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Post by brygun on Oct 24, 2019 8:16:28 GMT -6
currently, 1.10, readying dive bombers loads an M for medium load. Almost always the target range is close enough for the H load. There is the popup giving the option to instantly switch to the H load on launch. It would be a little more convenient and minimal programming to change dive bombers default load to be H to begin with.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Oct 24, 2019 9:58:29 GMT -6
currently, 1.10, readying dive bombers loads an M for medium load. Almost always the target range is close enough for the H load. There is the popup giving the option to instantly switch to the H load on launch. It would be a little more convenient and minimal programming to change dive bombers default load to be H to begin with. How is H load and M load defined? Most dive bombers carried either one or two 1000 lbs. bombs, or one 500 lbs. bomb with smaller bombs on the wings. The Stuka could carry up to 3968 lbs. of bombs but she was not a carrier-based dive bomber. The SB2C could carry 2000 lbs. Carrier based dive bombers did not carry more than about 2000 lbs. of bombs for obvious reasons. |
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Post by captainloggy on Oct 24, 2019 11:22:11 GMT -6
currently, 1.10, readying dive bombers loads an M for medium load. Almost always the target range is close enough for the H load. There is the popup giving the option to instantly switch to the H load on launch. It would be a little more convenient and minimal programming to change dive bombers default load to be H to begin with. How is H load and M load defined? Most dive bombers carried either one or two 1000 lbs. bombs, or one 500 lbs. bomb with smaller bombs on the wings. The Stuka could carry up to 3968 lbs. of bombs but she was not a carrier-based dive bomber. The SB2C could carry 2000 lbs. Carrier based dive bombers did not carry more than about 2000 lbs. of bombs for obvious reasons. The bomb loadouts and their associated ranges are in tje aircraft information. While readying a strike, you can choose the loadout ina column for each aircraft group. |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Oct 24, 2019 11:29:27 GMT -6
How is H load and M load defined? Most dive bombers carried either one or two 1000 lbs. bombs, or one 500 lbs. bomb with smaller bombs on the wings. The Stuka could carry up to 3968 lbs. of bombs but she was not a carrier-based dive bomber. The SB2C could carry 2000 lbs. Carrier based dive bombers did not carry more than about 2000 lbs. of bombs for obvious reasons. The bomb loadouts and their associated ranges are in tje aircraft information. While readying a strike, you can choose the loadout ina column for each aircraft group. Great. I will investigate that when the time comes. Appreciate the information. |
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Post by janxol on Oct 24, 2019 14:19:11 GMT -6
Bomb loads are defined per plane model and depend on technologu of the design and chosen design specifications. Each bomb load also has associated max range. (lowest range with heavy bomb load). For example my 1956 dive bomber has a heavy bomb load of 1x1400lbs bomb, medium of 1x600lbs bomb and light of 1x300lbs bomb. Not sure if you can get heavier bomb than 1400lbs on dive bomber, I don't think I ever had one.
For comparison my 1941 medium bomber has a heavy load of 2x200lbs bomb, medium of 1x2000lbs bomb (or a torpedo) and light of 1x600lbs. It seems that flying boats can get heaviest bomb loads, followed by medium bombers, then torpedo bombers, then dive bombers, fighters and finally floatplanes with smallest bomb loads.
It could really select the heavy load by default. Soemtimes I get a popup when readying a strike that plane could carry heavy laod on mission and whether I want to change it, but sometimes I don't (even though the range is alright for heavy load. Not sure what that depends on.
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Post by aeson on Oct 24, 2019 16:39:28 GMT -6
Bomb loads are defined per plane model and depend on technologu of the design and chosen design specifications. Each bomb load also has associated max range. (lowest range with heavy bomb load). For example my 1956 dive bomber has a heavy bomb load of 1x1400lbs bomb, medium of 1x600lbs bomb and light of 1x300lbs bomb. Not sure if you can get heavier bomb than 1400lbs on dive bomber, I don't think I ever had one. For comparison my 1941 medium bomber has a heavy load of 2x200lbs bomb, medium of 1x2000lbs bomb (or a torpedo) and light of 1x600lbs. It seems that flying boats can get heaviest bomb loads, followed by medium bombers, then torpedo bombers, then dive bombers, fighters and finally floatplanes with smallest bomb loads. It could really select the heavy load by default. Soemtimes I get a popup when readying a strike that plane could carry heavy laod on mission and whether I want to change it, but sometimes I don't (even though the range is alright for heavy load. Not sure what that depends on. I have an older savegame with a couple of 1940s dive bombers that could carry a 1,500lb bomb at heavy bomb load, though both were derivatives of earlier types that could "only" manage 1,400lb bombs.
As to comparative bomb loads, I believe that medium bombers and flying boats eventually end up with more or less the same maximum bomb load late in the game, and fighter bomb loads can exceed dive bomber bomb loads starting sometime in the late '40s - in the same savegame mentioned above, almost all of my fighters from 1948 onwards could carry 2x1000lb or 1x2000lb bombs at heavy load, and intelligence thought that an Italian fighter that entered service in 1959 could carry 2x1400lb bombs.
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Post by brygun on Oct 24, 2019 17:58:57 GMT -6
Topic straying... but while we are here...
Also bear in mind that the different types of planes are using different types of bombing which affects accuracy. Dive bombers to diving which is the most accurate. Medium bombers do level bombing. There is also glide bombing. I forget which of the others do level vs glide bombing.
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