hi folks

you do all know that the "obsolete" Fairey swordfish was a fairly tolerable dive bomber as well as a torpedo plane

cheers

<t> Hi usesatch welcome to scotland <br/>
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in 1943 HMS Victorious was operating in the Solomon's with one US carrier - she was turned into a fighter carrier with 60 martlet / F4's while the US carrier held all the bombers

not that gamey then !

<t> At that time of the war radar was hardly reliable, and could not really be used to sneak in large surface TF through DD screen directly into the middle of enemy TF. That's why screen is there in the first place, to take punishment and detect incoming threat<br/>
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Scenario 1 Illustrious starts in 1942 with FAA squadron 1840 equipped with corsair II's - sounds like fun !

<r> Hi chaps I have to point out that the swordfish II was in use with 829 squadron in March 1942 aboard Illustrious <br/>
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this is the squadron that had ASV radar so its worth getting right <br/>
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I suspect there is a typo with the entry date of Swordfish II in the editor<br/>
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Yipee ! I've been waiting for this since UV came my way

Quick question

is there a night search phase now or is it the same as it ever was ?

cheers

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Can anything be done with the combat routines to prevent tiny units from attacking huge numbers of troops and cancelling their moves? A good rule if it could be implemented would be to auto-cancel any attack that didn’t have at least ¼ of the defenders assault value. <br ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> Not one historical example of this could I find in WW2 but it is a daily occurence in the game.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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In recognition of most conspicuous bravery. This officer was the pilot of a Beaufort aircraft of Coastal Command which was detailed to attack an ...

Try the Richard Woodman books
a brig of war etc

very close to the hornblower novels in spirit, a bit more downbeat than Patrick O'Brien. tries to be a bit out of the ordinary in terms of setting and plot

Hi elf

do the brits get a functioning air to surface radar for their swordfishes - will it make a difference to night searches !

by the way Yipee !!!

cheers

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the P40 was a nice plane with a superb roll rate and high speed for early war planes at medium altitude plus good initial dive acceleration, I've always thought it would have made an excellent carrier plane. <br/>
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However when compared to the 109 its rate of climb and performance ...

<t> Hi Cid <br/>
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I'm getting my information from Brian P Farrel "the defence and fall" Singapore 1940-42 <br/>
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he reckons that during the Jitra battle (alor star) the defenders (11 division consisting of 15th and 6th brigades plus the 28th brought up from reserve) <br/>
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are we looking at the same scenario I'm looking at RHSCVO 7.87 <br/>
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none of the indian army brigades have integral artillery including 12 brigade, the australian brigades do<br/>
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there are no separate artillery units in malaya at start <br/>
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<t> Hipper here is some additional information concerning the 122nd Field Artillery "On 3 January 1941 the Regiment embarked at Glasgow in the ironically named Canadian Pacific liner 'Empress of Japan' and arrived in Malaya on 11 March to become part of the 12th Indian Brigade." So the 122nd Field ...

oops ok my bad

I see the 28th brigade was indeen a Gurkha brigade

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Ive just downloaded the level 7 maps & RHS CVO and it looks great I hate to think how much work has been done to get it this far <br/>
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tones of stuff for me to look at & I've even got a game that might start soon<br/>
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however there are a few inaccuracies that ...

<t> bill there is not much on the RN in the indian ocean in this period <br/>
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the best option is to get some histories of the individual ships involved, the official histories deal with the indian ocean raid and madagascar but not much <br/>
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there is some company that is reprinting ...

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