[needed] Avenger TBF launching torpedoes for the IJN campaign

[keltos01]

cheers Maddy

with this one and the rocket firing ones, and the ship firing rockets, we will have an interresting campaing indeed..

and we are working on the AI Somers firing torpedoes... if you need it when it is done, call !

keltos

[peabody]

Originally Posted by keltos01

cheers Maddy

with this one and the rocket firing ones, and the ship firing rockets, we will have an interresting campaing indeed..

and we are working on the AI Somers firing torpedoes... if you need it when it is done, call !

keltos

Ok, we are doing a Japanes Campaign and you have:

Planes firing rockets
Ships firing rocket
Ships firing torpedos
Planes firing torpedos
and you want Subs firing torpedos.

Let's just make a US Minelayer to mine all Japanese harbors and get it over with. We can save fuel, so we don't sail 1000 miles to get blown up.



Peabody

[Starforce2]

With everyone blowing everyone else up this new mod ought to be good

[keltos01]

Maddy

can you equip it with a homing torp ? that would be historically accurate against IJN subs..


keltos

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

This was indeed a hush hush top priority project during the WWII, my former father in law worked on it and the proximity anti aircraft shell,and also developed some of the first effect sound speed theory for sonar. I dont know details about use in the pacific but i do believe they did use it there....that will be another question i wll ask that retired USN officer here who is the guy who i mentioed to you was ComSubPac...see if he knows.

[keltos01]

Originally Posted by Admiral Von Gerlach

This was indeed a hush hush top priority project during the WWII, my former father in law worked on it and the proximity anti aircraft shell,and also developed some of the first effect sound speed theory for sonar. I dont know details about use in the pacific but i do believe they did use it there....that will be another question i wll ask that retired USN officer here who is the guy who i mentioed to you was ComSubPac...see if he knows.

Thanks Admiral !
I am sure they used them in the Pacific, I have seen that data somewhere here... wait...

but by all means do ask the USN officer !

keltos

could we randomize the torpedo ? meaning only once in a while you get a mk 24 ?

[Bubblehead1980]

I have read about homing torpedos used fairly regular basis in the PTO with good results.Used more in the ATO but Allied ASW was more active in the ATO.

I would love to see homing torpedos from planes(enemy subs if possible) in later years of IJN campaign.However, hope they will not be 2009 era smart bombs that ALWAYS hit.

Something I would like to see are plane dropped depth charges that can explode down to say 250-300 feet.

Ah, can't wait for this mod

Originally Posted by peabody

Ok, we are doing a Japanes Campaign and you have:

Planes firing rockets
Ships firing rocket
Ships firing torpedos
Planes firing torpedos
and you want Subs firing torpedos.

Let's just make a US Minelayer to mine all Japanese harbors and get it over with. We can save fuel, so we don't sail 1000 miles to get blown up.



Peabody

the way things are going japan might just lose the war

[keltos01]

actually the Air Force did use B-29's to drop mines on japanese harbors, thus earning quite a few sinkings !

But if you read Orita's I-Boat Captain you'll notice that the submariners did indeed achieve quite a lot.


keltos