V1 and V2 rocket Should be very ineffective

[smellymummy]

more than likely by the time you're in a position to research, build and deploy these weapons the game is going to be long won already, short of just sitting through 6-7 years of the game doing nothing. Who exactly are you going to be bombing with them?

 

[Daddl]

Ideally, you don't have all your enemies wrecked by 1942, as it happened much too often in HoI3. From what we've seen so far, I got the impression that mainly due to the limited supply wars take a lot longer. If the new navy mechanics do their part in this as well, I do hope and think that one might actually reach at least the year 1944 without already having a WC.

 

[ikki]

They were terror weapons.
Something like 9/11 was quite ineffective by most measures. A couple houses and no more death than natural deaths over about 10 hours. So less than a single day! No factories destroyed, entire business areas even less so.

However for all the paralysis and fear and sheer terror, it was quite effective.


Previous versions have had mechanisms for shrinking the economy until a excess of consumer goods have soothed nerves.
Something like that perhaps?

Enough V-rockets, and the whole british empire would collapse in sheer inability to even feed themselves.

 

[Denkt]

Germany do get some bonuses to rocket research from national focuses but I think most majors get a rocket theorist.

 

[mursolini]

kinda incorrect. while yes the BMW 003 used by the MiG-9 came off the Heinkel 162, and the Junkers Jumo 004 used by the Yak-15 and 17 came from the me-262, they were utilized in the most insane configuration possible by having the engine block underneath the front of the fuselage, and the exhaust about 1/3rd of the way. even when they figured out how to keep the underside of the fuselage from burning they still never really solved the problem of melting runways. hell they should've just copied the me-262 like the japanese did! at least the MiG-9 was a solid fighter though.

MiG 9 and Yak-15 were not "proper" jets, you explained yourself why. They were quickly thrown together prototypes, which both required extensive work to get operational, YAK-15 was an attempt to put jet engines on piston-engined frame.

They did copy ME-262, if flew only half-year later than Yak-15, under the name SU-9. The project, however went nowhere, as MIG-9, with new British engine was deemed better.

MIG-9 wasn`t a decent fighter. It actually lost test fights to pretty much any piston engined fighter, but it was very good versus strategic bombers, presumably the reason SU pushed it into production, as allies had huge fleet.

 

[aruon]

They did copy ME-262, if flew only half-year later than Yak-15, under the name SU-9. The project, however went nowhere, as MIG-9, with new British engine was deemed better.

i was confused when i looked this up until i realised there's 2 different SU-9s. the supersonic jet and the one you referenced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-9_(1946)