RE: No US AP bombs
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:41 am
ORIGINAL: Nikademus
ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl
Back to the original point. US CV's DID carry AP bombs for use in the Pacific. Just not to
many of them because there weren't many targets that called for such ordnance. But if
they are attacking a BB, then at least some of the A/C should have AP bombs aboard.
The same is true of 2000 lb Sap and GP bombs. The A/C were designed to and capable
of carrying them, but they don't seem to show up in the game even in normal ranged
strikes.
This is true Mike. Unfortunately the code doesn't work that way. There can only be one default loadout for normal and one for extended range, and as the GP type bomb is the more proliferant type carried by a CV (exclusively during the early war period save for Enterprise's dozen and a half converted shells), it remains the more proper choice.
Its not like the carriers are giving up their torpedo bombers. They remain the greatest threat to any warship, heavily armored or not.
Fair enough NIK. Some compromise is inevitable in a game of this scope, and it's at
least a straightforward explanation. It would be nice to see the "standard" US load-
outs get larger in 1944-45 as the A/C grew more powerful and capable.