Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Les Paul on March 12, 2014, 04:45:59 AM
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Well, I read the thread about the Kamikaze planes, which I think is pretty ridiculous, and would render all carriers pretty much obsolete. Even if you were to make an expensive perk plane out of it, I know plenty of people that have thousands if not tens of thousands of perk points ready to be spent. And rather than read the whole thread to see if somebody else mentioned this, I decided to create this, even though I am fairly sure that somewhere along the lines in this 1 million year old game (Yet it still does it better than any other flight sim out there.) Somebody has suggested it.
You should really add a skip bombing mechanic to the game. As is, CVs are pretty damn formidable, as they should be! Its hard to get a Jabo in close enough to effectively dive bomb, and you usually get your wing torn off the moment before your ready to drop your eggs. With the torp planes, you are going so slow at such a low alt, you are pretty much dead before you can get your torpedoes off, and if you do get them off, somebody will usually turn the CV before they even get there .
With the ability to skip bomb however, then you would only need to be at a nice shallow angle at low alt, at fairly high speeds in either a heavy Jabo, or level bomber and you could just skip them bombs right into that lovely carrier, and then get your wing blown off and drown beneath the murky waters of Aces High.
At the very least, I want my bombs to explode when they hit the damn water, so that I can perchance do some "Splash" damage (No pun intended!) to a CV with a near miss. It really sucks when your bombs miss by literally a meter or so and 0 damage gets done to the CV.
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Well, I read the thread about the Kamikaze planes, which I think is pretty ridiculous, and would render all carriers pretty much obsolete. Even if you were to make an expensive perk plane out of it, I know plenty of people that have thousands if not tens of thousands of perk points ready to be spent. And rather than read the whole thread to see if somebody else mentioned this, I decided to create this, even though I am fairly sure that somewhere along the lines in this 1 million year old game (Yet it still does it better than any other flight sim out there.) Somebody has suggested it.
You should really add a skip bombing mechanic to the game. As is, CVs are pretty damn formidable, as they should be! Its hard to get a Jabo in close enough to effectively dive bomb, and you usually get your wing torn off the moment before your ready to drop your eggs. With the torp planes, you are going so slow at such a low alt, you are pretty much dead before you can get your torpedoes off, and if you do get them off, somebody will usually turn the CV before they even get there .
With the ability to skip bomb however, then you would only need to be at a nice shallow angle at low alt, at fairly high speeds in either a heavy Jabo, or level bomber and you could just skip them bombs right into that lovely carrier, and then get your wing blown off and drown beneath the murky waters of Aces High.
At the very least, I want my bombs to explode when they hit the damn water, so that I can perchance do some "Splash" damage (No pun intended!) to a CV with a near miss. It really sucks when your bombs miss by literally a meter or so and 0 damage gets done to the CV.
You can damage a ship with splash damage from a near hit. I believe you can masthead bomb in this game, which was far more accurate than skip bombing.
ack-ack
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At the very least, I want my bombs to explode when they hit the damn water, so that I can perchance do some "Splash" damage (No pun intended!) to a CV with a near miss. It really sucks when your bombs miss by literally a meter or so and 0 damage gets done to the CV.
Near miss by a single 2000lb bomb and the damage it causes to a previously undamaged CV:
(http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o507/Snaildude/nearby_zps6fd40fe0.jpg)
The little grey clouds are all stuff that's getting destroyed in addition to the hull & radar damage.
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Near miss by a single 2000lb bomb and the damage it causes to a previously undamaged CV:
(http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o507/Snaildude/nearby_zps6fd40fe0.jpg)
The little grey clouds are all stuff that's getting destroyed in addition to the hull & radar damage.
looks to me like that bomb hit-because of the fire
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looks to me like that bomb hit-because of the fire
Large white splash just to the right of the TBM is the bomb impact.