To get back to the original point brought up by the originator of this thread, the bombs have been rendered more ineffective than they should in the last major AH update. Last night I dropped 18 500 lb'ers on a CV and got 21 damage messages but no ship destroyed. There is no way that ship should have survived. I took a screenshot of the damage messages if anyone would like to see it. The CV is still visible showing through the text buffer.
Realistically, most WWII hangars were wooden frame structures with possibly sheet metal or wooden siding and roofing. A single 500 lb. bomb should be sufficient to demolish it and everything in it. I have repeatedly salvoed three 500 lb. bombs times 3 bombers, for 4500 lbs. of bombs on hangars and had them fail to demolish the hangars. A near miss with a single 500 lb. should damage the hangar badly or destroy it completely. "3 whole bombs" from 3 bombers w/500s equates to 4500 lbs. of high explosives which the concussion alone would blow a tin building down, probably 500 yards away. "Geez"
If you look at the hangars in this game, they are not the modern, hardened concrete and steel reinforced structures that the military uses today. Next time you're in the hangar selecting your plane and loadout, look at the hangar structure. Use your hat switch or view buttons to look around.
A formation of 3 B17's or 3 B-24's or 3 Lancasters dropping on a small airfield would disable every hangar that they hit. If there were only four or six hangars and all of them were hit, yes, that airfield would be wiped out if all the planes were in the hangars. Personally, I think we should be able to crater the runways and make them unuseable as well.
The issue here is, if you make a good bomb drop on a hangar, or all the hangars on the field, they should be destroyed, not still standing. If you make good hits on the CV with big bombs, they should be sunk. If you can't do that, why bother to fly bombers.
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