posted 03-12- 04:12 PM               

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I was just doing a mission in a Ju88 with
heavy bombing load (2x500kg, 2x250kg, 10x50kg?). Dive bombing the 2x500 and 2x250
onto the buildings on one side of an airfield
seemed to take out just about everything in
the area! I then tried a Mosquito FB. VI
in the training mission. Dropping 2x500lbs
on a Hanomag in a hamlet seemed to destroy
all the buildings in the hamlet. Surely this is over the top?

Aaron Turner

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posted 03-12- 06:03 PM               

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Try dropping a 1000 lb'er on the harbour.. it takes out the whole thing LOL

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posted 03-12- 06:36 PM               

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That unfortunately is the case. I think a group at one time had looked at it, but if you are using PP5.3, nothing has changed.

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posted 03-12- 11:25 PM               

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Spanky here..

Boy i hope this gets fixed with the DM stuff. Cause I also don't think the bombs should act quite to powerfully.

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posted 03-13- 03:05 AM               

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I suppose there is always the option of
reducing the amount of explosives in the
bombs which seems to be an option in the
loadout.ppf files. Of course it would be
hard to regulate this online, but I could
tweak it for offline play.

Mind you, since I installed the new voodoo
3 drivers I can't see the bomb sight
properly under glide so it is slightly moot
at the moment as heavy bombers are tricky at
the moment!

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posted 03-13- 10:19 AM               

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IMO we should leave the bombs alone. Don't we need excessive explosive force to compensate for the small number of bombers we can get into the air? I know that's not realistic but neither are three plane bomber missions with non-Norden bombsites trying to take out a target. If we reduce the power of each bomb we will need to go back and reduce the damage required to win a mission in all the missions created so far.

Maybe we should consider the extensive damage done by one bomb as collateral damage done by fires and secondary explosions.

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posted 03-13- 01:05 PM               

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You probably hit that argument right on the head, Jerry. It is probably the reasoning used when the damage was defined for them. You do have a valid point.

The few objects that do require more to kill than just one bomb (ships) can just be obHit adjusted.

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posted 03-13- 01:43 PM               

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I still don't buy the the need to have overly powerful bombs to represent
large formations. Warbirds doesn't
seem to need to have excessive blast, although it does have a good Norden.
Excessively poweful bombs means that many
WW2 tactics are denied to us with SDOE, e.g.
low level bombing attacks as they blow you
up with the blast rather easily.

It would nice to at least have the OPTION
of realism.

If I tweak loadout.ppf files for offline
play will it affect things online? Anyone
idea how much I need to reduce the explosives
level - 10 times?

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posted 03-13- 01:52 PM            

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Loadouts are checked online, so you cant play with different ones than everyone else. See if you can get accurate data on the explosive content of wwii bombs and well try to put em in for the next plane pack. I think right now were assuming that the warhead is 40% of the bomb's total weight.

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