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HMS Indomitable and its catapult - -)-MAILMAN- - 14.01.2010

HMS Indomitable has a catapult on its flight deck, but it does not work.

Was this just missed when adding this ship to the game?

What can be done to make it work?

- skyomish - 14.01.2010

May I ask where you got this ship??
With my HSFX these are the only ones listed.
HMS-Illustrious-CV
HMS-Prince of Wales-BB
HMS-King George V-BB
HMS- Duke of York-BB

- -)-MAILMAN- - 14.01.2010

skyomish Wrote:May I ask where you got this ship??
With my HSFX these are the only ones listed.
HMS-Illustrious-CV
HMS-Prince of Wales-BB
HMS-King George V-BB
HMS- Duke of York-BB

I installed HSFX 4.1. I was building a mission for the Palembang map. I happened to look in the ship pack drop down list and it had HMS Indomitable and HMS Formidable and additional IJN carriers in there. I discovered them completely by accident. I didn't know that they were there. I just checked this again after reading your post.

HMS Indomitable has the same skin as HMS Illustrious, but maybe a slight variation to the camouflage and has a catapult. HMS Formidable also looks like HMS Illustrious, but with a completely different camouflage and no catapult showing.

So it appears someone has edited the Ship Pack since UI versions of the game.

- skyomish - 14.01.2010

LOL Silly me I never looked it the ship pack.
I did try the HMS-Illustrious and it just DONT work.

- asheshouse - 15.01.2010

The IJN Carriers in ShipPack are repaints and renamed existing models.
They do not accurately represent the ships named.
Same goes for things like the Littorio Class battleships (actually KGV class again) Well if its ok for the USN and IJN :lol:

The HMS Formidable skin mod is based on the Illustrious Class carrier so is pretty accurate.

The existing HMS Tribal Class frankenship in ShipPack can be replaced with a scratchbuilt model
viewtopic.php?p=272329#272329

- 56RAF_Kernow - 15.01.2010

I've successfully used the cat' on Illustrious, although not tried the ship pack ones yet.

I guess the obvious things to check are: Sorry to state the obvious, but, as it works for me I can't think of anything else that might cause the problem.

- -)-MAILMAN- - 15.01.2010

56RAF_Kernow Wrote:I've successfully used the cat' on Illustrious, although not tried the ship pack ones yet.

I guess the obvious things to check are:
  • carrier mod enabled?

    catapults not disabled in .mis file?

    you did taxy to within 10 yds or so of the cat' and then reapply the chocks?
Sorry to state the obvious, but, as it works for me I can't think of anything else that might cause the problem.

I use the catapults all of the time. They are enabled. The only carrier that has a catapult showing on the flight deck, but the catapult does not work is the HMS Indomitable which was added to the ship pack in HSFX 4.O or 4.1.

You have two ways to enable catapults for the carriers.

1. You can put the text lines into each .mis file, but if you go back and edit the mission and save it the entries disappear and you have to add them into the .mis file again. This way lets you customize each individiual mission.

2. You can put the text lines into the {MODS} section of the config.ini file. This way makes all missions behave the same way regarging catapults. This is the method that I chose. Below is my entries in the config.ini file.

[Mods]
CatapultAllow=1
CatapultAllowAI=1
CatapultBoost=0
StandardDeckCVL=0
CatapultAI_CVE=1
CatapultAI_CVL=1
CatapultAI_EssexClass=1
CatapultAI_Illustrious=1
CatapultAI_GrafZep=1
WingsFoldedAI=1
FastLaunchAI=0



I cannot get HMS Indomitable's catapult to work using either method. I wonder if this is just an oversite on the part of the person who created this ship slot or if was done this way on purpose? I did try to add the line CatapultAI_IllustriousClass=1 and also tried CatapultAI_Indomitable=1, but neither worked.

Below are the carriers that I have actually successfully tested the catapults:

USS Essex
USS Intrepid
All three stock CVE
All three Ship Pack CVL
HMS Illustrious

I have not tested the Royal Navy CVE nor the German Carrier.