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ORIGINAL: traskott

I'm playing with the bombload filters added on the new patches. I would like to know when assign less bombs but heavier and when small but lot of them.

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If I want that plane can be used to airlaid mines, what filter should I use?

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: traskott

I'm playing with the bombload filters added on the new patches. I would like to know when assign less bombs but heavier and when small but lot of them.

Increasing number of bombs also increases number/chance of hits, so if you give lots of bombs - plane would be better in anti-ship role. Also you want to use bigger bombs, with better penetration, if plane should be used against armored ships.

Size of bomb does not seem to have much impact on destroying land devices, or damaging airfield (but it influences destroyed supply), so if you want plane to be used in ground support role give it lots of small bombs. I have used similar solution for LILYs. SALLY carries standard 4x250 kg bombs, but LILY 8x50kg, so it is obviously better for ground support, and have its usefulness, and is no longer poor SALLY version..

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If I want that plane can be used to airlaid mines, what filter should I use?

No idea. Is there anything special set in original Scenarios? Maybe it is set in unit, not airframe?

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

There is generally several problems with anti-ship bombload:
1) It s hard to explain, why level bomber should be more accurate, than specialized Torpedo Bomber (they carry like 2-3 bombs)
2) There should not be difference between both sides (unless there was some radical aiming equipment difference). But currently BETTY carries 6 bombs, so no more, than 6 bombs seems OK.
3) 500lb is not enough to penetrate armored deck, but it is enough to sink Destroyer, and plane with lots of 500lb bombs suddenly becomes fast ships mass-killer.

I am currently changing whole Japanese side bombloads, and no plane carries more, than 4 bombs against ships (reported number for NELL). Actually BETTY carries only ONE 800kg bomb.

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ORIGINAL: el cid again

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

There is generally several problems with anti-ship bombload:
1) It s hard to explain, why level bomber should be more accurate, than specialized Torpedo Bomber (they carry like 2-3 bombs)
2) There should not be difference between both sides (unless there was some radical aiming equipment difference). But currently BETTY carries 6 bombs, so no more, than 6 bombs seems OK.
3) 500lb is not enough to penetrate armored deck, but it is enough to sink Destroyer, and plane with lots of 500lb bombs suddenly becomes fast ships mass-killer.

I am currently changing whole Japanese side bombloads, and no plane carries more, than 4 bombs against ships (reported number for NELL). Actually BETTY carries only ONE 800kg bomb.

I do not think level bombers are more accurate than torpedo bombers. If they are, you can play with device accuracy to change that. They are certainly not more accurate than dive bombers.

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However, I do think fewer bombs, which are larger and AP or SAP, makes more sense vs large ships. I do not agree that a 400 pound bomb cannot penetrate an armored deck. It depends on the deck. Accurate ship data often has rediculous amounts of deck armor. And also, there is a chance of penetration even of a big deck, just not a good chance. This because decks are rarely uniform, and because sometimes you hit things on deck that have secondary effects. Anyway - sometimes 500 pound bombs are nasty - and if you carry twice as many of them as you do thousand pounders - the trade off may well favor the 500 pounders.