<t> I've only made it about halfway through this thread from the beginning, so let me apologize in advance if this question has already been asked. <br/>
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One aspect of WITP that always bothered me was the perfect identification in the AARs about enemy ships after a battle. IIRC months after ...

yes I have read the Mogami method and started using it. Pretty clever, that mogami fellow. Thanks for the input.

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This was not my first debacle at sea in WITP. Most of them time I have been able to figure out what went wrong and take a lesson from it, but the progress is slow. The game is unbelievably complex and the documentation is...well, a bit lacking. (My favorite part ...

<t> I did some experimenting playing both sides to see if I could figure out what went wrong. I am pretty sure the problem was that I did not have enough pilots to fill out the squads. I am just now starting to learn the Japanese side after a few goes as the Yanks, so I was trying to fill the ...

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Irrelevant, even before you posted I was wondering if something like what you said was modeled in the combat engine...just like the battle of Samar, the escorts would put themselves in compromising positions to protect the flattops. <br/>
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Dave, I think the problem was that ...

<t> Mike,<br/>
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photon torpedoes...haha.<br/>
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No, the difficulty was historical. <br/>
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I had about 22 planes in each group and 19 (more or less) pilots. Every group was short at least one. Does that matter? The CAP flew fine and performed well, even though there were more ...

<t> I am certain everything was fine for your points 1-4. <br/>
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From what I understand, I had refueled my destroyers during the "night" phase since they were a bit low. But it only took 250 ops points to do this so it should have been finished by morning, when my carriers did nothing ...

<t> I just got through a puzzling carrier battle...well, I should say, the AI just had a carrier battle with my 3 "possums." <br/>
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None of my planes flew a mission and my three carriers were slaughtered. Would a more experienced hand mind looking over the settings on the smouldering wreckage ...