Patch is ready - now just testing it live (into early 43 game) . Been doing tons of research, mainly to add a lot more chrome to the game. Plus some tension and play balance.

• V5.0a and AOS V2.0a
• Corrected Shokaku TT loadout on new advice. Slightly upgraded Shokaku-Kaimon Class ordinance on the ...

Will it restrict the airfield if I do the check box for the plane as a heavy bomber type in the editor? But leave the plane as recon.

I would like to restrict, to some extent, the 4e recon types to using larger airfields- does anyone know if this will do anything?

Cav

There are loads of devices not used. I did a big job getting many more devices used in my mod. The game probably only uses about 10% of all the mines, TT bombs, etc that were available. It's easy to add them in the mod for ship upgrades, etc.
Cav

A new update with many tweaks will be up soon.

I took over a game in Dec 42 Allied side and wanted a good few turns to look things over, found things, but they are all minor - want the mod to be as chromed as possible.

CAV

I may be wrong, but the value in endurance ( and max load) do NOT work. There is some hard-coding that overrides these boxes. The planes just fly. The game must calculate the endurance based on the speed and the range value. in my mod i did put in the values that I estimated, but I do not think it ...

LST yes I am sure this is correct. I have a number of ships like this like U boats appear in Indian Ocean as TF. They just pop on the map on their arrival dates...

If you want them to appear at a base, you just make the TF appear at that base. I did this with the Thai ships as technically neutral ...

The research is also very old - you can find all sorts of references on the net showing wide variations.

BUT in general, the game database uses the maximum thickness discussed and has calculations based on that. And for guns, it uses the facings (but I bet it then makes a % reduction for the back ...

OK, so we are about to do the summer update!

There is not much of great importance here ( just one important fix for one of the scn) , just rebalancing and a few player suggestions put in place - I am still hoping for some more art, but that player is still involved in his 45-game. So all being ...

Yes, so that's stock, not my mod - but I get your point.

IMO it would be better for planes to have the options of many more SR.

CAV

One comes after the other. One is the Army, one is the Navy, I think. I do not have the editor open just now.

The reason for MVR and Durability to be higher is for mechanics trying to get more success with Kamis - it is not a reflection on these actual planes.

Kami attacks generally did not happen ...

I did try to factor all this into my revised ratings - most fighters with more stuff lose MVR. There are exceptions, of course, when a variant has (or is assumed to have ) a more powerful variant of the same engine.

Cav

Ok good then I guess we can assume that in AE it is considered in some deep, hard-coded formula

cav

Sorry, I meant does Bomber MVR make a difference?

Cav

All interesting stuff, but does not really reach any conclusion.

You can see in combat reports with fighters, you do get evasion messages, not so with bombers, though you do get driven off by defensive fire - this could be a combination of the DEF skill and MVR?

You do get the message that bombers ...

If the bomber MVR has no effect then why the editors bothered editing different values for them? seems too much for cosmetic. There should be a reason B-29 have 2 MVR and a B-17 have 9.
Speculating i think there then a fixed or percentage scale down to higher altitude bands for any bomber(LB,DB ...

Is there a fuller story on this one? Why is it wrong or appears to be wrong?

Cav

I might be wrong, but I believe the MVR rating of bombers has no effect in-game. However, I still put the base values in as I am not sure about it :) You will notice bombers are rated as 0 at all altitudes except the base level - I think that adding values in anything other than base value has no ...

Yes, and it's appreciated - do you have any more observations?

How about this - Kaga and Akagi have the wrong 8-inch guns in stock - they should have the older one (and that's probably overrated) . And from the wreck of Akagi, its been seen she only had 3 per side, not 4. One was removed probably ...

I can confirm the ships listed start with the DP version in my mod.

My mod features lower tech at the start with quite a few ships upgrading to better DP guns by mid-42

I am happy to consider any big errors or deviations - maybe have a look at the mod and put forward any further suggestions, but ...

I can confirm that this gun is not DP in my mod, and based on what I read, it should not be. However, many of my old escorts upgraded from this gun to the DP one (otherwise very similar) during the war.

I could have changed it a long while back, but I think actually it is a (good) legacy from RA ...