My apologies

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Marabekm

It would appear that I have requested armament changes on some aircraft without giving you guys the research to help prove my point. I apologize. I like most other people dislike the "hey blah blah is wrong" post or "this should be this way post" and the reason? "Because I just know."

So with that being said.
Here you can see the maximum armament for SBD-3 was a 1000 pound bomb centerline and 100 pound bombs on the wings. The SBD-5 had maximum armament of 1600 pound bomb on centerline and 325 pound bombs on wings.
http://www.aviation-history.com/douglas/sbd.html
Here is the report from USS Enterprise Air groups at Midway. Note the SBDs armed with 500 pound bomb centerline and 100 pound bombs on the wings (VS-6) and VB-6 armed with 1000 pound bomb centerline.
http://www.midway42.org/Midway_AAR/VS-6.aspx
Also it appears SBD-5 carried depth charges. Could be interesting.
So SBD-3 Armament should be something like this:
1x 1000 pound bomb
1x 500 pound bomb and 2x100 pound bomb
1x 500 pound bomb
1x 250 pound bomb
1x 250 pound bomb and 2x 100 pound bombs
2x 100 pound bombs
default
empty


Ok now for the B5N2 currently maximum bomb load is 600 kg. I believe this should be increased to 800 kg.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japa...Midway/Nagumo/
If you scroll down and find the attack on Midway you will see Soryu and Hiryu attack units armed with #80 land bombs. (weight 805 kg)

Hope this helps guys. Thanks.

Doing the research groundwork is important. When I asked for the Yak-9UT guns to be accurately represented I ended up making a call for information and we found the correct data in Cyrillic text and had it translated by Google well enough to get the accurate information for that type. It's good to go slightly above and beyond to get stuff fixed

The inaccurate loadouts for the SBD come from back in the original Pacific Fighters release. We pointed it out then but it wasn't a priority and it never got fixed.

There are problems with changing it now... namely backwards compatibility gets seriously damaged in the IL-2 engine when you change the armament options. It'll be very messy and we may have to live with it. But I would advocate to add (adding is easy - subtraction is hard) the more accurate loadouts with the heavy centerline options plus the smaller wing loadouts.