New unit; 3 motor light bomber

[Smoking mirror]

For an early alternative to the Civ III bomber here is a generic Tri-motor bomber- kind of based on the junkers 52 used as a bomber during the Spanish civil war this is for use in early 20th century mods/scenarios.

Just create a folder in your Civ III/art/units folder called Trimotor and add the contents of the following zip to it Trimotor

Add the unit to your scenario using the editor.
I would recomend having it as a weaker bomber perhaps requiring less resources- during WWII hitler was known to continualy demand more and more bomber production, to cause destructioin to british cities; his subordinates increased production of smaller bombers while the Allies produced 4 engine superbombers- on papaer it looked as if the germany was producing more bombers than the british, americans or Russians, but the smaller bombers couldn't fly as far, and carried a smaller payload- and were much morevunerable than the Ailled "flying fortresses".

there is an alternative Default flc included in the zip, that shows the plane landed, but as all the other firaxis planes are airbourne in the defaults I didn't make it the standard flc.

Here is a preview;

 

[Smoking mirror]

I'm working on a heavy bomber also, and I'm probably going to redo my Stuka and generic dive bomber units soon.

Iv'e tested the link and it works, but if there are any other problems, as usual just post a response here.

 

[Vdog]

Nice work Smoking mirror

 

[thisismysn20]

can someone tell me where this dive bomber is please? I've heard a lot about it but can't find it...

 

[Smoking mirror]

I'm not sure where it is these days, probably on about page five of this forum; but it should be in Lab monkey's unit library- its nothing special, just a plane that looks bigger and more bomberlike than the Fighter while still only having one engine.
Heres a picture if you like;

Edit: you should be able to find it here- Ground attack plane thats if the link works (which it probably doesn't). I always get these wrong.

 

[Smoking mirror]

And here is a preview if the trimotoron the ground, should you decide to use it as the default;

 

[Erocco]

Awsome unit SM!!!

Just a question I have?

Is ur heavy bomber going to have jet engines or propeller one's. I hope it is jet engines so we now can update the current bomber to a jet bomber.

 

[recon1591]

can u please do one of these in german colers so it could be used as a junker 52. love all your units.

 

[Michael_LMD]

Thats a really nice unit smoking mirror, and I agree that you should do it over to look like a Junkers Ju 52, but it also bares a striking resemblence to a couple of Italian WW2 bombers, transports and float planes. It would look good I think redone in sort of a brown/ tan camoflauge which I think was kinda common on Regia Aeronatutica planes, I'll post a few pictures for you to go by if you want.

 

[pi8ch]

Cool unit!

Another one i will use in my WWII MOD!

 

[Smoking mirror]

I do plan on doing a heavy jet bomber (someone else has done a good medium modern Jet bomber), but for the moment I'm planning to do a Heavy 4 engine prop bomber for the end of the war; With all my Air units, I'm trying to make them look as ubiquitous as possible so they could be mistaken for a plane used by any nation- there were just too many different designs to do them all. The blue stripes are civ colours, so if you change the civ colour of the germans to 12 or 16 (grey or black) it does look more like a german plane.

I would love to do all the planes used by all the nations during WWII but it would just take too long and downloading and managing that many units for a scenario would be a pain in the rear- So I'm trying to make generic designs to be used by all nations- in the 1930s many nations (the USA, Gemany, Italy, Great britain etc.,.) developed trimotor bombers and later switched them to transport or recon duties to be replaced in their bombing role by cheaper twin engine bombers or faster single engine dive bombers, because the increased maintenance repair cost of trimotors was not compensated for by their ability to carry a bigger payload (also the trimotors were not so manueverable).
Later 4 engine heavy bombers should have taken over from the twin engine bombers in all nations but as was said in the first post Hitler prefered to leave all long distance bombing to his V1 rockets (this was partly a question of fuel, towards the end of the war germany was running low on fuel and the rockets didn't need to expend precious fuel for a return journey).

 

[Incubus0223]

hey great job not only are you good at tanks but your proved that your good with artillery with the howitzer and now this plane keep up the faabbullous work!!!

also how do you make those previews like you did in the first post in this thread

 

[Dragon King]

Great unit Smoking Mirror. Keep up the good work

 

[Pablostuka]

Great work!!. I have a question: In Civ3 is possible to use this unit with the same function that the Helicopter has? It will be very realistic to use this plane as the junkers Ju-52/3m, and paradrop nonnob3's fallschirmjäger...I don't know how to do it

 

[recon1591]

just name the file ju-52 and use it as a transport, foot only and para-drop. should work.

 

[Richard III]

Great! I hope to steal it (w credit of course) for the 1900 scenario!

Wonderful idea!

 

[Pablostuka]

Thanks, recon1591!

 

[shramj]

I made you the Units32 for this plane. Nice job, it looks really good.

 

[Nemesis Rex]

I've been using this as an early Air Transport. So I made this Flic of the unit landing to replace the one where it just drops to the ground. It's a combination of SM's RUNblur and BlurLanded FLCs with the unit getting lower, then on the ground.

 

[Nemesis Rex]

I've been using this as an early Air Transport. So I made this Flic of the unit landing to replace the one where it just drops to the ground. It's a combination of SM's RUNblur and BlurLanded FLCs with the unit getting lower, then on the ground.