Since when has anyone successfully sunk a carrier with torpedoes? Not counting Ju-88 missions with 30 joiners and a CV a few miles off shore.
its easy to actually torp a cv its all about approach and timing and staying low.
but one thing the pby would add to torping is the fact it is slow..
currently if you want to torp a cv...you have to slow down in order to drop the torp(which means no descending) even a b5n2 has to slow down when on the deck to drop if you try to drop with 88s or g4s or b5s or tbms or 67s you all face the same problem all the planes go as fast if not faster then the max torp drop speed required which means slowing down anywhere from 50-100mph(in some cases) in about 300 yards before dropping is it easy to slow down... yes...but you are slowing down which if a gun is trained on you when you slow down... your pretty much dead of course the ju88 makes this easy with dive flaps..however all planes still require you to be low alt before dropping easy enough... but the problem comes with clearing the CV and the bridge of the cv..and yes ppl have actually ran into it...allot.....me included but the collision isn't the real killer its the pulling up over all those ships...and getting blasted with the some 140?'ish AK guns
pby doing 150-189 means you could actually approach on a decent which increases survivability massively(as your not sitting level with guns or pulling up over the AK) given the fact us torps are 250mph you could go in a decent of roughly 1000FPM on your final line up and accelerate drop the torp and possibly make it out
@guncrasher
as for defensive guns they are not that important but they would still be better then about 6 bombers but eitherway if a b5n2 can survive a cv's AK and shoot down a zero on its way to rtb i think a pby will be just fine......
as for the whole upping from port idea(im game for it do to fact ports are to easy to take..) and you wouldn't really need a hangar they could dock....but don't you think if they added the pby and added it to ports that they would add the hangar......just sayin
and if you don't think a b5n can do it il gladly go record it for you(In fact i think i already have one)
