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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Troutie_SSG<br/>
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I'll try to answer all of your questions, Joe.<br/>
3. The presence of arming/fueling planes on deck has a huge effect on the spread of fire and permanent damage. If you strike the Akagi when her decks are clear and ordnance stowed, I ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe D.<br/>
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Removing (all) the 6th Ku Zeros and shifting the random clouds to an East/West axis along Midway should help balance this scenario, and that's all I'm asking.
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Well, again, I would not recommend removing all of ...

<t> Arguably, removing the 6th Kokutai from play could also be ahistorical, since those Zeros were available for duty. That more were not launched had probably more to do with IJN doctrine and the generally fouled up condition of the IJN organization and intelligence&nbsp;in the hour or two prior to ...

Actually, if you read Shattered Sword and look at the Fighter Operations timline in the back, at least 3 of the 6th Kokutai Zeros were launched from Akagi.

<t> Towards the end of the Solomons campaign, the IJN were starting to use mixed Zero/Val groups for armed recon/search missions, and (though I can't remember the exact reference at the moment) I am pretty sure I recall land-based Zeros being sent on search missions in the Solomons&nbsp;in 1942. I ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG<br/>
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Well, I think you're making too big a deal about this. Especially early in the war, it didn't matter what your AA doctrine was, AA was simply not going to make a huge difference to the outcome of a strike. As the war progressed, both sides ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Adam Parker<br/>
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[I was going to ask if this could be factored into the game?<br/>
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I caught an episode of "Dogfights" on the History Channel last night showing the battle of Taffy 3 with its CVE's vs the Yamato surface group at Leyte and smoke ...

Did not G4Ms torpedo the USN destroyer Jarvis off Guadalcanal?&nbsp;
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I also know some IJN DDs were hit by TBMs in the last 12-18 months of the war.

<t> So on my second time through the Battle of Midway (after losing all three carrier in exchange for only 2 IJN flattops), I finally felt I knew what I was doing. Mimicing Fletcher and Spruance, I decided to keep my flattops NE of Midway and out of range of any IJN strikes until the Japanese had ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl<br/>
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A couple of points about damage in the game:<br/>
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U.S. carriers go down more often than their Japanese counterparts because they take more hits. While they should be able to absorb more punishment because they were better ...

<t> For example, if you were to play Midway "historically" as the USN, you would turn off all the search sectors for the Enterprise/Hornet group, and leave on only the Northeasterlt sectors for Yorktown to prevent an ambush, letting PBY's do most of the spotting. By 1942, the terms "Scouting ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: walterlzw<br/>
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Read Toland's book, too. The Manchurian faction of the Japanese Army happen to be responsible for most of the attrocities in China. I guess lofty ideals and big guns don't mix.<br/>
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Toland is too ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl<br/>
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Well, here's another one, from Midway again. The Allied CAP was 52, strong, all pre-designated for TG defense, and scored no kills against the incoming strike a/c.<br/>
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PoE (aka ivanmoe)<br/>

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There should be a mix of B-17Ds and B-17Es (mostly Es) at Midway. But that is not the only error. The Wake Island Scenario has G4Ms, when in reality they should be G3Ms.

Aussie slang for American vs. Japanese carrier ops . . .?
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Oh well . . .

Well, hopefully CAP has at least a small chance of preventing a sighting report. There were a few cases where US fighters downed IJN search planes before the latter relayed any (useful) information.

Something else that maybe needs correction for the Wake Island Scenarios:

The IJN bombers used to bomb Wake were (with one possible exception) G3Ms, not G4Ms.

<t> In actual wartime combat operations, the most any IJN heavy flattop ever carried was 81 (Kaga for the Pearl Harbor Operation), and standard loads were 54-63 aircraft. I do not believe the Shokaku class ever carried more than 70, while the Hiryu/Soryu airgroups never exceeded 63 (again at Pearl ...