AVP Class sea tender - what purpose in the game?

[Anonymous]

This game has been tested much over the years and this one is simple for me. There is not much differnece between the av ships except how many planes that they can service. An AV can service many. An AvD can service ferew maybe a squadron of twelve or less and an AvP can service much less maybe four or six. It is not the name that matters except it is the number. As it should be.

MO

[msieving1]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

I think some catalinas did not have wheels but most did.

Amphibious variants will have an "A" at the end. For example, the PBY-5 is water only, the PBY-5A is amphibious.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: msieving1

ORIGINAL: crsutton

I think some catalinas did not have wheels but most did.

Amphibious variants will have an "A" at the end. For example, the PBY-5 is water only, the PBY-5A is amphibious.

Both of which should be serviceable by an AV (of any type), since both of these are seaplanes. Just because it has wheels doesn't mean that it can't be used in a harbor with no airstrip...

[mike.cordiez]

Has anyone been able to make use of the AVS in the Gudalcanal scenario? It is rated to support 6 seaplanes. I placed it at Ndeni with 5 PBY's and ended-up with 2 PBY's being stranded due to mantenance issues. The others I flew away before they brokedown once I'd seen that the ones that needed maint. weren't getting fixed. I tried docked, undocked etc. but nothing seemed to work. I have RTFM'd but may have missed something. IIRC there were some PBY's based at a seaplane base during the campaign.