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Originally Posted by Verdun1916
A flyable Curtiss SB2C Helldiver would be nice to fill the lack of a late war carrier born dive bomber and a carrier born torpedo bomber not affected by the N-G-issue.
Not one of the prettiest war planes to take to the sky during the second World war and not the most popular either apparantly. But it would fill a need for those who like caccier born operations.
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I like carriers.
There were 5 such engagements:
Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz, and the Philippine Sea.
The first 4 took part in 1942. We have the plane sets available for those. Just need a flyable TBD. With the exception that the D4Y1. (But it was more of a reconnaissance plane at this time. Standard ship board dive bomber was still D3A) And the TBF and TBD are AI only. I know the TBF can't be made flyable but perhaps someone can work on the TBD.
The Philippine Sea would require a little more. For the Japanese the only flyable plane currently available is the A6M5. The B6N is in game as AI only. So maybe this could be made flyable? And then as mentioned above, the is no D4Y model at all.
For the U.S. its a little better, the F6F, and SBD-5 are available and flyable. And again unfortunately the TBM is out of the question. Like the D4Y there is no SB2C.
Just an interesting fact, the SB2C was very unpopular, most VB units preferred the SBD. During the Philippine Sea, the only 2 squadrons equipped with the SBD, were VB-10 and VB-16. Of the 26 SBD-5s used, only 4 were lost. Of the 51 SB2Cs used, 43 were lost. But the problem was, the government had already agreed to purchase the SB2Cs from Curtiss.