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[Atoka220]

Hi

When a plane has all its bombs hooked to it like the Pe-8, or the modded B-17s or the He-177, the AI drops all of them at once
This results in the bombs clustering on a small area and it very often leads to failed bomb runs that would otherwise be successful if they dropped them in trains of single or pairs
See the pics below

Bridge bombing - I missed quite a lot but 2 of my wingmen could really devastate the bridge if they haven't dropped all their ordnance at once


Little port - we could have saturated it well and absolutely annihilate that little port if my wingmen also dropped their bombs one after the other (at least 2 of us)


Railway station - well we missed big time but the second flight could really pour some bombs on the rails as I ordered them to drop on my command


Like when a plane has let's say 16 bombs and there are 2 bombs in the bomb bay that spawn the others until they run out and those last 2 are finally released too. That give us great carpet bombings
Being a human and missing a lot (by not that much tho) can be mostly solved by carpet bombing instead of dumping them all out at once

So if possible, planes that have their full loadout modeled should drop bombs with 1/2 or 1/3 of a second delay between them

[Knochenlutscher]

The stock and modded B-17 i.e. has only two Hooks.
If you have 16 Bombs total, 8 + 8 are dropped.
No intervalls.
That interval comes the more Hooks/Stations you add.
At current B-17s that's not the case to have more.

The real B-17 Bombbay is in preparation, it takes a bit Time to build up.
It will sit on the Barney 3-D, but for any skilled Modder, it should be easy to re-asses
the stuff onto stock content if necessary, needed.
But I haven't done research yet, so I'm starting fresh.

Atm I'll take it easy before I head into that coding, just check back the Fortresses & Hudsons Thread in WIP
from time to time.

Best wishes
Tobias

[Atoka220]

Hsfx 7's B-17 has 16 hooks



Also once I saw a mod like this

Bat's and Barnesy's forts only have 2
And although I'd like them to have 16 as it looks much closer to reality, I still prefer AI dropping the bombs in a train not all at once in a salvo

[Giuseppin]

All that is resolved in 4.13. Intervalometer in miliseconds (50 to 1000), train, single, pairs, salvo... and for all bombers (german, english, american, italian, soviet...)

[Atoka220]

Yes but us imperialists stuck with 4.12
And although engine mod (in BAT) allows you to set bomb release mode, it doesn't affect AI nor automatic release with auto bombsights

Also when you set salvo with a plane that has 2 hooks, it will only drop 2 bombs if you press the drop key once

I don't know how much work it would be, i may be asking for too much