Carrier based aircraft tree

[Joe32320]

...and the brits mostly used outdated Biplanes on their older carriers ( Swordfish until at least ´44)

In fairness, this is partly as a result of the fact they made excellent ASW planes, essentially playing the role of the helicopter does now before they were invented, for an actual naval strike role, the British had their own designs, but also relied heavily on American built planes too.

 

[Midden]

Basically to boil this down, some Detailsts' want to see pictures for the variants... Zero's; F4's; Stugs; Hummels etc.... I am one of them.

I think they know this, however, it won't be there for June 6th, but who knows, there is going to be heaps of added things after release.

 

[Bridger15]

Except all those things were mostly conversions as a whole, whereas many carrier aircraft were purpose built solely as carrier aircraft, rather than being converting from an existing airframe. Which means that it isn't a parallel comparison.

Don't think of those as varients of the land based craft. Think of them as carrier craft that fill the same ROLE as the main unit.

So if you're building off of Fighter II (maybe a P40?) and the carrier varient is a corsair, that doesn't mean your engineers built a corsair out of a P40 frame. The carrier tree does exist, it's simply tacted onto the land based tree in the corner.

The only difference is you can't exclusively research the carrier craft (AFAIK).

 

[LordOfWar16]

So, many nations had important series of carrier planes that had a great effect on the war. It would be okay to just make sea variants of existing aircraft, but really? I just don't think omitting greats such as the Wildcat, Hellcat, Corsair, just to name some of the american ones is that historical. Are there carrier aircraft trees?

carrier-based planes have their own names and portraits. They arent just a carrier-enabled variant of the land-based planes. There are infact planes like the Zero or the Wildcat in the game, just not in an independent tree/branch, because that would take up unessesary amount of space on the screen.

@sjg132 Edit: I found my promised pictures showing that carrier-variants are different planes ingame.

 

[GundamMerc]

I haven't answered for a while because I got the message guys. No need to repeat it.

 

[Axe99]

Basically to boil this down, some Detailsts' want to see pictures for the variants... Zero's; F4's; Stugs; Hummels etc.... I am one of them.

I think they know this, however, it won't be there for June 6th, but who knows, there is going to be heaps of added things after release.

I'm pretty sure in the 2D art or modding DD they confirmed that we can have different art for the carrier planes (although from the look of it there won't be separate art in the game at launch, as you say - but hopefully it'll be as easy as modding in some pictures and changing some links in one of the files).

 

[podcat]

different art for the carrier planes (although from the look of it there won't be separate art in the game at launch, as you say.

Ha! @Sideburnout actually added art for jap and us carrier planes yesterday:

(G3M is there because it was incorrectly set as a carrier plane and thus needed art for its land based version)

 

[Gort11]

Nice!

 

[Cpack]

Yes!!

 

[Mannstien]

Nawice!!

 

[Swinds]

can't you rename the variant of a land aircraft with a new name?

 

[Swinds]

Clarification -

I mean effectively the pretty pictures are there to cover the fact that all powers have the same stats modified by you aircraft manufacturer and possible you own enhancements.

Therefore a variant of a Land based aircraft could be a navel aircraft design to the same performance spec. Ignoring Hurricanes / Sea Hurricanes and Spitfires / Seafires.

They only need renaming to the correct navel aircraft???

 

[Axe99]

Ha! @Sideburnout actually added art for jap and us carrier planes yesterday:

(G3M is there because it was incorrectly set as a carrier plane and thus needed art for its land based version)

This would be about my favourite way to be proven wrong . Go Sideburnout . I wonder if it'd work again? By the look of it, there won't be anime leader portraits in the game at launch..... .

 

[Gort11]

I mean effectively the pretty pictures are there to cover the fact that all powers have the same stats modified by you aircraft manufacturer and possible you own enhancements.

This is true, but still somehow a thread like "I disagree with the name and picture for the third tank from the left for Italy" gets two hundred replies regardless.

People have strong opinions about .jpgs and text strings.

 

[Frosted Vert]

Amazing! I've never been so happy to be corrected.

(Fleet air arm soon? )

 

[sjg132]

As the OP I consider the thread closed because the community has shown that I posted with incomplete information. It looks like everything I wanted to see in my first post is in the original release.

 

[podcat]

I mean effectively the pretty pictures are there to cover the fact that all powers have the same stats modified by you aircraft manufacturer and possible you own enhancements.

sure, but anything else would:
1) Take too long to make
2) Take too long to balance
3) be harder to learn
4) possibly not be any more fun/immersive anyway.

 

[Denkt]

I mean effectively the pretty pictures are there to cover the fact that all powers have the same stats modified by you aircraft manufacturer and possible you own enhancements.

And very deterministic.

 

[Gort11]

sure, but anything else would:
1) Take too long to make
2) Take too long to balance
3) be harder to learn
4) possibly not be any more fun/immersive anyway.

I'm shocked that you aren't full of gusto to stat out upwards of a hundred different aircraft models manually.

 

[Swinds]

sure, but anything else would:
1) Take too long to make
2) Take too long to balance
3) be harder to learn
4) possibly not be any more fun/immersive anyway.

Which I should have added is completely understandable