AE Air Issues and Air OOB Issues [OUTDATED]

[Ron Saueracker]

Heyho. Little thing, more for eye candy and nomenclature than anything else. Is there going to be any differentation between same aircraft but serving with multiple nations? Ie. Will we have TBF Avengers and the RN equivalent Tarpon. Hellcats and RN Gannets. Blenheim IVs and RCAF Bollingbrokes. ETC... RCAF, RNZAF and RAAF Kittyhawks. Markings and schemes are different as were production numbers available per nation. Seeing as there are a kabillion slots now...[;)]

[timtom]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker
Heyho. Little thing, more for eye candy and nomenclature than anything else. Is there going to be any differentation between same aircraft but serving with multiple nations? Ie. Will we have TBF Avengers and the RN equivalent Tarpon. Hellcats and RN Gannets. Blenheim IVs and RCAF Bollingbrokes. ETC... RCAF, RNZAF and RAAF Kittyhawks. Markings and schemes are different as were production numbers available per nation. Seeing as there are a kabillion slots now...[;)]

Yup, and the Art Department is crafting some grade-A stuff to go with it all.

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: timtom

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker
Heyho. Little thing, more for eye candy and nomenclature than anything else. Is there going to be any differentation between same aircraft but serving with multiple nations? Ie. Will we have TBF Avengers and the RN equivalent Tarpon. Hellcats and RN Gannets. Blenheim IVs and RCAF Bollingbrokes. ETC... RCAF, RNZAF and RAAF Kittyhawks. Markings and schemes are different as were production numbers available per nation. Seeing as there are a kabillion slots now...[;)]

Yup, and the Art Department is crafting some grade-A stuff to go with it all.

Wow and another wow. Thanks and can we buy you guys beer?[&o][:D]

[TIMJOT]

Don't know if this has been covered but has then been any thought of revisiting max sorties. Specifically limiting torpedo loadouts. Just finished "Shattered Sword" and it states that IJN CVs carried max 36 torpedos each. Thats just two full torpedo squadron sorties each. The current system just doesnt model this severe RL limitation well enough IMHO. That goes for LBA as well. The current infinite supply for LBA torp loadouts allows Bettys/Nells not to mention Beauforts, Swordfish and Vildebeast to appear far too effective. How about requireing something like a minimal base supply level  (25,000?) for LBA to load torps?

[TheElf]

ORIGINAL: TIMJOT

Don't know if this has been covered but has then been any thought of revisiting max sorties. Specifically limiting torpedo loadouts. Just finished "Shattered Sword" and it states that IJN CVs carried max 36 torpedos each. Thats just two full torpedo squadron sorties each. The current system just doesnt model this severe RL limitation well enough IMHO. That goes for LBA as well. The current infinite supply for LBA torp loadouts allows Bettys/Nells not to mention Beauforts, Swordfish and Vildebeast to appear far too effective. How about requireing something like a minimal base supply level  (25,000?) for LBA to load torps?

yes.

[Cathartes]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Wow and another wow. Thanks and can we buy you guys beer?[&o][:D]

Yes!

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Wow and another wow. Thanks and can we buy you guys beer?[&o][:D]

Yes!

(This is where Ron reaches limply into his jeans pockets and sez all he has is Greek coins and naval lint.)[;)]

[timtom]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Wow and another wow. Thanks and can we buy you guys beer?[&o][:D]

Yes!

(This is where Ron reaches limply into his jeans pockets and sez all he has is Greek coins and naval lint.)[;)]

Right now any beer will do, Greek included.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cathartes

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Wow and another wow. Thanks and can we buy you guys beer?[&o][:D]

Yes!

(This is where Ron reaches limply into his jeans pockets and sez all he has is Greek coins and naval lint.)[;)]

As opposed to army lint?[:'(]

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cathartes





Yes!

(This is where Ron reaches limply into his jeans pockets and sez all he has is Greek coins and naval lint.)[;)]

As opposed to army lint?[:'(]

How about Air Force lint? Would that work as well? [:D]

[bradfordkay]

Naw, too much gold braid in Air Force lint. It tends to cause holes in the pocket, resulting in the loss of the Greek coins...

[Dive Bomber1]

Will it be possible to sort the Air Leaders list by "expertise" in AE? Right now I can sort by "Leadership" and a couple of other factors, but most of the time I want to find a specific "Type" of Air Leader, such as a "Patrol" leader or a "Transport" leader or so on. In WitP I have to go through the list and click each available leader to see his "specialty".

Thanks -

[timtom]

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

ORIGINAL: TheElf

The dutch problem is being addressed. I thought Thomas answered this a while back...

Does this mean that dates for upgrading aircraft for Dutch and UK are being debated/looked at or will they be the same?

Thanks. [&o]

EDIT: Sorry Ian, if the latter was directed at me, I skimmed through most of the thread but didn't see anything mentioned about upgrade dates for Dutch and UK.

Hardcode gone. Brit & Dutch treated just like any other services. What, when, and how many a/c they'll have available for upgrade initially is another matter.

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: timtom

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

ORIGINAL: TheElf

The dutch problem is being addressed. I thought Thomas answered this a while back...

Does this mean that dates for upgrading aircraft for Dutch and UK are being debated/looked at or will they be the same?

Thanks. [&o]

EDIT: Sorry Ian, if the latter was directed at me, I skimmed through most of the thread but didn't see anything mentioned about upgrade dates for Dutch and UK.

Hardcode gone. Brit & Dutch treated just like any other services. What, when, and how many a/c they'll have available for upgrade initially is another matter.

FANTASTIC!! You guys are the BEST!! [&o]

[timtom]

[&o] MichaelM's the guy you wanna buy a cold one, if you're ever Down Under.

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: timtom

[&o] MichaelM's the guy you wanna buy a cold one, if you're ever Down Under.

Hey, I shipped Kereguelen a book on the Thai Armies within 1 week, I can sure as heck get a beer down to MichaelM! [&o]

[Sneer]

question :
is it possible  to mark enemy group hex for which air groups are forbidden to go ????
too often i saw how my airstrikes coming from smaller base attack without any sense enemy carrier TF
even if there was plenty of easy targets in range
i'd like to see a possibility to switch off air unit aggressivness or at least ability to prevent such suicide strikes

[2ndACR]

Any hope of getting Tabby's listed as both a IJN and IJA a/c? Would really love that for PDU games. Nothing like even more streamlined production with the better a/c.

[bradfordkay]

Did the IJA ever use them?

[timtom]

ORIGINAL: 2ndACR
Any hope of getting Tabby's listed as both a IJN and IJA a/c? Would really love that for PDU games. Nothing like even more streamlined production with the better a/c.

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
Did the IJA ever use them?

According to Francillon, no. Nothing to prevent modders from creating an IJAAF "L2D" or linking the IJNAF version to the IJAAF upgrade path, though.