Nice B-29 raid

[Odin]

Day Air attack on Palau , at 52,67


Allied aircraft
B-29 Superfortress x 61


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 82, on fire, heavy damage
CV Taiho, Bomb hits 130, on fire, heavy damage
CA Takao, Bomb hits 8
CA Maya, Bomb hits 9, on fire
BB Nagato, Bomb hits 87, on fire, heavy damage
CL Oi, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
CA Myoko, Bomb hits 10, on fire
CV Zuikaku, Bomb hits 136, on fire, heavy damage
DD Okinami, Bomb hits 1
CA Tone, Bomb hits 11, on fire
CA Haguro, Bomb hits 8, on fire
CA Mogami, Bomb hits 5
CA Atago, Bomb hits 7, on fire
DD Uzuki, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Akishimo, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Fujinami, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 13, on fire
CA Chikuma, Bomb hits 7, on fire
DD Tamanami, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AV Kiyokawa Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Urakaze, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Hakubasan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CA Suzuya, Bomb hits 4
DD Hamakaze, Bomb hits 1
DD Michishio, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hayashimo, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
SS I-41, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Nowaki, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Shimotsuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS I-46, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hibiki, Bomb hits 1
DD Hatsushimo, Bomb hits 1
SS I-53, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tsuga, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
282 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Port hits 22
Port fuel hits 3
Port supply hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 33600 feet
20 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 33600 feet
5 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 33600 feet
6 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 33600 feet

But so much hits on ships?[&:]

[tsimmonds]

From High Altitude Bombing on the main forum:

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

Gary confirmed that there is a bug with high altitude bombers (probably at 32768 as posted earlier, thanks for that note). He has sent a fix to Mike so hopefully it will be fixed in the next patch. Until then, keep your altitudes below 30k and you should be fine.

[Speedysteve]

[:D]

Luckily this bug has been identified!

[kokubokan25]

seems like the B-29 force was capable to destroy the entire Rengo Kantai...
I hope this is a bug

[Koniev]

I count 545 bomb hits on ships and 31 on other targets. Somebody check my arithmetic.

What game date did this occur on, and from where did the attack originate?

[UncleBuck]

40 bomber per B-29x 61 bombers = 2,440 bombs. that is only a 22.3% hit rate.

It seems to be a bit high on the ships but carriers were called bomb catchers

[mongo]

Sheesh.. the Aluminum Overcast really did the job [:)]

[tsimmonds]

Uh, guys? Read my earlier post in this thread. It's a bug; bombers over 30,000 feet.

[Mr.Frag]

It's actually a signed vs unsigned integer problem ... greater then 32767 actually is a negative number instead of a positive so you are attacking from below ground level thereby getting *very* good results [:D]

Keep them under 32768 feet until the patch comes out to fix this one.

[tsimmonds]

attacking from below ground level

Yankee devils!

[mongo]

Yeah, it's a bug, but it's an IMPRESSIVE bug [:D]

[frankycee]

Isnt it written somewhere that level bombers can only have 1 bomb hit each?

or did I dream this up?

[freeboy]

I definately remember that, sure it was a post by a tester or a staff person, ok confess... who stated this??

[Odin]

Ok its a bug but a very funny one[8D]

Haruna and the other big ships completely lost their weapons, except the main guns on the Battleships which are too heavy armored.

Funny![:D]

[dacharls]

I have had single LB report at least 2 hits on boats.
My Dutch airmen are realy making a mess of the jap supply lines.

/my first post Hello everybody/

[Cap Mandrake]

..............................................MEMO..........................................

From: Gen. Curtis LeMay
To: All Pilots my B-29 Group
Date: June 2, 1945
Re: New Bombing Regs


Effective immediately, all B-29s in this group will insure that their altitude on their final bomb run is > 2**15 (32678) feet. That is all.

[freeboy]

lol really I am

[AmiralLaurent]

Wondering if this has been patched in v1.3 or v1.4. Probably yes.

The funny part if that another Gisby game, Bombing the Reich has exactly the same feature. Bombers flying over 32768 feet were 100% accurate and usually destroyed most of the AA guns defending the target.

In both games, AA fire was using the real altitude contrary to the bombers so losses were nil.

[mogami]

Hi, You'd think if those B-29 are being gophers that at least the mines in the hex would knock out a few. [X(]

[AmiralLaurent]

ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, You'd think if those B-29 are being gophers that at least the mines in the hex would knock out a few. [X(]

This B-29s are flying submarines with 40 bombs jumping out of the water around Japanese ships. Yes, mines should strike some of them (or rather the other way) as they stop Allied submarines.