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ORIGINAL: Itdepends
I believe f you turn replacements on for the Air Hq it will also convert supply on its own to maintain the level of torpedoes you set it at.

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

ORIGINAL: Itdepends
I believe f you turn replacements on for the Air Hq it will also convert supply on its own to maintain the level of torpedoes you set it at.

Not quite. Maintaining the level is done through clicking TOE link on LCU screen and entering the desired number of torps there

ORIGINAL: cardas

The question as to why they are treated so specially was answered, but not the one about the 20 torpedoes at a time limit. A charitable guess from my side is that it's there to protect the player, torpedoes cost quite a lot of supply (relatively) after all. Imagine somehow accidentally ordering, say, 100000 torpedoes in Tokyo. If you somehow glossed over it and didn't notice then that's something which would actually have long term supply consequences. By having the 20 torpedo limit there's no way that you'd do such a costly mistake. Of course, the fact that you can put 9999 torpedoes as the automatic refill makes me question why the limit would be 20.

It's also noteworthy that you can't order torpedoes in an Air HQ unless you have more than 2 times the required supply in a base. That may be the reason for the 20 torpedoes at a time limit as well? Because of the special nature of ordering torpedoes it was simply easier to limit how many you could order at a time due to some blah, blah supply checks. Depends on how the behind the hood programming looks like.

in-game design choices limited several historical torpedo squadrons , those dutch float planes had torpedos but not in game. there were mods to the B26 to carry torps also.
some brit torp units also limited.

some uses were very rare or never persued historicly so they were left out of game.

ORIGINAL: spence

in-game design choices limited several historical torpedo squadrons , those dutch float planes had torpedos but not in game. there were mods to the B26 to carry torps also.
some brit torp units also limited.

some uses were very rare or never persued historicly so they were left out of game.

The original designer seems to have bought into the prewar Japanese Doctrine that had the lesser surface ships (cruisers and destroyers), aircraft and submarines of the Combined Fleet would be whittling down the American Battle-line as it advanced across the Pacific before "The Decisive Battle" between the USN and IJN. The G3 and G4 bombers were designed with that purpose in mind. That why their cruisers and destroyers carried torpedo reloads.

Operations Research shows that the Japanese reliance on torpedoes effectiveness was overblown. Although able to produce spectacular results at times such results were far to rare to have a strategic effect. Although many Allied twin-engine bombers could be rigged to carry torpedoes like the G3s and G4s the Allies recognized that the increased training required to deliver torpedoes effectively (such as that received by the groups which sank POW and Repulse) and the cost of the constant maintenance of torpedoes were not justified by the results obtainable with torpedoes rather than bombs so the Allies (Americans anyways) did not pursue an operational torpedo-bombing capability for their twin-engine bombers (torpedo capability was rigged and tested on the B-26, various B-25 versions, the PV-1 and PV-2. As far as I know it was only used operationally by B-26s at Midway and in the Aleutians although there is a photo of one being loaded onto a PV-1 in the Aleutians during a snowstorm (probably not for show).

Very interesting.
I wonder how many torpedoes a B-17 could carry.

ORIGINAL: spence

Very interesting.
I wonder how many torpedoes a B-17 could carry.

I have no idea if the bomb bays were big enough to hold an aerial torpedo or four(weight-wise they could do that and still have a decent range). Are you going to work up a Mod with that capability?
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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

”Miss Torpedo” 1952