Richard Mortimer
01-08-2009, 08:59 AM
I don't recall if this was raised on the old forum at all, but I have a few queries regarding how TAS handles an attack on a surface fleet by carrier planes. Specifically does it take into acccount what type of aircraft are attacking and therefore what typical damage type would be inflicted i.e. if it was an attack by dive bombers then would any hits tend to damage the hit capability (or hit points) of surface ships and have a much lesser effect on the floating ability (or float points) of the ship? Does it vary this this proportion by ship type such that for example a transport would be much more likely to be sunk, a DD would probably be sunk or nearly sunk but a CA and BB may experience structural damage (could have a turret or two knocked out, superstructure damaged, propoulsion could be affected to a lesser extent), but they would be less likely to have floating ability harmed as much as hitting ability? Similarly for a torpedo bomber attack does it take this into account in the sense that an attack would drastically reduce the floating ability of the ship depending on the type of ship and the number of hits and the nationality i.e. American torpedoes have very high dud rates and IJN Long Lance has a very significant damaging effect? Why I am asking is if I have sufficient carriers to have a choice of attack type to launch depending on the intelligence report nature of the target does TAS actually take this into account if the target fleet is successfully located and attacked? Also how does it decide which ships in the target fleet to hit, does it go after the biggest targets first or the easiest to sink or is it allocated at random?