Fleets / LSTs

[Rob52240]

How do you think the Brits sunk the Bismarck?

[AKP]

How do you think the Brits sunk the Bismarck?

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I think you are referring to how the British sunk the Tirpitz... which was done by Lancasters using tallboys.  The Bismark was "damaged" by swordfirsh torpedo planes, reduced to a flaming wreck by naval guns, and sunk finally by torpedoes fired from surface ships.

As for the original post, I would agree that fleets are too easy to take down by level bombers.  But I think it has more to do with how fleets are used and defended than anything else.  If someone is commanding the cv that knows what they are doing, and/or there is someone in the 5" guns that is a good shot... level bombers under 10K dont stand much of a chance... and trying to hit a turning CV from over 10K is more a matter of luck.  However... a carrier with no one st the helm... steaming in a straight line, relying only on AI powered puffy ack to defend it... will go down in one pass every time.

[Rob52240]

Yes the Turpitz, sorry.

This works too if nobody's in the guns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWyTy5JD2M

[Becinhu]

   It would be a fun test to take 10 formations of b17s, and 1 Tempest over a fleet and count the hits on each.

Like the bomber idea, however I suggest switching the Tempy for a 262. I guarantee the 262 doesn't make it through.

[Shiva]

The other half is the act of level bombing is too easy.

The difficulty of hitting a CV from altitude is not helped by the lack of bomb scatter, so that if you do the registration correctly, your bombs will land in a precise pattern around where your crosshairs were when you hit the pickle switch. You can get unreasonably tight beaten zones, even from 30,000 feet.

[bortas1]

great idea odd im 100% in favor. would add alot more invasion flavor to the game. 

[Karnak]

The photos I have seen from Midway, where the B-17s failed to get a single hit on the Japanese CVs, the Japanese CVs are all turning and maneuvering hard.  None of those Japanese captains was thinking "Oh, level bombers, those can't hit us."

Now, I agree it is easier in AH to hit a ship going straight than it was in reality, but a bomber at 20k will almost never hit a maneuvering ship.