Hard Military Data for Modders

[timerover51]

This thread will be devoted to providing modders with hard military data to work from for combat stats. It will cover aircraft, naval vessels, and ground combat equipment. Most of the data will come from official histories and official government data. Here are some images giving some idea at to what will be available. For combat radius estimates when no data is given, a good rule of thumb is to use 1/3 of the still air range for radius.

 

[timerover51]

The following covers U.S. Navy aircraft for World War 2 and Korea. This are the official aircraft characteristic charts used to compute combat operations given various conditions.

 

[timerover51]

The following covers U.S. Navy aircraft for World War 2 and Korea. This are the official aircraft characteristic charts used to compute combat operations given various conditions. These files cover the patrol and transport planes.

@Delta Strife: I do not know if you have made a Conestoga transport, but that is one that I like.

 

[timerover51]

This next item was prepared by the Technical Air Intelligence Center of the U.S. Navy and was published in June of 1945. It give the comparative performance and characteristics of late World War 2 U.S., British, Japanese, and German aircraft. It also gives the basis for performance data for U.S. aircraft. This can be quite useful in assessing foreign aircraft.

However, the manual is too large a file to be uploaded to the forum but it can be found here for downloading.

World War II Operational Documents

cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org

 

[timerover51]

For post-World War 2 United States aircraft, I would recommend the following to titles, both of which include some information on World War 2 aircraft. One covers Fighters and one covers Bombers.

https://media.defense.gov/2010/May/26/2001330287/-1/-1/0/AFD-100526-027.pdf

https://media.defense.gov/2010/May/26/2001330264/-1/-1/0/AFD-100526-026.pdf

 

[timerover51]

Then for some ground equipment, the following is a portion of the Catalogue of Enemy Ordnance material covering German and Japanese weapons. I have a complete hard copy of the German catalogue, if someone desires information on something listed in the contents that is not in the excerpt. This is in three parts. Here is a sample page.

 

[timerover51]

I will post more here in the coming days and weeks, however, feedback and questions are always welcomed. I have a large library and quite a lot of information on my computers and flash drives.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

That's a great collection and starting point right there for coming up with unit stats in C3C. I'll have to look more into this.

 

[timerover51]

That's a great collection and starting point right there for coming up with unit stats in C3C. I'll have to look more into this.

I will try to get more up soon.

 

[timerover51]

Forum members, as long as I see downloads of the material posted, I will keep posting. In some cases, I can directly upload the data to the forum, but in other cases, the files are too large, and I have to figure out where I got them. The following is one of the latter cases. As this covers the tanks, I assume that it will be the most popular.

Catalog Of Standard Ordnance Items, Volume 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

134 pg.

archive.org

 

[timerover51]

This is Volume 2 of the catalog, and covers artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and fire control.

Catalog Of Standard Ordnance Items, Volume 2 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

193 pg

archive.org

 

[timerover51]

This is the last volume of the catalog, and covers aircraft armament, small arms, and ammunition. The ammunition will give you some idea as to what the artillery and aircraft actually fired or dropped.

Catalog Of Standard Ordnance Items, Volume 3 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

222 pg

archive.org

 

[timerover51]

For any information on U.S. Navy fighting ships, from the American Revolution on forward, one of the best sources is the
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, put out by the Naval History and Heritage Command. It can be found here:

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs.html