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Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:10 pm
by pontiouspilot
I am later '44 as Japan and I realize that I have a large inventory of Type 3 mines. Search as I might I can't find a ship or sub capable of laying these. What am I missing?.....pls don't tell me to check manual as I haven't had that for 10 years!
cheers
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:15 pm
by Nomad
Looking way back I found this in the WitP forum:
mine
Seems to be an air dropped mine.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:16 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: pontiouspilot
I am later '44 as Japan and I realize that I have a large inventory of Type 3 mines. Search as I might I can't find a ship or sub capable of laying these. What am I missing?.....pls don't tell me to check manual as I haven't had that for 10 years!
cheers
If you are a registered player you should be able to download the manual in PDF version. If it is not available as a separate item on the Matrix site, someone here could surely send it to you.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:27 pm
by pontiouspilot
Well that may be the answer!! I will check that out.....I had never heard of Japanese having air mine drop capability, albeit even on this limited basis.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:58 pm
by pontiouspilot
I see the option under "city attack" but in late August '44 don't see any 2 eng. bombers capable. Any idea what plane and when available?
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 2:04 pm
by RangerJoe
Try the Betty, Nell, Sally, Helen, Frances, Lily . . .
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:34 pm
by BBfanboy
There must be a city within range. Since it is a strategic attack an enemy base might not suffice. Never heard of anyone air dropping mines at a base that did not have a city with it.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:13 pm
by RangerJoe
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
There must be a city within range. Since it is a strategic attack an enemy base might not suffice. Never heard of anyone air dropping mines at a base that did not have a city with it.
Not just a base but I also think that it needs a port . . . [8|]
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:36 pm
by Platoonist
ORIGINAL: pontiouspilot
I see the option under "city attack" but in late August '44 don't see any 2 eng. bombers capable. Any idea what plane and when available?
There are some one engine bombers that can drop mines as well if a target is in range. The Kate torpedo bomber being one of them.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:40 am
by HansBolter
I found aerial mine drooping to be a boondoggle that is hardly worth the effort.
Like torpedo bombing, aerial mining requires the delivering plane to drop to a minimum altitude to deliver the product no matter what altitude you set for the trip to the target.
Aerial mines are dropped at 3k altitude. This may be fine over a non-important target, but any target worth mining will devastate your planes with flak and barrage balloons.
B29s don't mix it up well with balloons.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:33 am
by DesertWolf101
In my current PBEM game my opponent is resorting to aerial mining and I was surprised to discover that fighter aircraft are forbidden from intercepting the mine laying aircraft. Is this working as designed?
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:10 pm
by pontiouspilot
I have Aug. '44 variants of all these planes at big home island ports and can't lay a dammed thing!! I'm guessing that Hans is right anyway....at our age it's not worth the trouble.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:19 pm
by Sardaukar
ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101
In my current PBEM game my opponent is resorting to aerial mining and I was surprised to discover that fighter aircraft are forbidden from intercepting the mine laying aircraft. Is this working as designed?
Unfortunately that is how it is.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:17 am
by Alfred
ORIGINAL: pontiouspilot
.....pls don't tell me to check manual as I haven't had that for 10 years!
cheers
Everyone has the manual. A digital version is installed when you install the game.
Alfred
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:24 am
by dwesolick
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
I found aerial mine drooping to be a boondoggle that is hardly worth the effort.
Like torpedo bombing, aerial mining requires the delivering plane to drop to a minimum altitude to deliver the product no matter what altitude you set for the trip to the target.
Aerial mines are dropped at 3k altitude. This may be fine over a non-important target, but any target worth mining will devastate your planes with flak and barrage balloons.
B29s don't mix it up well with balloons.
So operation "Starvation" really isn't much of an option in the game? I've never gotten into 1945 to give it a try.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:03 am
by RangerJoe
The mines may be easily spotted as to being in the hex, but with enough of them and no minesweepers . . . [X(]
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 am
by vonK0tze
Can they be dropped on your own bases? As defensive mines?
That might be of more use so late in the war
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:09 pm
by Platoonist
ORIGINAL: vonK0tze
Can they be dropped on your own bases? As defensive mines?
That might be of more use so late in the war
You are not ever going to be seeing your own bases displayed on the City Attack menu where the option to mine takes place, so I don't think so.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:06 pm
by rustysi
Can they be dropped on your own bases? As defensive mines?
No.
RE: Japanese type 3 mines
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:24 pm
by pontiouspilot
I may have figured it out...it helps if you turn off stockpile!