<t> I performed a few experiments, and found the following:<br/> <br/> 1 - armor (belt or deck) has absolutely no bearing on damage due to aircraft strikes.<br/> <br/> 2 - the only feature of a surface ship that has any bearing on its ability to sustain airstrike damage is its diplacement, and the r...

<t> I noticed that whenever the big battleships got hit by an airstrike, they would take an inordinate amount of damage. I'd seen Yamato and Iowa class battleships go down with a single torpedo hit rather frequently, while destroyers in the same task group take 4-5 torpedo or 10-15 bomb hits to sink...

<t> Sorry this is so long, but the battle wound up being rather protracted.<br/> <br/> Tarawa - Japanese - historical<br/> <br/> Initial battle plan:<br/> <br/> I am outnumbered in carriers. Bad weather dominates the sea just to the west of Tarawa. For these reasons, a direct attack on the invasion ...

<t> The only way I've found to suppress land bases is to launch a steady stream of airstrikes over a period of time. The amount of aircraft in the attack doesn't seem to matter. To test this, I edited the Leyte scenario to add about 400 B-29s to the American bases at Peleliu and Morotai. To put this...