no splash damage on carriers for near misses

[Citabria]

level bombing of cv's is way too easy compared to actual ww2.

remove splash damage from water hits of bombs maybe it will help this gamey problem.

why bother with torpedoes when you can carpeet bomb water for a kill?

[Lusche]

Near "misses" were actually one of the most dangerous kind of hits and often deliberately aimed for, particularly with non armor piercing, high-capacity bombs.

[B-17]

was it because they would explode at/below the waterline? or something else? i.e. magazines, fuel tanks, whatever

[EskimoJoe]

 

[Citabria]

and yet no level bombers sunk a carrier in wwII

[RTHolmes]

I saw a demo once with a small amount of plastic explosive placed on a reinforced concrete wall, made lots of dust and a nice 6" wide cavity, almost penetrating the wall.

then the same amount of explosive was used, this time with a water jacket placed over the explosive and wall. that resulted in a 6' wide hole in the wall and demolished everything in the room behind it ...

[gyrene81]

and yet no level bombers sunk a carrier in wwII

ya but other types of ships were.

[B-17]

does the Focke-Wulfe 200C count?

[RTHolmes]

cant remember which but one of our destroyers was nailed by a single 500lb bomb ... 

[guncrasher]

and yet no level bombers sunk a carrier in wwII

no cv group ever took a base by itself either.  no 5 in gunner racked in kills by the dozens, alone.  no spitfire on spitfire furballs...  about the only thing that I find lacking is no sheep on the fields.  that is disappointing.

semp

[E25280]

and yet no level bombers sunk a carrier in wwII

WWII carriers didn't sail in a straight line while under attack, either.

Neither did we have P-51s fighting Spitfires.

Or P-47s downing B-24s.

Or Lancasters carpet bombing individual tanks.

Or BF-109s dogfighting Zekes.

Or . . . .

[Lusche]

and yet no level bombers sunk a carrier in wwII

Is it because our bombs are too powerful.... or could it be it is due to a lot of other tactical / operational circumstances that do greatly differ from WWII?

[Rino]

     At least HT requires almost twice as much ordnance that historically took out a CV.  Of the 4 Japanese CVs sunk
during Midway the max was 4 1,000 pound bomb hits.  Admittedly the state of the Japanese damage control helped,
but there is no reason why we couldn't model Japanese instead of US damage control