ORIGINAL: mdiehl
Your position is a bit like demanding proof of the absence of god.
But if you want to "debunk" one ( or more ) of the games rules, then it's up to you to disprove it.
You guys are the ones asserting that the Japanese had a real capability to launch CV based airstrikes at night.
And we proved it.
So far you have been unable to come up with an example of a successful one.
Why should it have to be successful?
You guys are the ones who have asserted that night time navigation by CV based piliots without loran is simple and reliable enough to make it an effective strategy in a consim, yet you have not provided a single example of the IJN successfully implementing a night attack on any target at any time.
And no-one has proved the Allies did it in this Theatre either. The rules allow that too.
The Royal Navy could try it in 1942, because CV based swordfish and other torpedo a.c. were often equipped with radar. While that's not so great for navigation, it means that in the dark of night or low-cloud cover you could pick out a target with a small chance of success. Not as good as visual aiming in daylight but definitely better than visual aiming by iteself at night.
So they could have. But to use someone else's point, did they?If not same situation as the Japs.
In 1942, the only USN a.c. capable of executing any kind of night attack with reasonable chances of success were land-based PBYs.
So No.
It's germane. The point is that if operational losses at night are correctly modeled, and if operational successes are correctly modeled, players would emulate the historical IJNs aversion to launching night attacks.
Now you get the idea!!
You seem very confused about what happened at Pearl Harbor.
I know what happened at PH. I just got confused with your technical phrase. My answer shows that. Stop gloating!
It appears to be your contention that every time someone playing UV might wish to launch a night strike it should be allowed on the presumption that every target MUST have a 100 KW radio station blaring out American Bandstand conveniently usable by the enemy for navigation. Either admit that is what you are claiming or admit that the Pearl Harbor example is (as most of us know) irrelevent to this discussion.
I've told you what I think and it's not what you are presuming above.
The PH example was relevant in the context given, if not in the strange world in which you seem to exist.
The evidence is that the IJN never launched a successful CV-based night raid throughout the entire war. If you believe otherwise, where is your evidence?
As I said before. You are proposing a "change" to the rules. It's up to you to prove YOUR case. By the way, most Japs have an aversion to anything to do with the Second World War and therefore accounts of what they did or did not do are rare. A lack of evidence is not therefore evidence of anything you may wish to presume.
