Progress report:
By now, im sure you all realise i am: "THE GOD OF GETTING SIDETRACKED"
so, as you can imagine, ive only gone and added stuff that:
1: isnt "that" naval
2: 3 of them are not american
but either way, to see if it could be done...
i made these:
heh poor B17
anyway yeah PLANES.
via looking at ABH and working out how it was done
i managed to make little tiny planes (4x4 fighters and an 8x8 bomber)
i ended up making it again from scratch,
so it uses code practical for resuse
by setting a "base" for weapons, thrusters ect.
So rather than have to type out all of a weapon's functions
i only need its ammo store, location and firing angle.
same goes for thrusters.
and after much annoyance, it worked!
and its apsolutely hillarious watching these tiny WW2 planes
run at some advanced spaceship XD (and fail spectacularly)
but don't worry!
hopefully, by the time ive completed the american stuff
they will be all balanced and ready to actually kick some space behind.
well, moreso than all those axis planes did in the screenshot... only 5,342c in damage XD