Bomb blast damage radius

[bozon]

Does bomb damage decrease with distance from the explosion center?

The mossies 4000lbs cookie has an huge blast radius, but just about the same total point damage as the 4*500 lbs you can carry in the bomb bay. However, against towns the blast radius is so large (increase with bomb size and HC bonus) and blast area goes like the square of the radius, that it hits a lot more buildings than 4*500 would. The total damage potential of the 4000lbs cookie is thus much larger. Also, aiming is optional   

[Zimme83]

Are you sure? While it's now called a GP bomb, I was under the impression it's been modeled as a HC bomb. I just did two drops on bomber hangars to test it, they never went down.

It kills a hangar, ive done it multiple times.

[Lusche]

It kills a hangar, ive done it multiple times.

Yes it can. The problem is, there is something wrong with custom online arenas. In offline mode it worked without problems, online it did not. And yes, "protect objects" was off in both modes. 

[Lusche]

Turned out to be a map specific problem. Bug report in the making...

[cav58d]

Has anyone ever 1 pass white flagged a town with 250lb bombs?

I can single pass in Lancs with either the 1,000 pounders or the 500 pounders + cookie.  It's also possible to single pass in 24's with the thousand pounders.

[redcatcherb412]

500 pounders are the most economical choice.

Anyone that's been within 200 yards or so of a MK82 can probably agree with this, and that a 500's blast/shrapnel combo is quite lethal. The game seems pretty accurate in that regard.

[Traveler]

Physics question, Aircraft A,  a P38 loaded with two 1000lb bombs and 10 rockets,  is diving on a target, a Fighter Hanger, at 450 MPH  pilot fires 5 rockets, and releases two 1000lb bombs.
At what speed do the 5 rockets hit the target and at what speed does the 1000lb bomb hit the target?  Is any part of the kinetic energy  of either weapon considered in the Damage Model?
 

[Lusche]

Is any part of the kinetic energy  of either weapon considered in the Damage Model?

No. Not even for guns, which do a fixed amount damage against all objects at any range.

[Dundee]

Dont know why my chart disappeared....

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That's if we had a 4K GP Bomb, It would do 3,125lb of damage. The ones we have are HC/LC.

The 1,800 kg gp is missing from the list.... and that one is a real hangar killer for sure

[Krusty]

Are the B-29 4k bombs just visual re-skins of the older 4k cookies, or do they behave differently? I'd guess differently, but I'd like confirmation.

[Zimme83]

Dont know why my chart disappeared....

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That's if we had a 4K GP Bomb, It would do 3,125lb of damage. The ones we have are HC/LC.

The damage for the 1000kg doesn't seem to be right. 1000kg is ~2200lbs so 2800lbs of damage seems a bit off..

The 1,800 kg gp is missing from the list.... and that one is a real hangar killer for sure

1800 kg is almost exactly 4000lbs so you can use the number for a 4000lbs GP bomb.

[BowHTR]

The damage for the 1000kg doesn't seem to be right. 1000kg is ~2200lbs so 2800lbs of damage seems a bit off..

1800 kg is almost exactly 4000lbs so you can use the number for a 4000lbs GP bomb.

The original information came from the old AH Help files that used to be on the AH site. I can't seem to find it now. This was essentially a copy/paste from that and then I just worked the numbers for the different types of bombs.

[Zimme83]

Its 200lbs between a 2000lb and a 1000kg but on the chart the 1000kg does 1100 lbs more damage than a 2000 puonder. The 1000 kg bomb does around 1900 lbs of damage.

[BowHTR]

Its 200lbs between a 2000lb and a 1000kg but on the chart the 1000kg does 1100 lbs more damage than a 2000 puonder. The 1000 kg bomb does around 1900 lbs of damage.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm telling you the initial information came from the HTC help site, which is changed now and this info is no longer there. Do you have any data to support that a 1000kg bomb does 1900lb of damage? Are you just guessing based off of the weight?

[Zimme83]

After a brief test: the damage is 1890 (+/- 4) lbs.