Kamikazes - Some Strange & Some Downright Odd Observations
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:52 pm
Working through April 1945 having finally taken Iwo Jima (after some odd AI antics posted elsewhere).
Now trying to soften up Luzon (to help 6th & 8th Armies) and Okinawa/Home Islands (ready to invade Naha).
The AI is throwing everything at me including the kitchen sink.
Unfortunately it's a very a-historic kitchen sink consisting of:
Emily's and Mavis' being used as Kamikazes (not just the odd one, but whole Sqns of them)
Sqns of Betty's being used in the morning as Kamikazes in the morning and any survivors conducting torpedo or bombing raids in the afternoon.
Add to this such anomalies as 24 aircraft being used as Kamikazes having 16 destroyed by the CAP and then having the remaining 8 scoring 20 hits on 20 separate ships!
Then finally having combat results like:
6 Emilys managing to get past a CAP of 300+ fighters and score catastrophic hits on ships with the highest AAA ratings.
Obsolete fighters with a pair of 30/50 kg bombs sinking Iowa class battleships with a single Kamikaze hit (that's right that more than 50 000 tons of ship being sunk by an aircraft at maximum range that itself weighs less than 3 tons).
Basically the whole Kamikaze thing needs to be looked at as does the combat tables that allow for results like a small single seat fighter sinking a battleship when employed as a Kamikaze.
Given the actual effort required in real life to sink things, I should not be seeing things like 'BB New Jersey Kamikaze Hit 1 and is sunk' - it's laughable (as indeed were earlier combat results which had BB's and CV's sunk by single air launched torpedoes or single bombs of less than 100 kg (all of which I have seen - affecting both sides it has to be said) - the only (armoured)capital ship that was doomed by a single hit was PoW (when a torpedo struck it in the only place where a single hit would have that effect).
Now trying to soften up Luzon (to help 6th & 8th Armies) and Okinawa/Home Islands (ready to invade Naha).
The AI is throwing everything at me including the kitchen sink.
Unfortunately it's a very a-historic kitchen sink consisting of:
Emily's and Mavis' being used as Kamikazes (not just the odd one, but whole Sqns of them)
Sqns of Betty's being used in the morning as Kamikazes in the morning and any survivors conducting torpedo or bombing raids in the afternoon.
Add to this such anomalies as 24 aircraft being used as Kamikazes having 16 destroyed by the CAP and then having the remaining 8 scoring 20 hits on 20 separate ships!
Then finally having combat results like:
6 Emilys managing to get past a CAP of 300+ fighters and score catastrophic hits on ships with the highest AAA ratings.
Obsolete fighters with a pair of 30/50 kg bombs sinking Iowa class battleships with a single Kamikaze hit (that's right that more than 50 000 tons of ship being sunk by an aircraft at maximum range that itself weighs less than 3 tons).
Basically the whole Kamikaze thing needs to be looked at as does the combat tables that allow for results like a small single seat fighter sinking a battleship when employed as a Kamikaze.
Given the actual effort required in real life to sink things, I should not be seeing things like 'BB New Jersey Kamikaze Hit 1 and is sunk' - it's laughable (as indeed were earlier combat results which had BB's and CV's sunk by single air launched torpedoes or single bombs of less than 100 kg (all of which I have seen - affecting both sides it has to be said) - the only (armoured)capital ship that was doomed by a single hit was PoW (when a torpedo struck it in the only place where a single hit would have that effect).
