[REL] Traveller Mod for TMO

[p.jakub88]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Traveller, I think p.jakub88 is going to do right by your mod and make you look mighty good. The conversations I've had with him have convinced me that he's the right guy to do this.

It would be great to see Traveller's mod become popular again. And it is great to see new modders paying tribute to the great modders who came before.

Hello Rockin Robbins,

thank You Sir!

In general the Traveller v2.6 TMO is a good mod and has many nice features.

I made few other additional changes in it, but only for my personal use, because people wouldn't like those changes. In example i made all enemy planes hitpoints values like the stock SH4, because i thought it was too difficult to shot them down in the Traveller v2.6 TMO mod. However, Bleiente disagreed with me. I wanted to avoid conflict on the Subsim forum, so i abandoned the idea. I stated only, that most Japanese planes at that time had no armor protection and no self-sealing fuel tanks - which is a fact not my opinion.


P.S.

Could You reply to a PM that i sent to You on 17.09? Thank You in advance.

[Traveller]

Originally Posted by p.jakub88

Hello Rockin Robbins,

thank You Sir!

In general the Traveller v2.6 TMO is a good mod and has many nice features.

I made few other additional changes in it, but only for my personal use, because people wouldn't like those changes. In example i made all enemy planes hitpoints values like the stock SH4, because i thought it was too difficult to shot them down in the Traveller v2.6 TMO mod. However, Bleiente disagreed with me. I wanted to avoid conflict on the Subsim forum, so i abandoned the idea. I stated only, that most Japanese planes at that time had no armor protection and no self-sealing fuel tanks - which is a fact not my opinion.


P.S.

Could You reply to a PM that i sent to You on 17.09? Thank You in advance.

I made the planes tougher because even after modding to decrease AA gun accuracy, I felt that it was still too easy to rack up many, many enemy aircraft kills, which would have been historically unrealistic. From what I have read, most US sub captains chose not to stay on the surface and fight it out with enemy aircraft. Therefore, I made the aircraft much tougher in order to force captains to play more historically accurate by forcing them to dive upon contact like they usually did in real life.

Perfectly correct - it's way too easy to shoot a fast-flying aircraft with the Flak.
It does not matter that Japanese planes did not have self-locking tanks.

keep going!

[p.jakub88]

Originally Posted by Bleiente

It does not matter that Japanese planes did not have self-locking tanks.

Maybe in SH4, but does in real combat.

In American planes You could still carry out Your mission even with the punctured fuel tanks because they were coated in rubber, in Japanese not because they weren't self sealing. Self sealing fuel tanks made the plane heavier, so Japanese constructors decided to not mount them on most planes. The agility of Mitsubishi Zero came with a price for their pilots. For the other hand i.e. the Grumman company made their planes more resistant and they could withstand more damage and offered better protection for pilots.

Mhmm... IL2 Sturmovik... nice time.

[p.jakub88]

Well, i know this is off-topic, but...

The German fighter pilots scored most of their kills on the Eastern Front.

In the first days of Operation Barbarossa almost all Russian planes on the ground were destroyed by air attacks.

The Russian system of pilot's training was inefficient almost for the whole duration of "The Great Patriotic War" as they call it. In the early days of the conflict most of the Russian pilots could barely take off and land having ca. 15 hours of flight - in contrast with German pilots with average of 60 hours or more and lots of experience from previous campaigns in Spain, Poland, France, etc. In addition early Russian planes didn't have radio, so they needed to fly in tight formations to give visual commands to each other, reducing the amount of maneuvers they could perform.

Moreover, BF-109 was considered one of the best fighters in WW2, while the Russians still used low speed biplanes with weak armament when the war with Germany broke out in June 1941.

Later, the Russians introduced planes such La-7 and IL-2 Sturmovik producing them in large numbers, resulting in turning the tide of air supremacy over Eastern Front.

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Hahaha ... I was only wistfully reminded of my active duty on the Full Real Server` (such as Queensland or my own aka "Bleiente") by IL-2 Sturmovik 10 years ago ... that was nice.
However, one had to train constantly and best to breed a wingman, otherwise one was lost.
This is why my nickname is "Bleiente".