Idiot plane behavior

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

The "Val" had a bomb clearly visible, these were not random planes but planes I placed(as a random object) guarding Lombok Strait in late war, they fly low, 50% chance of spawning twice a day, patroling, the have a night flier with a mild chance of spawning as well .This was meant to simulate the planes that got the USS Bullhead in August 45 while she transited the strait coming from Fremantle, being last US sub lost in the war.Interesting thing is the route they travel worked how I wanted, flying fairly low over Bali then the strait, my air radar did not detect them until they were close(which is speculated as the cause for the loss of Bullhead, the terrain of Bali etc interfered with SD radar) their pattern is random so player can't predict.Did this for my forthcoming mod.

I agree, how they fly drives me nuts as well.The dry runs drives me crazy, i've seen us planes do it as well, make 5 dry runs on a enemy ship before dropping lol

I've always considered the loss of the Bullhead the submarine equivalent of the loss of the Indianapolis. A new US sub with a modern radar suite sunk by a obsolete Japanese Army bomber with the war almost over. Shows you can never be too careful