Maybe some of the people on this forum might not react to well to your mentioning this movie.

It does not really present historical facts. You might just as well believe in Santa Claus...

<r> Right now I am playing the allies in the May 42 to February 43 south pacific scenario.&nbsp; I am running low on fighters too. Now its October 42 and practically all fighters, exept the F4F-3 and F4F-4 are depleted, my commonwealth squadrons are completly out of planes. Wirrways are left but I'd ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ol_Dog<br/>
Don't give credit or blame to Lemay for Regensburg.<br/>
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According to the unit history of the 451st Bombardment Group (H), flying from Italy with the 15th Air Force -<br/>
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"On August 16th the Group was awarded a Distinguished Unit ...

<r> I live in Regensburg, Germany<br/>
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urban hex, moderate climate<br/>
port (0)0, some 600km to the medeterranean sea, across the alps, and even further to the north sea<br/>
airfield 2(6) just a fighter runway and a factory runway, enough flat land to expand<br/>
manpower??? maybe 50k ...

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You can fit as much armour as you like, when someone nukes you it won't make a single bit of difference.
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Several heavy ships like the Prinz Eugen or the Nagato were only slightly damaged in US nuclear weapons tests ...

<t> If my infantry division at PM would get cut of by some squads of your paratroopers I would be pretty unhappy if I where your opponent. On the other hand, if it is July 1942 and you still hold Lae something must have gone wrong on the Jap side. It depends on how many troops he has in PM, a base ...

<t> Did I miss something, honestly I did only fly over half of the thread, but is altitude not a huge issue?<br/>
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The thread title implies that the heavy bombers are flying at 10,000 ft. They are set to naval search are they? Planes on naval attack would have to fly at 100ft in order to ...

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If there are more primary targets, eg more ships to hit, then a second naval attack strike will be launched in the PM phase
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Certainly it will. Question is: If there are no ships to hit in the am, will the planes on ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: sventhebold<br/>
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[:@][:@]Darn right I have a buddy that wants to play pbem but wont commit till AE [:@][:@]
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there is always room for a 30, 100, 365, day pbem, but can you blame him not starting a four year, at my speed that ...

<r> It is clear, CV task forces move first, bomb then. The question is, would you want your task force to retire after the am phase? In hostile waters you would not set your TF to port/airfield attack only, there is always the risk of a hostile TF (surface combat or air combat) showing up, am I ...

you are just right, I got the game in April 2008 and what I read on the forum since then + what I know about the real war, will put noobs like us almost into striking distance of the veterans once AE gets released. Until then I will keep training against the AI

<t> Is it possible for a CV task force to retire after bombing, or do I missunderstand your plan? I always thougt the order of business was move(night) - move (day) - bomb(am) - bomb (pm)<br/>
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concerning your plan I think it would be enough to send the TF in on patrol/do not retire and they ...

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On a similar note - somebody asked in another thread, if level bombers dropped bombs during strafe attacks. Can anybody confirm this?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I had land based Zeros set for 100ft naval attack to whipe out PTs. Most of the ...

<r> It is too bad that the only Japanese beer I have come across, in a small New York supermarket when I grew tried of Budwiser, came in cans. The effect of a empty can must be much less than that of a bottle. Since dropping full cans is certainly not an option, this leaves Japan without ordnance ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AW1Steve<br/>
I'm pretty sure this aircraft sat outside the Willow Grove Naval Air Station front gate for many, many years. I have some photo's (somewhere) that I took of her in the late 70's. I'll have to find them and compare.<br/>
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Next time you are in ...

<r> Having them around would at least sometimes force the allied player to have some fighters fly cap over his four engine bomber bases, which would otherwise be out of range. The problem is that outdated fighters not fit to escort the bombers would be sufficient at that task as soon as you get ...

Must have a pretty demoralising effect on Japanese troops, knowing that the other side has beer, as they almost starve to death.

<r> And a second one, this Seiran is the last of its kind discovered in a factory in Japan after the war ended.<br/>
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<r> As many of you are from the US, probably some of you will already have seen this one. Of the more exotic ones it is my favourite plane from the pacific theater. I did not get as far as Thailand, this photo was taken at tha Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum on my trip to the ...

<r> The Battle of the Philippine Sea is a good argument, the same thing could be said about allied fire control, it was improved significantly during the war. By 1944 a fletcher class destroyer's fire control was probably more sofisticated than any thing the IJN had even on a battleship or carrier ...