With the improvement to the bug that sometimes limits the impact of land-based aircraft on naval actions, I've started to notice something that 'feels' a bit off. In heavy rain (or night) carrier aircraft are unable to operate. However, the penalty on land-based aircraft for heavy rain are (taken from /common/static_modifiers.txt:
-20% detection (both air and land - I'm not sure which aircraft use to find ships)
-50% bomb targeting
-30% mission efficiency
This has lead to a few battles now where my carrier-based force has been pummelled by a handful of land-based aircraft during a prolonged storm as the land-based aircraft have no trouble finding and attacking the fleet in what would be pretty difficult weather for attacking a land-based target, let alone locating a fleet at sea.
My best guess is that the two issues are:
- the length of the combat (an interception of six convoys has been going on for days, giving land-based air ample opportunity to keep returning and causing trouble.
- the ease by which aircraft find ships (and probably by which ships find ships as well), and particularly in weather that would make flying difficult and detecting a fleet at sea very, very difficult.
While I'm not suggesting carrier aircraft should be able to fly in that kind of weather, it feels like it's a tad easy for land-based air to be relatively effective in situations where they weren't likely to have been historically. I could well be off though - what have other people seen?
Edit: It seems mainly to potentially be an issue in ongoing naval combats, rather than just land-based air on fleet attacks as well - not sure if this is part of the picture.
-20% detection (both air and land - I'm not sure which aircraft use to find ships)
-50% bomb targeting
-30% mission efficiency
This has lead to a few battles now where my carrier-based force has been pummelled by a handful of land-based aircraft during a prolonged storm as the land-based aircraft have no trouble finding and attacking the fleet in what would be pretty difficult weather for attacking a land-based target, let alone locating a fleet at sea.
My best guess is that the two issues are:
- the length of the combat (an interception of six convoys has been going on for days, giving land-based air ample opportunity to keep returning and causing trouble.
- the ease by which aircraft find ships (and probably by which ships find ships as well), and particularly in weather that would make flying difficult and detecting a fleet at sea very, very difficult.
While I'm not suggesting carrier aircraft should be able to fly in that kind of weather, it feels like it's a tad easy for land-based air to be relatively effective in situations where they weren't likely to have been historically. I could well be off though - what have other people seen?
Edit: It seems mainly to potentially be an issue in ongoing naval combats, rather than just land-based air on fleet attacks as well - not sure if this is part of the picture.
