Kamakazies

[generalsilverstone]

ive been wondering will kamakazie be a viable option or will the game be programmed to ignore kamakazies?

[Keir]

You can crash your plane into a boat Kamikaze style, some ships can be destroyed with this method.

[generalsilverstone]

thank you keir

i have another question regarding the ramming of vessels E.G. ships/ subs into each other and a couple of others

when you ram ships what happens both graphicly and damage wise?
also when a ship sinks how deep does it go before it is either out of sight or the game deltls the object?

[Divine_Wind]

Originally Posted by Keir

You can crash your plane into a boat Kamikaze style, some ships can be destroyed with this method.

Does the player incur some kind of penalty for doing so? (Besides, losing his plane, of course!)

[Alpha Wolfgang]

i doubt it... but i do fear people just using their planes to suicide bomb other ships.... 100 planes+1 suicidal noob+4 battleships=kamikaze heaven

[princecaspian4]

Originally Posted by Alpha Wolfgang

i doubt it... but i do fear people just using their planes to suicide bomb other ships.... 100 planes+1 suicidal noob+4 battleships=kamikaze heaven

that depends on how many planes it takes to sink a ship and how many get through, if there was someone going after my ships like that, i would put up a wall of AA and let them come, they waste all their planes, and then i go in and destroy them

[Kaigun]

You would still be pretty open to dive bombers.

[princecaspian4]

Originally Posted by Kaigun

You would still be pretty open to dive bombers.

so i'll send up a cap, that should protect me, and we were talking about Kamikaze attacks, so they would still have to get close enough for my AA to get them

[NeecHMonkeY]

Originally Posted by Divine_Wind

Does the player incur some kind of penalty for doing so? (Besides, losing his plane, of course!)

I would guess that if you have such a limited amount of planes, losing one is penalty enough.

[imnotcanadian]

I can see it already.......


I've sent Dai Vals to attack the Lexington along with a small Zero squadron to fight off any enemy fighters that try to interfere with the attack. The enemy Fletcher Class destroyers start to put up an AA screen for the Lexington as it scrambles fighters. The Vals evade the anti aircraft fire...pull up into a steep climb,level out,then dive. Releasing their bombs,they don't pull out of their dive towards the carrier. A 1000 lb bomb hits the deck,then the a Val smashes into it right afterwards...along with the other 14 planes in its squadron that made it to the carrier...inflicting heavy casualties and sinking the Lexington.

[Digby5000]

Originally Posted by Alpha Wolfgang

i doubt it... but i do fear people just using their planes to suicide bomb other ships.... 100 planes+1 suicidal noob+4 battleships=kamikaze heaven

I anticipate a lot of people intentionally killing off their own squadrons due to the '12 in the air limit'. If you have 36 torpedo planes, is it worth the time tactically to return your planes to rearm when you have so many more? You'd cut your time to strike again against your target in half if you turn the squadron into bombs....

[imnotcanadian]

I can only see this a viable tactic if a carrier or other large ship is limping away from a battle and you know your bombs alone wont take it out and you have insufficient naval support to be able to get through their escort. I think I'm going to make a movie with that included as one of the battles once I get the game if possible.

[xgamerms999]

What ships can be destroyed by Kamakazies

[princecaspian4]

Originally Posted by xgamerms999

What ships can be destroyed by Kamakazies

i would guess anything, but it would take a lot of planes to take down a large ship, maybe more planes then you would have on your carrier or airbase, so it may not be that you can't sink some ships with kamikaze runs, but you wouldn't have enough planes to sink it

[VTROOPER]

a kamikaze option for jap fighter planes that way the japs have a reson to crash there plane

[Thedivingmongoose]

If I remember right when you play single player kamakazi is a weapon....I think it was in one of the plane chalange missions.

[crazyhorse128]

one of the main reasons in history why the kamakazi's worked was they targeted the USN carriers, which had wooden decks which were alot of the time soaked in flamable liquids, petrol etc. so when it crashes the flight deck would go up in flames, however these tactics only realy emerged towards the end of the war when japan had nowt to lose

[Herr-Wulf]

indeed true crazyhorse

also add into that equasion that these kamikaze planes where overloaded with bombs

a suicide Val for instance had a 1000 kilogram bomb and two 100 kilo bombs as they launched

a zero had a 500 pound and two 150 pound bombs(or later they had none but on of the fuel tanks was removed and this was filled with an explosive substance)

heck near the end they used Baka bombs, rocket planes with 2500 pounds of explosives in the nose
or a Betty bomber loaded with 4000 pounds of explosives(one of these would mean certain doom for any warship in the US inventory bar maybe the Larger battleships)

you gotta admire the japs,the fact that they where all willing to give up their lifes for one man is very remarkable

[crazyhorse128]

goes back to the old samurai days, the worst thing you could do was hand your self over as a prisioner

[VTROOPER]

or jump behined enemy lines just to be a prisoner.

[crazyhorse128]

kind of stupid if you have no weapons

[VTROOPER]

well thats what hapend to allied bomber crews.

[crazyhorse128]

did they do anything good exept maybe being captured?

[VTROOPER]

they help the allies not incounter the 262 and a german helocopter and every germab U-bout penn and factorys.

[andy3536]

Originally Posted by VTROOPER

they help the allies not incounter the 262 and a german helocopter and every germab U-bout penn and factorys.

I'm assuming you mean helicopter, there weren't any helecopters in service with any nation during WW2!
Me 262 was also a very easy target on the way up due to the very slow rate of climb.