Author Topic: Catalina (Read 874 times)

5PointOh · « **on:** September 11, 2007, 08:49:37 AM »

Not sure that there is a real need for it, but I'd like to see the PBY added. Just thought, any opinions?

Tiger · « **Reply #1 on:** September 11, 2007, 09:02:10 AM »

Strap the bombs to it and make it launchable from ports is the only way I can think it would be useful in AH.

Latrobe · « **Reply #2 on:** September 11, 2007, 09:02:19 AM »

I'd like to see a Catalina. They sank a lot of ships (not sure on the exact amount). They could carry torps, bombs, and I'm not sure but I think it had a 57mm.

Denholm · « **Reply #3 on:** September 11, 2007, 09:26:47 AM »

Great recon plane, fun to fly in I would think since it was the most successful flying boat of WWII.

Devonai · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2007, 10:25:03 AM »

Being able to launch 4,000 lbs of bombs or a couple of torps from a port would be very cool. Plus, the plane itself is pretty neat.

5PointOh · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2007, 11:11:17 AM »

I was almost thinking ports and VBases that are on the water, I mean truthfully it could launch out of anywhere. HiTech, can we please have a Catalina?

BaldEagl · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2007, 11:48:34 AM »

They also had wheels so launching anywhere would be feasable but water launching from ports would be the coolest.

The biggest problem is there currently is no way to land successfully on water ala the PT boat problem.

Tiger · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2007, 11:52:11 AM »

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Originally posted by BaldEagl

The biggest problem is there currently is no way to land successfully on water ala the PT boat problem.

Thought this worked the same way the offensive GV spawn point worked? In the general area of spawn, no emeny's within range counts as a land.

I never rarely drive PT boats, and if I do it's a suicide mission anyway, so I have no clue

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #8 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:19:56 PM »

sometimes it works other times it doesn't.

I never heard of a PBY with a 57mm, I think you are thinking of a German plane that had one and was used for anti-shipping.
The problem with a PBY would be it not filling any role in the game that already is not filled. It would not be a formation as I'm almost positive it did not have a bomb sight so cannot be used for level bombing. Also modelling the plane to land on water without damaging it the way that our planes do now would be time consuming. There are very few ships that it would be able to sink anyways. Suplly convoys are rare and It would never get close to a CV. If it did get to the CV it does not carry enough ords to sink it anyways. If you really want a plane that can be launched from ports maybe consider the various float planes that were used by the Americans and Japaneese. Some actually were not half bad planes.
example: A6M2-N
"The seaplane base in Jaluit, for example, is known to have harbored in mid-1943 the Mitsubishi A6M2-N's ("Rufe"), a float plane version of the "zero" fighter"http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/WWII/SeaPlaneOps.html is where I found that, might be able to find stats as well.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #9 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:21:35 PM »

http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijna/a6m-n.htm

info here as well.

Denholm · « **Reply #10 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:24:10 PM »

TBM can't sink a CV by itself and we still have it.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #11 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:02:36 PM »

yes, because the TBM can take down a hanger by itself, or take down a good amount of a town. It fits a need. PBY does not. If you didn't notice the ports on most maps are very close to an airbase, from which a flight of B17's or B26's can be launched again st an attacking CV.

Spikes · « **Reply #12 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:08:19 PM »

I'd love to see it...although it will just become a target.

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:31:08 PM »

I would love to have flying boats/floatplanes available at ports and airfields. The catalina is not a bad choise at all

Add the Nakajima A6M2-N too

Spikes · « **Reply #14 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:33:08 PM »

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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
If you didn't notice the ports on most maps are very close to an airbase, from which a flight of B17's or B26's can be launched again st an attacking CV.

Yes but still...some are 1/2-1 sector away...heck...some are out in the boonies.