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Post by rhetoric on May 27, 2019 7:14:02 GMT -6
First question: Should I be worried that my catapults are described as "swivel mounts"? I'd assumed these would be built into the deck.
Second question: Does the number of "tubes" make any difference, or is is just a vestigial part of torpedo tube logic being used?
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Post by JagdFlanker on May 27, 2019 7:29:35 GMT -6
1st question - you must be talking about ship mounted floatplane catapults. carrier deck catapults are a separate tech that comes later
2nd - amount of tubes lets you fit more torps in a single location, otherwise there doesn't seem to be a weight savings or any other benefit
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Post by rhetoric on May 27, 2019 7:34:22 GMT -6
1st question - you must be talking about ship mounted floatplane catapults. carrier deck catapults are a separate tech that comes later 2nd - amount of tubes lets you fit more torps in a single location, otherwise there doesn't seem to be a weight savings or any other benefit I just got that tech, and the phrasing "Flight deck catapults - Enables catapults on aircraft carriers" suggested to me that I needed to add a catapult via the menu, but you seem to be suggesting it's just a passive bonus?
And I don't mean for torpedoes. I get an option asking how many "tubes" I want on my catapult - which I think is more likely to be a bug, or vestigial as I said
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Post by jwsmith26 on May 27, 2019 9:25:35 GMT -6
rhetoric , the option to set the number of Guns/turrets is simply because the game has reused the dialog for adding guns. You can't actually add 4 catapults in a single location. Changing that value will have no effect on the number of catapults installed. If you want more than one catapult (which currently does not seem to have any noticeable effect) you will need to manually "Add" each catapult using the "Catapult" widget. Each catapult needs to be manually added as a design element. They are not added automatically.
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Post by mycophobia on May 27, 2019 12:37:41 GMT -6
Just a note that having two catapult ups the ship's spot capacity to two, allowing you to launch quicker and two planes as a group. Anymore does not do anything at the moment. I do hope that in the future we can fit more to a ship so that we can make some aviation cruiser/battleships like Mogami/Ise later on.Also preferably a way to increase the spot value of these ships slightly so we can launch a slightly bigger strike group. (No need to be too excessive, but something like 4-6 planes as opposed to two will be much better.
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Post by ramjb on May 27, 2019 13:24:27 GMT -6
More cats doesn't necessarily means you can launch a lot of planes in a short time. Not at least in something that's not a carrier (and for CVs the limit is the deck space those cats take, until the supercarriers of the mid 50s I don't think any CV ever carried more than 2 deck catapults). In ships as AVs or ships with extensive floatplane facilities you still have to move the floatplanes around, which isn't exactly easy given that those planes won't be moving on their own; the crew will be usually using cranes and/or trolleys to move them around, taking them out of the hangar, placing them on the catapult, etc. More catapults means you can launch more ready planes in one go, but you still have to ready those planes, move them around and put them on the cats to begin with. A catapult is no good if you don't have a ready plane on top of it to launch  . |
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Post by XthLegion on May 28, 2019 20:14:45 GMT -6
To answer the specific question on how you add deck catapults to your carrier design, once you research the technology, you add them under the catapults tab. The maximum is two. See attached screen shot. They are not the "swivel" type used on non-carrier warships.
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Post by keris on May 29, 2019 9:32:07 GMT -6
To answer the specific question on how you add deck catapults to your carrier design, once you research the technology, you add them under the catapults tab. The maximum is two. See attached screen shot. They are not the "swivel" type used on non-carrier warships.
You can add at least 4 (haven't tried more) once you research angled flight decks. Also something no one has mentioned here: According to the guide, catapults allows CVs to launch CAP fighters without turning into the wind. |
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Post by Procopius on May 29, 2019 11:46:52 GMT -6
More cats doesn't necessarily means you can launch a lot of planes in a short time. Not at least in something that's not a carrier (and for CVs the limit is the deck space those cats take, until the supercarriers of the mid 50s I don't think any CV ever carried more than 2 deck catapults). In ships as AVs or ships with extensive floatplane facilities you still have to move the floatplanes around, which isn't exactly easy given that those planes won't be moving on their own; the crew will be usually using cranes and/or trolleys to move them around, taking them out of the hangar, placing them on the catapult, etc. More catapults means you can launch more ready planes in one go, but you still have to ready those planes, move them around and put them on the cats to begin with. A catapult is no good if you don't have a ready plane on top of it to launch . Some ships of the Essex class, however, had weird hanger-mounted catapults. |
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Post by XthLegion on May 29, 2019 11:55:05 GMT -6
Where does the angled deck design option appear? I have researched it, but cannot locate anywhere on the ship design page to add an angled deck. It is automatic or a player decisions to add?
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Post by keris on May 29, 2019 12:53:05 GMT -6
Where does the angled deck design option appear? I have researched it, but cannot locate anywhere on the ship design page to add an angled deck. It is automatic or a player decisions to add? It's automatic on new classes after researching, as far as I can tell. Doesn't really change the look of auto generated ships or anything, and no toggle checkbox. |
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