Question on heavy bomber bombloads

MarkSheppard · #1 May 26th, 2006, 04:29 PM

I'm working on a complete mod of my own, and I've been wondering; what should I use for the heavy bombers' bombloads?

Their long-range strategic bombardment bombload, or their short range maximum load bombload, seeing if they were being used as a tactical weapon on the battlefield, they wouldn't fly that far?

thatguy96 · #2 May 26th, 2006, 05:27 PM

Are they dramatically different in most cases? I would think that it would only be different in this case with strike bombers (light and medium bomber types) and heavy bombers really have a number of standard loads that you can just choose from. I might be wrong, but I thought that at least with regards to US heavy bombers the loads were pretty well defined by the bomb bay dimensions, not the maximum take-off weight.

Mobhack · #3 May 27th, 2006, 05:05 AM

As it is your OOB/mod, then you decide, as you are the designer.

Cheers
Andy

PatG · #4 May 27th, 2006, 08:57 AM

Look at the historical use and go from there. No point in having Lancasters with loads for bouncing bombs, incendiaries or Grand Slam. Though the Grand Slam would make an interesting bunker buster. You may want to allow for a couple of loads - one long range one short - this is probably more of a fighter bomber thing though.

troopie · #5 May 27th, 2006, 12:10 PM

How far are they going to have to travel? You may want several bomb loadouts to reflect the location of the bombers' home airfields.

troopie

Mobhack · #6 May 27th, 2006, 12:13 PM

Pointless trivia really.

Bombers can be assumed to be based near enough to the front to carry standard loads. They are not travelling to Berlin from Cambridgeshire, unless you design a scenario like that, and then you can edit the loads in the scenario editor yourself if needed.

Cheers
Andy