TBF Avenger and other planes

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Agreed, but the most accessible planes in the game are the fighters and single-engined attack planes, since that's what IL2 was originally designed to simulate, and that's what most players seem to want.

What do you mean by accessible?
Most players maybe, but campaign designers? what do they want?
Take a good look on HSFX and you will see a thing or two about what it is wanted.

There are so many aspects of the air war during WW2 that aren't well modeled in IL2. You're lucky that you had a group of friends willing to play an unusual mod campaign.

Unusual? it seems that I came from a really different world.

Completely agreed, but, it would be a big programming task to give ships any degree of AI. I'm not sure it's an area that TD wants to tackle.

I don't think so. Ships don't need a whole AI, we are not talking about developing huge tasks of attack formations, nor the need to dock perfectly when arriving into a port. I don't expect destroyers to be launched on patrol trough a convoy, nor putting themselves as a torpedo screen protecting a capital ship.
This could be done by setting a main sheep, and associate it with a set of ships to mimic it's behavior. This main sheep may only be programmed to react upon air attack by moving on zig zag, or doing whole turns to avoid bombing runs. The ability to evade collisions with semi sunk ships will be appreciated too!

The difficult task would be if it is decided to do it historically correct, by limiting every type of ship to it's historical maneuver limits. That would be too much, a generic behavior would be enough. Anyway it will be 1000% more than we have today.

True. You use the weapons you have, but unless you've got surprise on your side and/or the submarine tries to fight it out on the surface (Kriegsmarine doctrine from 1943 on) then it's not an effective tactic to use guns. Rockets, bombs and depth charges are the weapons of choice.

Yeah... you sure got lots of them on the first two years of war... I mean rockets, and depth charges thrown from a plane. Do you know that uboots, at the beginning of the war harassed convoys with their deck canons? Also, the British got a whole procedure to strafe submarines on those years. It was deemed an effective tactic, mostly developed on the gulf of biscay. Still, I must admit that the submarine was expected to be on surface to do that.