Thoughts and questions: CBU's

[mauser]

If/when we get schlact versions of the 190, I thought about what would happen if we got the cluster bomb units that the LW had (did allies have them too?). First of all, I guess we can't really argue against them wrt how widely they were used. However, I wonder how they would be implemented here. I'd love to have them, but I'm wondering if they will be so effective as to cut down on the ppl who take vehicles out. For example, someone has a couple of these and knows where a vehicle spawn is. Sees vehicles spawning and dives in... watch the fireworks both on the screen and the text buffer. Since the Osty is open top, CBU's would be extremely effective on them if the bomblets hit. I also wonder what kind of uses people could find for the CBU's. Dropping them on buffs? (difficult, but not entirely impossible) Wiping out field ack? (it's not that hard right now for some of you to do it even w/o CBU's). What do you folks think?

mauser

[flakbait]

A single large cluster munition can wipe out the ack at a forward field easily. The guns will still be there, but the crews would be hamburger. Dropping them on bombers would be nearly impossible without a norden. Plus you'd have to pray he doesn't turn.

I'd like to see cluster bombs eventually. Read the 190F8 petition; I posted a link to a Luftwaffe Ordinance List in there.



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19 September 2000

[Jigster]

Luftwaffe get cluster bombs if the US gets Napalm (aircraft) tanks, that work?  

- Jig



[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 10-22-2000).]

[mauser]

Thanks flakbait, I've put my name on the petition already   Hiyas Jigster... no problem with me on giving napalm to whatever aircraft used it. I'm not going to complain either way  
I took a brief look at the LW air-dropped ordnance link that flakbait posted. Wow.. now that's a whole lot of different stuff. I severely doubt most of that stuff would be modelled for various reasons though, but it's a nice thought. I'm thinking the problem would be how to implement ordnance like that (including napalm) and how to complement it. By complement, I mean possible additions to the sim that won't cause everyone to start using napalm, or cbu's or what have you just because they kill vehicles and things easily. Right now, we can spot vehicles on the ground fairly well from the air, and they would be virtual mincemeat. As it is now, if you have enuf ground attack power in the air, the vehicles are already in trouble. There's no cover, no place to hide except at the airfield.
I still think it would be interesting to get cbu's one day (and like Jigster said, napalm, and I guess other special munitions). I don't think any of the other online sims have them right?

mauser