Air Combat and battle of britain

[Skibbi]

Air Combat needs some major improvements to make the game more balanced.

• Bombers can destroy tile improvements
• Dive bombers can damage planes in cities
• Fighter interceptions do alot of damage or force the bomber to abandon its mission and retreat.
• Air unit HP should be reduced to 50 or 25.

 

[Gedemon]

And Air Recon.

What I'll definitely try to implement is:
- improvements bombing with bomber/heavy bombers (road/railroads with small/fast and attack aircraft too)
- air recon with possibility of interception
- airports improvement (place aircraft outside of cities)

And interception forcing a bombing run to abort is a good idea, yes, but this one require the DLL.

 

[kelestra]

What about my suggestions to air combat in the suggestion thread?

 

[Skibbi]

What were they?

 

[Gedemon]

I want recon to be a mission for aircraft only. I also plan to raise the numbers of squadrons that can be loaded on carrier ( and limit them to small, specialised, aircraft only) so you can have one dedicated to recon.

And for the promotion, I also prefer to have specialized classes (like torpedo bomber) than to have P-51 squadrons using torpedoes...

 

[kelestra]

I thought there is no solution to the current unit limit yet?! Therefore i suggested it might be easier to use existing bombers with promotions... I just thought the expense is too high to do all this when it is just a use case to make aircrafts more effective against ships, actually. Perhaps there is to much software engineer in me ^^

 

[Skibbi]

I want recon to be a mission for aircraft only. I also plan to raise the numbers of squadrons that can be loaded on carrier ( and limit them to small, specialised, aircraft only) so you can have one dedicated to recon.

And for the promotion, I also prefer to have specialized classes (like torpedo bomber) than to have P-51 squadrons using torpedoes...

The Spitfire MkXVIE could carry 456kg worth of torpedos and the Fairey Swordfish Mk1 could carry 702kg of torpedos!
The Spitfire MkXVIE could carry 456kg worth of bombs, making it a strong attack-aircraft, or fighter-bomber.

Also, for fighter bomber, I'm glad to see that it has no ranged penalty.