Mossie16 4k Egg Bug (Possibility).

[skorpx1]

I was out doing a bombing run to try to take a base with a few countrymen and I vouched to take down the VH on a port. I dropped the egg, which was the 4k egg in the Mossie16 and it did no damage at all to the VH despite landing right next to it. the Radar, a gun and a few other structures went down but the VH stayed up.

This is also not the first time it's happened to me. Iv'e dropped the same 4k egg on a FH and it didn't take it down, however I wasn't rolling film that time.


Is this a bug or am I just not understanding something about the 4k egg in the Mossie16?


Film.
https://www.mediafire.com/?929h2emtkf86u19

[Lusche]

Is this a bug or am I just not understanding something about the 4k egg in the Mossie16?

This is not a bug. The 4,000lbs HC bomb simply does not have a damage rating high enough to destroy an undamaged hangar. It's rated aproximately  2340lb of damage, any hangar takes almost 2800lbs to destroy it.

[Latrobe]

Is that the real damage output of the cookie? I knew it had a damage reduction because it's a HC bomb but I didn't think it was that severe. 

[Lusche]

Is that the real damage output of the cookie? I knew it had a damage reduction because it's a HC bomb but I didn't think it was that severe.  

Being HC (=high capacity) reduces the damage output to 75% (while increasing damage radius by 25%). The 4k bomb never did "4k" of damage to begin with, even when ti was modeled as GP like all bombs were.

The only GP bomb to have a damage rating equal to it's mass is the 1000lbs (and 500kg) bomb. Bombs smaller than that have a relatively higher damage rating per pound of mass - the smaller they become, the more *bang* per lbs.
Bombs larger than 1000lbs (500kg) are less and less efficient the larger they become.

[skorpx1]

Edit: Ninja'd.

[Lusche]

Why is the damage knocked down so much on the 4k eggs? Is it because HTC decided to nerf it or is it a different type of bomb?

See above

[skorpx1]

See above

So let me get this straight.


The 4k HC bomb only does 75% of 4k damage.

Which would mean 3k of damage.

At a 25% range increase.


Shouldn't it still take down any hangar in game?

[Lusche]

So let me get this straight.


The 4k HC bomb only does 75% of 4k damage.

No. that's not what I wrote. See 2nd paragraph.

[skorpx1]

No. that's not what I wrote. See 2nd paragraph.

Wait. I got it now.


Math doesn't get along with me.

[Lusche]

Some basic damage ratings for GP (standard) bombs:

4,000 lb - 3,125 damage (there is no actual 4k GP bomb in game anymore)
2,000 lb - 1,718 damage
1,000 lb - 1,000 damage
500 lb - 550 damage
250 lb - 313 damage
100 lb - 156 damage

AP bombs: 150% damage, 20% radius
SAP bombs: 125% damage, 33% radius
HC/LC bombs: 75% damage, 125% radius

[skorpx1]

Doesn't the B29 have those 4k GP bombs? Or would those be HC as well?

[Lusche]

Doesn't the B29 have those 4k GP bombs? Or would those be HC as well?

They are LC = Light Casing bombs, which is the just same as High Capacity with a different name.