Improved Heavy Fighters
Ever since the Air Designer was introduced, Heavy Fighters have seemingly been relegated to the trash bin. They use the Medium Airframe which is much heavier and slower and less agile than the Small Airframe (for light fighters). Heavy fighters in WWII were nowhere near the size of tactical bombers (some came close: e.g. P-61 Black Widow).
This mod fixes that! You will still use the Medium Airframe to create heavy fighters (because of how Paradox set up distinctions between types of aircraft, I cannot add it to the Small Airframe. I have a work-around in mind, but it would be much more expansive than this mod), but you get a bonus when selecting Fighter Weapons in the first slot:
*Increased Agility
*Increased Speed
*Decreased Weight
You will notice that, now, your heavy fighters have A) longer range than your light fighters, B) only a bit less speed than light fighters C) only a bit less agility than light fighters.
(Paradox does not use agility simply for the maneuverability of the aircraft. It represents other things like climb rate, service ceiling, etc. – in other words, many things that affect the ability of the aircraft to take an advantageous position and get out of a scrape.).
This mod has not been tested for balance. One issue I foresee: you can create a single-engine Heavy Fighter with similar stats to Light Fighter but you get the 1.25 Air Superiority bonus instead of only 1.0. Let me know if you think this (or anything else) are issues, and I’ll attempt to address them.
Enjoy!
This mod should not interfere with any mod that does not change x_plane_airframes.txt, plane_airframes.txt, or 00_plane_modules.txt files.
*This mod requires the By Blood Alone DLC
Please let me know if you experience any issues. Please view the change notes to see the changes I’ve made with any updates I’ve posted.
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Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
