DD questions

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can CAG's be attached to light carriers if not what air light carriers for?

can escort fighter be attached to CAS?

have the events regarding the invasion of poland changed?

have HQ's changed

thanks in advance

 

[blue emu]

can CAG's be attached to light carriers if not what air light carriers for?

No CAGs. They don't need them... they have higher Air factors built-in.

CVL's are for improving your spotting, and for defense (and counter-attack) against Submarines. They are not all that useful for Air-Defense, at least not until late-war, and probably not even then.

can escort fighter be attached to CAS?

No... and you wouldn't want them.

Escort Fighters reduce the range of the Host squadron by -150 km... CAS with Escort would have a hard time even reaching an adjacent province.

You could group CAS's with Fighters or Interceptors instead.

have the events regarding the invasion of poland changed?

Not as far as I know. I'll know for sure soon... it's early 1938 in my Germany game.

The events for "Condor Legion Returns Home From the Spanish Civil War" and "The End of Czecheslovakia" now give different (and more advanced) blueprints than before.

have HQ's changed

Not as far as I know.

 

[Mork]

Escort fighters can be applied to CAS, but they shouldn't, I believe it is a mistake.
However you wont want to.

 

[blue emu]

Escort fighters can be applied to CAS, but they shouldn't, I believe it is a mistake.
However you wont want to.

Are you quite sure? Or was that just a guess?

I checked the .../db/units/divisions/cas.txt file before answering the OP's question :

# 0 - Basic Close Air Support Aircraft
model = {
	cost 					= 8
	buildtime	 			= 180
	manpower 				= 2
	maxspeed 				= 200
	defaultorganisation 	= 30
	morale					= 30
	surfacedefence			= 4
	airdefence				= 1
	softattack				= 12
	hardattack				= 7
	airattack				= 1
	navalattack				= 2
	supplyconsumption 		= 0.8
	range					= 250
	fuelconsumption			= 2.0
	upgrade_time_factor = 0.5
	upgrade_cost_factor = 1.0
}
...

Note: NO allowed_brigades parameter.

For reference, here is the tactical_bomber.txt file :

allowed_brigades =  escort
# 0 - Interwar Bomber
model = {
	cost 					= 11
	buildtime				= 160
	defaultorganisation 		= 30
	morale					= 30
	manpower				= 2
	maxspeed				= 180
	surfacedetectioncapability	= 1
	airdetectioncapability		= 0
	surfacedefence				= 4
	airdefence				= 1
	airattack				= 1
	strategicattack				= 5
	softattack				= 5
	hardattack				= 1
	navalattack				= 1
	range					= 400
	supplyconsumption 			= 1.5
	fuelconsumption				= 3
	upgrade_time_factor = 1.0
	upgrade_cost_factor = 1.0
}

It looks to me that Escorts CANNOT be attached to CAS.

 

[Mork]

They could at one point, but if they can't now, then all is kosher.

 

[blue emu]

They could at one point, but if they can't now, then all is kosher.

I just checked in-game... in Doomsday v1.1, you can NOT attach Escorts to CAS.

... so there you have it! A definitive answer.

 

[GrimReaper]

Only Tactical/Strategic/Naval Bomber can have Escort Fighter brigades attached.