<t>Also, the mainr reason for switching to low-level night bombing was to increase bomb damage, not avoid Japanese defenses. While losses were kept relatively small by flying very high, bomb accuracy went to pot. Moving lower solved the accuracy problem, but necessitated the move to night flying to ...

P-40s are Fighter-Bombers, so they would attack the larger ships anyway.

<t>1. Any plane capable of attacking TF's can do so even if not set to NI. Setting a unit to NI simply limits it to attacking TFs (so it won't attack airfields, land units. etc.)<br/>
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2. Fighter-bombers are able to attack surface targets (sea and land) and aircraft. Fighters are suited only to ...

Almost none of the sea lanes follow a straight line. The reason for this is because the game is trying to represent a globe on a flat map.

IIRC, going just about anywhere east from Midway will pass you near Hawaii.

Geez, I forgot to mention that for the above tactic, set the TF to Remain On Station.

<t>Better still, park your CVs in Rangoon by setting the standoff to zero. This way, they won't run out of fuel as long as Rangoon has some available. To better support those LCUs, do the same thing with a bombardment TF. They will keep topped off on fuel and ammo as long as there's supply available ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Ranger-75 <e>[/i]</e></I><B><s>[B]</s>The German L/56, L/70, etc was a common European method of defining the Gun. the 88mm L56 gun meant that the barrel diameter was 88mm and the barrel length (from breech end to muzzle) was 56 times the ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Jeremy Pritchard <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Another problem could be that USN CVE's turn into CAP weapons of mass destruction. Those 2x Casablanca groups could possibly have 40+ FM2's (if TB's were removed), and a TF of just 5 of these ...

<r>Make some way of differentiating between CVEs that have and those that do not have airgroups without having to click open the ship group. Having a different picture or different names would be OK by me.<br/>
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Also, can you bring back the national flags in the CVx.SYM files? (at least as an ...

<t>Is there any advantage given to P-61s over "day" aircraft when assigned a night mission (due to their radar)? Or is night fighting ability simply a matter or group experience? If so, should the VMFN groups start with experience higher than average (70)? Since there's no "native" P-61 groups, I ...

<t>The "reinforcing" troops come from supply at the base. It doesn't appear by itself (IIRC, all supply and 1/2 fuel at a base are destroyed when captured) but must be transported there by a TF or routine convoy. That's how the "extra" troops and equipment get there.<br/>
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<t>I've also noticed that the B-25's reduced range (5 instead of 6) combined with the fewer number of size 4 airfield locations on the path to the Solomons makes staging them out there a lot more dependent on ships. Before, it was simple to fly them directly from the US to the S. Pacific with only a ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by CynicAl <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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The merchies would head off in all directions as soon as your warships appear. Your cruisers could split up to try to catch them all, but then they would risk being defeated in detail if ...

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There are several airfields on atolls (terrain 1) that start at size 4 because historically they had that capacity ...

<t>I'm finding that I have little or no use for all the gobs of non-air group-carrying CVEs that the allies get. I have only one TF that I use for ferrying A/C from the States and have used several for convoy escorts, but I still have about a dozen CVEs sitting in port unused (cluttering things up ...

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I don't know of any reported merchant sinkings off the West Coast by Japanese subs. They did send some patrols there at the beginning of the war, but did not really hinder US shipping. I know they shelled some shore installations and at least once ...

I have noticed this, too, but only for TFs going from San Fransisco to LA.

<t>Is Kolombangara ever NOT isolated? I've noticed in a game that it has been Iso'ed ever since the US took it, even though now (mid-44) there are no Jap-held bases closer than Truk.<br/>
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Once in a while Adelaide will show as iso'ed, too. That's not too much of a problem, but Kolombangara ...

<t>In the 1st half of 1942, just over 200 ships were sunk in what the Germans considered US coastal waters (less than 200 miles from shore). This was well within aircraft range , but the US ASW effort was really poorly coordinated then.<br/>
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The Japanese did operate some off the US west coast ...

<t>My grandfather was a B-17 bombardier (in Europe) and told me that most of the time they fired to drive off fighters, not to kill them. Gunners were taught to fire at maximum range to distract and force enemy fighters to break off their attacks early. This is very different gunnery than in a ...