Well, the Soviets and Germans have cannons with lots of bullets, but the Americans only have a 20mm and the Japanese have few bullets. They can be slightly balanced by manipulating the rotation speed.
I remember radius was nerfed a while back.
Did you know in game bombs were so terrifying you used to see the shockwave blast from them? And the radius was much largerā¦
Honestly nothing remained standing on the ground after a few 250kg, much less a 500kg. And maps are small, so they got a justified nerf.
Was a while ago thought 
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justified for sure, HE spam is never fun.
However a 250 kg bomb having 8 to 12m radius but a bomb twice as big with only ~30% more radius is kinda weird.
Its not really worth having one 500kg bomb instead of two 250kgā¦ Unless you need a lot more damage for some reason. (useful against an Ubergiant I suppose)
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I just like terrain deformation.
It creates new fortifications 
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Same for me hahaā¦ i almost love the craters more than the kills i get with big bombs 
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actual weight of 1000lbs bombs is anywhere from 1064lbs to 1200lbs 
like people before mentioned soviet and germans have cannon that shred infantry and tanks. US has 20mm which are meh(good for AA, but shit for ground) and while japan has 30mm it has shit ammo capacity. german 30mm is great for shredding infantry and i havent played soviet one so i wont be commenting on it.
not really.
would be cool if we could call in bombers to do that for usā¦
Considering that it was a real tactic, the day before D-day US bombers were supposed to bomb the beaches to create cover for infantry, but they missed the targetā¦
Not that it would have helped much since unlike the British that had commandos land first and signal the best location, US marines just went in guns blazing only to be cut down in MG cross fire because they have landed right in front of enemy bunkers.
I was talking about in game statsā¦
same. doubling size of bomb wont make it have double the radius.
here is another chart
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Did they truly miss, thought?
(Note, naval guns were also used to create those)
Probably yes, but my guess is that it barely makes a diffrence as 500 kg already had insane amounts of frags (and 100m and more range on those9, which ment that if you survived the bomb it wasnt because frags missed you but because you where in cover/ hidden by terrain from it.
And tanks already where dead once a 500kg got remotely close to so nothing new here.
So the biggest buff the 800kg might provide is a larger model meaning frags would be released just that tiny bit higher (possibly avoiding a bit more uneven terrain because of it).
Othere than that the bomb will most likely just mean more weight slowing down the Kikka.
I dunno, seems to reliably blow up 2+ tanks in practice. More than 500 kg
Area of circle radius 120m = 45,239m^2
Area of circle radius 156m = 76,454m^2
that is for fragmentation. blast wave is more relevant which is ~70-75% bigger than 250kg bomb.
Fragmentation is more important vs infantry, and that area is 69% greaterā¦ which is exactly the same increase!
yes it is important for anti infantry, but it is relatively useless past 50m cause of map design and obstacles. getting fragmentation hit past 50m is like winning lottery in this game.
blast wave is more important cause it makes it easier to kill tanks with less skill.
Sure - but your idea of how much bigger the blast wave is and the actual ratio of the area are pretty much exactly the same
The comment I was replying to was āit doesnāt even have that much bigger radiusā - well no, but actual area covered is much higher because area relates to radius^2, not just the length.
Not really, Kikka still needs the 800 kg to compensate for its low ammo count.
Itās all very simple. Although the Me 262 had 2 pylons for bombs, and could easily carry 2x500 kg bombs, it all comes down to a piece of post-war nonsense called the āSu 9ā, which has only 1 pylon for a 1x500 kg bomb, and you canāt weld a second one to it physically. It doesnāt have any āFAB 1000ā (the numbers in the name indicate the weight), by analogy with the Kikka. Thatās why all of us, except the Kikka and the Meteor, have 1x500 kg bombs, and the Me 262 flies with a sideways roll.