<r> Focus on the eastern hex first - notice that it's the supply source, and also it has the flak unit. So if you can take that hex, the TigerII unit in the objective hex will be out of supply, and also vulnerable to air attack (although you do risk turning the city into ruins as well...)<br/>
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<t> Total carrier tally for US subs in WW2 includes:<br/>
4 fleet carriers sunk (Taiho, Shokaku, Shinano, Unryu)<br/>
4 escort carriers sunk (Chuyo, Unyo, Shinyo, Taiyo)<br/>
6 carriers damaged (Hiyo, Junyo twice, Taiyo twice, Unyo)<br/>
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The second attack on Junyo caused major damage that ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>A 30000 ton carrier, iether sinks, or is ot for a year............that is not modelled too well at all.<br/>
sure tahio died from just one fish, it took a few more than that for all the others. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Well, the IJN carriers were incredibly ...

<t> No doubt the real IJN felt the same way... consider second half of 1944: us subs sank 2 CVs at Phillipine Sea (Taiho, Shokaku), then 2 more in November/December (Shinano, Unryu), and just for kicks they sank 2 CVEs as well during the same period (Taiyo, Unyo). Plus Battleship Kongo in November ...

Yikes - ILR CV Taiho was done in by a single torpedo from SS Albacore. I wonder if she'll prove more resilient in this alternate reality.

(And can you imagine the howls of protest from players if a modern CV was sunk by a single torpedo in the game...)

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gridley380<br/>
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13 flat tops? More than the IJN ever mustered in real life!<br/>
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Of course, no more than two of them are of any given class...
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Not quite: at the time of the Marianas battle, the IJN had in active ...

<t> You know, Nagumo historically expected to lose half his force attacking Pearl Harbor. So this might be the first game to be played out as if his expectations had come true.<br/>
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It's a sign of just how much Japan underestimated the Allies that they expected win even if they had lost half ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Historically, she took quite a pounding before she went under considering how small she is.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I just had a look - 13x1000 pound bombs and 7xtorpedoes in about a 10-minute period! Must have been sheer hell aboard the ship. It was only around 17 ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: vettim89<br/>
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... How many CVs were torpedoed by a Nellie in the PTO. NONE!!!!!!!! Not a single friggin one!!!!! ...
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Not quite. A night attack by Betties plugged CV Intrepid off Truk on 17 Feb 1944. And CV Lexington was ...

<t> Ouch. I confess to being a bit disappointed that the result wasn't a bit more balanced ... seems to me the Americans got a raw deal on their airstrikes - surely there should have been a few hits in the lot? Even against strong CAP, historically carrier strikes almost always drew blood - this ...

<t> I've been lurking here for some time, trying to decide whether to buy the game. After reading your report of the US CVEs being destroyed in broad daylight under the noses of an aggressive and superior US BB taskforce, I think I'll give it a pass. There's just too much wonky about the game engine ...

<t> Not that hard to imagine a story where the Japanese commander decided to go the direction he did. Maybe a false sighting of a major allied surface TF between Ceram and Namlea? There were Japanese BBs there, and Allied BBs had been in the area recently. A mistaken search report (reinforced by the ...