as B-17 would only be seen in Harbour Assault as land base airfield would be large enough to operate the carpet bombers, carriers would not had enough spacee. The only time land base bombers operated on carriers was the Dolittle Raid and those specially modified B-25 medium could only take off, they had to crash land in China. Dive Bombers and Torpedo bombers are for carriers. Level Bombers are for Land Airfields.

Also I think the P51-D Mustang and Tempest F.Mk II get replaced by the F8F-1 Bearcat and the Hawker Sea Fury as the tier 4 carrier fighters of the US and UK. The Mustang and Tempest then would be relocated onto the Land Airfields of Harbour Assualt as the Land Base Fighters they were meant to be

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 04. 2011 21:18


Happymeal2
b17s would need near impossible conditions to take off from a BIG carrier. High winds, the ship would need to hit a wave that pointed it up at just the right time, there would need to be extremely little weight in the plane which would mean sacrificing ammo or bombs/fuel... No.

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 05. 2011 02:42


Rick5000
They have regular armour, but not very good.
Maybe there should be airfields in islands, every team has a few which the flagship can control?

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 05. 2011 03:57


DEATHRAY8
was the B17 even a carpet bomber?

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 05. 2011 04:48


Baker654
Carpet and Level bombing is almost the same. You just fly the bomber straight and level and saturate the targets area with lots of bomb in attempt to get a hit. There is no way you can get a heavy bomber like a B-17 launch off a carrier and land especially not with the Carriers of WW2. You cant even do that with a modern day Nimitz class Super-carrier.

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 05. 2011 06:20


Rick5000
Originally Posted by Baker654
Carpet and Level bombing is almost the same. You just fly the bomber straight and level and saturate the targets area with lots of bomb in attempt to get a hit. There is no way you can get a heavy bomber like a B-17 launch off a carrier and land especially not with the Carriers of WW2. You cant even do that with a modern day Nimitz class Super-carrier.



Yeah :( kind of true.
What about islands, there are 2 islands in game for each team (4 islands total) and they have to do something, like to capture it with 1 APA and then you can launch Carpet bombers from there.

  • Re : There were more than just TB and DB

    07. 05. 2011 06:21


Rick5000
Edit:

If you play Battlestations Midway/Pacific you see B17 and Kate Carpet bombers and Torpedo bombers.
Search For battlestations pacific on internet/youtube

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