Medium Bombers, Airfield Size

[Alfred]

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Where do you see that in stock scenario 4 (Guadalcanal)? Mine shows cargo, troop, fuel capacity of 0.

Correct. The Curtiss has zero cargo, troop or fuel carrying capacity.

Alfred

It appears that the ship features and the way the AI handles them are different for Guadalcanal than Scenario 1 ...

The AI does not handle the Curtiss differently in the two scenarios.

The main purpose of any AV is to provide tender support of FP and PA (and FF if available). Unlike the true ship tender classes which provide their tender support by virtue of just "existing", an AV only provides air support if weapon slot #19 has device #254 assigned. No such assignment, the AV provides no tender support for FP and PA. It is therefore irrelevant as to the provision of air support whether an AV carries on board any supplies.

Just like all air operations from a terrestrial airfield consume local supplies, so do FP/PA from a dot base. The code always looks to expend supply first from any supply held in a terrestrial depot and only if none exists there does it look if a relevant tender carries supply.

Continued air operations require both air support and supplies. The two concepts are separate and different.

Alfred

[BBfanboy]

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Correct. The Curtiss has zero cargo, troop or fuel carrying capacity.

Alfred

It appears that the ship features and the way the AI handles them are different for Guadalcanal than Scenario 1 ...

The AI does not handle the Curtiss differently in the two scenarios.

The main purpose of any AV is to provide tender support of FP and PA (and FF if available). Unlike the true ship tender classes which provide their tender support by virtue of just "existing", an AV only provides air support if weapon slot #19 has device #254 assigned. No such assignment, the AV provides no tender support for FP and PA. It is therefore irrelevant as to the provision of air support whether an AV carries on board any supplies.

Just like all air operations from a terrestrial airfield consume local supplies, so do FP/PA from a dot base. The code always looks to expend supply first from any supply held in a terrestrial depot and only if none exists there does it look if a relevant tender carries supply.

Continued air operations require both air support and supplies. The two concepts are separate and different.

Alfred

Thanks for the clarification about the device assignment being a prerequisite for aviation support. I didn't know (or remember) that. So I guess in the Guadalcanal scenario Curtiss is just a decoy for Japanese bombs and torpedoes intended for useful ships? [;)]

My comments about the 1600 tons at the base likely being inadequate were a suspicion from a sketchy description of what was at the base and the likelihood that construction was happening there, giving a weekly usage that precluded air bombing ops. Just making a suggestion for one of the things the OP could look at as a factor in the lack of action from the PBYs. Never meant to imply 1600 tons would not be enough in all cases.