Thanks for the reference. I've downloaded the editor and can make hex by hex changes and write the changes to RAM.

However, when I try to save the changes back to the pwhexe.dat file, I get an error message that there is an error writing to test_pwhexe.dat. I must be making a mistake somewhere ...

What is a good utility to open the PWRHEX.dat?

Fair enough for a game play sake.

So the best advice to players is not to waste sorties on aerial mining operations, even to keep the other guy honest and diligent on conducting routine minesweeping operations.

I ran across a Rand study on the US aerial mining campaign from 1945 that was written in the 70s that found that a staggering tonnage of Japanese ships were sunk in the closing months of the war when the B-29s and other bombers started mining the home waters. I ran the numbers making some reasonable ...

During WW2, US CVs and CVLs were named according to famous naval ships and battles, including those in WW2. CVEs were named after "sounds, bays, island, and famous battles." The post-war FDR was the first notable exception to that. Shangri-La was at least an allusion to the Doolittle Raid given that ...

Thanks! So the way to go is with the USS xxxx II to cover the new hull as the reinforcement and just rename the ship as required if the game play fails to sink the original. That makes sense.

Instead of getting Baltimore/Clevelands, I'm getting New Orleans class replacements. Were there certain slots in the Ships section of the scenario that were reserved for the respawned cruisers and carriers? WitP classic provided Baltimore/Clevelands, but AE is behaving differently for me.

<t> Torpex started being used in late 1942 and boosted the explosive power of the warhead by about 50% over TNT. All of the stock effects for mines and torpedoes presume TNT for the USN. Visit Navweapons and they give a comprehensive run down on when the various torpedoes and mines switched to TPX ...

<t> The subs in Manila, in my experience, don't seem to be that effective with the historical USN torpedoes, so killing them only eliminates a nuisance. A typical strike on Pearl Harbor takes most of the battleships off the board until 1943 if not sunk outright and cripples the fighter/patrol ...

Patrol planes generally have bomb load outs but sometimes carry torpedoes. When they fly ASW missions to they still carry bombs or load up with depth charges? The USN reference material generally specs depth charge load-outs for ASW missions.

<t> I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. It focuses on the first six months of the Pacific War from the perspective of the USN with a focus on some pilots in VB-6 aboard Enterprise. I found no unforgivable howlers and most of abstractions made "movie sense" to tell the story to a general ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>What is the lift cap for the Dry dock?....GP <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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In Hobbs' <B><s>[b]</s>The British Pacific Fleet<e>[/b]</e></B> he has a photo of an RN fleet carrier in the dock with hundreds of feet to spare lengthwise. So I would say the lift capacity has be ...

The Australians completed a huge ~1100 foot drydock in Sydney in early 1945. Is there a way to upgrade the repair yard there to take that into account?

<t> It depends, like so much in the game. Get Assista is right about the accuracy.<br/>
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Night Combat: Japanese torpedo accuracy goes way up at very close ranges. There is a pretty consistent pattern that Japanese forces will try to close to 2000 yards to discharge their torpedoes. The AI ...

<t> Friedman digs into the nuts and bolts of all this in his Naval Firepower. The Mk 3 fire control radars were integrated into the analog computers as a radar range-finder but they had poor enough resolution that bearing information was not precise enough for fire control. The book includes a photo ...

That's my understanding, too. Also, note that Allied APD's usually have a capacity of 180 or 200 and when you go with fast transport mission, that capacity is cut in third.

<r> OK, so we have an appeal to authority on the development team vs appeals to a variety of alternate authorities with their own credentials, including the historical record from the war. That's what makes the editor invaluable to a patient enough user. <br/>
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There is quite a nice paper on ...

<t> I've been sandboxing night actions in the Guadalcanal scenario. The AI in the surface actions seems pretty reasonable in its tactical decisions. The inferior force tries to break contact while putting the escorts forward to draw fire. If the inferior force is faster, the superior force need a ...

<t> My shore bombardments were just one CA with about 5 DDs enabled to bombard. So more fire power is clearly one escalation. <br/>
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My port aerial bombardments got serious. I cheated Lunga big and flew some 80 plane B-17 missions out of there at the Shortlands and still didn't hit any ...

<t> The oddball figures aren't too hard to back out. The Japanese figures are footnoted to a history of the Takao and represents a 10,000 m range. I agree with your conclusion 100% The US values are nice round penetration values in inches so I would suspect the testing either resulted in a curve or ...