Datаminе: Aircraft carriers that were once in the mobile version of War Thunder (text only).
They have now been removed. But you can now know what kind of aircraft carriers were there and what year they were presented. Taken from discord
Most aircraft carriers are presented before 1945
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Nooooooooooooooo! :'(
Idea on how multiple aircraft would be controlled. Don’t know how it’d work in RB, but I think it’d work very well in EC
You’d be sailing a carrier and you’d press a button to bring aircraft from the hangar to the flight deck, either fixed wing or rotor craft.
The number of fixed aircraft is determined by either deck space or number of catapults. As they’re being brought to the catapults/put in position the game sends out a prompt to all the other players which, upon accepting, are brought into the cockpit of one of the aircraft. The player who brought the carrier will always fly the lead plane. The planes take off and the players work together to bring down a ship and then return to the carrier. Upon shootdown, crash, or landing, the players are returned to their ships.
Rotor craft would work identically to scout planes, however they’d be used mostly for anti-submarine warfare.
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Maybe like artillery of medium tanks, where you pick a target and the planes fly there to do their business.
Or maybe similar to the game Battlestations Pacific, which is similar to what you’re proposing
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The Floats! event has returned, aircraft carriers used as part of the capture zones are the low-poly IJN Soryu.
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Some screenshots of the high-detail USS Enterprise(CV-6) from today 's video:
And low-detail IJN Ryujo:
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I would really love carriers!!
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@Motherhen357 Sorry for the bother, I reread the thread before asking but just to confirm, the full list of HQ / WTM-files WWII carriers is?
- Kaga (1936) - Mobile
- Shoukaku (1942*) - WT model
- Zuikaku (1944) - Mobile
- Lexington (1929) - Mobile
- Lexington (1941) - WT model
- Saratoga (1942) - WT model
- Enterprise (1942) - WT model
- Essex (1942) - Mobile
- Illustrious (1940) - Mobile
- Implacable (1944) - Mobile
As Shoukaku is the only one without an explicit text-form year, I did a quick check wikipedia check (yes yes, I know…) and apparently she received six additional triple Type 96s in June 1942 (two at the bow, two at the stern, one fore and one aft of the island) which, comparing to the very high-res announcement shots, are present on the WT model.
In September '42 she received a large Type 21 radar atop her bridge, and in October two additional triple Type 96s were added (bow and stern). None of these are present, thus her WT refit is June-September 1942.
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There was also USS Midway in 1945 fit, but yes, this is all the high-detail carriers which saw active service during WW2 that we know about atm.
Seems accurate to the appearance in the CDK, the main gun turrets are listed _01 to _08 and AA gun turrets are listed from _01 to _18.
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Ah true, it’s probably best to include “planned for the invasion of Japan” stuff as WWII, not unlike “planned for the Spring 1919 offensive” stuff should really count as WWI, in other contexts.
Thanks as always! :)
This control input now has a text attached:
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We currently have USS Forrestal (CVA-59) in the game but, the game should have USS Enterprise (CVN-65) for post late 1970s jet such as F-14A/B, A-6E, A-7E and F-18C(soon).
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Yay more progress!
Cool!
Hope we get invincible now we have more sea harriers.
Also hope we get some french carriers too!
Another image showing the Sea Sparrow launcher on Forrestal 's precorrection devserver form
Spoiler
bonus images
( WT Live // Mission by NorthyPark )
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Thats pretty cool
If Carriers were Added, Would they play like an RTS fashion or would you contol the lead plane of an attack squadron with DB and TBs, and whatever you want the planes to attack, they all attack?
2nd I hope
And also How would fighter squadrons work?
Would you tell them to fly to a spot to defend or do CAP for a ship or yourself, or are you gonna command the fighter squadron and go plane hunting?