Aviation Support On Carrier

[GivingUpTheGhost]

I'm working on a personal mod and just wondering if anyone has ever added aviation support to the Unicorn class to replicate it being a repair/auxiliary carrier? Is this a little too ambitious for the game engine?

[btd64]

Some British CV'S upgrade to a larger air group later in the war. So yes you could....GP

[GivingUpTheGhost]

General, are you referring to device 254 (aviation support) or air capacity?

[btd64]

General, are you referring to device 254 (aviation support) or air capacity?

Air capacity. Aviation support is a ground unit thing....GP

[GivingUpTheGhost]

General, are you referring to device 254 (aviation support) or air capacity?

Air capacity. Aviation support is a ground unit thing....GP

thanks

[Chris21wen]

I'm working on a personal mod and just wondering if anyone has ever added aviation support to the Unicorn class to replicate it being a repair/auxiliary carrier? Is this a little too ambitious for the game engine?

Too ambitious. Ships do not have the ability to improve their onboard aircraft repair rate. System repair on ships is purely down to the ship's system damage with no damage being the same fixed rate for all types of ship.

A ships air capacity governs how many aircraft it can operate and maintain which is in effect the same as AV but the repair rate is down to sys damage.

Reading up on Unicorn she seemed to spend a lot of her time in the far east as a ferry. Like all carriers you can cram upto 200% of her air cap on her. But no ops other than air transfer are available over 115%.

[PaxMondo]

I'm working on a personal mod and just wondering if anyone has ever added aviation support to the Unicorn class to replicate it being a repair/auxiliary carrier? Is this a little too ambitious for the game engine?

If you change the Unicorn class to AV, you can then assign 254 in slot 19. See 2092 Kamoi AV in S001 as an example.

Now, if the ship has both supply on board and Ops points, then it will add it's net Seaplane Support value to the Aviation Support of the base. The net seaplane support of the ship is the Armor value of slot 19 if set to 254 minus the number of planes on board the ship.

I think this is what you are looking to do ... this only works for the AV class ....

[Chris21wen]

I'm working on a personal mod and just wondering if anyone has ever added aviation support to the Unicorn class to replicate it being a repair/auxiliary carrier? Is this a little too ambitious for the game engine?

If you change the Unicorn class to AV, you can then assign 254 in slot 19. See 2092 Kamoi AV in S001 as an example.

Now, if the ship has both supply on board and Ops points, then it will add it's net Seaplane Support value to the Aviation Support of the base. The net seaplane support of the ship is the Armor value of slot 19 if set to 254 minus the number of planes on board the ship.

I think this is what you are looking to do ... this only works for the AV class ....

I'm not sure that will work. Yes it increases support for the base but it will not improve the repair rate for aircraft still on the ship and nor will it assist in anything other than seaplanes (FP/FF/PA) at the base.

Only carrier type ships have the ability to to maintain none seaplane type aircraft on a ship as standard. I did try changing slot 19 on a carrier to AV but it had no effect other than to remove tropedo ordance if the carrier had any.

These rules I believe are game design and cannot be changed. AV is purely shore based support and then selective as in tenders.