4.13.2 de-bugging

[stugumby]

If you select the bomb load of 1 fab 500/ 2 fab 250/ 1 fab 100 when the bombs drop you get the other bombs but instead of 1 you see 10 fab 100.

[arnoritter]

The formation feature got somewhat reworked from 4.12 to 4.13, but i think it still does not work good enough.

Please fix these issues, the feature has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not reliable enough for long bomber missions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ruK7cJKu4

[Pursuivant]

Bombers in formation shouldn't make serious evasive moves, but should be able to make minor movements as long as they keep their same basic heading and keep their distance from other bombers in the formation.

Single bombers can, did, and should make more extreme evasive maneuvers. (For example, 2LT Charlie Brown vs. Oblt Franz Stigler, Warren Cowan vs. Saburo Sakai)

That said, battle damage, crew panic, and loss of situational awareness sometimes could cause aircraft in formation to collide, particularly if they were flying in poor visibility or in close formation. So, some degree of uncontrolled movement and risk of collision is realistic.

Another oddity about AI bomber formation behavior is that bombers never "close up" when other bombers in the same flight are shot down.

For example, if you have 3 "vics," like this (3, 6, 9 are flight leaders, 9 9 is squadron leader, 2, 5, 7 are assistant flight leaders):

1   2      4    5
  3           6
      7    8
         9

and they take serious casualties, like this:

          2     4
       3 
           7    8

The flights never regroup to regain better defensive firepower and bomb concentration as they should, like this (3 becomes new squadron leader, 7 is 2nd flight leader):

    2    4    8
       3    7

Straggling (damaged) bombers also make no efforts to regroup, making them easier pickings for fighters.